How can autism be cured and what is its cause?
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The cause? Honestly, the problem is mass ignorance from people who ignore certain vital matters of social and cultural importance. Autistic people often find these things impossible to ignore because we can sense how interconnected they are with everything else. Additionally, sensations can be rather intense for autistic people so that’s another reason why they can’t be ignored, because they are so problematic that something needs to be done about it because of how intensely we experience the problem. This is speaking in general, because autism is very diverse and can’t really be pinned down into specific definitions and categories, which is why it is recognized as a spectrum of endless possibilities.
If nobody saw that kind of thing as abnormal, and just listened to people who think differently with an open mind and didn’t often judge people negatively, then autism wouldn’t be considered a problem. Instead, people often shun others who think differently or don’t fit in with the normal social behaviors and thinking, which is why it becomes a disability. We may find it difficult to participate in society because people won’t allow us to and often perceive us with hostility because we are different, or because our ideas may indicate that society in general or specific systems need to change in fundamental ways.
I think the reason for that is that most people are faithless in general (without hope or belief in goodness beyond what they presently perceive as possible) and lazy. They think that fundamental changes are impossible because they don’t want to do any work, nor do they want to believe that there is something wrong with what they are doing and the way things are. That’s ridiculous behavior and thinking because society, a system, a government, or a religion, isn’t something people should take personally as if changing it is going to change them.
The reality is that change comes from what flows into those systems (what I think is aptly referred to as a spiritual substance of human nature) and is going to happen whether they like it or not. If they don’t anticipate it and adapt before it arrives, it’s going to be more difficult. A person attempting to initiate such change may seem angry, but that shouldn’t be seen as a sign of antagonism if you think about what they are saying and why.
Anger is a normal human emotion and shouldn’t be seen as hostility as much as it should be a sign of a person who requires aid of some sort. Seeing anger as threatening is very primitive because human beings should be aware of each other as similar to themselves. We all get angry from time to time, some more than others, but it doesn’t mean we want to kill everything even if in the most extreme cases we may feel like that momentarily. Like, “whoa, what has you so angry? is there something I can do to make it better? It was something I said? What part? Oh, sure, I will apologize. Can you acknowledge where I am coming from too? I was angry when I said that and it’s not really your fault, but I’m hurting because of it and I just need someone to care in the smallest way possible.” or “I see that you are angry about something I am unwilling to compromise on. Surely we can figure something out like reasonable human beings and set our personal feelings aside to do what is right, just, and good. Let’s talk about it and do something to make it better. I have some ideas on hand that may help.”
People who are megalomaniacs, commonly referred to as control freaks, have a big problem with people proposing ideas that don’t fit neatly into their scheme and destabilize all of their contrived machinations. That’s why people like Jesus get executed without a good reason, or otherwise have their lives oppressed to this day. Society in the USA is actually rather barbaric, uncivilized, and savage for that reason. They often act like chimpanzees who see an unfamiliar chimpanzee and try to kill it because they have an irrational, primal fear that anything unfamiliar but looks like them is a threat as an imposter.
So… I guess if there is an actual cure to autism, it is proper education. Autism won’t go away, but neurotypical people who have a problem with it won’t be troubled anymore. They are the ones that need to be cured, not the autistic people. We just need to live with it, and possibly require some accommodations, because it is part of who we are on a fundamental level that is related to our physiology with genetics and neurocognitive structure. I actually don’t want to be cured of it, because if it means I’m going to be normal like most people, I don’t want to be that way. I see what is normal to be a disgrace to humanity and a grave offense against moral dignity and good judgment, and after years of trying to understand, I have only been given more justification to see that as in fact what they are.