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Theory - Autism is a growth disorder - Uriah

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I’m going to contend tonight that autism is a growth disorder whose prevalence increases with advancing average birth weight and height and which explodes in frequency when weight and height can increase no further, resulting in a kind of "spillover" of growth into the brain. Another point to emphasize is that the increase in growth is ultimately responsible for generation gaps in personality. The mental dimension which separates autistics from non-autistics also separates millennials from boomers and boomers from their parents. The number of autistics in a cohort is a dramatic representation of even the average person’s personality, their nerdiness, their facility with abstract thinking and making “references” to ideas and events outside of their immediate experience. I'm a little bit miffed that out of the millions of people who complain about Millennial/Z over-sensitivity nobody ever had the thought that maybe this was related to the explosion of autistic children who upend their cl

I’m going to contend tonight that autism is a growth disorder whose prevalence increases with advancing average birth weight and height and which explodes in frequency when weight and height can increase no further, resulting in a kind of "spillover" of growth into the brain. Another point to emphasize is that the increase in growth is ultimately responsible for generation gaps in personality. The mental dimension which separates autistics from non-autistics also separates millennials from boomers and boomers from their parents. The number of autistics in a cohort is a dramatic representation

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