Autism---to cure or not to cure? (poll)

Page 1 of 4 [ 57 posts ]  Go to page 1, 2, 3, 4  Next


Autism
Autism Should be cured 13%  13%  [ 14 ]
Autism spectrum disorders should be cured 5%  5%  [ 5 ]
Both Full blown autism and autism spectrum disorders should be cured 13%  13%  [ 14 ]
Autism Should not be cured 12%  12%  [ 13 ]
Autism spectrum disorders should not be cured 25%  25%  [ 27 ]
Both Full blown autism and autism spectrum disorders should not be cured 34%  34%  [ 37 ]
Total votes : 110

ShadesOfMe
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 30 Jun 2004
Age: 32
Gender: Female
Posts: 16,983
Location: California

12 Dec 2007, 1:24 am

what are your views



Last edited by ShadesOfMe on 12 Dec 2007, 1:31 am, edited 1 time in total.

nomnom_hamster
Sea Gull
Sea Gull

User avatar

Joined: 7 Dec 2007
Age: 35
Gender: Female
Posts: 204
Location: USA

12 Dec 2007, 1:28 am

Here: http://www.wrongplanet.net/postxf50872-0-15.html on the second page, the really long one.

edit: nvm about the "second page..." it looks as though i'v managed (surprise! 8O ) to make the link to the second page.



ShadesOfMe
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 30 Jun 2004
Age: 32
Gender: Female
Posts: 16,983
Location: California

12 Dec 2007, 1:30 am

http://www.wrongplanet.net/postp1076871.html#1076871

I'm making a poll so i can do a little test. link is below.



12 Dec 2007, 1:31 am

I think people with the worst case of it should so they be HFA. Who would want to live like that of being mute and not being able to take care of themselves.



nomnom_hamster
Sea Gull
Sea Gull

User avatar

Joined: 7 Dec 2007
Age: 35
Gender: Female
Posts: 204
Location: USA

12 Dec 2007, 1:32 am

What does HFA stand for?



GoatOnFire
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 22 Feb 2007
Age: 37
Gender: Male
Posts: 4,986
Location: Den of the ecdysiasts

12 Dec 2007, 1:36 am

nomnom_hamster wrote:
What does HFA stand for?


High Functioning Autism


_________________
I will befriend the friendless, help the helpless, and defeat... the feetless?


asplanet
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 10 Nov 2007
Age: 65
Gender: Female
Posts: 2,258
Location: Cyberspace, New Zealand

12 Dec 2007, 5:07 am

There is no cure, our symptoms are part of who we are...


_________________
Face Book "Alyson Fiona Bradley "


ouinon
Supporting Member
Supporting Member

User avatar

Joined: 10 Jul 2007
Age: 60
Gender: Female
Posts: 5,939
Location: Europe

12 Dec 2007, 6:53 am

8O
Maybe now that most things are made by machine, so that the slow painstaking crafting/construction by hand of other times is generally unnecessary, :(
now that most "writing" is on computer, so the clerical skills of precisely formed letters and the hours of careful copying are redundant, :(
now that almost noone in the western world stays in the place that they were born, so that most people are surrounded by strangers, :(
now that the world is full of noise and smells and rush, :x
people on the autistic spectrum represent a non-adapted element of the human species gene pool. 8O
Like in John Wyndhams book " The Chrysallids".

Experiencing the death throes of a genetic group. The apparently increasing numbers of aspies and auties are simply the result of greater visibility in a world to which are unadapted. Creatures becoming visible as the waters recede!

:?: Maybe there used to be many many of us, but a world good for aspies has maybe already been and gone. The quieter, slower, handmade world. Maybe it's a genuine case of evolution, natural selection, in action.

