Post 4462978 - (Rethinking Autism: Autistics Speak Video)

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[quote="LennytheWicked"][quote="dalurker"][quote="LennytheWicked"]
Genetic testing as in seeing what gene or group of genes causes autism so they can be either removed [sci-fi for now, but ten years from now who knows] or more likely aborted.[/quote]
Genetic testing/research is basically imperative to cure as autism is partly genetic.  You can't just assume it will lead to abortion to morally scare others away from trying to make cure.  And you shouldn't say sci-fi.  Gene therapy is being designed to be very intricate, considering what they know of gene regulation and of ways to get genetic material to cells. 
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I mean treating autism the way female children and or fetuses are treated in India. 
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What does that have to do with this?

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On their own, they aren't enough, but they certainly help. [/quote]
Then why not go further?

[quote]I mean therapies that help autistics learn to communicate with others, not therapies that cure autism. [/quote]
What is the difference between therapies and cure?  Communication abilities depend on the brain, so why wouldn't a therapy need to modify/repair some aspect of the nervous system?[/quote]
I do assume people knowing their child will be born on the autism spectrum will abort rather than deal with it; hence my analogy to India. In Hindu culture, and in most of India's culture, boys are prized and girls are not. Parents will abort their unborn daughters rather than have to pay a dowry, which has lead the male:female ratio in India to slant. Autism is very expensive to treat, and is clearly not looked upon well. Gene therapy wouldn't change brain function, as neurons don't reproduce. As a side note, I don't consider abortion in and of itself to be wrong; I consider some scenarios, such as my fear, amoral, but not necessarily others.

Going further has lead to the death of some children, because many kinds of 'therapies' used to 'cure' autism don't work, and instead cause physical harm. Sometimes it's better to do it the slow way.[/quote]

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