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Not at all. Anyone can be a nerd. All you have to do is be smart, slightly non-comformist and like off-key stuff. Or be completely normal with the exception of the fact you wear glasses.
Pretty close to completely wrong (and useless observation). So why don't you let the person start at least one thread without your snarkiness.
But in answer to the OP.
Yeah, there probably is a correlation, in that the origin of 'Nerd' in the modern sense definitely included many people on the spectrum.
The meaning of 'Nerd' has however, since drifted and been embraced by a larger segment of society and is no longer as derogatory a term as before, so the two are no longer as closely related. At least that's my take.