Now I get back to your post.

Still mulling over what I just read, it occurred to me that many of those things about autism due to a deficiency, could possibly also be reproduced in healthy individuals. Right from the get go we get put in schools where fear of failure, not fitting in, can be used to immediately quell independent thought and suppression of feeling. The not so neighborly neighbors merely continuing pattern learned in such environment and continuing to suppress those sensitive to it, who then may display autistic tendencies. Are we victims of our own creations? (schools)

It could have been under reported but there does seem to be an epidemic outbreak of autism in the last 30 years.