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18 Jan 2013, 3:58 pm

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I suspect that a cure, if one is found, will have to be while the mother is pregnant with the fetus.



I agree with this. I don't buy the idea that you can cure it through the gut; only make it better. One you're made, you're made. Once out of the womb, your brain, your gut, your nervous system, is autistic and you can't change it completely.

I would like a cure for my severe OCD.

However, otherwise I would just like the right environment for myself, and to release the talents my autism gives me. That's my long-term aim now. I'll never get a cure for my OCD probably, but I would accept one if it came along.


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18 Jan 2013, 6:06 pm

I think that some day, maybe not in my lifetime, we will be able to use stem cells to rework the brain. That will probably make AS an optional condition.

Personally, I would take a cure if it existed. Then again, I have ADHD and AS, and the ADHD is more of a problem. Even now I should be working, but I just can't focus. Yeah, I'll take a cure if it comes around.



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18 Jan 2013, 6:38 pm

I'd say it could be a good thing - but they would have to rework how they define the spectrum, so that Aspies etc who get along just fine wouldn't wind up considered in the same category as, say, schizophrenics who refuse their meds, by the public eye. We aren't crazy, and saying we need cured is like saying we are. Maybe what would be ideal would be a therapy, whether traditional, physical, or chemical, that gradually brings someone 'up' the spectrum - and that can be stopped when they reach the point where they're where they want to be and are capable of expressing that fact



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18 Jan 2013, 7:55 pm

ChosenOfChaos wrote:
I'd say it could be a good thing - but they would have to rework how they define the spectrum, so that Aspies etc who get along just fine wouldn't wind up considered in the same category as, say, schizophrenics who refuse their meds, by the public eye. We aren't crazy, and saying we need cured is like saying we are. Maybe what would be ideal would be a therapy, whether traditional, physical, or chemical, that gradually brings someone 'up' the spectrum - and that can be stopped when they reach the point where they're where they want to be and are capable of expressing that fact




Oh God, yeah that's scary!! Like we'd be labelled as mad and be subjected to enforced Neurotypicalism!! *Shudder* (at the enforced bit- well both bits, but you know what I mean.)


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18 Jan 2013, 8:08 pm

This is just my personal opinion, but I would love to have a cure for the "directionally challenged" aspect....it's one of the reasons why I don't drive, and there are many things which I would be able to do if I had my own transportation.



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18 Jan 2013, 9:11 pm

I really doubt any adults with Autism are in high chairs...autism does not make one stay baby or toddler size you know. I am sure there are very low functioning invidiuals with it that need help with basic things, but if they where in a high chair I would question if the care takers are doing it for a laugh or due to actually thinking it nessisary to cram an adult into a high chair. Though I realize you probably meant that more as a metaphor of some sort.


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18 Jan 2013, 9:14 pm

Sweetleaf wrote:
I really doubt any adults with Autism are in high chairs...autism does not make one stay baby or toddler size you know. I am sure there are very low functioning invidiuals with it that need help with basic things, but if they where in a high chair I would question if the care takers are doing it for a laugh or due to actually thinking it nessisary to cram an adult into a high chair. Though I realize you probably meant that more as a metaphor of some sort.


You would be surprised actually. Autism can have that effect on people in profound cases.