You write this like you want it to sound cool ("we identify with computers, we don't move faces when we talk, not because we can't because we don't care what you think") to be mentally inferior and create this defense mechanism. Everybody feels socially awkward in certain situtions, but you deal with it and learn and grow, through experience gain confidence, instead of shutting down and airing it when you get to home base in front of your PC.
It's not cool but it isn't disability as they paint it. Different people have different levels of hormones which control behavior and personality traits. Pills that 'manage' highly functioning autism, attention deficit disorder and rest of 'diseases' change hormonal balance.
It is very fascist trying to shape everybody in the same mold just because you think it is for the best. People with Aspergers aren't mentally inferior, they just don't give importance to pointless social interaction and don't want to learn and utilize non verbal communication skills.
Interacting with computers have an effect on development of children, more and more of them are 'suffering' from Aspergers. It may be a meme but is widely present behavioral pattern among modern youth.
Ii'd go as far saying 99% of cRPG players who had more than five eight hour or longer sessions playing this mod without significant breaks are candidates for Aspergers. Because one of the defining characteristics of Aspergers is forming a pattern of repetitive behavior and sticking to it day by day. Which is exactly what core cRPG community did for five years straight. This mod is perfect for people with Aspergers, it hits all the buttons.
About true autism or children shutting down and venturing into their private world, that is very problematic behavior for obvious reasons. But it is also something Budhist and Hindu priests are trying to achieve their whole lives, to detach their souls from their bodies
through experience gain confidence
But it is learned behavior aka not your natural self, it has some uses but you won't be happy if you're fake even with your family. I can act as salesman if there is need for it, be silver tongued, outgoing, active, persuasive but that's not who I am. Actually dislike those naturally outgoing types, like my fellow quiet folks.