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Autism does not have any known cause.
Genetically, there are some clusters of genes that seem to be present more often than not in Autistic people...
But it is very, very far from being any kind of conclusive 'we found the autism genes.'
... And if you look into a whole lot of pharmacology/psychiatric research, you'll find that a common practice is to give mice who are gestating chemicals that cause literal brain lesions and other physiological abnormalities and deformities, and this causes the brain fried mice to be less social, so they call that a good proxy of autism, and then test their drugs on these 'autistic' mice.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28472621/
This model is still common in modern studies and drug development because back in the 70s, a good number of pregnant women who took valproic acid (depakote) during pregnancy, gave birth to babies who were... well, to put it bluntly, retarded, seriously mentally impaired, as well as having mutations.
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Valproate
But hey thats basically the same thing as autism right?
So yeah, many current psychiatric explorations 'with the potential to develop a drug that treats the symptoms of autism'... are literally just retardifying mice with massive brain damage inducing chemicals,.pretending that is autism, and then testing their drugs on the retarded mice to see if it changes something.
... And thats all without RFK Jr in charge.