Cure for Autism Discovered

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Wow. Snake oil, a cure for autism, and an excuse for war to annex another helpless little country as a 51st state,
all rolled into one. I gotta send Snopes.com a heads-up.

I hate April Fool's, too. Truly ridiculous jokes are okay... like, you know, telling someone you bought a pet elephant or something. Jokes you can laugh about. But this--we've had this every April 1st for the last six years, and it's just getting old now.

I have a psychologist's appointment today. I don't want to go. In fact, I don't want to leave the house. I'm afraid I'll be blindsided by people laughing at me everywhere I go. I'm too gullible not to be an attractive target for pranks, and it doesn't help that people laughing at me is a serious trigger, even when they don't mean any harm.

I know it's funny for some people. I could see the humor in it, if it weren't such a real threat. If kids didn't die from parents trying to "cure" them.

Next April 1st, can we have something a little less scary, please? Maybe an article claiming to have cured neurotypicals by getting them addicted to Pokemon, or something. This is like telling a Jewish friend that the government has decided to re-start the Holocaust, but hey, it's just an April Fool's prank, so it's okay!

I don't mean to make anybody feel bad over this. I do wonder though whether other people have the same sort of trigger-y reaction to April Fool's pranks and whether maybe it's best for us to just stay off the Internet today.

Last edited by Callista on 31 Mar 2014, 11:28 pm, edited 1 time in total.

I was fooled for a second, to be completely honest. Then again, I don't typically expect April Fool's jokes on the 31st of March.

But if this were true, I'd be devastated. I wouldn't be the person I am today if it weren't for my Aspergers, and if someone took that away from me, I would merely be a shell of my former self.

I love April Fools.

I thought it was an example of a snake oil salesman with a nonsense cure for autism until I got to the end of the original post, well done and very funny. I would like to see someone come up with a cure for stupidity in some autism researchers.

That would be something useful !

The Snell Institute of Cognitive Studies at Wayne State University in Detroit Michigan announced the results of a five year investigational study of the persistence of autism for males between the ages of 12 to 18 years old. The lead researcher, Dr. Ivan Richardson, stated that the condition of autism is known to reverse itself in approximately 3.7% of the time during the late adolescence.

Figured it out it was an April Fools Joke when I read the bolded part in the first paragraph

I do have the same kind of trigger reaction to April Fools day. I forgot it was coming up to april, or I would have resumed my normal april 1st activity of staying in bed and waiting for the day to be over.

A very clever April Fool's Day prank. I say, they are getting rather sophisticated in this digital technology age.

For some reason it made me think about ADHD.

I just try to believe very little of what I read on April 1st. And I try to at least be skeptical on March 31.

This one I caught on to, and I thought it was funny because it mocked the admittedly fairly predatory and exploitative types who peddle "alternative treatment" for autism.

Had me going there. Getting steamed up over visions of an over-reaching state trampling all over our rights to be ourselves. Best hoax of today!!

I actually believed it, until the very last line. You got me.

I can never tell if it's reality or a joke.

-facepalm-

Some people believe that violence is the cure for everything, especially stupidity.

Clever and funny. Thanks for the laugh!

"April is the cruelest month.

A mixture of remembrance, and desire."

--------------------From "the Wasteland",by TS Eliot.




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I did glance at the date of posting- but only after I was about three paragraphs in.

Okay...about FIVE paragraphs in!

Pretty friggin hilarious!