• Replies 10 replies
  • Subscribers 25 subscribers
  • Views 1545 views
  • Users 0 members are here
Options
Related
Hints and tips
  • To quote someone's message, first select/highlight the relevant text, and then use the Quote button that appears
  • To "mention" someone, type @ followed by the start of the forum name, and choose from the list; that person will get a notification of being mentioned

What is it with people?????? is she right?

mumof4boys772

My parnter is seeing a cognative therapist due to all the stress weve been uder the last few years,hes bee having paic attacks,anway first appointment was this evening and he was talking about family and everything and said we ahve a son with autism that has no diagnoses yet, apparently she said "autism can be cured" i dont buy this,and its rather annoyed me as i know its tosh!!!!!

How can someone like this practise? or do you belive it can be cured? i dont belive for one miute it can.

Parents

  • Read Temple Grandin's book Thinking in Pictures recently, and she makes the point that there is a big difference between autistic/aspie traits, and the severe damage that some children appear to be suffering. My view is that to seek to cure the former is abhorrent, but to believe the latter is "just genetic" so no further action, is criminal negligence. 

    Autism (like many other conditions) is not a disease like flu, which you either have or don't have. Doctors go by the "clinical picture", which perhaps has loads of different causes and contributing factors. I don't think there is going to be much progress until researchers start looking at the subgroups, rather than lumping everyone together.

    Regarding MMR (which I have no opinion on, btw) TG apparently asked one scientist whether anyone investigating it had ever studied the regressive group of autistic children alone. The answer was no. 

Reply

  • Read Temple Grandin's book Thinking in Pictures recently, and she makes the point that there is a big difference between autistic/aspie traits, and the severe damage that some children appear to be suffering. My view is that to seek to cure the former is abhorrent, but to believe the latter is "just genetic" so no further action, is criminal negligence. 

    Autism (like many other conditions) is not a disease like flu, which you either have or don't have. Doctors go by the "clinical picture", which perhaps has loads of different causes and contributing factors. I don't think there is going to be much progress until researchers start looking at the subgroups, rather than lumping everyone together.

    Regarding MMR (which I have no opinion on, btw) TG apparently asked one scientist whether anyone investigating it had ever studied the regressive group of autistic children alone. The answer was no. 

Children
No Data