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> Autism does mostly resolve itself, either "for real" or because the patients learn to mask it well enough to "not have symptoms" Having worked with autistic
by folkrav 8y ago
> Autism does mostly resolve itself, either "for real" or because the patients learn to mask it well enough to "not have symptoms"
Having worked with autistic youth before, that's simply not true. First, autism is not a disorder that can be cured but worked with. Second, it doesn't do it by itself, but _can_ get better, with different approaches, and most of them involve hard and persistent education work. Lastly, the part of the spectrum that can look as if they were "normal" is a rather small proportion of the whole ASD.
- candiodari 8y agoAh come on, be fair. Every psychiatric disorder has a pretty high chance of getting resolved without any action from outside. Very few people actually succumb to them. Furthermore, especially with psychiatric disorders, there is a high percentage of patients that aren't helped, but exactly the opposite, by treatment. That systematically get worse because of treatment. (I do not claim this is easy or pleasant for the patient, merely that it happens. Furthermore in the more common cases where treatment makes the patient worse it is also incredibly unpleasant, unfair and entirely terrible for the patient) (and of course you could correctly claim that this is even true for cancer, and it is. However for cancer the percentage of patients that get better without treatment is something like 0.2% up to 4% depending on the cancer, whereas for psychiatric disorders the amount of people that recover without treatment is easily > 90%)
- jacksnipe 8y agoSource for any of this? 90% is a number you should be getting from somewhere, and it sounds unbelievably high.
- jschwartzi 8y agoI would go even further and call it "dismissively" high.
- code_duck 8y agoI don’t think what you’re saying is accurate or appropriate for autism.
- okmokmz 8y agoOriginally I posted a longer response, but it's not worth breaking down because the original content is complete, unfounded nonsense. It's the kind of thing you'd read on an anti vax facebook page. No, the vast majority of those with psychiatric disorders do not recover without treatment No, there is not a high percentage of patients that get worse because of treatment Either a source needs to be posted or the comment should be deleted because it is completely false, not adding to the discussion, and incredibly dismissive of those experiencing psychiatric problems or seeking psychiatric treatment
- SubiculumCode 8y agoAutism is not a "psychiatric" disorder, it is a developmental disorder with neurological and physiological symptoms.