Self treatment successes

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Has anyone had any success with self treating their aspergers to the point where they no longer qualify for a diagnosis. I suspect that I may be on the spectrum... somewhere, but 3-4 years ago this suspicion was more like a dead certainty. Any similar tales to tell?

If you "no longer qualify for a diagnosis," that only means you've developed sophisticated enough coping mechanisms to hide it. You can't "cure" congenital brain damage by willpower. Covering up a neurological dysfunction does not make it disappear.


And just because you think your autistic behaviors are less obvious, doesn't mean others aren't still aware of them. Part of the disorder is the lack of ability to tell what others are thinking.

The claims for successful self-treatment correlate highly with claims of self-diagnosis, with both claims being unvalidated by anyone else.

For example, a person might claim to have diagnosed her own autistic spectrum disorder after reading a Wikipedia article and taken an online test; and then she might further claim to have cured her ASD with a steady diet of non-glutenous foods, such as legumes, fruit and rice. Then she might brag about how awesome her alleged cure is without ever revealing any details, while simultaneously attacking the character and intelligence of anyone who requests those details

Such a person either believes her own lies or knows that she's lying. If the former, then she is deluded. If the latter, then she is either a troll, an attention wh_re, or a scam artist trying to fool people into giving her money for further research ... which never seems to produce results ...

In any case, and for whatever reason, the person making claims of an accurate self-diagnosis AND and effective self-treatment seems more interested in being believed than in providing proof.

Ignore such people. They're a waste of oxygen.

i'm not cured. for example, still very little facial expression. but I stare at folks less than I used to and learned after the age of 50 to be passable at small talk. so there's some progress.

If you believe you have sucessfully treated your ASD chances are good that you have either only found temporary relief for some of your symptoms, or you were not autistic to start with.


To appease Fnord I should mention that I am not diagnosed either - I just fit the criteria and have yet to find a local psychiatrist qualified to diagnose ASD in well-adapted adults - much like the time the ER doctor told me I can't diagnose my broken arm and asked why I thought I had a broken arm, to which my reply was pain, swelling, and visible deformity... a 2-hour orthopedic surgery ensued.

Inductive leaps of logic seem to be endemic in this thread. I never mentioned a cure and never claimed a cure. I suspect that im on the specturm and have been able to adapt my behaviour to mask the more obvious traits making me less socially dysfunctional.
I thought I made it clear that I still am on the spectrum - just closer to NT than I felt* before.

Has anyone else accomplished anything similar. Autism cant be cured I still have executive functioning issues misophonia TOM deficiencies and severe OCD amongst other things - ive had these for longer than I can remember, but ive learnt how to conceal* them or ive found strategies. Wherher they work takes us beyond the scope of this thread as its totally unverifiable

I have heard of a guy who beat his wife, got an evaluation, passed as a sociopath, got counseling, retook the evaluation, and now apparently he is taking care of thier child, seperated from the wife with a restraining order, and the courts say he has been rehabilitated, while loostening the lugnuts of the ex-wifes car. Now from what you know about the facts that these things cannot be changed, what exactly is the legal consensus about all of this. Is it actually legal to lie your way out of a diagnosis, call it a rehabilitation, or misdiagnoses or what???

I have heard of a guy who beat his wife, got an evaluation, passed as a sociopath, got counseling, retook the evaluation, and now apparently he is taking care of thier child, seperated from the wife with a restraining order, and the courts say he has been rehabilitated, while loostening the lugnuts of the ex-wifes car. Now from what you know about the facts that these things cannot be changed, what exactly is the legal consensus about all of this. Is it actually legal to lie your way out of a diagnosis, call it a rehabilitation, or misdiagnoses or what???