I'll put in out there (at the risk of being downvoted) : an extremely destructive/insensitive world around a developing child, as a fetus or later, is to me one

I'll put in out there (at the risk of being downvoted) : an extremely destructive/insensitive world around a developing child, as a fetus or later, is to me one of the root causes of autism. See Bruno Bettleheim's theories (refrigerator mother, The Emtpy Fortress, etc). "Autistic people have the conviction that their efforts have no influence on the world, because in the past they were convinced that the world is insensitive to their reactions." This comes from my personal experience.