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Colton
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02 Nov 2012, 11:38 am

Doctors Announce Cure For Autism <- CLICK LINK

Would you want to be cured?

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02 Nov 2012, 11:57 am

This subject has been bashed several times. I can tell you now, that though some people do want one, most of the people on this website wouldn't want to be cured at all, myself included. Taking Autism away would be taking part of yourself away, and I've already accepted myself for who I am (which is a difficult thing for teenagers in general to achieve).

Also, I don't think this "cure" is legitimate enough. I'm seeing a bunch of warning flags go off in my head, and I don't think this will end well at all.

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02 Nov 2012, 12:08 pm

I'm beginning to wonder about your motives Colton. First you ask if we are all slobs now you've "found a cure for us". You seem to be going out of your way to be insensitive / offensive.

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02 Nov 2012, 12:26 pm

Fox News...? That's not normally where I turn for medical news...

The web site of this project:

http://www.checksutterfirst.org/neuro/autism/

This is pure research on a small scale, not a "cure". Let's see if it pans out first before speculating. They'd have to get a statistically significant result first, and then replicate it with a larger sample size.

This is also interesting:

http://www.dailyfinance.com/2012/10/16/ ... -autism-t/

Hey, why not invest a little seed money? You never know what might pan out.

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02 Nov 2012, 12:30 pm

A "cure?" Would I be wrong if I dismissed reading it as a waste of time?

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02 Nov 2012, 12:32 pm

This has more good info:

http://www.newsmaxhealth.com/health_sto ... 80104.html

Makes this seem totally speculative, like a shot in the dark.

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02 Nov 2012, 12:50 pm

I have some NT traits.

Got a cure for that? :lol:

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02 Nov 2012, 12:52 pm

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02 Nov 2012, 12:55 pm

Colton wrote:

Would you want to be cured?

At my age? There'd be no point.

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02 Nov 2012, 1:01 pm

TallyMan wrote:

I'm beginning to wonder about your motives Colton. First you ask if we are all slobs now you've "found a cure for us". You seem to be going out of your way to be insensitive / offensive.

I have wondered the same. Going by his other posts he may just not yet be educated in such matters, many NT's would make the same mistake.

Even if the link provides a 100% cure, to me it would just mean a waste of autism research money, I just wouldn't be interested.

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02 Nov 2012, 1:51 pm

How do they know that the 15 month old didn’t just get better on his own?

There is no cure for evolution, it just happens; we go along for the ride like a Guinea Pig in a sailing boat. That’s what I think about a cure for autism. Our mind doesn’t just evolve over night.

As long as there is money to be made, experts pop up everywhere. The same experts who call Savants idiots.

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02 Nov 2012, 1:58 pm

Even if this got to fruition, it's talking about in cases of LFA autism, for Aspergers they'd just laugh at you even if you wanted it. I don't see this stem cell thing as a bad thing necessarily, for lower functioning people who want a better life. Stem cells seems pretty crude of a medical treatment to me, though, but I digress.

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02 Nov 2012, 2:06 pm

What would happen if they did this on a neurotypical person if they were misdiagnosed?

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02 Nov 2012, 2:23 pm

ianorlin wrote:

What would happen if they did this on a neurotypical person if they were misdiagnosed?

Nothing bad. From the article, it looks like it's only going to be used with people who test at mentally ret*d level for IQ.

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02 Nov 2012, 3:08 pm

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“What we are looking at, is cases that don’t have an obvious genetic link,” Chez told FoxNews.com. “Patients that we presume something went wrong with their brains, which caused a change to autistic features.”

In my family it has a obvious genetic link. I can easily trace asperger tendencies back through my paternal side.

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02 Nov 2012, 3:10 pm

Cash__ wrote:

In my family it has a obvious genetic link. I can easily trace asperger tendencies back through my paternal side.

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