I agree someone with AS/ASD will most probably be more objective, as rationality dominates our thinking process, where emotions do in most NTs.
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If someone’s autism prevented them from being able to sit in a small room with a group of people for days on end, or had such extreme SPD that they were unable to handle sitting upright in the juror chairs (they can be uncomfortable), or if their cognition was significantly impaired, it would be worth bringing this up. But otherwise, AS is probably not in itself an excuse to get out of jury duty and I think many of us bring a fresh perspective to the process.

I remember being one of the only jurors who kept reminding the others to discuss facts and evidence – they were yelling about everything but. And I wanted to make sure that the process was fair and gave everyone a chance to speak their opinion.

Just wondering; did your AS come up in the selection process at all? I don’t think it would pose any issues, but I’m curious none-the-less.

And what that “everything” would consist of.

Substansive facts, or emotions too.

Those were some great accomodations you described: the background noise one and the “memory for details/write it down” one.

I remember reading about jury duty in the book Monster Love.
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