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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 291729" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>Exactly. The naked chicken dance routine.</p><p></p><p>We have different things over here which are considered the "in" thing. And they change. It needn't be just autism, it can happen with any condition which makes you feel sufficiently desperate. There are 'fads" and some treatment regimes will come in fashion and then will disappear without fanfare months or years later. I've seen a lot of them.</p><p></p><p>Mind you, I'm still there hooking into any new research going around and giving it a go... but there has to be a good research protocol backing it or we won't touch it.</p><p></p><p>I also get nervous of zealots, whether in medical treatment, politics or religion. Basic psychology explains how zealots develop - and it bears out your concerns, MWM. It comes down to a person's investment in belief. The LESS the payback to the individual, the more they have to 'gee up' their beleif to justify their ongoing involvement in it. Otherwise they would have to admit to some private scepticism or even some degree of disbelief and then they would feel they had been made to look foolish. So instead you get the more intense and genuine 'belief' in what they are doing, to the extent of having to convince other people too. Because the more other people are convinced by your own belief, the more you feel confident that your belief is real after all 9and therefore you are justified in your belief).</p><p></p><p>I saw some film of a very interesting psychology experiment into this (I think it dated back to about the 60's or therabouts). Interesting, but scary too. However, also very freeing for me because the next time I met a medically oriented zealot, I felt empowered to walk away (and quietly research the info myself, without the hellfire and brimstone approach or the emotional blackmail).</p><p></p><p>However I stress - I don't get any sense of zealotry here from Katlin. It's just the existence of zealots in association with a lot of these sort of treatments makes a lot of us very nervous. </p><p></p><p>That doesn't mean we ignore new information; it just means that anything new gets read carefully, meticulously, and with large heaped spoonsful of salt. A bit more than a pinch for a lot of us.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 291729, member: 1991"] Exactly. The naked chicken dance routine. We have different things over here which are considered the "in" thing. And they change. It needn't be just autism, it can happen with any condition which makes you feel sufficiently desperate. There are 'fads" and some treatment regimes will come in fashion and then will disappear without fanfare months or years later. I've seen a lot of them. Mind you, I'm still there hooking into any new research going around and giving it a go... but there has to be a good research protocol backing it or we won't touch it. I also get nervous of zealots, whether in medical treatment, politics or religion. Basic psychology explains how zealots develop - and it bears out your concerns, MWM. It comes down to a person's investment in belief. The LESS the payback to the individual, the more they have to 'gee up' their beleif to justify their ongoing involvement in it. Otherwise they would have to admit to some private scepticism or even some degree of disbelief and then they would feel they had been made to look foolish. So instead you get the more intense and genuine 'belief' in what they are doing, to the extent of having to convince other people too. Because the more other people are convinced by your own belief, the more you feel confident that your belief is real after all 9and therefore you are justified in your belief). I saw some film of a very interesting psychology experiment into this (I think it dated back to about the 60's or therabouts). Interesting, but scary too. However, also very freeing for me because the next time I met a medically oriented zealot, I felt empowered to walk away (and quietly research the info myself, without the hellfire and brimstone approach or the emotional blackmail). However I stress - I don't get any sense of zealotry here from Katlin. It's just the existence of zealots in association with a lot of these sort of treatments makes a lot of us very nervous. That doesn't mean we ignore new information; it just means that anything new gets read carefully, meticulously, and with large heaped spoonsful of salt. A bit more than a pinch for a lot of us. Marg [/QUOTE]
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