I guess I'm not convinced we've established that they "see the world" as (for instance) hyper complicated color patterns so much as they enjoy hyper complicated pattern type things so they like to paint them. I mean "see the world" carries this implication that their vision qualia (or whatever) is something like the picture. Maybe I'm just reading too much into the phrase "see the world".
~Fifty
Fifty, I think you are trying to hard. The paintings illustrate how they think about the world and how their brains deal with their interactions. They are trying to capture their experience of what we probably experience differently.
Captions from pictures 1, 2, 4, 8.
1. You may not have noticed them all, but autistic artist Jessica Park reports that this painting uses seven shades of black, nine shades of green, and five shades of violet, among other colors; the shades are applied according to "a diagram that she holds in her mind from the beginning."
Some of the artworks relate to the frustration the artists experience in trying to interact with others, as many people with autism have difficulty reading other people's facial and emotional cues.
2. Donna Williams, who created this painting called "The Outsider," says: "A lot of my work is faceless people, which I guess expresses my world as a face-blind person. They lack distinct backgrounds, more like, they have atmospheres not backgrounds, and that's probably because I'm context-blind."
4. Esther Brokaw describes herself as a savant—someone with an usual talent that contrasts with her overall limitations. Her masterful paintings make it obvious that she sees the world differently, as her landscapes seem to capture every leaf in the forest and every beam of light.
Says Brokaw: "My reasons for going public with my savant diagnosis is to increase awareness of the talent that exists in many on the autistic spectrum and to encourage the world to utilize these talents."
8. Lost in a Conversational Maze
Another artist with Asperger's, Rachel Marks, was inspired to make this collage by the difficulty she has navigating daily life. Her literal understanding of language has often left her baffled by metaphors and figures of speech like "you're a square peg in a round hole."
Says Marks: "Figurative language enriches and supports the neurotypical experience. With autism, these purported props and supports to understanding become barriers and frustrations."