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![]() 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. ![]() ~Bynary Fission Last edited by Bynary Fission; 03-6-2008 at 01:29 PM.. Reason: Replaced an incorrect word. |
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Ahh the fond memories
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Georgia
Age: 32
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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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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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