I think a lot more conditions/traits of humans, including autism, will be discovered to be largely 'genetic' over time

[AZJonnie]

Some prominent things that I would speculate about this being the case for are:

1) Autism
2) Non-hetero sexual orientation
3) Non-cis gender orientation
4) Political Orientation i.e. leaning left vs right (generally, cooperation-based vs. competition-based thinking)
5) General proclivity towards being law-abiding vs being criminal (also a type of cooperation-based vs. competition-based thinking)
6) General proclivity towards being monoamorous vs polyamorous
7) Various personality disorders, such as BPD, NPD, addictions to substances and actions (such as gambling), and yes, even pedophilia

I think all the above are likely traits in our genome that were programmed by our evolutionary heritage to show up a certain % of the time, as opposed to the more direct "you're like this because your mom/dad is like this". The latter also happens, obviously, but is not "required", if you will. What I mean by this is the genes are "there" for all these things in all of us, but they randomly "express" in some of us, by "design" (though not by intelligent design lol).

This is why I believe homosexuality, for example, will never be bred out of the population, despite the argument that many homophobes would make like "it can't be natural because it would've died out due to lack of reproduction by homosexuals, hence it must be nurture as opposed to nature" type of thing. Many if not all these phenomenon probably exist in us because for our direct ancestors (species-wise), they provided some kind of survival advantage for the species, even if not for the individual, and they will (seemingly) randomly express as a result. NOT because of "liberal permissiveness"

My main point here though is about autism. I think it's quite possible that, despite RFK Jr's weird obsession with locating some external locus of control like chemicals, there is not actually one of those. Instead it may be part of the genome that randomly expresses over a certain % of the population (to varying degrees), along with the other things I listed above. Also along with likely a great many others that we'd perhaps not guess is the case, or currently only speculate may be

Further, I think the reason autism instances *seem* to be rising may be detection and definition-related as opposed to being "real". Though in this particular case I'm not ruling out the opposite, it *could* be caused (or exacerbated) by something environmental that epidemiologists simply haven't determined yet, but the last thing government officials should be doing is pulling "the cause" straight out of their frigging asses, ala RFK Jr, when we REALLY don't know yet that an environmental cause even exists, let alone which one

Lastly, I have my hypotheses as to why I think each of these things make sense (some of them more convincingly than others lol) as likely being part of the genome, as in "why did these traits/conditions evolve in the first place" but this post would be giant if I did so here, so I'll spare y'all