Like any Aspy, I can only speak for myself, but as someone who also has some minor magic going on, I reckon there might be a connection.
I think one aspect of my Aspergers is a tug-of-war between ritual and random, between patterns and noise, between routine and chaos. Routine and ritual is my safety, and at the same time it hamstrings me. So every minute of every hour of every day is that moment when a young bird first flaps its wings and flies. I force randomness into my life, and I’ve just started consciously noticing that I do this.
People with autism or Asperger’s syndrome are often inclined to develop intense, very narrow fields of interests. There is also a tendency to develop repetitive behaviors and routines, some of which may make life very difficult for the family, and be very hard to change.
http://www.autism-help.org/behavior-compulsions-routines-rituals.htm
More than this, I tend to get stuck with repetitive thoughts when coming across the same triggers on a regular basis. For example, in online Scrabble one of the people I play with, who I have never met, is called Darlene. Every time I play a move against her, I hear the song Jolene in my head. Every single time. After many months I am trying to train myself to stop this, and so far I have been unsuccessful. Every day when walking to my car I see a sign for Rules Transport, and I think of Wendy Rule and I think the exact same thought every time.
Multiply the above by 100 each day and I guess it would drive some folk mad, but it’s just me and doesn’t bother me at all.
Just like having songs playing in my head all the time, even songs I don’t like. The same songs over and over again. Recently in The Walking Dead this was used as a form of torture. I’m used to it.
Magic, and I’m talking about spellcraft that actually works (as opposed to Harry Potter), is generally created from spells, ritual and invocation. It involves fixating on something, which is something Aspies do well.
Perhaps my obsessive, repetitive thoughts are akin to magic? I certainly achieve low-level magic without consciously trying.
Could my obsessive, repetitive thoughts generate magic, without any intent on my part? And if my magic is intended, am I more suited to pulling it off than the neuro-typical?
Someone on Reddit says:
As for what I think of Aspergers and it’s potential relation to the occult, mysticism, and animistic cultural concepts, I think it’s something that compliments one another, with it’s own brand of dangers. Too much obsession can really… make you go a bit bonkers, and that happens already often in a general sense for occultists. You could bumble into something you really didn’t think about, and for me, emotions can make me do some meticulously but poorly thought out actions.
And this is from a witchcraft site:
In my own case, I am a person with Asperger’s Syndrome (described as an autism spectrum disorder). Among other things, this disorder causes delays and distortions in sensory processing functions, weird shifts of focus, difficulty in shifting between inner and outer world demands, and an inability to multi-task. Asperger’s people are also known to go in for ritualistic actions, and are often fascinated with patterns and visual imagery.
Way more info on this topic can be found here. I’m certainly not the first person to conceive of this link.