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Do You Believe Autism Can Be 'Cured'?

Daniel

I keep coming across parents dangling bunches of herbs in front of parents saying "This is the cure to autism!" 

Every time I hear parents promoting the lie that they can cure autism I feel so hated and unwanted by this world, it is autism that makes me who I am, if it were not for my Dad's unconditional love giving me a sense of belonging I would probably be dead by now. 

It hurts and depresses me so much that parents so willfully hate their child's identity and think it needs to be 'cured'. It's disgraceful they so carelessly fall for lies and love to promote them, especially as it can increase the liklihood of suicide. 

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  • Autism is a capacity for full-brain reasoning, thinking, perceiving and understanding. The hyper-full-connexions can mean we simply desire focus, but we are a resource for detail when it comes to something potentially dangerous. NT brains naturally strengthen andhyper focus pathways in the left brain 'language' compartments (lobes). They are a great design of human for keeping tribes together. Human beings need a range of talents for a whole tribe to survive. Some males who are colour-blind have rods which borrow from Infra-red light and allow them better clarity in the dark. These chaps would've been on night-watch. 

    The MAIN problem is in communication and interpretation, which psychologists used to be well-trained to break through. So autistic children and adults are not getting the help they need to hone/focus their natural skills and traits in modern society. There has been a shift toward focusing on social skill OVER intellect and this is causing problems in Western cultures. I even read several studies recently which showed patients are beginning to favour emotionally-intelligent doctors over ones who are hyper-focused on the function of their problems. This seems like a disaster in my opinion. This Social-Drivenness, I fully believe has a lot to do with corporate advertising and the current model of society where corporations are mostly unaccountable and free to damage the earth and its inhabitants as they please for profit. 

    Note a study on well-being: "More intelligent individuals experience lower life satisfaction with more frequent socialization with friends." https://bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/bjop.12181 One cannot have it both ways, though I'm skeptical as it seems ADHD might be able to have heightened connexions in their full brain including the language regions. 

    The Autistic-Analytic brings unique traits which need proper training. That's the problem which needs addressing. 100 years ago, we only really took notice of the ones with extreme spike-y profiles who were much more 'eccentric' with their added needs. 

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  • Autism is a capacity for full-brain reasoning, thinking, perceiving and understanding. The hyper-full-connexions can mean we simply desire focus, but we are a resource for detail when it comes to something potentially dangerous. NT brains naturally strengthen andhyper focus pathways in the left brain 'language' compartments (lobes). They are a great design of human for keeping tribes together. Human beings need a range of talents for a whole tribe to survive. Some males who are colour-blind have rods which borrow from Infra-red light and allow them better clarity in the dark. These chaps would've been on night-watch. 

    The MAIN problem is in communication and interpretation, which psychologists used to be well-trained to break through. So autistic children and adults are not getting the help they need to hone/focus their natural skills and traits in modern society. There has been a shift toward focusing on social skill OVER intellect and this is causing problems in Western cultures. I even read several studies recently which showed patients are beginning to favour emotionally-intelligent doctors over ones who are hyper-focused on the function of their problems. This seems like a disaster in my opinion. This Social-Drivenness, I fully believe has a lot to do with corporate advertising and the current model of society where corporations are mostly unaccountable and free to damage the earth and its inhabitants as they please for profit. 

    Note a study on well-being: "More intelligent individuals experience lower life satisfaction with more frequent socialization with friends." https://bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/bjop.12181 One cannot have it both ways, though I'm skeptical as it seems ADHD might be able to have heightened connexions in their full brain including the language regions. 

    The Autistic-Analytic brings unique traits which need proper training. That's the problem which needs addressing. 100 years ago, we only really took notice of the ones with extreme spike-y profiles who were much more 'eccentric' with their added needs. 

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