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There's unfortunately a lot of room for speculation, but there is also some very strong theories about what's going on. Cross posting from the "What are you reading?" thread:The fact of the matter is that “developmental disorder” and “behavioral disorder” have come to mean or have always meant that one is not aligned with the status quo or that one does not meet expectations. While this is patently obvious in cases of schizophrenia in terms of psychological disorder or Down’s Syndrome in terms of developmental disorder, but now it seems to cover every granular symptom that doesn’t directly meet a non-existent criteria made of negative qualifiers - that is to say, the criteria requires that you don’t have something, as opposed to a typical criteria which seeks to see what you do have and/or apply.
You have no desire to adapt, may be socially uninterested, and educationally delayed or non-cooperative, and so you must be retarded on a physical, unconditional level. All because one refuses to toe certain lines and behave certain ways.
Autism being a “spectrum” is a reflection of this idea that is baked into modern psychology and psychiatry. We don’t know what autism is, all we know is we have a subset of symptoms that all point to a certain root cause, and that these behaviors do not align with what is expected or desired.
The above post summarizes a fantastic explanation about the modern rise of mental illnesses in general. Basically, there's a lot of evidence that a lot of health issues come from compromised metabolic health. The reason why a lot of research into brain chemistry hasn't turned up great answers is because a lot of the body chemistry that effects mental health isn't specifically or entirely located in the brain. There's several sections where the author details liver health having a profound effect on what are ostensibly psychiatric issues.Brain Energy by
Christopher M. Palmer
The author claims that the downward spiral of metabolic health started with the rise of goyslop (he calls it "highly-processed food"), so I'm still counting this as conspiracy adjacent.