Curing autism

[Tom89t]

I think curing autism is diffcult because we don't know what cause it. I hope someday there is cure for it. Autism is hurting the world, but some people with autism say they don't want to be cured.

[NE2]

No offense, but are you one of those who doesn't want to be cured?

[Tom89t]

No, I want to be cure of my autism.

[Hot Rod Hootenanny]

No offense, but are you one of those who doesn't want to be cured?

What about you?

[NE2]

No offense, but are you one of those who doesn't want to be cured?

What about you?

I know you are, but what am I?

[TheHighwayMan3561]

To each their own. If you want to be cured, be my guest. As for me and my own autism, recently I finally came to accept and like myself for what I am at long last and I don't want to be cured.

[mgk920]

Also, many (if not most) of the most brilliant minds of history had some level of autism/Aspergers.  What would the World be today without them?

Mike

[corco]

Agreed- the autistic are the ones truly capable of thinking outside the box and have the necessary obsession to devote a lot of brainpower to improving a specific thing. Good for them!

[Tom89t]

You believe all that, not all people with autism are smart, some of them can't care for themselves. Social skills are also important too.

[mgk920]

Agreed- the autistic are the ones truly capable of thinking outside the box and have the necessary obsession to devote a lot of brainpower to improving a specific thing. Good for them!

And I would very strongly suspect that a clear majority of those who frequent AARoads also have some level of autism/Aspergers - what else explains our common obsession with roads and our abilities to think through their problems and subsequent solutions?



Yea, my social life is nearly non-existent and I really do have problems relating to other people, but OTOH, I do thoroughly enjoy quiet time by myself as I go out exploring them.



Mike

[corco]

And I would very strongly suspect that a clear majority of those who frequent AARoads also have some level of autism/Aspergers - what else explains our common obsession with roads and our abilities to think through their problems and subsequent solutions?

Since autism is a spectrum it's safe to say most of us fall somewhere on it. Many of us probably aren't fully diagnosed Autistic people with a capital A, but certainly a lot of us are closer to that than the average person for exactly the reasons you stated.

Nothing wrong with it at all- just do things that maximize your strengths. Everybody has flaws- personally, I'm not a fan of assigning names and medications to "abnormal" behavior. We're all people and we all have characteristics that deviate from perceived normality- so just embrace it and try to maximize what you're good at.

[jwolfer]

And I would very strongly suspect that a clear majority of those who frequent AARoads also have some level of autism/Aspergers - what else explains our common obsession with roads and our abilities to think through their problems and subsequent solutions?

Since autism is a spectrum it's safe to say most of us fall somewhere on it. Many of us probably aren't fully diagnosed Autistic people with a capital A, but certainly a lot of us are closer to that than the average person for exactly the reasons you stated.

Nothing wrong with it at all- just do things that maximize your strengths. Everybody has flaws- personally, I'm not a fan of assigning names and medications to "abnormal" behavior. We're all people and we all have characteristics that deviate from perceived normality- so just embrace it and try to maximize what you're good at.

People used to have quirks... now they have a disease that needs to be treated with a pharmacuital.

My wife read me the signs of Aspbergers and I exhibit many of them.  But like others have said that is just a part of me

[hbelkins]

I remember a thread on Asperger's on m.t.r. many years ago. It turned into a faster than a Calrog video. I sure hope this thread doesn't go there.

[Desert Man]

  (in response to the thread above me).

I was diagnosed with autism when I was 5 years old back in the mid 1980s and now I'm a 31 going onto 32 year old man able to hold down another job, live on my own in my apartment down the street; and raises a family, including my newborn girl and my two sons (one is a stepchild) were happy to stand with their Mom (my wife) to welcome their baby sister. Oddly, autism is passed on or inherited in families and more odd autism is more commonly found in boys than girls, are both scientific mysteries...or genes and chromosomes play a role in the factors and causes of autism.

To me, Autism is something I lived with and knew how it impacted my social/behavioral skills, but autism and asperger's alike aren't mental illnesses... though are neurological developmental disorders (I agree with the notion that autism does affect development in children), and my past experiences in message boards whenever my autism seems to caused a stir in them by the moderators...I can't say that's an excuse, yet it's part of my autism made me leave some awkward, inflammable or accidentally off-topic posts.

Many of us not only autistic people or those in the autism spectrum have a disability and we shouldn't be treated too differently, but society learned over quarter of a century to not only tolerate but accept people with autism whether they are "low or high functioning"...and a need for government public services to expand in the wake of the so-called autism pandemic in the past decade or when the first autism-vaccine link story came out (1995?) caused a wave of new diagnosis of children, then teenagers and young adults diagnosed later in life.