Curing Autism

How long until there will be a medication for autism?

What sort of treatment would this be / what would it do to the brain?

I'd like to try living a day being not autistic but worry it would be boring.

It could be some kind of ADHD-like medicine to cure the personality of autists and calm the fuck of their behavior, it would literally make it the "normalfag drug"

So, it won't be made in your lifetime though, with all these autism acceptance, X acceptance and Y acceptance etc. It will be more harder and harder to cure neurological stuff since the politics of today won't let you live normally since you are already "normal" to them

And i feel sorry for that guy mentioned in wikipedia that wants to cure autism since he's really sad about being a virgin and autism didn't helped him with social skills

I would do it for him desu if i was a neurologist or some psychiatrist

We don't want to cure autism, it helps society.

They can already prescribe anti-psychotics.

That doesn't cure it.

Psilocybin and LSD

Since autism is a developmental disorder, then it's highly unlikely that once an autist's brain is developed you'd be able to reverse it with any sort of pharmacotherapy. The best you can do is reduce the symptoms.

On the other hand, if the causative genetic or environmental factors are pin-pointed and they are directly targetable, it's highly likely we'll be able to prevent autism from developing i.e. like an autism vaccine for at-risk infants.

autism isnt real

>autism vaccine

>not using autism to get gurls

>Post the same reply in every thread

How thick are you? HFA and Asperger's are mostly linked to genetics and involve the 'wiring' of the brain. Medication, just like vaccines, don't cause or cure autism.

Dirty dubs got paid to post this ------ stay #woke

Why would you want to cure it? It is autism that is the healthy state.

Autism is the next evolutionary stage for humanity that will allow us to conquer the stars. If it wasn't for autism we would still be sat in caves around a fire socialising.

Yeah something like that.

Well at least it gives you perseverance to keep at a problem where normies usually give up quite soon because they get too strong negative emotional reinforcement from failing over and over.

Agenda2032: 50% autists, 80% of which male (US)
Population control.

My autism died down a bit after starting anti-depressants. I actually eat more than one food at a time now.

Well you don't have autism then

im not joking, theyre doing studies with oxytocin to help kids with autism interact. so maybe thats for you. obviously it wont really change much just maybe make interaction easier?

i think what youre talking about it would be hard if its like polygenic. it would be hard to tell what genes to change and how many of them because im sure it would be a polygenetic continuum that is variable, not discrete.

i wonder if you changed all of the genes responsible in a persons brain to versions least connected with autism, you would get another pathological disorder of the opposite end.

i also imagine that most brain genes are pleiotropic on a cognitive level and it would be difficult to predict what kind of "side effects" you would get.

This.

>if you changed all of the genes responsible in a persons brain to versions least connected with autism, you would get another pathological disorder of the opposite end.
Being neurotypical is pretty pathological desu. Think how well one would function in a predominantly asperger society, jumping at a million imaginary signals without the security of collective delusion, rejecting any real meaning, passion or substance in life and being rightly recognized as defective for it, subordinate to a host of outmoded and obsolete survival instincts we evolved living in swamps and eating raw fish, etc.

Its a developmental thing, it can only be prevented, not cured

How would this possibly be a thing? I'm autistic and barely have guy friends.

Autism fetishism will become a thing we can hope.

OP, I'll answer in case you're genuine and not a troll.

There can't be a medication for autism, since autism isn't clearly linked to a single cause/mechanism.

There isn't an ethiological agent that you can target with a molecule and fix the problem. It's not a broken bone, it's not an excess of hydrochloric acid in the stomach that you can counteract with a base or by shutting down the acid pumps with Omeprazol.

Autistic spectrum disorders are simply the consequences of how the brain is wired... and there is no "right" way for brain wires to connect, not that we know of at least. Each person is wired differently, the vast majority can function in similar ways and many people function in ways different enough to display a difference. It's not a "wrong" that can be fixed, it's simply different. And it's different between every autistic individual. You don't know what it's like for others, and we don't know what's it like for you.

I understand how shitty it is as my 5 year old son has a sensory processing disorder which is very linked to autism and at times he can get really challenging.


I don't think a medication can be designed at least until we increase our understanding and control over learning processes at the neurological level, memory storage and access, sensory integration and processing, and more. It's too complex at the moment and even when we finally understand it enough, we'd need to find a chemical able to improve those conditions.

No mental disorders will be cured that aren't already it goes against the SJW narrative.

I'm sorry about your wife's son.

Fetishism is irrelevant. You will add your biological distinctiveness to my own. We must reproduce.

You can treat ASD-associated impulsivity with amphetamine as you might in ADHD or borderline personality disorder. That seems to underpin many of the social difficulties. But cognitive behavioral therapy is the golden standard.
And it's always better to leave the various desirable autistic traits as intact as possible

It's easy. One first needs to identify the /pol/ and /r9k/ genes and then gas those motherfuckers with CRISPR to get rid of that shit.

