Stopping Autism?

First: Let me say I will not condemn autism. I love a relative with it as it's defined these days, and  respect and admire their accomplishments. I've also corresponded with at least a dozen people with autism, self identified, online. Several of them have given me great insight on various things, including unique contributions to our world or challenges we provide them for surviving and thriving in it.

However, RFK Jr has made preventing autism the core of his intended contribution to health in this country, and he's willing to not just ignore all kinds of other health needs, but actively stop lots of research to learn more ways to understand and improve the overall health of people. I was going to add "in this country" at the end of that sentence, but America had been responsible for a lot of advances in that area that don't stop at our borders. Well, till now, anyway. At least research in other countries of all kinds continues, but top level research needs all of us contributing. No one country is magic, though one can be terribly destructive.

Junior has been spouting weird and wild quarter-baked ideas about how to prevent autism, or whom to blame for it (because blame is easier than actual research and facts), loudly and long enough that people without the time to look into actual facts, but full of time to yield to irrational fears, are willing to accept each daily new spew of nonsense. Most of his version of blame falls on the women, specifically pregnant ones. In his worldview, they must have done something wrong to cause it in their offspring.

Are any of you old enough to remember when homosexuality was blamed on "cold mothers"? Same idiotic mindset. We now know that people are born with the sense of who they are attracted to, their own gender or opposite. Just like we are born with the idea of our personal gender, whatever attachments our body manifests. The only things we actually know about mothers doing harm to developing children in utero comes from then taking drugs like narcotics, alcohol, or smoking. Or back when, thalidomide. None of those results are homosexuality or autism. No "new" substance like a specific pain reliever is the cause because they haven't been on the planet long and autism has. So has homosexuality, and gender identity.

The only hypothesis I've heard that makes any kind of sense is that it tends to be genetic in some way as yet unspecified, just that it often shows in previous generations, possibly at different levels, often with different names applied as diagnoses, as our knowledge grows.

Given that we only know for sure one cause, and if, despite their contributions, we decide as a species that we need to somehow prevent more autistic people from being born, there is only one method that could be proof positive as a way to achieve that questionable goal:

STOP HAVING SEX!  EVERYBODY !!!!!!!!