Is the rise in autism a sign of a human evolutionary process?

[Ronald Zeeman]

My cousin the former rock star told me tears ago how he had to hide in high school from admirers, of opposite sex,
So you never know. I watched a TV show once music on music where he was being interviewed, strange hearing the young ladies screaming in the background. One even phoned my older brother plus me once weird experience. no screaming just trying to find where he lived. Yes the interview is still available on U-tube.

 

[Crossbreed]

Yes the interview is still available on U-tube.

Who is your rockstar cousin?
Didn't you say that he indirectly helped you to meet your wife?

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

His name is Eddie Zeeman, yes he was one of my tenants for a while when he moved out my partner filled the room with my wife to be. My first date was taking her to watch him play in a local bar.

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

Here is the video

 

[Crossbreed]

I have trouble walking through the grocery store because of all the swooning...

I'm Too Sexy, Right Said Fred (1992)​

 

[Outsider]

There might be an advantage of being ASD 1 because of the ability to keep focused on topics of interest, unconstrained creativity and some other desirable forms of human activity (I am NT, so this is not self-flattery) but being ASD and especially ASD 3 puts a person at clear disadvantage. If natural selection works the way Darwin suggested, 2these forms of autism should have been the thing of a past because they are disabilities.
As a famous British mathematician and geneticist R. Fisher had proved, for a deleterious mutation to stay in the population there must be a constant source of it, whatever the source might be.
This observation applies not only to autism but to all other hereditary illnesses such as cancer, sickle cell disease, cystic fibrosis, etc.

 

[Crossbreed]

If natural selection works the way Darwin suggested, 2these forms of autism should have been the thing of a past because they are disabilities.

The severe co-morbid conditions of ASD2/3 are not hereditary features.* They are subsequent brain injuries on top of hereditary ASD1. (The source of said subsequent injury --whatever it is-- was not significantly present prior to 1979.**)

See Autism Subtypes...

*Very few 2s, and even fewer 3s, go on to reproduce. Those under a legal guardianship (in the U.S.) cannot give sexual consent.
**That also rules out acetaminophen (which became OTC in 1960 [U.S.]) acting alone.