Our youngest has been diagnosed with mild autism. Weirdly, of my three children, I see myself the most in him. We didn’t have the name “autism” when I was growing up, but I remember the same challenges. I grew out of most of it, and I hope he does too.
That said, I do believe the prevalence these days of autism is mostly related to the heavily increased use of anti-depressants in women.
Of course, pharma companies are sacrosanct, so we won’t be seeing any studies to prove out this theory any time soon. Keeping women drugged is big dollar business…
There is also something I heard on the Matt (Bracken) and Fernando videos on Sundays, that is, the children of women who breastfeed them are 1/2 as likely to be autistic as the children who were bottle-fed with formula.