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There is no research that connects autism with anything. For two reasons. The first - the diagnosis is subjective, there is no way to quantitatively measure anything to make this diagnosis. The second - it is not known what causes autism and even if this is a single disorder or multiple disorders that just look similar. Multiple researches for decades failed to identify any changes in the brain or anything else. The technology we have cannot detect any change. I exclude cases of severe autism, as they were described in the middle of 20th century and this diagnosis was introduce, at this time it meant severe mental disability, the percentage of such cases in the population has not change. With time the diagnosis was widened with a spectrum and more and more people were diagnosed. In many cases autism diagnosis is a result of hyper diagnostics and lack of understanding.
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