Unless autism is an actual genuine disorder of some kind — the problem is that civilization is collapsing.
Bingo! But it can be both. I, as a pure creationist, believe that humankind is "winding down," so to speak. That points to the fact that we really are relatively genetically young, several thousand years old. Otherwise we would have "entropied" out of existence millions of years ago.
Humans don't just "get better" by virtue of time. Everything wears out and gets worse.
Autism is definitely real, as is the increase in the numbers of babies born with it. The collapse of civilization involves the denial we have a growing number of communists among us. Commie denial syndrome, unlike autism can be cured by just opening one’s mind.
The problem might actually be that genetic defects build up the longer people wait to have children.
By age 40 an egg might have ten times the number of defects it had when it was 20 years old.
If a woman waits too long to find Mr. Right, the child that results may be very wrong.
Similar things might be said for men and sperm generating cells.
Perhaps legal changes should be made:
1. Social Security survivor benefits to spouses shouldn’t be paid unless the partners married before age 30 and had all children before age 30.
2. No disability benefits payable to children so the diagnosis isn’t profitable
3. federal income tax capped at 10% after the first birth for five years if both parents between age 22 and age 28 when the child was born
4. child care tax credit not issued if a parent is unknown or above age 28