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Well, the OP's argument becomes nil when it's based on such a basic fallacy, I mean c'mon. Temporal precedence โ causal impossibility.
And since autism-as-symptom existed in 1911 but autism-as-disorder wasn't differentiated until later, the meme's temporal logic becomes even more meaningless. lol
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Except in this case it does. Autism has likely been around as long as humans have been because it's a disorder that is mostly explained by genetics. OP's first argument was dumb, but the other two statements are correct.
The statements of the meme are in mathematical form
Aโ B Bโ C
Therfore Aโ C
which is not necessarily true and what @meowmeowbeanz is referring too.
I don't know. I think it is fair to say that Autism existed prior to Tylenol, so the root cause of autism isn't Tylenol. Sure it could be a contributing factor (it isn't according to the cited study).
Schizophrenia, autism, etc. are complex genetic disorders with a spectrum of symptoms. They likely need multiple hits from genetic and environmental risk factors to develop the disorders. Autism diagnoses are increasing which means either we are better at identifying the disorder or environmental factors such as poor diet and pollution contribute. Likely both, but the former is probably a better explanation.