@servelan @Adventurer @ScottSoCal @sal @actuallyautistic @neurodiversity @Tooden @markusl @sentient_water It's guesswork and would need to be validated, but I would suspect that extreme stress reactions in general would be a better potential cause to look at, as it is likely the switch that is getting flipped. High stress environments can cause epigenetic changes that are inheritable, and I believe there have been studies showing that there at least might be a connection between that and autism. (Do not take my word for it, though. I'm going from imperfect memory.)
I'm having extreme deja vu over this, remembering all the discussions my friends and I would have about why we're gay. How did it happen? What made us this way?
Eventually I decided it didn't matter, what mattered is what we did, knowing it. I don't know why I'm gay, I don't know why I'm autistic, I just am. It's part of me, and that's fine.
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@ScottSoCal @servelan @Adventurer @sal @actuallyautistic @neurodiversity @Tooden @markusl @sentient_water Part of being autistic, for me at least, is appreciating learning about the why of things even when it isn't directly relevant to anything I actually do in my life. I'm having fun, in other words. :)