Start with yourself

How would this cure autism? I've taken psilocybin mushrooms and if anything it makes me feel less "in-touch" with people. From what people have told me about autism, the main problem is not being able to understand body language and communicative subtleties. How would being "woah dude way out there man" help this at all?

Joke's on you, normies are immune.

Dude just be urself lmao

They inject you with a weaker form of autism, such as aspergers or pddnos, so you can build up an immunity.

>curing autism

Stop vaccinating kids under the age of 5

As mentioned, it can't be cured, only prevented... through eugenics.

One of the reasons I'm not having kids.

Little fucker's got my face somehow. Maybe the real father is my doppleganger or a missing twin!

You may have misread my post but okay.

You have never actually met a real autistic person, have you. You think all autistic people are genius savants? Boy are you in for a shock.

there is.

mdma

It's a meme.

People like to shill psychs as a miracle snake oil for any and all perceived mental imperfections. Their actual usefulness is rather limited and uncertain, and autistics are often more predisposed to bad trips. They can help with introspection, but if anything there's too much of that already in such a condition.

Your best option is really amphetamine for the impulsivity and/or treating any comorbid anxiety through various methods

>mdma
Not this. You will feel so socially adroit, confident, at peace and deeply connected with people for one night, while you actually alienate them all far worse than you ever could have sober.

/pol/ have BPD not autism.

/r9k/ don't desrerve to be gassed, though some of them might gas themselves anyway.

Autism is caused by a combination of genetic and environmental factors. The genes that cause it are beneficial if you don't have too many of them. The main environmental factor is thout to be propanic acid.

And despite the disgraceful treatment of Andrew Wakefield, it now appears there's no connection to vaccination.

>the disgraceful treatment of Andrew Wakefield

A cure for autism is not far away.

In terms of psychopharmacology, the neurotransmitter systems you're looking for can be found by swallowing horse farts with donkey piss.

Trouble is, society does not want help. At all.

Our ancestors undertook a long journey out of the oceans, down from the trees and out of the caves and you can be certain that the normal people resisted this every inch of the way.

Why would you want autism to be cured? Its the next step for human evolution

Is that where they use dogs for calming autistic children?

Weed cures autism but makes you stupid

Is it worth the tradeoff?

It can be a cover. A tight latex catsuit has the same effect as a hug machine. I suspect this is why goes bananas if you put Lycra in that thread. This is also why multiple layers is a thing: even tighter. Lycra cannot compete.

>Fetishism is irrelevant
Could be a way to find likeminded femanons.

Current research is currently geared towards finding the underlying causes. Assuming that enough of those can be isolated on the genetic level, the "cure" for autism might wind up being the same as the one for down's syndrome-detection in the womb and abortion. Some people fear that's the actual goal of the research being conducted by organizations like Autism Speaks, and as an aspie myself, I won't lie, the idea is a bit scary.

There also appears to be a link between the age of the parents at conception and the likelihood of autism. People could wind up able to practice the prevention of conceiving autistic children to begin with if enough factors like that are discovered.

Then there's the search for developmental factors that appear to be linked to autism, inside the womb and outside of it. If enough of those are discovered, I imagine that people would be able to adopt lifestyle/child-rearing practices that would halt the progression into a complete sperg or maybe at least mitigate it.
Then, like this guy said, there could be ways of treating autism with drugs, at least in regards to curbing some of the behavioral/personality/sensory/whatever issues.

Maybe gene therapy will be an option one day. I dunno.

I really hope that they manage to sift out the screaming, shit-smearing manchild retards without getting rid of the average sperg if they do go the detect-abort route. I imagine that a lot of parents would be like, "Fuck no," and just destroy the embryo, with or without that distinction.

Whoops. Meant
this guy.

Not that guy, but from a purely anecdotal perspective, doing psychs and entheogens:
>helped me with being more self-aware, both of how I presented myself to others and of my behavior on its own
>that's good because socially torpedoing myself out of sheer oblivion sucks, as does sabotaging myself with shitty habits and idiosyncrasies
>helped me understand my senses better, which went a long way because sensory overload, overstimulation, and generally just being wired very differently from others on a sensory level present actual difficulties
>gave me the ability to push my own boundaries and overcome a lot of aversions and little mental barriers that were sabotaging me
>made me more aware of how little factors I was previously oblivious to affected my thoughts and moods
>somehow seemed to make me a bit less high-strung and emotionally immature than I was before
>made me more okay with touching people and being touched (BIG FUCKING DEAL)


I dunno. That said, I actually feel more "in-touch" with things and people than less when I trip, so it could just be that it affects people very differently.

meme magic can make this idea thrive.
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I don't see why'd you want "cure" something that is such a big part of yourself. You'd be barely a person without the autism, even with the negative aspects of it.
I think it's a waste of efforts to focus on finding the cure for autism. That's like saying you want to cure being extroverted, and the things that come with it. Stupids

I am autistic.

>There can't be a medication for autism, since autism isn't clearly linked to a single cause/mechanism
How does this follow?