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I know this debate has probably been done to death but why can't modern day science find a cure for asperger/autisim? I think perosnally the vacination children get may also cause autisim. I bet a lot of you here were not even born with aspergers but got it through the vacination against and measels etc....

Are scientists still trying to find a cure for AS and Autisim?

Depends who is funding the scientists. Those without an external agenda have accepted that autism is probably genetic.

There is no 'cure', nor would I welcome one. I enjoy the benefits of my condition and learn to cope with the drawbacks, just as every other person on the planet must do if they want to find a modicum of happiness.

Huh? If your postcount weren't so high I'd assume you were trolling.

A cure would be genetic resequencing - something we can't do yet. Besides a lot of autistics don't want a cure because they don't think it's a disorder.

And no the vaccines absolutely have NOTHING to do with it. Who told you that?

The press were saying that the vacination is what might be causing AS back in 1998. My dad also said to me that i may have not been born with AS and it was caused by the vacine when I was 2.

Seems weird to me that hardly anyone in my family has AS except me so I kinda doubt I was born with it per say but I think it was more enivormental factors which kicked it off inside of me.

I wish I didn't have AS but I don't care about a cure because even if someone could re-wire my neurology, they couldn't give me all those social learning situations I missed growing up. So I'd be neurotypical but still socially clueless and wouldn't really be any better off.

What are you suggesting if you switched from an Aspie to an NT you would still be as worse off? If you switched to an NT you would probably easily pick up social skills over time and it would not matter.

The condition cannot be "cured" unless the causes are known and they are not known. It may be that Aspergers Syndrome is a biologically survivable variation of the human biological makeup. It might not be any more of a "disease" than having blonde hair.

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There are vital shared experiences that children have at various developmental milestones that I could never have because I'm grown up now.

Also, a lot of human connection functions on the people involved having similar backgrounds, thus being able to connect and relate over their similarities. Since a cure for my neurology would not re-write my history, I would still be alienated around most people because most people have not had the sort of extreme history that a person living with a strong neurological difference can tend to experience.

I began "out of the loop" due to neurology. I continued "out of the loop" due to missing important shared group developmental milestones. I remain "out of the loop" due to having lived am extremely non-mainstream life (mostly through no choice of my own.)

Changing my brain wiring will not change the fact that I have been on an alternate track for so long that I've ended up miles away from most other people.

I think that the reason why there isn't a cure for AS is probably the same reason why there isn't a cure for Down's Syndrome or MR: the wiring and structure of the brain itself is different, and since the brain is a complex and sensitive organ, there is no way to restructure/rewire it to match the brains of people born without these conditions.

I must stress that that's just speculation on my part; I don't know if it's actually true or not, but it makes sense to me. *shrugs*

because it doesnt need to be cured. cancer needs a cure

Cancer has a cure. It's just that you'll never hear about it from the mainstream media or from all those cancer awareness groups who would lose their paycheck if people knew how to eradicate cancer.

Cure? May as well as find a cure for being human.

Since it increasingly appears that there is a strong genetic component, the only cure would be to eliminate it from the gene pool. Euthanasia might work. (facetiousness, folks!! !!)

I do not need a cure, because there's nothing about me that needs to be fixed. I am not a broken toaster. I'm a human being with my own wishes and desires. A cure is not one of my desires.

no disrespect or anything but i dont beleive that. why arent you a bazzilion aire if you know the cure for cancer? what is the cure for cancer?

why would people, let others suffer just to get rich? in retrospect, if there was a cure people would want to get rich off of it

Care to share?

What is it?? I have a friend with breast cancer and she is fighting it with the standard trio of surgery, chemo and radiation. She is also switching to a vegetarian/no processed foods diet. She's googled a lot and so have I but the only non-medical treatment that seemed remotely plausible was the diet. It's actually in the mainstream media in the form of several books on Amazon so maybe it's not what you are referring to. So what are you referring to? She and I and every person with cancer definately wants to know.