Early intervention is crucial, the early the better.
Silicon Valley has the largest group of Autism kids, while the cause is unclear, I believe it has something to do with IT-engineer-or-STEM-brain _statistically_.
No need for Rand Paul vaccination conspiracies or some hand-wavy pseudo-science about "tech brains." Humanity has had techy people since day one. Its not a new thing.
"But yeah ... there is engineering brain from what I see."
I saw Temple Grandin speak at a state fair some years back, she's interesting, and I'm paraphrasing and probably misquoting but what I heard was something along the lines of if the species had to rely completely on neurotypicals, we'd still be living in caves and wearing hides, with a side dish of if a brain gets stuck or trapped on something like mathematical analysis of animal behavior as relates to architecture then we end up with her PHD dissertation revolutionizing livestock facility design, but much more likely if the brain gets stuck on lining up thomas the tank engine action figures, then the long term outcome is not so good. Also she had some opinions about discipline that were not the current mantras. No one at the event seems to like medication other than people with a financial interest in medication, I was surprised at that uniform consensus.
I seem to recall someone proposing a few years back that a significant fraction (though not all) of the uptick in Autisim could be explained by increased assortive mating.
Silicon Valley has the largest group of Autism kids, while the cause is unclear, I believe it has something to do with IT-engineer-or-STEM-brain _statistically_.