Bad image of the PhD in France: the role of PhDs with ASDs

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For anyone familiar with the French higher education system, which is too complicated for its own good, we know that, as far as France is concerned, the PhD has a poor image on the job market in no small part because there are "Grandes Écoles" (Grand Schools) that compete for the top talent, and, additionally, business schools and engineering schools (they are stand-alone institutions in most cases). But that alone doesn't explain everything.

If we take the French vision of what a typical PhD is (also applicable to doctoral students): a "ret*d student" that has trouble growing up emotionally, but is also an expert obsessed in a very arcane and narrow area of knowledge, one may suspect that some PhD-holders with ASDs may be so described.

How much of the poor image of the PhD can be attributed to PhD-holders with ASDs? (diagnosed or not, but it is also known that French ASD detection mechanisms are decades behind North American ASD detection mechanisms)

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