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DOES ANYONE KNOW HOW LONG THE AUTISTIC BRAIN GOES BACK TO ITSELF AFTER YEARS OF ANTIPSYCHOTIC DRUGS

NAS83382

Hi

I probably said it in the heading, but although it can't be a point blank question, I suppose I would ilke it to be.

The Autistic brain is different, I get it, I don't get all the ins and outs of how it is different, but having two Autistic adults

and just accepting how they are and accepting it, I haven't had to know a lot of ins and outs before the medications

got involved.

So my son is going through withdrawals after 13 years and isn't able to communicate wxactly how that feels because they

haved ripped a very intelligent young man of the original thinking and speaking and working things out he had for the first 17

years of his life

And its not only the medication, its been the hospital and ambulance and police trauma. I know its got a lot to do with dopamines

etc,

I will pause there and see if anyone can give me a bit more hope than I am grappling onto now.

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  • Hi there.

    I approach your question from a different angle.  I'm not sure that anyone's brain "goes back", I think it just continues to evolve, adapt and overcome whatever it has/is encountered/encountering.

    If your lad managed to survive 17 years without medication, 13 years on medication..........then there is every probability that he will manage the next chapter of his life OK too.

    He might need quite a bit of time (for HIMSELF) to allow his brain to readjust.  It might be upsetting and difficult for you to be a bystander during the process, but just love and support him.  Give him time.  DO NOT HURRY him.

    Autistic people are very resilient.  Your son probably knows that he can't "go back" and that he needs to cope with the "here-and-now" that he faces.

    Don't worry yourself too much about the technicalities of brain chemistry and wiring.  I strongly suspect that your most important role for him at this time (and only you can fulfill this role) is to be a mega-mum = calm, supportive, caring and patient.

    Best of luck to you both.

    "PS sorry if I misgendered your role above - I sense that you are a mum - but my advice applies if you are a dad equally well."

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    Yes I am mum and single parent since my son was 6. Everything emotional like his dad going, his Granddad going in a home and his brother also Autistic and was in hs room for 12 years with his OCD, and Josh the one that is trying to be himself again OCD and anxiety just zoomed up through all this. His brother is back on the scene last few years and is supporting me. Yes we are both worn out.

    Yes it can be a bit of a bogged down thing thinking of the chemical side, but obviously that is all part of it. Doctors that are against these drugs say that the drugs were made first and they give them to people and then identify the people with the drugs, the drugs change things that dont need changing if you know what i mean.

    Where do you get all your knowledge and insight from? Thanks i will keep calm especially at 3am when Josh needs encouragement to sleep Slight smile

  • in reply to NAS83382
    NAS83382 said:
    Where do you get all your knowledge and insight from?

    Travelling some very long and dark corridors of my own mind whilst simultaneously walking the awful horrors on the road of "real life."

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