The Trump administration just announced a program of actions to tackle the so-called “autism epidemic”, a term that is disputed by many within the autistic community. They told us way back in April that they would “know” the causes of autism by September. LeucovorinThe first announcement relates to a drug called leucovorin, which is already used as a medical treatment in the US. The current scientific consensus is that autism is extremely complex and likely has a huge number of primarily genetic causes. More to the point, in the eyes of many experts and autistic people themselves, this rhetoric is actively unhelpful.