The Leader of the Fantastic Four is Autistic

As of 2012's Fantastic Four Season One graphic novel by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Reed Richards has diagnosed himself with autism, though he is also developing a cure for it. We can talk about how this representation is problematic, how it seems unlikely an autistic person as successful in life as Reed would consider curing himself (keep in mind a cure for something that affects his entire brain would basically rewrite him into a completely different person), or about the controversies over self-diagnosis (too much to get into here). But despite all that, the simple fact of the founder of the Fantastic Four being autistic is cool. 

Reed Richards, born in Central City, California, and the only son of Nathaniel and Evelyn Richards, was a child genius with special ability in mathematics, physics, and mechanics. Evelyn eventually died when Reed was just seven. Reed registered college at age fourteen and had four degrees in engineering, math, and physics by age eighteen. By age twenty-two, he had a P.H.D (Doctor of Philosophy) in physics and a full mastery of mechanical, aerospace, and electrical engineering, including chemistry and human and alien biology. After completing college, Reed used his inheritance and government money to assemble an aspiring spaceship to travel far into space. When the government rejected his ship permitted aircraft into space, Reed, Sue, Ben, and Johnny snuck inside of it and carried it out into outer space. However, this was a mistake as Reed accidentally got exposed along with his friends to cosmic radiation that transformed them into the Fantastic Four that Marvel readers all know and love.