I think Hollow Earth is absolutely real, but it's a scale of how real.
Giant empty hollow inside the earth where the earth is a like a basketball? Probably not.
Hollows-in-the-earth of expansive caves systems bigger than we're allowed to know about? Probably yes.
That's kind of where I'm at with the Hollow Moon. I like the theory, but I'm not sure if I fully believe in the "and it was made by aliens and they recycle our souls" stuff. I'd definitely believe if the moon was like a big-ass chunk of pumice or something and had a billion holes in it.
Maybe some alien life once upon a time, but probably not the soul recycler.
Autism is a catch-all term for a whole bunch of disparate developmental disorders that the medical apparatus does not have the tools to separate from neglect. You have to just take parents on their word that they didn't fuck the kid up. Half of the time they just did it on accident because they fail to establish a proper caregiver relationship with the child
"We did exactly what the doctor says, and the kid is fucked up, I guess he's autistic!"
might be l8 on this, but it makes me think about all the ways neglect/abuse were just so normalized with babies and young children up until very, very recently. You've got nurseries/the concept of removing the baby from the mother at night and leaving it alone all night, letting babies "cry it out" (i.e; exhaust themselves until they learn nobody will come for them when they're scared,) having both parents work and leaving babies to be raised by strangers (babysitters, nannies, daycare, preschool,) and how little actual bonding time a mother who has to work has with her infant. I mean, imagine doing this with a dog:
A puppy is born in a litter of five. You leave four puppies alone, but the fifth puppy only gets the bare minimum time to be with its mother after it's born 'til the time it can almost sort of function and NOT DIE on its own. Then you put it in a separate room from its mother overnight, keep the puppy and the mom apart no matter how much one wants the other, then during the day the puppy gets maybe 2 hours of mom/littermates time, and the rest of the day it gets fed artificial milk by humans and doesn't have any contact with other dogs. You do that until it's grown, and you know what you get? You get a puppy that cries/panics/shuts down whenever it's alone, can't self-soothe because it didn't learn how, plays too rough or too timidly, doesn't know how to integrate with other dogs, and it's incredibly likely it'll exhibit destructive behavior and fear-based aggression as an adult and could even be put down.
Now take it back to humans, what's that sound like? Can't self soothe/is obsessed with trying to self soothe, has anxiety/rage issues that lead to meltdowns and destructive behavior? That sounds like autism to me!
I'm willing to bet that there are "subsets" of autism that could genuinely be different disorders; the OCD organizing/train-watching kind, the childhood neglect leading to stunted anxious wrecks kind, and the genuinely retarded 4-year-old-in-an-adult-body kind.