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20 Nov 2018, 10:46 pm
magnetowasright wrote:
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Aspie19828 wrote:
NTS do not have Autism and they do not understand. NTS are from a position of advantage in regards to social and emotional intelligence that are critical in regards to forming friendships and relationships. Autistics are shunned from society due to their lack of social and emotional intelligence. Female Autistics often can hide emotional and social skills and still form friendships and relationships with NTs. Autistc males do not have the ability to hide their lack of social and emotional intelligence, they are effectively shunned from society and treated as social pariahs.
If you hate your symptoms so badly, why don't you treat them?
*shrug* I'll never understand why people here complain, complain, complain that they can't stand abc and xyz symptom and how they affect their life, yet they're unwilling to consider treating them and seeing if they feel better.
To each their own, I suppose.
I made my choice over 5 years ago & have less than zero regrets about it. Life is night and day better in every way.
Autism is not treatable. All experts in neurology agree on this.
BS. I've been treating it for over 5 years & am Very high functioning to the point that only One person I've met in the last 5 years recognized me as autistic - and that's only because he has an autistic brother and my symptoms were acting up at the time.
Besides what I do to treat my symptoms (medicine, not talk therapy or learning to mimic someone's behaviours) that enables me to live a much fuller, more normal, life, there are other treatments for Autism that are much more common that have measurable proven results. ABA is probably the most common and well known.
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20 Nov 2018, 11:06 pm
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How bad were you to begin with? No one knows I'm autistic unless I tell them and I haven't been receiving treatment.
Definitely high functioning/Asperger’s syndrome vs classic autism. But now I’m extremely high functioning & symptoms rarely get the best of me. People would not have likely guessed I was on the spectrum before - but that’s in large part because they have no idea what the traits are.
Regardless of what others can or cannot pick up on externally, the differences internally are immense. My ability to navigate and participate in the social world, intuitively vs forced, without making typical autistic blunders, not feeling anxious etc is a massive difference to me and my life.
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20 Nov 2018, 11:25 pm
20 Nov 2018, 11:30 pm
goldfish21 wrote:
magnetowasright wrote:
goldfish21 wrote:
Aspie19828 wrote:
NTS do not have Autism and they do not understand. NTS are from a position of advantage in regards to social and emotional intelligence that are critical in regards to forming friendships and relationships. Autistics are shunned from society due to their lack of social and emotional intelligence. Female Autistics often can hide emotional and social skills and still form friendships and relationships with NTs. Autistc males do not have the ability to hide their lack of social and emotional intelligence, they are effectively shunned from society and treated as social pariahs.
If you hate your symptoms so badly, why don't you treat them?
*shrug* I'll never understand why people here complain, complain, complain that they can't stand abc and xyz symptom and how they affect their life, yet they're unwilling to consider treating them and seeing if they feel better.
To each their own, I suppose.
I made my choice over 5 years ago & have less than zero regrets about it. Life is night and day better in every way.
Autism is not treatable. All experts in neurology agree on this.
BS. I've been treating it for over 5 years & am Very high functioning to the point that only One person I've met in the last 5 years recognized me as autistic - and that's only because he has an autistic brother and my symptoms were acting up at the time.
Besides what I do to treat my symptoms (medicine, not talk therapy or learning to mimic someone's behaviours) that enables me to live a much fuller, more normal, life, there are other treatments for Autism that are much more common that have measurable proven results. ABA is probably the most common and well known.
Not everyone is as high functioning as you are. And many who are do not have access to proper medication because we are undiagnosed. Many do not have the fortune of living in an area with access to specialists qualified to diagnose adults, can afford the costs of visiting said specialists, or both.
