>>295962autistic brains don't do "synaptic pruning"
in essence, you make neural connections between different parts of the brain and the unused/unnecessary neurons are supposed to get pruned like the leaves of a shrub
but autism prevents the brain from making itself more efficient, signals from one brain region to another have to take a way longer route than allistic signals to get to where they're needed
this is worse in autistics who were forced to be as "normal" as possible as children because overstimulating the brain will cause lots more initial branches to lay the groundwork for a completely out of control amount of "excess" neural connections
you may wanna look into meditation's effects on grey brain matter because it made the speaking delay shorter for me
also, all of you spiteful neurotypicals literally ruin lives by being impatient and forcible about monotropy especially for autistic children. unless you start killing us (america seems to be about to begin with that) the only way to make it better for everyone is accomodation