The world ends because everyone gets autism.

There is debate over the exact mechanism.

Some people get it from vaccines. Some people get it from microplastics. Some people get it from pesticides or food additives or the medicines their mothers took when they were pregnant.

Some people catch it from other people who already have it – from friends or family members or lovers who diagnose it for them.

Some people get it from playing too many video games, from spending too much time staring at screens at crucial stages in their childhood development.

Some people get it from living too close to cell phone towers or electricity pylons or wind turbines, or from standing too close to microwave ovens.

Some people come down with it after head injuries or emotional trauma or from being too indulged – or not indulged enough – as children.

Some people get it from exposure to solar flares, or vapour trails, or badly policed gender boundaries, or as a result of allergic reactions to food or chemicals or insect bites or the general insanity of modern life.

Some people seem to get it for no reason at all, at random and out of the blue, from which it is impossible to draw any conclusion or moral message.

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