A high-level functional autistic may well not be diagnosed as such. (There are 2 in my family. As the parent of a classic autistic child, I recognize the others as autistic, but they have never been formally diagnosed and probably never will be.) Without the formal diagnosis, a high-level functional autistic may be able to serve, and serve with distinction.
A formal diagnosis is a bar to service. If you have not been formally diagnosed as autistic, especially if you can express yourself clearly in a public forum, you may well be able to serve.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.