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20 Nov 2018, 11:49 pm
magnetowasright wrote:
goldfish21 wrote:
magnetowasright wrote:
goldfish21 wrote:
Aspie19828 wrote:
NTS do not have Autism and they do not understand. NTS are from a position of advantage in regards to social and emotional intelligence that are critical in regards to forming friendships and relationships. Autistics are shunned from society due to their lack of social and emotional intelligence. Female Autistics often can hide emotional and social skills and still form friendships and relationships with NTs. Autistc males do not have the ability to hide their lack of social and emotional intelligence, they are effectively shunned from society and treated as social pariahs.
If you hate your symptoms so badly, why don't you treat them?
*shrug* I'll never understand why people here complain, complain, complain that they can't stand abc and xyz symptom and how they affect their life, yet they're unwilling to consider treating them and seeing if they feel better.
To each their own, I suppose.
I made my choice over 5 years ago & have less than zero regrets about it. Life is night and day better in every way.
Autism is not treatable. All experts in neurology agree on this.
BS. I've been treating it for over 5 years & am Very high functioning to the point that only One person I've met in the last 5 years recognized me as autistic - and that's only because he has an autistic brother and my symptoms were acting up at the time.
Besides what I do to treat my symptoms (medicine, not talk therapy or learning to mimic someone's behaviours) that enables me to live a much fuller, more normal, life, there are other treatments for Autism that are much more common that have measurable proven results. ABA is probably the most common and well known.
Not everyone is as high functioning as you are. And many who are do not have access to proper medication because we are undiagnosed. Many do not have the fortune of living in an area with access to specialists qualified to diagnose adults, can afford the costs of visiting said specialists, or both.
So what?
I treat my symptoms via diet, supplements, probiotics, and intestinal cleanses. The gut dysbiosis part of ASD is entirely treatable. According to medical stats on chemical sensitivities of ASD people, this should apply to 70% of people on the spectrum. When I started doing this for myself I was living in my friend's construction site (sort of), trading what labour I could manage for a roof over my head and food to eat, & had an income of a whopping $150cdn/month.
Prior to figuring things out, my symptoms were unimaginably bad and completely life hindering. My doctor said there was nothing he could do because there are no drugs for this. But I Knew I wasn't always that bad and that if something could make it worse, something could make it better. I just had to figure out what it was and what to do. So, meeting the right people at the right time in my life and 10,000+ pages of reading later, I figured it out and have been treating my symptoms ever since.
And now there're ASD medical studies published since that point to Exactly what I said was true about ASD over 5 years ago when I shared here on WP how I'd been treating my symptoms with miraculous results. In time more people will accept all of this as medical fact and more will opt to treat their symptoms. In the meantime, the vast majority of forum members are just here to complain and vent vs. try to improve themselves and their lives.
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21 Nov 2018, 12:29 am
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Therapy is expensive and is only accessible for the rich elite. We are talking about those people that wear designer clothes, drive sports cars, own mega mansions and yachts. Average person can not afford therapy. Average person with Autism has to suffer in silence and he is all alone in his own world of loneliness, isolation and misery. He has been rejected by a society that never ever gave him chance and society will never give him a chance. It is a cruel world you either fit in or you do not.
So then choose to do things for yourself. No one else is going to do it.
Read books that help, eat healthy healing foods.
I had a total income of $150/month (although I had shelter and food) when I started treating my own symptoms, so don't tell me it isn't possible for a determined person on the spectrum to improve themselves due to lack of financial resources. It's a lack of will to do it more than anything.
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magnetowasright wrote:
goldfish21 wrote:
magnetowasright wrote:
goldfish21 wrote:
Aspie19828 wrote:
NTS do not have Autism and they do not understand. NTS are from a position of advantage in regards to social and emotional intelligence that are critical in regards to forming friendships and relationships. Autistics are shunned from society due to their lack of social and emotional intelligence. Female Autistics often can hide emotional and social skills and still form friendships and relationships with NTs. Autistc males do not have the ability to hide their lack of social and emotional intelligence, they are effectively shunned from society and treated as social pariahs.
If you hate your symptoms so badly, why don't you treat them?
