I realized that the increase in the rate of Asperger's/autism was not just of more children being on the spectrum, but of fewer children being neurotypical, because of later childbearing, and perhaps other factors.
Mid-Twentieth Century, there was a compression of active childbearing years into the maternal age range of 20 to 30 years.
Which probably suppressed the rate of autism for a while, but then there was a shift toward older parents. I believe a correlation has been shown between paternal age and Asperger's.
So now we have not just a low birthrate, but also not nearly as many children being born to parents in their twenties, and also more children being born to parents in their forties than there were a few decades before.
One more factor: associative mating, which may concentrate Asperger-ish genes so that the next generation is even further along the spectrum than their parents were.
This is playing out in our society all over the place. Many trans people are on the spectrum. Many others on the spectrum are on the far right. A lot of propaganda is targeted at each side, attempting to convert and weaponize them.
God's word on this seems to be Psalm 119.
A couple months ago, I put a piece of paper on the fridge--our Scammer Prayer List. We were often getting multiple scam calls per day, and while probably none of them told us their real name, God stills knows who they are and where they live, and He surely has something better for them to do all day than bother people like us.
Two names went onto the list, and these scammers were duly prayed for--they still are--and suddenly the number of scam calls dropped, by a lot. The list still has only two names on it.
The Bible says that "the gates of hell" will not prevail against Christ's Church.
A boomer apologizes, albeit without much clarity.
"It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs," Jesus said; Matthew 15:26.
I recently understood that I am spending my life in rebuilding spiritual and practical foundations that had been foolishly undermined by previous generations.
Several months ago I was reading a nonfiction book by Christian author Paul Tournier, and made it about three-quarters of the way through before being drawn away to other things.
When I picked it up this last week and finished reading it, I found references to about a dozen Bible passages that had come up in my daily Bible readings in the interim, mostly obscure Old Testament personages with a variety of afflictions; Tournier was a Swiss doctor famous for connecting his Christianity with his medical practice.
I also read a Christian fiction book this last week: Deadline, by Randy Alcorn. One day, what I read in the book mirrored my morning Bible reading on that same day.
