random1 wrote:
I know there's no cure for Autism but if there was what would you do or how would you react if you found out there was?
I attended a school for gifted children when I was younger, while I was there I received treatment for my Autism, it's not a cure, they only removed all the negative side effects while reinforcing all the benefits.
My initial reaction to the treatment?
Well the most immediate effect was not having to see horrifically nightmarish creatures (hallucinations) everywhere that I looked, which brought on it's own benefits of being able to enjoy a full nights sleep, which promoted a significant increase in physical health.
The other noticeable benefit was the rate at which I managed to catch up on schoolwork. In under a year I'd managed to go from 6th/7th year course work to 10th year course work, and by my second year I was doing 1st/2nd year high school level courses. By the end my third and final year I was working on Intermediates and Highers, which for a young boy only months away from turning 12 years old was quite the achievement indeed.
Even my then already impressive IQ jumped from 192 to 208.
Of course, those of you who've read some of my previous posts on the matter, know that this story isn't a story about how much I've gained, but rather how much I've lost, when someone close to me was...
What I had achieved when my Autism was treated, only served to showcase just how much I'd lost when the mental discipline holding it firmly in place, collapsed and shattered into nothingness.
The last time I had my IQ tested was about 5-6 years ago, and it had regressed down to a score of 166, a full 26 points lower than when I was 9 years old. Of course, despite the IQ drop, I'm significantly wiser and more knowledgeable now than when I was a teenager. Which is to say that IQ scores aren't the end all sum of human intelligence.
Ironically, it's because of my regression that I now have steady employment as a Freelance Engineer.
Even with my old job, which is no longer possible since thanks to Scotland banning GM Crops, the private company I was working for has fled the country. They offered to take me with them, but even though Scotland's betrayal cut me to the bone, I won't abandon my family, not even for my dreams. And what dreams they were, the solution to world hunger, cutting edge robotics, the vision the perfect welfare state realized, and the ultimate goal itself, realistic and reliable terraforming capabilities. These things will still happen of course, but sadly without me.
The shifts were long, the work was hard, the pay was only a few grand a week and often unreliable, but we were building towards something, towards a better future for all of humanity. For such idealistic goals there is no personal sacrifice that I would not pay, but Scotland is more than Clan, it is something bigger than that, it's...
Anyway, I'm getting a bit off topic, so I'm going to stop here.
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Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment, but the last step on the path to salvation.Idealist wrote:
My Autism was cured/treated in late childhood (this makes me a walking, talking, contradiction to 90% of the Forum who all believe Autism is incurable)
06 Feb 2016, 4:09 pm
