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New research? I remember years ago (2019-ish?) a young man in #aspergers asked how he can prune his neurons to cure his aspergers. (The residents however did no

by andai 2y ago

New research? I remember years ago (2019-ish?) a young man in #aspergers asked how he can prune his neurons to cure his aspergers. (The residents however did not appreciate the suggestion that they needed curing.)

moffkalast 2y ago
Doctors: Human brains aren't language models, you can't abliterate and prune them! #aspergers guy: Haha scalpel go brrrr
mrangle 2y ago
The typical method is short term alcohol abuse. Joking/not joking. The effect is mixed. Pruning may occur. Autism incurable. There are ideologues who like to police others in every divergent group that falls in a normative IQ range. Try going to a deaf sub and happily announcing your pending cochlear implants (don't do this). One might imagine how this may be worse in the autism group. Heck, observe how politically oriented "totally normal" types at Psychology Today pretend to lecture the autism community on the only acceptable way to think of themselves. They're obsessed with the topic, and it'll change only every few years if lucky.
- Workaccount2 2y ago
  The fundamental idea at work here is "If I can't be fixed, then I can fix everyone else to be like me, thereby making what I am be considered "fixed"" or "If I can't be fixed, I need to change the definition of working" It's pervasive and annoying.
  - lo_zamoyski 2y ago
    A person ultimately has two options. He can either conform his mind to reality, or reality to his mind. The first leads to truth, the second leads to rationalization, delusion, and insanity. Humility favors the first. Pride favors the second. As Satan famously says in "Paradise Lost", "The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven." It's not an accident Milton puts those words in the lips of that particular character.
- selimthegrim 2y ago
  There was some guy on reddit who reported the effects of large oxytocin doses.
SimbaOnSteroids 2y ago
Yeah, give me the choice. If I could trade some intelligence for a bit of executive function/picking up social queues I wouldn't even hesitate.

by andai 2y ago

moffkalast 2y ago

Doctors: Human brains aren't language models, you can't abliterate and prune them! #aspergers guy: Haha scalpel go brrrr

mrangle 2y ago

The typical method is short term alcohol abuse. Joking/not joking. The effect is mixed. Pruning may occur. Autism incurable. There are ideologues who like to police others in every divergent group that falls in a normative IQ range. Try going to a deaf sub and happily announcing your pending cochlear implants (don't do this). One might imagine how this may be worse in the autism group. Heck, observe how politically oriented "totally normal" types at Psychology Today pretend to lecture the autism community on the only acceptable way to think of themselves. They're obsessed with the topic, and it'll change only every few years if lucky.

Workaccount2 2y ago
The fundamental idea at work here is "If I can't be fixed, then I can fix everyone else to be like me, thereby making what I am be considered "fixed"" or "If I can't be fixed, I need to change the definition of working" It's pervasive and annoying.
- lo_zamoyski 2y ago
  A person ultimately has two options. He can either conform his mind to reality, or reality to his mind. The first leads to truth, the second leads to rationalization, delusion, and insanity. Humility favors the first. Pride favors the second. As Satan famously says in "Paradise Lost", "The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven." It's not an accident Milton puts those words in the lips of that particular character.
selimthegrim 2y ago
There was some guy on reddit who reported the effects of large oxytocin doses.

SimbaOnSteroids 2y ago

Yeah, give me the choice. If I could trade some intelligence for a bit of executive function/picking up social queues I wouldn't even hesitate.