Autism symptoms almost halved 2 years after fecal transplant

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Just FTR: I know who’s poop I want.

Seriously. If I do go the route of FMT, I’ve long since selected the person in my life I’d ask to be a bacteria donor. He’s a highly successful NT, socially sharp, hard working/playing, a champion of many disciplines/athletic pursuits, phenomenal salesman, fantastic tradesman, financially successful etc etc etc all the good qualities one could want from a fully functioning brain/body. If I had his guts/“intestinal fortitude,” as they say, I’d be as unstoppable of achieving my goals as he is of his.

I guess I’m just sharing this to spark similar thoughts in others - if you could pick your FMT donor from someone you know, do you know who you’d choose?

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No for supporting trump. Because doing so is deplorable.

I don't feel that many autistic people have less than "full" functioning.

I find the idea that people with autism are somehow "defective" in some way--is abhorrent. And probably not true.

I do believe that all people should work on things which they are not "optimal" with. I need to work on my mechanical skills, for example. And my skills at asserting myself. And my perseverance.

Every time someone talks about how "defective" autistic people are----and how they have "bad genes" or something like that--I cringe. I feel that notion is just a bunch of hooey garbage.

Eww! Ugh! Yuck! Ick! Gross! No thanks.

Being "social" does not equate to being "better."

In this society, alas, being "social" does equate, much of the time, with being more materially successful. But it still doesn't make the person "better" because that person happens to know how to "work a room."

And it doesn't mean that people with autism are defective, or the product of "bad genes" or whatever.

No excuse for anybody who talks about "bad genes." It's a bunch of crap.

Imagine if autism actually turns out to be like PKU----curable through a suitable diet started at birth?

You can be "social" and still have a screwed-up nervous system......

Autism is a condition, and not uncommonly a disorder-----but you are not "defective" when you have autism.

I am certainly not "defective" in any way----despite what people have told me all my life.

I'd take my cousin's poop. Since our moms are identical twins, we are probably pretty genetically compatible. I'd be happy being like my cousin. He's a very well adjusted person who has always gotten along well in life.

We might have “deficits” in some areas...but we are not “defective” people just because of autism.

It's not the same thing.

"Loss of hearing" is an objective measure, obtainable via definitive, almost absolutely objective testing.

Yet: Is a person with a hearing loss a "defective person," or "less of a person" because he/she has a hearing loss?

Do you get MY logic?

I understand about "social deficits." Those definitely exist. But what some see as "deficits" others might not see as "deficits." An assessment of "social deficits" is less objectively-derived.

If you are nasty, and you lack empathy when, say, you see somebody with a broken leg in the street----then, you are "socially defective."

If you happen to be slightly awkward in how you present yourself----and maybe your shirt doesn't quite match your pants----it is questionable whether such a person has a "social deficit."

If one says to an autistic person online, whom one doesn't know, that this person has a "social deficit," or is a "defective person," I will call out the person who says such things----because this is frequently a manifestation of bullying.

I am on the Spectrum. I have "social differences" which might be "deficits"---though that is not definite. I am, in no way, a "defective" person. I do not have "defective genes." If I have a baby, I am not passing "defective genes" onto that baby.

This is the kind of crap I used to get in the schoolyard.....that I'm "defective" because I'm not "hip" enough or whatever. BALDERDASH!

If you take someone's poop, you're gonna have every and all problems they ever had