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ToughDiamond
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02 Sep 2019, 3:50 pm

Mona Pereth wrote:
Alas, too many of the people who have designed autism therapy for kids have not been "sensible humans" in this sense. As far as I can tell, autism therapy for kids generally does NOT focus on discovering and encouraging/developing the kids' strengths. I'm not sure to what extent that's still true -- I hope it's changing, but I'm afraid it hasn't changed very much.

When I was first diagnosed I was disappointed to find that as an adult there wasn't much help on offer for me, and rather wished I'd been diagnosed when I was much younger, but then I noticed the horror stories of Aspie kids being hammered into a mould by therapists, and I began to be more careful what I wished for. Seeing ASD as nothing but a box of weaknesses, an affliction to be eradicated or "cured," is a hopeless starting point for doing any good.



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02 Sep 2019, 4:31 pm

carlos55 wrote:
I know autism is more than just one symptom like anxiety, but if you look at any medical advancement its a step by step process, its rare anything is cured but most things have "treatments" that have a positive effect but autism is not one of them so far.

So it would most likely be a step by step process over the decades starting from ? Maybe a genetic cure for sensory problems then years later something for anxiety, repetative behaviours and so on. So the core unpleasent disabaling features are slowly stripped away over many decades of medical progress.

That kind of approach is not what current autism research is focused on, however. The approach you describe above would be far less objectionable, and far less creepy, than the current holy grails of autism research, which necessarily entail very radical brain-tinkering.


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02 Sep 2019, 7:14 pm

Sometimes there is no fix, there is no solution.

Americans particularly believe that if you try hard enough you can do anything, “if there is will there is a way”. Our technology just google it or ask Siri or Alexa enhances the idea that there is an answer for everything.

Life does not always work that way.


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03 Sep 2019, 5:14 pm

There's no treatment because we're told that our ASD is a gift, all the while growing up a lot of us are suppressed during school in special education, being kept behind everyone else. Despite that some sufferers are very successful in life, NT society needs groups of people to belittle and constantly feel superior over, and we're one of those groups.