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Do blind people and nearsighted people have the same treatment? Saying people with profound autism need the same treatment as people with autism commenting on

Do blind people and nearsighted people have the same treatment? Saying people with profound autism need the same treatment as people with autism commenting on Hacker News is patently absurd. Go ahead and try offering therapy and workplace accommodations to nonverbal people living in a residential home. You're proving my point for me, we've lost sight of these people. Even with cancer- the diagnosis and treatment vary tremendously depending on what type of cancer you have, how far along it is, and more recently how your particular genome responds to that version of cancer and each version of treatment. We don't just say, "whoops you have cancer" and start chemotherapy on the targeted area. Your argument doesn't make any sense.

cogman10 1y ago
> Do blind people and nearsighted people have the same treatment? Yes, they both need to see optometrists on a regular basis. They get the same therapy even though a blind person won't get glasses. It's the same for autism. Someone with profound autism will still see occupational, behavior, and speech therapists. The therapy will be different from what someone with mild autism gets, but the specialists involved will largely be the same. The OT for someone with profound autism can be identical to mild autism because there are many different aspects. Profound autism simply means several aspects have severe problems. That's my point. Very similar to how with an oncologist you might have a specialist for your cancer but ultimately you deal with a team that often treat different cancers. For example, people to draw your blood and run labs. That's why hospitals have an oncology department and not a lung cancer department.
- in_cahoots 1y ago
  They see the same people but definitely don't get the same treatment. The insurance codes are different and the body of research is different. Putting $1 of research into genetic blindness does nothing for preventing astigmatism, even though patients may go to the same doctor. Saying that everyone who goes to a therapist, or an oncologist gets the same treatment and therefore should be lumped together is absurd. Most other specialties are moving toward taxonomic differentiation, not away from it.

cogman10 1y ago

> Do blind people and nearsighted people have the same treatment? Yes, they both need to see optometrists on a regular basis. They get the same therapy even though a blind person won't get glasses. It's the same for autism. Someone with profound autism will still see occupational, behavior, and speech therapists. The therapy will be different from what someone with mild autism gets, but the specialists involved will largely be the same. The OT for someone with profound autism can be identical to mild autism because there are many different aspects. Profound autism simply means several aspects have severe problems. That's my point. Very similar to how with an oncologist you might have a specialist for your cancer but ultimately you deal with a team that often treat different cancers. For example, people to draw your blood and run labs. That's why hospitals have an oncology department and not a lung cancer department.

in_cahoots 1y ago
They see the same people but definitely don't get the same treatment. The insurance codes are different and the body of research is different. Putting $1 of research into genetic blindness does nothing for preventing astigmatism, even though patients may go to the same doctor. Saying that everyone who goes to a therapist, or an oncologist gets the same treatment and therefore should be lumped together is absurd. Most other specialties are moving toward taxonomic differentiation, not away from it.