Why is there no TREATMENT?!

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Everywhere there is information on Asperger's Syndrome.

What I'm surprised about is there's no references to specific treatments or medications that one can pursue or obtain.

I am in my early 30s and tired of this condition impeding a happy, normal life. For all intents and purposes it's like having one's limbs severed, or a chronic illness, which would have a range of solutions and treatments. So why is there nothing for Asperger's Syndrome?

Is there not a recognition within the medical community of how serious the condition is?

I partly wonder of there are actually effective treatments but they are being kept secret.

If anyone here knows of a specific treatment/remedy/solution then please give details!!

If there was a treatment that works, I highly doubt it would be kept secret since people in general don't like others who are too different without there being any specific, easy to prove reason for it (like the culture the person grew up in or such), so they'd do what they can to make those others match their molds.

As for why there isn't, well, I'm sure some people have searched, but just haven't found the way. And while it has a huge toll on many people's lives, the fact is that autism doesn't kill while many other conditions do, so of course the deadly ones have priority.

Nope. There is no treatment or cure for autism/aspergers.


Because you had to be very specific on what you are aiming for.
If your aim is to treat aspergers, you might as well try find a way to cure humanity of itself instead of figuring what is making them itch and alleviate said itch.

There ARE treatments for executive dysfunction, mental health and psychological issues, stress, social impairments, mood disorders, sensory issues, communication issues, other health issues related to gastrointestinal or neurological or biochemical in nature, etc.
Coping strategies, equipments, accommodations, therapy, exercises, diet, medications, maintenances, work arounds.

Whichever is best in one's case, because autism itself is very heterogeneous. No treatment works for all.

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I feel the same, but I don't want a treatment. I want a CURE. Unfortunately, there are some in the autism community who are totally opposed to the prospect of a cure. I wonder if they have any impact on the search for one, or if they're even autistic. I have suspected them of being shills for the pharmaceutical industry before, believing said industry would profit more from offering medications to treat the symptoms than offering a cure that will only need to be administered once or a scant number of times.

There is no cure because the mechanism beyond autism hasn't been figured out.

The existing research indicates:
1. Enormous heterogeneity even among those on the "severe autism end";
2. No substantial difference between different levels of autism on molecular level ("severe" autism and BAP seem to be caused by the same genes).

BAP does not need a cure as it isn't a disorder and for more severe presentations of autism, the existing knowledge indicates there will never be a "one size fits all" cure, just a selection of cures and treatments for a particular patient.

A treatment or cure would allow us to learn something for which we have no capacity. A similar treatment would allow anyone to learn math such as calculus.

Why can't we learn social clues or recognize faces. Why isn't there a pill for that?

I think some of us can learn, but it maybe that the "system" is going about it the wrong way.
Look at all the the time people have to learn critical writing and math. Roughly a decade.
Perhaps if social training were the same we would be able to pick it up over a span of a decade.
It would allow for more appropriate social training.
We can't possibly learn about romantic relationships at a young age. But it may be appropriate a decade later.
Folks don't learn quantum mechanics in grade school.

For me, the "treatment" is being with people who value my special abilities enough to protect my vulnerabilities. That way, it is a win-win. We need matchmakers much more than we need drugs or reprogramming.

There is no treatment or cure because we are not broken. The problems we have are not because there is something wrong with us. The problems we have are because society is designed to neurologically assault us and invalidate everything about our existence. If society were to change a few simple things in how it understood and treated people who are different, we would not have any problems and our lives would not be impaired.

I have Asperger's and I don't think it's anything like having a terminal illness or having my finger's severed. I just see it as not desiring to follow social norms, not needing to follow social norms, and becoming stressed and hostile when it tries to make me follow social norms instead of doing things my own way and being who I am. Therefore, it is only because of being forced to live in an autism-unfriendly society that makes my life difficult. I don't need treatment. I need human beings to stop being idiots.

As if that'll ever happen.

NTs only listen to all the negative stuff, and when any autistic person *is* shown in a positive way, they say we're horrible for "normalizing" it. In that case I guess "normalizing" people who need to wear glasses is wrong, too.