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The Samsoniteman
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Of course it's part of who you are. So is having freckles or lung cancer. I'm just saying that it saying "it's part of them" is no justification for keeping it.
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Trikk60
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Unfortunately, although there are excersises designed to help with certain specifics of autistic disorder, like balance excersises for dyspraxics, and medication for things like ADD (though these are known to supress aspects of the personality and so aren't very nice), and even counselling, autistic disorders can't be cured. Sometimes counselling can help with self esteem problems that can be caused because of the disorders, and some excersises help if done at a young age (they help forge the connections in the brain that the autistic person might have wired a little differently). But unfortunately, medical science isn't quite sure just where it is in the genes or the brain, and it's a combination of hereditary genes and background circumstances. I agree that it's a very difficult thing to live with, but on the other hand, a lot of people affected by these disorders find that it affects them on a very base level and their personality is defined, in a way, by their disorders. so taking it away might change them, and I for one, as dyspraxic, wouldn't change who I am for the world (even if I do have trouble with things sometimes).
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Coreyt
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I was like 8 when my mother started taking care of this lady across the street who was autistic. twelve years later and the girls parents both died and she is living in a group home and my mom still talks to her. She is smart and is such a sweet heart. The way my mom puts it is she is fourty with the mind of an eight year old. But she remembers when birthdays are and everything. So i think when handled properly nothing is wrong with it but if it goes undiagnosed it is sad because the person doesn't get the help they need
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prisoner of hss
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Autism, to me, isn't a 'disease'. It's a developmental delay caused by mercury exposure, some other pollutant, or perhaps some kind of neurological discrepancy. Autistic kids need more social contact, more contact with normality, etc, not being shunned. it's a vicious cycle....they can't socialize at the normal age, so they get shunned and they never learn, in fact they probably get worse. If they were allowed to normally socially develop without being shunned, labeled, and ignored (as well as being related to in their own way, instead of others demanding shit of them), many would likely be 'normal' later in life, it'd just take more time.
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See most of the time when I head about curing autism I hear people wanting to cure ALL of forms from the mildest to the most severe cases, I think they should absolutely cure the low functioning autism, aka people beating their heads off of walls, being a child their whole lives. 
