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by smt88 1668 days ago
I would wager that autistic people are less likely to have children, which means that humans are evolving away from autism (assuming a large enough hereditary factor).
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The evolutionary benefits of a dominant allele can vastly outweigh the negative consequences of a recessive one, keeping it alive even though it reduces fitness of some individuals. With a spectrum disorder like autism that's likely caused by many factors, we can't even hazard a wild guess.