I asked the moderators to look into this question. Autism is neurotype, like being introverted. Not an illness. Not a disease.
It's likely the anecdotal pattern you're seeing is because, like many minority communities, autistic individuals and families have experienced decades of prejudice, oppression, and misunderstanding. They likely have high ACE scores because of how society treats them poorly for being different.
It's because of what they are that leads to conditions faced that lead to trauma. Trauma doesn't itself "cause" autism and it shows how much society has failed the autism community to have a person even think to ask that.
