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Autism Diagnosed With a Fifteen Minute Brain Scan
kkleiner writes "A new technique developed at King's College London uses a fifteen minute MRI scan to diagnose autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The scan is used to analyze the structure of grey matter in the brain, and tests have shown that it can identify individuals already diagnosed with autism with 90% accuracy. The research could change the way that autism is diagnosed – including screening children for the disorder at a young age."
So breathing (which makes repetitious sounds) is a sign of autism? :-)
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
Therapy's not humiliating. Hell, OT's kinda fun.
Real humiliation is when you're growing up and all the interactions with your peers blow up in your face due to your mind-blindless and inability to read body language or understand personal space, and your classmates ostracize you because they think you're weird, and you don't know what's going wrong. And since there's nothing you know of (because your'e undiagnosed) that differentiates you from your peers or explains why this is happening, you conclude you're getting ostracized because you're some doofy, idiotic, bad person. That, my friend, is real humiliation.
That's no humiliation, that's self-flagellation. Which is what many of your so-called peers want you to do to yourself, because they, whether they know it or not, are trying to cripple and destroy your mind and soul, not perhaps out of any real anger, or hatred, but simply because they think it's what they need to do.
Really, it's not you, it's them. See, they're the ones with a pathological nature, since they are the ones who lash out and cause harm.
It's true. They're even the ones slapping on this bogus diagnosis because...it's just another way to let them take control. Sorta like how the Riedran Inspired claim it's the Kalashtar who are out to destroy the souls and spirits of mankind...or who the Nazi's blame the Jews. Or how Conservatives attack Liberals for various offenses. Or IOW, the typical "Stop making us hurt you" reaction.
Don't buy into it.
It's bullshit. Even when cloaked in the oh-so-pretty colors of psychiatry. You want to know who needs Therapy? EVERY LAST ONE SINGLE HUMAN BEING. Because we're all screwed up some way, and if not by ourselves, then by others.
Some of us are just screwed up in ways that make life easier for ourselves...but not necessarily for others.
"Therapy" taken too far is ostracizing in and of itself. Not being allowed into normal classrooms, spending many out of school hours locked in a room with therapists, etc. does not provide any opportunity to "learn past" the mind blindness. Theory goes that the professionals will "fix it" with their therapies. Yeah, OT is kinda fun, but I haven't seen that it's any more effective at teaching life skills than actually living life.