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Intervention

rachaub
over 13 years ago

I read a lot of American autism sites and they all talk about "early intervention" being the key to "recovery".

What do they mean and why is the British view of autism so different? Can you recover from autism?

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  • 1 month ago

    Either it's a miscommunication or it's in the same realm as a Texan Baptist minister praying for the gayness to leave someone's body.

    I could certainly imagine someone with Autism being taught how to mask effectively to be able to appear to be Neurotypical, but as I'm sure you'd agree, this isn't the same as a cure. There are pretty simple tricks you could teach someone to appear to get on with neurotypical people like small talk, looking in people's eyes, not stimming - but why would you want to!?

    No, in my opinion you can't "recover" from autism, like you can't recover from gayness - but you can be shamed into hiding it.

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  • 1 month ago

    Either it's a miscommunication or it's in the same realm as a Texan Baptist minister praying for the gayness to leave someone's body.

    I could certainly imagine someone with Autism being taught how to mask effectively to be able to appear to be Neurotypical, but as I'm sure you'd agree, this isn't the same as a cure. There are pretty simple tricks you could teach someone to appear to get on with neurotypical people like small talk, looking in people's eyes, not stimming - but why would you want to!?

    No, in my opinion you can't "recover" from autism, like you can't recover from gayness - but you can be shamed into hiding it.

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