Maybe now that most things are made by machine, so that the slow painstaking crafting/construction by hand of other times is generally unnecessary,
now that most "writing" is on computer, so the clerical skills of precisely formed letters and the hours of careful copying are redundant,
now that almost noone in the western world stays in the place that they were born, so that most people are surrounded by strangers,
now that the world is full of noise and smells and rush,
people on the autistic spectrum represent a non-adapted element of the human species gene pool.
Like in John Wyndhams book " The Chrysallids".
Experiencing the death throes of a genetic group. The apparently increasing numbers of aspies and auties are simply the result of greater visibility in a world to which are unadapted. Creatures becoming visible as the waters recede!
Maybe there used to be many many of us, but a world good for aspies has maybe already been and gone. The quieter, slower, handmade world. Maybe it's a genuine case of evolution, natural selection, in action.
It's not necessary to cure us; we'll be wiped out soon enough anyway judging by our diminishing/decreasing reproductivity under these conditions ( of too much noise, speed, change, etc). And i doubt that it's possible to go back to a pre-industrial time of clerks and craftsmen and slow peaceful lives unchanging from one decade to the next. There won't be many of us soon at all judging from the numbers here who have no children.
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UNLESS autism spectrum disorders are in fact the result of environmental factors, ( acting on genetically determined sensitivities ) , pollution of air, food, water, etc, in which case there'll be more and more of us ! ! Hip hip hooray!
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