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Metabolism of autism reveals developmental origins
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#192"Prevention strategies" As an autistic person, no thanks. Let people be autistic.
Speak for yourself. As an autistic person, if I could get rid of it, I absolutely would.
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#193Earlier quoted context omitted.
There are two ways that something can lead to needing help with daily living: - society rejects the trait without good reason, so then someone needs help to deal with this rejection - the trait leads to an inability to do something that the person wants to do, irrespective of any societal concerns I am okay with calling the latter a disorder, but not the former. The traits that are recognized as part of autism (socia…
Do you always reply with definitions you invented on the spot to justify your view of reality?
Is it unreasonable in your view to distinguish between an intrinsic limitation and an externally culturally imposed one?
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> Most vaccines are effectively laced with a chemical or biologic that the body will respond aggressively to
Aluminum, btw
https://www.educate-yourself.org/cn/Aluminum-Toxicity-Is-Wel...
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Asperger here, who doesn’t eat gluten at all for almost 3 years now (due to allergy). I cant say it improved symptoms of autism but my life is divided between before/after stopping gluten consumption. I feel like I just started living for real.
Celiac is an awful disease. My ex has it and it wrecked her life for years until she found out.
I didn’t realize that gluten could use the internet.
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> Most vaccines are effectively laced with a chemical or biologic that the body will respond aggressively to Aluminum, btw https://www.educate-yourself.org/cn/Aluminum-Toxicity-Is-Wel...
Yeah that’s one of them.
There’s also often mercury - https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/concerns/thimerosal/index....
I actually had a similar theory as to where egg allergies come from. Many vaccines have egg in them
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#197Earlier quoted context omitted.
As a spectrum, autism presents in many ways, but it's all considered "autism" at this point. There are not different "kinds". Sometimes "severe" autism at an early age calms down as a person grows. Sometimes "mild" autism gets worse as someone becomes dysregulated and overstimulated. Many times autism is missed in women and POC because they mask more readily than boys. Sometimes it's missed in boys because it's expla…
I have autism myself and so do both my kids, I would love it if there was some way to lessen it. It's a great hindrance for me, all the time I want to do things that I feel I should be able to do, but then run into various walls. My children (15 and 10) are learning about themselves but they haven't found an advantage of their autism yet. But, we function well enough, I can hold down jobs and so will they, it's a set…
Thank you for sharing your experience, I agree there are so many walls!
I guess for me, I can't even perceive of a state of mind which would not see the walls. And I worry... what would change about me if I could see through the walls? Would I still be me? Because I like me, so I wonder what would happen. My great fear when I hear talks of a "cure" is that it will be used as an excuse to cleanse ahem I mean "cure" people like me and you and your sons. So you can understand why I don't want to go down that road. It's been done before.
Although I can't conceive of a world where I can see through the walls, I can picture a world where the walls are not there, and that's what I advocate for.
> I have never heard them utter a word, or leave the house on their own. They live in a world inside their heads. I really can't see what they have as the same as what I have.
It's true, we often wonder what those people would want. People have opinions as to whether they should have existed at all in the first place. I have a friend with Down's syndrome, and she's awesome, and I'm not sure what she would say in this situation, but I know as far as I'm concerned I don't want to live in a world where she doesn't exist exactly the way she is.
So as far as autistic people who cannot advocate for themselves, I'm not going to make the decision for them, and I don't think anyone else should either.
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#198Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Most vaccines are effectively laced with a chemical or biologic that the body will respond aggressively to Aluminum, btw https://www.educate-yourself.org/cn/Aluminum-Toxicity-Is-Wel...
Yeah that’s one of them. There’s also often mercury - https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/concerns/thimerosal/index.... I actually had a similar theory as to where egg allergies come from. Many vaccines have egg in them https://www.cdc.gov/flu/prevent/how-fluvaccine-made.htm
I thought mercury isn't used anymore in vaccines?
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Autism is not a disease. It's a diverging feature.
Saying this doesn't make you hip, woke, or cool. Autism is clearly a "spectrum" disorder that is not fully understood or categorized yet, which is exactly why we need this type of research to reach a conclusive, testable biological basis. To portray severely afflicted people as simply "neurodiverse" and dismiss treatment options for them, is far more bigoted than the reverse.
I don't care about being hip, woke or cool. It's just my perspective of the World. Also speaking of experience, I don't see how I have a disease for example.
In my view, it's mostly the environment provided that's at fault. E.g. social expectations. I think it's a good thing for there to be variance of the way people perceive the World.
I had a rough childhood, but I wouldn't have wanted someone to change who I am. I had a rough childhood because of the expected standards for how a person should behave or be socially.
Now as I am older, and more confident, successful and have proven that given good environment I can do amazing, I understand how ridiculous people are being with their social requirements. None of it is needed.
Also I find it quite funny how people treat labels in psychiatry as some sort of gospel or an actual thing.
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Of course society should become more accepting and accommodating of differently-abled people of all types. But can you really look at the extreme end of the Autism spectrum and say that isn't a disease or disorder? One reason we need this fundamental research is to disentangle the different types of afflictions and give them different names.
I can. When I look at extremely functional autistics like Elon Musk, the idea he has a condition which makes him diseased and disordered is absurd. I think the natural reaction to that is that either diagnostic criteria should be narrowed and/or it should be possible for people to lose their diagnosis if they achieve Elon Musk levels of functioning. -OR- Autism should be viewed more neutrally, as people of a certain…
Do you have a personal relationship with the man? We're all well aware of his public persona but that has nothing to do with how it is to actually interact with him as a person. Or any other autistic person. Watch Hannah Gadsby: Nanette and realize that you don't see the failures, only the successes.