Not all autism is the typical HN "autism is my superpower" meme. For many it is a serious struggle.

I could be wrong but my interpretation was more along the lines of autism has suffered enough from its connection with vaccine conspiracies; the last thing we should do is start associating it with environmental issues without strong evidence.

You think it was always there but autistic kids then were labeled "crazy" or weird? I strongly believe that our hormones and system can be affected by outside things such as pollution (any kind of it)

Why is nobody talking about the fact that kids mis a lot of real-life playing outside in the dirt, and sitting behind a screen... on average 6 hours a day.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-32067158

Perhaps because it's the easy way, just blame some chemical instead of taking action. If you move to a friendly neighbourhood and have some rules about screentime kids play outside, I know from experience with my own kids.

I'm no expert, but I suspect a strong correlation in autism development and 'hours spend in front of a screen instead of playing outside with peers'.

> If you move to a friendly neighbourhood

Everyone out of the inner city!

> I'm no expert, but I suspect a strong correlation in autism development and 'hours spend in front of a screen instead of playing outside with peers'.

Autism is usually diagnosed at 24 to 36 months - you're saying that the toddlers are playing too many video games and not spending enough time building treeforts?