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Old 03-6-2008, 01:17 PM   #21
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Default Re: Autism: An Epidemic of the 21st Century?

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I don't quite follow what you are trying to say with the homosexuals thing...please elaborate. ^_^

As for the italic part: I strongly disagree.
When I was put on several drugs over the course of my life, to treat various "mental disorders" that I was diagnosed with... (all false btw) they had disastrous effects, including knocking me out for an entire week in 7th grade.

We (as a nation) not only over-diagnose, we over-medicate like it's going out of style, and it really needs to stop, IMO.
For the homosexual thing, sure.

In several countries, especially Islamic ones like Saudi Arabia, homosexuality is illegal, and even punishable by the death penalty. Psychology, in it's fashion to label everything different as some disorder, proposed various "treatments" to "cure" it, such as aversion therapy (castration, etc), counseling, and more. Psychology tries to cure everything..or well almost everything, and homosexuality for many years was thought to be a disease, and people tried various methods to try and "cure" it, many of which were very damaging to the person emotionally. So my point is, as you and me stated, psychology is flawed to a fault in several ways, and homosexuality, which is completely normal, was treated as a disease for many years because it made you a little bit different from other "normal" humans.

And for the part you disagreed with, that's fine, but you seem to have contradicted myself. I stated that children who are given false diagnoses are drugged and given therapy they don't need. This often damages them psychologically in later years. You repeated that afterwards with your own experiences. People tried to drug me, and my mom refused to let that happen...I still appreciate that act to this day greatly. Can you please elaborate specifically that you don't disagree with? It seemed a bit unclear, and I may be wrong about you contradicting yourself. Just making sure.


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Old 03-6-2008, 02:10 PM   #22
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Default Re: Autism: An Epidemic of the 21st Century?

Uh excuse me, but I happen to have autism, albeit a high-functioning case, and devonin is absolutely correct. It is certainly not the same as Asperger's.

Sadly, though, because so many doctors don't know crap about the differences between them, all my life everyone except two people (my mom and myself) diagnosed me as Asperger's.

I wouldn't consider it an epidemic, because an epidemic is within a more general location. If anything, you make it sound like a pandemic, since so many more areas of the world are seeing a rise in this condition. However, it may be an epidemic in that autism isn't an infectious disease. Still, I don't condone the gross majority of misdiagnoses that are becoming commonplace in the medical world.
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Old 03-6-2008, 02:13 PM   #23
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Autism is such a generic diagnosis for any early stage mental disability that it's hard to actually clarify what is and is not autism anymore.
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