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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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  • No, I do not believe it can be cured, nor should it be, as the world has benefitted greatly from the presence of autistic people and of people with autistic traits. However, if someone could come up with a drug, or other therapy, that could ease my anxiety, as long as it had no adverse effects elsewhere, I would certainly take it.

  • in reply to Martin

    I have some good news for you. Physiologists and polyvagal theory specialists have come to the same theory I’ve had for over a decade. Since we’re autistic at all times I believed what we assumed to be symptoms are not actually part of the autism itself, for if they were they would never stop. They agree the things like anxiety and hypersensitivity is our physiology responding to the environment, so they’re now trying to figure out if they can influence our physiology in a way that doesn’t trigger things like anxiety.

    They’re shifting away from the idea that autism is a set of symptoms, and moving towards we’ve been wrong about what autism is.

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  • in reply to Martin

    I have some good news for you. Physiologists and polyvagal theory specialists have come to the same theory I’ve had for over a decade. Since we’re autistic at all times I believed what we assumed to be symptoms are not actually part of the autism itself, for if they were they would never stop. They agree the things like anxiety and hypersensitivity is our physiology responding to the environment, so they’re now trying to figure out if they can influence our physiology in a way that doesn’t trigger things like anxiety.

    They’re shifting away from the idea that autism is a set of symptoms, and moving towards we’ve been wrong about what autism is.

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