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I think you’re right to be healthily sceptical on the autism thing, and for me it’s captured in this key sentence:
In addition, the parents of most participants reported "a slow but steady improvement in core ASD symptoms."
There does appear to be a frequent co-occurrence of GI issues and ASD. That said, unsurprisingly, when you don’t constantly experience digestive transit issues (to use rather twee phrasing), then it’s likely to make you, as well as everyone around you, feel and behave generally better over time.
I’m generally wary of anything that suggests that there is a causal link between gut flora and ASD because it starts heading in the direction of what Andrew Wakefield was playing around with.
Side note - the same researchers have been playing in this space for a while:
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0068322
Here they note that less diverse gut flora correlates with the existence of ASD ( ... )
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