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MIT Autism research - Reversal of symptoms?
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<blockquote data-quote="SRL" data-source="post: 55462" data-attributes="member: 701"><p>Sharon, I think it would be a scary prospect to hold this choice in one's hand. If we're talking physical disability or severe mental handicap it's one thing, but when we're talking a higher functioning Autism such as Asperger's, it becomes a lot harder to evaluate.</p><p></p><p>I have heard parents describe their desire for treatment/cure as clearing up the "mental cloudiness" of the various issues that seperates their child from the world but to retain all the unique gifts, etc that are part of the child. Having seen my difficult child go from midway between neurotypical and Asperger's to nearly NT today, I sincerely doubt that it's possible. I think whatever neurological rewiring gives them the unique mental capabilities also short circuits the social, etc. At age 5, I literally watched difficult child over a period of a few months take his head out of the books and become socially aware and interested. In the months that followed he started losing the ability to spell words that he had been able to spell since he was 2 and his interests shifted suddenly from geeky stuff to regular kid toys and topics. He's never looked back, but has made an almost steady progression in favor of conectedness in the social world while having very little interest in the geeky kind of topics that were the center of his world for all of his early childhood. I just don't think there's room in that brain of his to live in both worlds!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SRL, post: 55462, member: 701"] Sharon, I think it would be a scary prospect to hold this choice in one's hand. If we're talking physical disability or severe mental handicap it's one thing, but when we're talking a higher functioning Autism such as Asperger's, it becomes a lot harder to evaluate. I have heard parents describe their desire for treatment/cure as clearing up the "mental cloudiness" of the various issues that seperates their child from the world but to retain all the unique gifts, etc that are part of the child. Having seen my difficult child go from midway between neurotypical and Asperger's to nearly NT today, I sincerely doubt that it's possible. I think whatever neurological rewiring gives them the unique mental capabilities also short circuits the social, etc. At age 5, I literally watched difficult child over a period of a few months take his head out of the books and become socially aware and interested. In the months that followed he started losing the ability to spell words that he had been able to spell since he was 2 and his interests shifted suddenly from geeky stuff to regular kid toys and topics. He's never looked back, but has made an almost steady progression in favor of conectedness in the social world while having very little interest in the geeky kind of topics that were the center of his world for all of his early childhood. I just don't think there's room in that brain of his to live in both worlds! [/QUOTE]
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