I've also observed stigma against both of those (but especially ASD) both personally and professionally.
Now it seems that the software company SAP has put aside any stigma and wants to take advantage of people who excel in certain ways, as is often the case with ASD.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/05/23 ... _recruits/
I hope this is wildly successful and inspires other companies and industries to be more objective in their employment.SAP wants to hire engineers diagnosed with autism - or people who "think differently" in the words of the enterprise software giant.
In other news, the DSM-5 was just released. I'm told it has reclassified some neurological disorders as separate from "mental illness" and has actually reduced the overall number of specific diagnoses.
http://www.psychiatry.org/dsm5