Sherlock Holmes and his older brother had Asperger?

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i accidentally stumbled on interesting Wikipedia article about Sherlock Holmes, there was interesting description of his older brother Mycroft Holmes

Hi pawelk

This is very close to home for me. My father had two brothers, and all three had Asperger's I'm sure - quite high functioning, my dad was an electrical engineer and his next younger brother was a physician (forensic pathology!), youngest brother was a CPA.

My dad was good friends with his next younger brother, lifelong. Dad called my uncle "Sherlock"; my uncle called Dad "Mycroft". They were born in the 1920s, so of course they wrote letters to each other once they were grown and married. And they addressed one another as "Sherlock" and "Mycroft" in those letters.

I loved my Dad very much, and loved my uncles dearly too, and after I started reading the Sherlock Holmes stories I thought their nicknames for one another were the coolest things in the world. (My youngest uncle was the last of six children; Dad and my other uncle were oldest and next oldest. So they were closer because they were nearer in age, is all.)

Thank you. Tonight I'll be remembering their voices as they talked together when I was a little girl .

If you look closer and ignore the earlier BBCs romanticised version of Holmes, he did drugs and was more of a sociopath, something the new version of Holmes with Benedict Cumberbatch has addressed well.

Being able to memorise large amounts of information is not a Aspie specific trait. Some people on this forum can barely remember what they wrote 2 days ago.