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This observation got made to me and I can't really shake a few of the consequences:
PTSD is often misdiagnosed as an Autism Spectrum Disorder - especially during childhood, when diagnosing the patient with PTSD is likely to alert authorities to child abuse (therapists love child abuse because it creates future patients, and so will not stop it).
[I, in particular, am one of these cases. As I've been resolving my PTSD, I've become a *lot* more neurotypical: I'm slowly starting to fit into normal society, and I have a foot out of the door of this place.]
Consider the second graph. The rise in autism cases has its inflection point around 1985. This might suggest some massive, shared trauma inflicted upon children beginning around that time, and - most importantly - never ceasing.