Idk about the autism, but the cartoons are definitely a source of degradation at least for last two decades.
The children emulate the idiotic screaming voices, the mannered habits, the perverted logic, they can't focus on something longer than for several seconds, and so on. From the early childhood they use to be the typical cartoon characters.
It began in early XX, with the disgustingly unnatural, emphasized expression of emotions in the Disney cartoons, but is reaching its top nowadays.
Another part of it are the cartoon character suits, interacting with children in parks and other trading/recreational places.
They deform the kid psychics by ensuring it that it indeed lives in a cartoon world.
Cartoons are evil.
They replace real human world with cadavers.