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Didn't Chris want to throw the cure away for a PS3?
Didn't Chris want to throw the cure away for a PS3?
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I don't think there can be a true "cure" for autism. Brain structure is brain structure, it'd be like turning a cat brain into a dog brain.
This, and plus in some cases autism makes a person who they are. I have mild Asperger's and I wouldn't give it up for anything because then I wouldn't be me. With young children and the severely autistic it might see a market, but not everyone would want it.
We've treated neurological disorders in the past, like depression. The main issue with curing autism is that we honestly have no idea what it is from a neurobiological stance. Diagnoses are done through psychiatric clinical. We know what it can do, but we don't know what it is. Until we have some sort of scanner that physically detects autism (as in, you have X structure differentials in the Y section of your brain) they're can't really be a definite cure.
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What about atsimu though?
The only cure for autism is a bullet
Press One to cure autism
The thing is, autism has physical symptoms too. It's not a malfunction in the brain as much as a completely different way it's structured. Brain scans do show different patterns, though incompetent medical industry doesn't use it and instead uses vague psychological evaluations, which result in many misdiagnoses.
It's why I don't treat it as an illness but as a trait, a difference. They're functional in their own ways, and often a great mistake is to try "mainstreaming" them (as we could see with OPC).
We don't even conclusively know what causes Autism
The reigning theory is that it's genetic but it could have a dozen different causes for all we know.
Til we know what specifically causes autism and how it affects the brain I take very little stock in cures to it. Even if we do "cure it" it won't be as simple as a vaccination or something. It'll just be medication you take daily that tones down the side effects. You'll still think like an autistic and you'll still spaz out like one, just you'll be medicated to do it less often. This is similar to how we have medication for things like Schizophrenia and Bi-Polar disorder that simply try and negate the symptoms of it.
I also highly doubt you'd be able to properly cure an autistic that has vocal impairments or something. Something where their brain never learned how to properly speak. That sort of thing is near impossible to create in the brain if you didn't do it as a child.
The reigning theory is that it's genetic but it could have a dozen different causes for all we know.
Til we know what specifically causes autism and how it affects the brain I take very little stock in cures to it. Even if we do "cure it" it won't be as simple as a vaccination or something. It'll just be medication you take daily that tones down the side effects. You'll still think like an autistic and you'll still spaz out like one, just you'll be medicated to do it less often. This is similar to how we have medication for things like Schizophrenia and Bi-Polar disorder that simply try and negate the symptoms of it.
I also highly doubt you'd be able to properly cure an autistic that has vocal impairments or something. Something where their brain never learned how to properly speak. That sort of thing is near impossible to create in the brain if you didn't do it as a child.
I'm pretty sure the only cure to autism is swag.
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