From the 'Daily Mail' for less specialised readers:
With 1 one scientifically accredited source, as being from the scientific journal 'Nature' ~ for more specialised readers:
https://www.nature.com/articles/nrg.2017.4
With 177 scientifically accredited reference sources.
[Updated with the second source at approximately 18:07 ~ on Friday the 30th March, 2018.]
"Risk"?
Yes Endymion "Risk" of death or suicide:
Age three ~ woke parents up wanting a drink. I had a very high temperature, was sweating profusely and then started vomiting, and collapsed. This is the last bit I recall. I got driven to the GP practice by father, and as cradled by mother.
We all got sent home to wait for an emergency ambulance. Things got worse waiting for the ambulance. Parents took me instead by car to the hospital, father driving and mother cradling. The doctors and nurses took me off my parents and sent them home.
Medication was administered, and being autistic, the side effect caused a seizure with potentially fatal consequences.
My parents arrived promptly for visiting hours the next day.
The prognosis was brain damage - how bad would be determined If I came back around from the coma, and mother and father were sent back home.
The next day they were sent back home again.
The next day or the next one after that, I woke up to an absolutely and utterly heinous body migraine, amidst the central and peripheral nervous systems doing an all consuming pins and needles inferno, with all my organs, bones, fascai, tendons muscles and skin uncramping in achingly painful and agonisingly grating ways.
I have attempted suicide loads, as this sort of thing has been going on and on and on and on at least several times daily or several times weekly ever since.
Consider.
Adverse Drug/Supp Reactions | Autism Research Institute
Dr. Bernard Rimland, the founder of [the] ARI [Autistic Research Institute], would be enormously gratified that more and more parents are learning that "Autism is Treatable." However, not all treatments are created equal; most commonly prescribed drugs have side effects that range from minor to severe to potentially fatal.
https://www.autism.com/pro_adversereactions
They make it sound like a disease!
They actually describe treating the complications involved with having ASD, and what comes along with them as further complications, such as for one involves chronic insomnia as sleep is impossible after bouts of Psychogenic Non-Epileptic seizures.
Consider perhaps:
Psychogenic nonepileptic seizures as a manifestation of psychological seizures as a manifestation of psychological distress associated with autistic spectrum disorder
Abstract
Psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES) are observable changes in behavior or consciousness that are similar to epileptic seizures but are not associated with electrophysiologic changes. PNES occur in children with underlying psychological distress and are especially frequent in those with epilepsy. Because PNES are heterogeneous, comprehensive treatment tailored to each patient is required to reduce psychosocial stress. Currently, reports regarding children with PNES concomitant with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) do not exist, and effective treatment strategies for these children are lacking. In this case report, we describe a 10-year-old Japanese girl with undiagnosed ASD who developed PNES while undergoing treatment for benign childhood epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes. She exhibited hypersensitivity to sound and interpersonal conflicts caused by social communication deficits. The PNES symptoms improved shortly after our intervention, which was designed to reduce her distress caused by auditory hypersensitivity and impaired social communication, both characteristics of ASD. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report describing PNES in a child with ASD. Our findings suggest that PNES can result from psychological distress in children with undiagnosed ASD and highlight the importance of examining ASD traits in patients with PNES.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4723019/
Did anyone read the comments? Bleurgh!!!!
No, I did a glance at the reference materials, instead ~ listed above from the source material.
What's the point in trying to reason with that kind of junk? According to the Daily Fail we're all going to grow out of autism anyway.
Well in one sense we do grow out of these bodies, eventually :-)
My goodness! That's a pretty thorough dissection.
Some facets of ASD are indeed treatable but not, as far as any research I've read recently indicates, curable. The Daily Mail article was phrased in such a way as to imply that ASD itself is curable. It also used the same reference sources as the other article but only cherry-picked those parts that backed up their attention grabbing headline.
I think if I had to wait until death to outgrow something I'd be justified in considering it 'lifelong' as I don't hold out any hope of a life after the one in which I inhabit this body.
I'm sorry to hear about your experiences re. seizures, that must have been (and still be, I would imagine!) quite frightening. Research into the side effects of drug treatments on ASD patients is long overdue and it's encouraging to hear that this is being done! More general drug research is heading towards developing drug treatments tailored to the individual instead of the generic way we now prescribe but I don't know if these will become widely available in my lifetime.
That approach also takes away a lot of the stigma. Part of the entire human condition involves a little autism, it is just that in some people it is more noticeable than in others.
Definitely.
Another word for social masking, and when you think about it, it is the workplace where masks run supreme, is 'alienation.' As is you do not 'own' yourceork, you are a cogbin the machine and are infinitely dispensible.
'Alienation' is definitely the case by way of 'disassociation'. Be otherwise and elsewhere than is actually the case sort of thing.
That approach also takes away a lot of the stigma. Part of the entire human condition involves a little autism, it is just that in some people it is more noticeable than in others.
Definitely.
Another word for social masking, and when you think about it, it is the workplace where masks run supreme, is 'alienation.' As is you do not 'own' yourceork, you are a cogbin the machine and are infinitely dispensible.
'Alienation' is definitely the case by way of 'disassociation'. Be otherwise and elsewhere than is actually the case sort of thing.
