Schizotypals, according to the theory, have overly mentalistic cognition. Their brains are hard-wired for thinking in ways that help them understand minds and social interactions. When this succeeds, it looks like an almost magical understanding into what other people are secretly thinking, what their agendas are, and how to manipulate them.

first-degree relatives of schizophrenics have higher mentalistic cognition and schizotypy

This part describes my wife perfectly. Her brothers are schizophrenic and she has a knack for getting inside people's heads. She has always been an excellent sales person. Back when she was working retail sales, she would regularly outsell the rest of her store combined. Now that she is a therapist, she feels it's manipulating people into thinking the way she wants them to think, and she's really good at that as well.

I, on the other hand, have been "diagnosed" as autistic by family, friends and acquaintances. Similar to the author and the autistic girl in the article, my wife had to flat out tell me she wanted to date me for me to get the picture.

I really like this model. It makes a lot of sense. What I don't like about it is that, as a few in the comments of the post say, it doesn't leave room for the person who presents across both spectra. What it could be is that we're really talking about people with pathological disproportionate internal confidence in their thinking, either social or mechanical.