Severe autism is on raise as well, and that has stable diagnoses over several years. Plus general cognitive decline in last a few decades is also documented.

Is it politically correct to write about later stage pregnancies? It would be insta ban only a few years ago.

Perhaps soon we will be able to openly discus something else, that may cause endocrine disruption, not just plastics!

We already know that most of the increase, even in diagnosis of level 3 autism, is due to diagnostic shifting/switching (as explained pretty well here: https://youtu.be/BdpSfrD3Nzs). We also know there are reasonably well supported risk factors that are increasing in prevalence; e.g. father aged >50 at the time of birth.

> general cognitive decline

According to whom? The Flynn effect famously says the opposite: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect