thanks, @colorado_mom - I have been aware for some time that professionals who collect information about parental education and occupation have seen the connection, but it is always interesting to me to read the comments.
Years ago (actually decades ago) a very well-known professional with an MD degree wrote in a report that the majors that H and I had pursued in college as well as our subsequent career direction, were typical of parents presenting with this type of child.
I found it patronizing and even offensive at the time, and angrily thought of many peers I had gone to school with and in similar occupations, some socially awkward, who did NOT have autistic children. It did not seem fair that they got to laugh at their personality quirks, while H and I mulled over every single one of ours and wondered out loud whether we had been selfish in wanting children.
Perhaps I was being overly defensive and even a tad unfair though, since I myself told lots of people that I was surprised to go to a support group and find so many women who had majored in the hard sciences/engineering.Or perhaps the good doc could have phrased this differently.