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Views on autism 'cures'

OthoDPS

Hello all,

This is my first post here but have been looking at the forums on and off for a while now.

My 3 year old son is a completely non verbal and suspected of Autism. Me and my partner, and the majority of professionals involved in his development all agree, but until the Child Development team in our area have a formal diagnosis meeting, he is only considered as needing language and communication support, but thats an entirely different discussion.

The point for this post could potentially be dangeours, but I had to ask. Should a moderator decide this thread needs to be shut down, then I have no issues with that.

My question is twofold. Firstly, do you think there ever will be a cure for Autism?

And my second, slightly more contraversial question is if there was suddenly a cure, would you get your child/partner/yourself to undergo the cure? 

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  • OthoDPS said:
    do you think there ever will be a cure for Autism?

    No.

    Well, that is to say that, I think at some point in the future we will be able to 'correct' the genes that lead to a child's brain developing along the autistic path, but such 'corrections' would have to be done very early on in a fetus' development - possibly even whilst it is still a single cell.

    I don't think we will ever develop a cure that can be given to a fully formed child, let alone an adult.

    But, assuming such a cure could exist...

    if there was suddenly a cure, would you get your child/partner/yourself to undergo the cure?

    No.

    Like Hope, I'd like to change some aspects of having Asperger's, but I would not like to lose the many positive traits it gives me.

    Also, I think 'correcting' the genes that lead to children's brains developing down the autistic path would be of detriment to humanity as a whole.

    I firmly believe that if is was not for those of us on the Autistic Spectrum we would have barely made it out of Africa, let alone developed the myriad of technologies we all take for granted in the modern world.

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  • OthoDPS said:
    do you think there ever will be a cure for Autism?

    No.

    Well, that is to say that, I think at some point in the future we will be able to 'correct' the genes that lead to a child's brain developing along the autistic path, but such 'corrections' would have to be done very early on in a fetus' development - possibly even whilst it is still a single cell.

    I don't think we will ever develop a cure that can be given to a fully formed child, let alone an adult.

    But, assuming such a cure could exist...

    if there was suddenly a cure, would you get your child/partner/yourself to undergo the cure?

    No.

    Like Hope, I'd like to change some aspects of having Asperger's, but I would not like to lose the many positive traits it gives me.

    Also, I think 'correcting' the genes that lead to children's brains developing down the autistic path would be of detriment to humanity as a whole.

    I firmly believe that if is was not for those of us on the Autistic Spectrum we would have barely made it out of Africa, let alone developed the myriad of technologies we all take for granted in the modern world.

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