Is There a Parallel to Autistics in the Workplace?

There are many autistic people who have a particular skill set who are particularly good at something. And if they find themselves in the classroom, where they're excelling in that area, so that may breed resentment among their classmates and co-employees. There's this sort of stereotype, an unfair stereotype, autistic people lacking empathy. Here it's the empathy of the coworkers. It's the other students in the school who fail to understand the autistic classmates or the autistic coworkers. They might not understand what it is they're looking at. Why is this person so good at certain skills, but not good at other skills?