Would YOU take medication that "cured" autism?

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I probably wouldn't now. Even if I was rendered completely NT, I could not be a child again and grow up all over again on the right planet; so it wouldn't really help.

There is no such thing anyways, so its irrelevent....also medications usually don't 'cure' anything they more alleviate the symptoms of things.

Sweetleaf, there are lots of meds/treatments/interventions that cure conditions. Antibiotics cure bacterial infections. Acne medicines cure acne. Radiation, chemo and surgery cure cancer. There are all kinds of cures for myriad conditions, mostly physical ailments. So, you are right that behavioral, developmental, and mental conditions are mostly--for now--just controlled by treating the symptoms.

The question about a cure for autism matters not because it is plausible or implausible, but because it generates reflection and discussion. I think that's a big part of what this site is all about, right?

I just don't see how they will develop a drug that changes someones neurology so that they are neurotypical and don't have autism anymore. Also though anti-biotics kill bacteria but probably don't actually heal the infection...the body has to do that on its own. As for radiation for cancer from what I understand it is not always effective....and it kills cancer cells, but probably won't undo all the damage the cancer did THC also has been found to potentially kill cancer cells so I am hoping more medicinal cannabis research happens so people with cancer may have the option of a safer treatment than chemo.....and well not so sure radiation is really a medication per say.

Even if they came with a autism cure, not sure I would want to take a drug that changed my entire neurology....not sure what I would do if I take such a medication and then turn into someone totally different for the most part whos brain doesn't work the same then I'd probably freak out because I don't know how my brain works anymore.

The medication they are working on for autism is to reverse autism in infants, so it may be possible. It worked on reducing autistic behaviours in mice. Not sure how I feel about it to be honest. Right now, low dose of anti-anxiety meds can reduce some symptoms of autism and I've had that experience and it wasn't entirely bad.

Any cure will be for children and very young children at that. They'll probably just leave us adults out of it like they usually do.

I agree with you on radiation treatment though. Wouldn't exactly say that was a cure.

For real. Its hard to imagine how it would work even in theory.

You would have the same 'hardware' (body, and head) but suddenly a whole different "operating system". And how would they do it without erasing all of the files in your harddrive? Surely of your memories would be lost in the process of installing your new operating system.

I don't want to sound like I'm one of those nuts who doesn't believe in science because I LOVE science. However, I don't take everything I see, especially in new studies on face value. Studies can be manipulated, misinterpreted, screwed up by preconceived notions - this is true in hard science, but in psychology (which is what my degree is in) it is 100 times worse because often they are studying things that have no physical means for confirmation anyway. This is why people are so often misdiagnosed and psychiatrists sometimes can't tell one problem from another.

In that spirit, I would like to ask - just what is Autism in rats? How much is it really going to relate to humans?

But what caused the autistic behaviors in mice? does something simular even cause autism in humans. Also though I feel sorry for kids who are forced to take a drug to change their neurology at a very young age. As for reversing it in infants, they don't even know how it develops yet so I just don't see it being plausible any time soon.