‘Game-changer for autism’: 100-year-old drug reverses sympto

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I find that NT people tend to count on me, when they are lost or can't fix something, can't remember it, or don't have the patience.

I say that there are certain consequences, people's moods change in a certain time or place, nature does this and that, before a weather event, and they say they have never realized it.

Were I to fixate on emotion -- that means all 100% Normals seem to be half-hearted and disorganized.

I push myself, physically, more (and, luckily, for me, am a quick healer.)

All that being said, suramin is an example of what Timothy Leary called 'cognitive liberty', when discussing illicit drugs. Speaking in the abstract, your frame of mind is just a choice, within your proactive control. He also said (commendably, imo) not to turn people on, against their will.

We're not supposed to fixate. They take drugs to concentrate. Either condition is a pathology, if you describe it that way.

Autism experts call for further research into 100-year-old drug that could hold key to treating condition

For Naviaux, the challenge now is to widen his research to a bigger sample testing size. “This work is new and this type of clinical trial is expensive,” he said. “We did not have enough funding to do a larger study. And even with the funding we were able to raise, we had to go $500,000 in debt to complete the trial.”

No money for clinical trial autism research?

Suramin Side Effects:

The most frequent adverse reactions are nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain, and a feeling of general discomfort. It is also common to experience various sensations in the skin, from crawling or tingling sensations, tenderness of palms and the soles, and numbness of hands, arm, legs or feet.[11] Other skin reactions include skin rash, swelling and stinging sensation.[11] Suramin can also cause loss of appetite and irritability.[11] Suramin causes non-harmful changes in urine during use, specifically making the urine cloudy.[11] It may exacerbate kidney disease.[12]:1437–1438

Less common side effects include extreme fatigue, ulcers in the mouth, and painful tender glands in the neck, armpits and groin.[11] Suramin uncommonly affects the eyes causing watery eyes, swelling around the eyes, photophobia, and changes or loss of vision.[11]

Rare side effects include hypersensitivity reactions causing difficulty breathing. Other rare systemic effects include decreased blood pressure, fever, rapid heart rate, and convulsions.[11] Other rare side effects include symptoms of liver dysfunction such as tenderness in upper abdomen, jaundice in eyes and skin, unusual bleeding or bruising.[11]


From Wikipedia Article on Suramin.

It sounds as if the alleged 'cure' is comes with a whole host of unpleasantness, to the point where it's more trouble than it's worth.

Just another autism cure of the week.

Bought to you by Bayer who make other types of poisons like weedicides and pesticides

Sorry but I view every article that comes out of Russian State Media (rt) with a healthy dose of skepticism, especially when it contains sales pitches like 'game-changer'.

There are some aspects that are really fishy about that article and its claims. I think it's a jack up which the writer perhaps hopes to use persuasively to advance his own enrichment in the future by peddling some "cure".

I notice that the same researcher made the same claims in 2014.

His explanation as to the "cause" of autism is new to me. He's described as a geneticist in the 2014 claim, though the "cause of autism" which he cites (see the OP post) is not a genetic one.

Weird, to say the least.

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On a more general note, these researchers always ignore/omit any discussion of "construct validity" in terms of their methodology. They do that, perhaps, because there isn't any. These flimsy studies are invisibly premised on the idea that the subjects are all autistic in the same way to the same extent. (If that were the case, they would be clones). We at WP know that is not factual: there are "autisms" rather than "autism", and there are large differences between individuals on the spectrum. Fragile X syndrome confounds many studies too, because that syndrome has often been misdiagnosed as autistic. This flaw of construct validity is not found only in flimsy studies, though it is usually more noticeable in them, where extreme claims are made on the basis of very flimsy "evidence".

I wouldn't touch it with a 30 Ft pole.

From my perspective, an NT person is putting about 10% of himself, in 10 different places. I feel that I have all the same faculties, just budget my resources, differently. It seems to be a personality trait, more than a disease, in my case.

But, what if you were so fixated, on just one element of your surroundings (let's say a fidget spinner, or the color in a poster) that you could never come out of your shell.