The Gold Standards?
"The Age of Autism: Gold standards http://tinyurl.com/dpz56 The Age of Autism: Gold standards By DAN OLMSTEDUPI Senior Editor WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- A published scientific paper suggests gold salts -- the treatment that may have prompted improvement in the first child ever diagnosed with autism -- can affect mental conditions. "Although there is very little modern research on these applications for gold, historically one notable use of gold was as a 'nervine,' a substance that could revitalize people suffering from nervous conditions, a term we would today call neurological and psychiatric disorders, such as epilepsy and depression," according to the paper, "Gold and its relationship to neurological/glandular conditions." The paper appeared in 2002 in the International Journal of Neuroscience, co-authored by four researchers at the Meridian Institute, a Virginia-based non-profit group. It is online at meridianinstitute.com/ceu/ceu25gol.html."
PARTIAL quote from an online based autism group and they quoted the ENITRE article from Dan Olmsted.
REALLY now what does Gold have to do with autism? Why are they even bothering to 'cure' autism-it has already been figured out and it has already given the world the computer and many more things including a never in print before thought process? The only thing Autism hasn't been able to give the world is the common sense and sense to let human nature realize there are aliens (autistics) among us and we are in plain sight! I guess it is only natural that the very best educated people in the world unintentionally miss our obvious success as no one ever taught them to look for the answers in the obvious places, like right under their nose. Those that have met us and those that know us will not admit to us just yet as no one wants to be first in line to 'discover us' and Autism is established already and the fuel tank on the NASCAR Race car is on Empty. Ran Man's Curse is in full swing and it needs to run its course Those "on the payroll researchers and politicians' it employs have a valid point to make-even IF it is at the expense of the very people they claim to care about.
Granted the modern version of autism might indeed respond well to the "gold treatment" but that type of autism is most likely different from the older more natural version of autism, the quiet shy type of autism. The picture based autism. If any of the experts actually knew what they were doing they would let us stand alone as picture thinkers and let us share our unique knowledge with mankind. Many moons ago we were autism-the only definition for it-and only since Rain Man autism definitions got so big and broad that autism epidemic was invented. Just due to our quiet shy and pain free nature we naturally blend in and are hidden in the studies of modern Autism and are often termed the low functioning people of Autism.
Scientist and researchers have been playing with anything they can get hold of for centuries now, in the 1800s people were given Mercury treatments (and died from) for sexually transmitted diseases, the birth control pill was tested in foreign countries to hide the possible side effects of it. The commercials on modern TV for the multitude of drugs would make a street drug dealer envious and it is amazing the side effects they mention seem more serious than the condition they treat. Still Autism seemingly has had the gold treatment once before. I'm just glad they never ran across gun powder and helium in their discovery race to make new and exciting drugs, I 'm sure that would have been a cure for something and I'm really glad it was not the first vigra type pill.
Autism like it or not is still mostly undiscovered by the "experts" and the earliest person I have read about on the web that might have been Autistic was The Boy from Alverez in the 1600s. I'm sure If even two experts totally understood him, autism would have never developed into the mess it is today. Again our thought process, and odd way of being have NEVER been in a text book before and the obvious smart experts don't have enough experience or courage or charm to actually use their brains and look at our obvious success. Most Ph.D. types tend to rest on their degrees after they get them a few are in a position to actually explore and discover and figure out the obvious. Schools and universities and non profit foundations are in show business and show business is not in approval of the small little nagging details like our anthropology. Rain Man's unintended curse keeps a lot of experts employed and many experts in autism were totally expecting an uncritqued career. It seems they have got their wish.
The mentality of many in Psychology and Research is so fowl that it stinks but, just what evil doctor or scientist with a long record of un happy patients ever gets called on the carpet for bad behavior. Who would believe some retarded person, Autistic person or someone with Downs Syndrome even if we had an obvious legitimate complaint. Who would ever listen to us? Even IF we were listened to the prim and proper doctor has much more creditability than we do and even though they never walked a mile in our shoes they still claim their god like status. As I set for my first Diagnostic interviews in Columbus Ohio some years back, I was jumping through hoops trying my best to keep up with the jerk of a doctor and I was processing picture thought after picture thought and all he could comment on was the idea I didn't have eye contact and I didn't listen. Actually it is the other way around He NEVER listened to my explanations of my thoughts I was using and converting to communicate with him. He had no idea while I was picture thinking my hearing was turned OFF.
Why would he care that he was speaking with someone that figured out autism via trial and error he was god and been declared so by default. That picture thinking and turned off hearing is very close to the symptoms described today CAPD. Central Auditory Processing Disorder sounds like the old picture based autism of time gone by. No matter what we are I'm sure with a few billion dollars and few politicians on staff we could turn picture based thinking into the next big thing-and give mankind the insight along the way. Rich Shull
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