Would be super cool if there could be found a way to enlarge the skull size during growth to have enough space for that special autism brains.
I'll pass, thanks.
It reminds me of trepanation, the old-school mental health procedure to just drill a hole in the skull. Some people still do it and swear by it [0], saying that it relieves pressure.
It’s not because of “skull pressure”
TIL that our heads grow by about ~8% (in circumference) after we're tweens [0]. Cool!
[0] https://www.craftyarncouncil.com/standards/head-circumferenc...
What we don't yet understand is the complex set of genetic interactions that result in ASD.
Here's one study: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2215632120 but there are dozens if not hundreds more like this.
Your claim that ASD is not genetic is extraordinary and counter to the prevailing scientific understanding, and requires significant evidence to back up.
But I don't think it's a reasonable comparison -- autism has a much wider variability in how it expresses, from relatively benign (but still impactful) to fully incapable of self sufficiency.
I'd also argue just because we practice eugenics in case makes it ok to generalize to other cases (and furthermore, just because we practice it doesn't necessarily make it ok even in that case).
People abort babies for reasons far less than "lifelong disability requiring constant care". I'm not saying it's done lightly but surely that kind of issue is as valid a reason as any.
But I'm also extremely sensitive to people saying, "an entire category of person like me is disappearing due to eugenics".
I think it's important to understand and acknowledge the tension between those two positions and recognize that it's not a simple problem.
Just curious, would you feel comfortable if someone gleefully told you that from now on people like you will no longer be permitted to survive birth?