*shrug* I'll never understand why people here complain, complain, complain that they can't stand abc and xyz symptom and how they affect their life, yet they're unwilling to consider treating them and seeing if they feel better.
To each their own, I suppose.
I made my choice over 5 years ago & have less than zero regrets about it. Life is night and day better in every way.
Autism is not treatable. All experts in neurology agree on this.
BS. I've been treating it for over 5 years & am Very high functioning to the point that only One person I've met in the last 5 years recognized me as autistic - and that's only because he has an autistic brother and my symptoms were acting up at the time.
Besides what I do to treat my symptoms (medicine, not talk therapy or learning to mimic someone's behaviours) that enables me to live a much fuller, more normal, life, there are other treatments for Autism that are much more common that have measurable proven results. ABA is probably the most common and well known.
Not everyone is as high functioning as you are. And many who are do not have access to proper medication because we are undiagnosed. Many do not have the fortune of living in an area with access to specialists qualified to diagnose adults, can afford the costs of visiting said specialists, or both.
Well if you're not diagnosed, how could you know you're even on the spectrum to begin with?
21 Nov 2018, 1:11 am
goldfish21 wrote:
magnetowasright wrote:
goldfish21 wrote:
magnetowasright wrote:
goldfish21 wrote:
Aspie19828 wrote:
NTS do not have Autism and they do not understand. NTS are from a position of advantage in regards to social and emotional intelligence that are critical in regards to forming friendships and relationships. Autistics are shunned from society due to their lack of social and emotional intelligence. Female Autistics often can hide emotional and social skills and still form friendships and relationships with NTs. Autistc males do not have the ability to hide their lack of social and emotional intelligence, they are effectively shunned from society and treated as social pariahs.
If you hate your symptoms so badly, why don't you treat them?
*shrug* I'll never understand why people here complain, complain, complain that they can't stand abc and xyz symptom and how they affect their life, yet they're unwilling to consider treating them and seeing if they feel better.
To each their own, I suppose.
I made my choice over 5 years ago & have less than zero regrets about it. Life is night and day better in every way.
Autism is not treatable. All experts in neurology agree on this.
BS. I've been treating it for over 5 years & am Very high functioning to the point that only One person I've met in the last 5 years recognized me as autistic - and that's only because he has an autistic brother and my symptoms were acting up at the time.
Besides what I do to treat my symptoms (medicine, not talk therapy or learning to mimic someone's behaviours) that enables me to live a much fuller, more normal, life, there are other treatments for Autism that are much more common that have measurable proven results. ABA is probably the most common and well known.
Not everyone is as high functioning as you are. And many who are do not have access to proper medication because we are undiagnosed. Many do not have the fortune of living in an area with access to specialists qualified to diagnose adults, can afford the costs of visiting said specialists, or both.
So what?
I treat my symptoms via diet, supplements, probiotics, and intestinal cleanses. The gut dysbiosis part of ASD is entirely treatable. According to medical stats on chemical sensitivities of ASD people, this should apply to 70% of people on the spectrum. When I started doing this for myself I was living in my friend's construction site (sort of), trading what labour I could manage for a roof over my head and food to eat, & had an income of a whopping $150cdn/month.
Prior to figuring things out, my symptoms were unimaginably bad and completely life hindering. My doctor said there was nothing he could do because there are no drugs for this. But I Knew I wasn't always that bad and that if something could make it worse, something could make it better. I just had to figure out what it was and what to do. So, meeting the right people at the right time in my life and 10,000+ pages of reading later, I figured it out and have been treating my symptoms ever since.
And now there're ASD medical studies published since that point to Exactly what I said was true about ASD over 5 years ago when I shared here on WP how I'd been treating my symptoms with miraculous results. In time more people will accept all of this as medical fact and more will opt to treat their symptoms. In the meantime, the vast majority of forum members are just here to complain and vent vs. try to improve themselves and their lives.
You said you met the right people at the right time. That was completely depeandant on luck and is unlikely to replicate for most people.
