Curebes vs Curenots

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02 Jun 2008, 5:35 pm

Completely against a cure. I'm fine with therapies to help Aspies and Auties cope better, or social skills training, or that type of thing, but no cure, especially not a eugenic one.

As for those espousing ideas that people should "choose" whether they personally want a cure, you are sadly deluded. A cure would not be a choice for the person being affected. A cure would be pushed on the parents, without all the information made available to them, and if the parents refused a cure they could be labelled abusive/neglectful and have the children taken away from them. There would be no choice in the matter; if there was a cure everyone would be forced to take it.

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02 Jun 2008, 5:45 pm

This is part of the reason I didn't get a written diagnosis... I don't want it to be held against me by work, by insurance companies, or by eugenicists in the future.

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24 Jul 2008, 12:35 pm

The "treatment" I recieved in an attempt to "cure" me, ruined my life and caused far more problems in my life than Aspergers.

I think our educators need to make up their minds on this question as well. Either find a real cure or leave it alone- spamming random fad drugs and therapies at kids is only screwing things up more, and at least in my case, causes further psychological disorders.

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25 Jul 2008, 7:17 pm

I have been I for almost 50 years...."curing' me would change me, and not necessarily for the better.

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25 Jul 2008, 9:49 pm

I wouldn't mind a temporary, reversible 'cure.' Sort of a pill that I could take to be social when I'm forced by work or family to attend one hideous party or another (I can understand the social function and the concrete benefits of work parties,even though I don't enjoy them), and then be myself again the next day.

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26 Jul 2008, 9:01 am

LKL wrote:

They're working on it, it's in trials in mice last I heard, and it works so far. Also a reverse drug that can induce autistic traits in NT's. Lost the link but it had me going. 9001 internets to someone who posts the link, it was on fark a while back and I'm too busy to dig it up on google ATM.

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29 Jul 2008, 6:12 pm

latreefarmer wrote:

Having a nephew with Kanner's, and several of us on the spectrum to one degree or another, I still don't like the idea of being cured. I would like the research to focus on getting inside our heads enough to learn to communicate with those of us with poor or non-existent communication. I think if we could bride that gap with low functioning members, many could get along fine.
I also am in much better spirits now that I am learning about the neurological differences between myself and my peers. Being analytical, the "notknowing" caused a lot of worry and confusion. Now that I know who I am and am learning how my mind works and is different from many, it strangely helps. I would not want to be like many of the people I know who wander aimlessly thru life, always striving to please others.
Education should be the focus, both of us and the general public, not focusing on curing us. As a young adult trying my hand at sales, one of the things I learned is that you must listen to others and let them feel like you care about what they say. Why can't they listen to us and REALLY care about what we say, too? Don't talk TO us, talk with us.

AMEN BROTHER VERY WELL PUT. I COULDN'T HAVE SAID IT BETTER MYSELF!! !!

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