trending on google news: big pharma is getting excited

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New York Times:
“Autism spectrum disorder is the brave new world of medicine development, and most companies out there — despite a lot of the retraction you’re seeing — they do recognize autism as a clear area of opportunity,” said Mr. Ring, who serves on a committee that helps select which compounds the U.C.L.A. program will test.


Somebody send that dude a copy of Aldous Huxley's book. Stat!

Cutting corners on human trials when producing treatments for autism is nothing new. Parents and professionals successfully argued that the ethical requirement for proper human trials should be bypassed because an autistic child is essentially an emergency. This was with regards to ABA, but seeing similar protocols in place for medication is not surprising, although it is disturbing.

Here's one possibility from another article of what might be a cause of (some) cases of Autism Spectrum.

And I'm an adult. If I'm going to change, it's going to be in a series of medium steps in ways of my own choosing.

I like myself as I am. And I wished 'schools' focused on what I can do rather than what I can't, and especially for workplaces.

At the same time, what is called 'ethics' in medicine is slow, timid, overcautious in a bad way, not for human welfare, but so the institution won't be blamed, and focuses obsessively on some things and then completely ignore other things. So there's definitely room for improvement.

And at the same time, parents and so-called 'professionals' focus on stimming as part of the problem when actually, stimming is part of the solution. Besides relieving tension and helping with concentration, stimming is just a lot of fun and adds vim and vigor and richness and color to life. But it's embarrassing to parents. Okay, I understand that. And it seems like the solution is to draw a distinction between private and public, and directly model public-appropriate stimming, which even 'normal' people do (no such thing as 'normal' anyway ) So yes, there's a lot going on.

With the sequester, I think all of the research places are trying to drum up more grants from drugmakers. This might be some of the PR effort right here.

Ugh. I am glad that I'm old enough to get to choose what drugs I do and don't take. I can't wait to see what kind of messed up drugs they come up with (which will be "clinically effective" because they reduce things that annoy NT's).

I don't think that it'll be that easy to find a drug that can treat most autistics, because how it looks like there are several different reasons for ASD.