It's not necessary to cure us; we'll be wiped out soon enough anyway judging by our diminishing/decreasing reproductivity under these conditions ( of too much noise, speed, change, etc). And i doubt that it's possible to go back to a pre-industrial time of clerks and craftsmen and slow peaceful lives unchanging from one decade to the next. There won't be many of us soon at all judging from the numbers here who have no children.
.............................................
:!: UNLESS autism spectrum disorders are in fact the result of environmental factors, ( acting on genetically determined sensitivities ) , pollution of air, food, water, etc, in which case there'll be more and more of us ! ! Hip hip hooray! :lol: :?

8)



Last edited by ouinon on 12 Dec 2007, 8:33 am, edited 4 times in total.

Brittany2907
The ultimate storm is eternally on it's
The ultimate storm is eternally on it's

User avatar

Joined: 9 Jun 2007
Age: 32
Gender: Female
Posts: 4,718
Location: New Zealand

12 Dec 2007, 7:24 am

I voted for..."Both Full blown autism and autism spectrum disorders should not be cured".

Need not I say more.


_________________
I = Vegan!
Animals = Friends.


Angelus-Mortis
Velociraptor
Velociraptor

User avatar

Joined: 8 Oct 2007
Gender: Female
Posts: 438
Location: Canada, Toronto

12 Dec 2007, 12:18 pm

If there was a cure, let those who have it and cannot live with it choose to have it. If there are those who do not wish to have a cure, let them be.


_________________
231st Anniversary Dedication to Carl Friedrich Gauss:
http://angelustenebrae.livejournal.com/15848.html

Arbitraris id veneficium quod te ludificat. Arbitror id formam quod intellego.

Ignorationi est non medicina.


howzat
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 23 Aug 2007
Age: 37
Gender: Male
Posts: 1,802
Location: Hornsey North London

12 Dec 2007, 12:22 pm

Autism can't b cured so just leave it as it is.



beau99
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 5 Nov 2007
Age: 37
Gender: Female
Posts: 1,406
Location: PHX

12 Dec 2007, 12:24 pm

asplanet wrote:
There is no cure, our symptoms are part of who we are...

Yes, but with therapy and intervention, you can hide it when need be.


_________________
Agender person.

Twitter: http://twitter.com/agenderstar


12 Dec 2007, 12:29 pm

Brittany2907 wrote:
I voted for..."Both Full blown autism and autism spectrum disorders should not be cured".

Need not I say more.



Why would you not want full blown autism to be cured?
Would you want to live like that?



LeKiwi
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 26 Nov 2007
Age: 37
Gender: Female
Posts: 2,444
Location: The murky waters of my mind...

12 Dec 2007, 2:25 pm

It's a tough one. I think perhaps really strong, full-blown autism should be at least helped, so perhaps even if it's not cured as such, it's at least made easier for the people to deal with and to blend in. Brought to a more high-functiong or AS level, so they can cope and live independently etc.

I also believe there are autistics out there whose autism was brought on by vaccines/medicine/drugs/heavy metal poisoning/etc, and they often seem to have a lot of other health problems alongside it. Perhaps they don't even have true autism, but rather a poisoning/damage that mimics autism. Either way, I think it's only fair that these ones are cured, or at least offered help to rid themselves of their accompanying symptoms and pain. Preferably avoiding the use of Big Pharma meds which brought it on in the first place!!


So err... I'll vote full-blown autism should be cured.



PersonalEnigma
Tufted Titmouse
Tufted Titmouse

User avatar

Joined: 2 Dec 2007
Gender: Female
Posts: 32

12 Dec 2007, 2:59 pm

If somehow there were a magical pill that would cure Aspergers/Autism I think that those affected should be given a choice.



asplanet
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 10 Nov 2007
Age: 65
Gender: Female
Posts: 2,258
Location: Cyberspace, New Zealand

12 Dec 2007, 3:54 pm

beau99 wrote:
asplanet wrote:
There is no cure, our symptoms are part of who we are...

Yes, but with therapy and intervention, you can hide it when need be.


Quite often its the associated conditions we need treatment for, not autism. But the so called normal world try and blame it on our unique traits, which I would like to add has been responsible for some of the greatest human achievements to date.


_________________
Face Book "Alyson Fiona Bradley "