What Do Autistic People Want From Science?

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A permanent cure for depression which has no side effects.

A cure for disautonomia would be nice, too.

A way to prevent drug tolerance, so that people with chronic pain conditions don't need to constantly escalate their doses (and risk getting accused of being drug abusers and/or suddenly cut off because their doctor is afraid of the DEA overreaching).

More basic research such as fiber-mapping studies of normal and ASD brains, and less research that tries to confirm theories that were invented decades ago when there was a dearth of physical data (ToM, "extreme male brain"). It's better to have a lot of data before inventing theories (though in career-terms it's better to do it the other way around, to 'get in on the ground floor' -- that ought to be changed, too).

Actually its not a problem for me...

I know my weaknesses and struggles....

No one is perfect.....

Not even me.

Not self loathing at all, and it's def not a desire to be perfect either. No one is perfect.

That said, it also would be nice to be not struggle at being social, and not be sitting at home on the weekends.

Okay....

I'm working on that one. I think the research community would benefit greatly from working WITH people with ASDs instead of ON or FOR people with ASDs. There are a few scholarly studies out there that actually include the voices of people with ASDs. Some of the difficulty involves science's preference for statistical data instead of qualitative, interview data. (A researcher first has to convince either a dissertation committee or an ethics board that the proposed research will be worthwhile, and there are some old-school researchers who expect statistical or experimental studies only). Then, there is a problem finding willing participants to share their knowledge. (Understandable, considering so much research has used people with ASDs as glorified lab rats).

It will get better if both sides work with each other.

I want a portal gun.

Science, religion, spirituality...its all the same thing in a sense, I suppose what I want is for people to come to terms with that on a massive scale. But good luck convincing people those are all essentially the same things and that at some point it all intertwines in ways...the human mind cannot imagine.

My belief, resembles something like say a well thought out science fiction/fantasy anime movie though its not complete....maybe I ought to spend some more time working out just what it is I believe.

A diagnostic test to prove we have one disorder over the other. Enough of this trial-and-error garbage!