Published on 12, July, 2020
I was reading an article on Zerohedge today,a well known "far right conspiracy nutcase site" which was about the rising prevalence of Autism.
We all know that many people claim that vaccines (or mercury used as an adjuvant in vaccines) cause Autism, (which doesn't work in my case, but what the heck, people claim all sorts of unlikely things to be true nowadays) and that position is made very clearly in the comments sections amongst many others.
Where I agree with the strident people here who ALWAYS pop up to rubbish any ZH link I publish, is that there is a lot of rhetoric, misguided or actually 100% false opinion and information to be read in the comments section, and some of the articles are not much better, indeed.
Where I disagree with those same detractors is that reading them is a useless or even BAD experience. JUST as this forum has ME, Malojian & Juniper from Gallifrey all very different posters with different styles coming from quite clearly diffferent places ALL of us have a "place at the table" (even if it does mean putting up with the likes of me!) and a right to be heard*.
SO that being in mind, I read a lot of them as well as the article..
Sometimes a comment really makes me sit up and think, such as the "Autism can be cured but the cure is being suppressed" comment, not least because the author has put a lot of effort in and has added citations and evidence that can be followed up on... and I did do some of them before I needed to do something else. (It's not just laziness, I am struggliing through interruptions and "new tasks" even during the writing this post, and am now irritated with how long everything takes to get done...
I saw a well dressed person clearly more successful, comfortable, and articulate than me, telling the audience to her you tube video that "yes Autism can be cured". I would rush to believe but for the fact that I've also had a bunch of very similar appearing people telling me that a succession of MRNA injections can make sure I don't catch covid I believe "Safe and Effective" was the psychologcial "baited hook" in that case, so why should I believe her?
BUT nevertheless, the question having been raised in this "fixers" head remains:
COULD Autism be "Curable"??
Not interested in the modern idea of "treatments" which are about as effective as the "servicing" that modern cars get, I'm wondering if it can be CURED like my own suicidal ideation was a few years back.
Why should we seek a cure? Autism isn't a disease.
It's Society that requires a cure perhaps, maybe then these attempts to eradicate difference would finally stop.
Autism is a "way of being" that confers certain differences on the user that make him or her less able to function in this greater society in which we find ourselves.
I can clearly see where my own Autism has seriously derailed my plans or ambitions on multiple occasions and also caused me or other great pain and misery.
I can understand why a psychotic person would refuse to be medicated, preferring to keep their malfunctioning identity rather than be a different, quieter, but artifical drug induced person, and can transfer this knowledge to considering whether I'd want to be treated for my autism.
IN my case as soon as I discovered a drug when I was 18 that magically made me more acceptable to others, and stopped me getting into dangerous physical altercations it was a complete no brainer.
4 decades later which included multiple voluntary periods of withdrawal & witholding of the drug. most being short, but due to the half life of the drug in my body some have had to be many months long, I am certain that whatever is wrong with me IS treatable by regular use of a drug, and since that appears to be a thing called "Autism", then hell yes, I want a cure!!
There are so many, many, things I'd like to be able to do sucessfully and with grace, without having to stop and roll a joint first...
That's one reason why some of us might seek a cure. (although life as a pot head isn't so bad, TBH)
pining over something that can't ever exist.
Is one way of looking at things, sure.
BUT we live in the 21st century where you can change your entire gender!
SURELY curing autism is a far smaller and less involved undertaking?
How can a cure "never exist" when we can change our very sex?
Is this like a "space travel can never exist" sort of proposition?
I Sperg said:There are so many, many, things I'd like to be able to do sucessfully and with grace, without having to stop and roll a joint first...
I think this is dangerous territory where you're pining over something that can't ever exist.
Autism isn't curable. Your brain has developed in an entirely different way to neurotypical people. I don't see the point in wasting time on these hypotheticals and getting down about perceived missed opportunities. It's not like it's a degenerative disease as with ALS patients, for one example.
There are serious limitations, yes, but I prefer to think on the positive side and do what I can with what I've got. The benefit is we live in a more enlightened era than everything before circa 1940 and can get at least some support and understanding for it.