🧵 Curing autism
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Mar 2025 02:06:56 UTC No. 16622136
Can we cure autism? Time and time again it's said there is no 'cure' because blah blah blah.
As a developmental disorder, surely we can take steps to prevent it forming? And there is a genetic component: could there be a way to detect it during pregnancy? It's controversial but electroshock therapy does alter the brain in some way. Possibly drugs like LSD that show neurogenesis.
So barring futuristic robots rewriting genetics/neurons, is there some way to actually cure autism? The 'neurodiversity' movement has gone from tolerance/acceptance to pushing the idea it's simply a difference, perhaps even positive. Most autistic people suffer and would likely accept a cure.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Mar 2025 23:46:41 UTC No. 16623098
you can't cure what doesn't exist
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Mar 2025 00:17:57 UTC No. 16623144
>>16622136
It's in the box.
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Mar 2025 00:18:57 UTC No. 16623145
>>16623144
This was a very easy test.
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Mar 2025 05:18:49 UTC No. 16623359
>>16622136
It's in Anne's ass isn't it?
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Mar 2025 05:19:21 UTC No. 16623360
>>16622136
You can integrate out your own autism if you are sufficiently based.
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Mar 2025 05:42:16 UTC No. 16623375
>>16622136
Punch Anne
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Mar 2025 06:46:36 UTC No. 16623395
>>16622136
sally notices that the cloth cover of the basket has been disturbed, and based on knowledge of annes religion, correctly deduces the box is now more likely
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Mar 2025 10:17:27 UTC No. 16623471
>>16622136
>because blah blah blah.
What are you doing on /sci/? You can't find a "solution" if you're going to ignore what's already known.
Could autism be detected in the womb? Probably a certain percentage but not all, even if it is 100% genetic. The dirty little secret of Iceland is that they're already aborting most Down Syndrome babies. But that's far easier to detect.
What we call autism likely is a collection of different neurological attributes, some easy to detect, some nearly impossible. You'd want to look at that level and figure out which of those attributes contributes to most and if they're also responsible for other conditions, including some positive.
The problem with "curing" autism is because it is a wide spectrum, if the solution is to abort them before they're even born, you're deleting part of the human population that has always been with us, though perhaps in smaller numbers per capita. The spectrum is heavily weighted towards the functional side, so for every non-communative potato you abort, you'll also abort a hundred that could have lived lives that contribute more to humanity than you do (be honest about your life).
Do keep in mind that the autism label is being widely misused, especially by sociopaths trying to hide their condition by calling it autism. And then of course there are the trendy attention seekers.
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Mar 2025 23:27:02 UTC No. 16623994
>>16623471
There is a line somewhere, though. "Is this person autistic? Y/N."
This is a time when black-and-white thinking is correct (heh) even if there's some sort of "if you delete Hitler, that also gets rid of gravity" schizo bullshit.