Autism isn't much of priority when you look at the National Institute of Health funding. It was #130 on the funding categories. They spent $308 million dollars in 2022. We spent $3.2 billion on AIDS research in 2022. They spent a lot of disease that didn't exist until about 1980. Of the course the big difference autism itself doesn't kill people. I saw this years ago and it looks autism is further down the list than years ago.

https://report.nih.gov/funding/categorical-spen...

I think there is research being done but can always be more. A speech therapist at my child’s school told me that he needs a break from people when I asked them to help him make friends at lunch. I thought that approach was fatalistic as he wants friends, he just needs help understanding how to make friends and have conversations, and she’s basically refusing to do this and stating that she feels that would harm my child (it won’t).