XPost: misc.health.alternative, alt.psychology   
   From: markprobert@lumbercartel.com   
      
   Day Brown wrote:   
   >> How much income do you derive from autism-related services?   
   > i dont receive any. I got out of the business when I was diagnosed   
   > with stomach ulcers, which all the shrinks said was due to stress. I   
   > underwent both group and private psychotherapy.   
   >   
   > Needless to say, it did diddly for my ulcers, altho I did learn a lot   
   > about myself and others. Among which is a skepical view of what   
   > shrinks and psychologists have to say. A buncha politically correct   
   > neurotics. the blind leading the blind. they have no idea what normal   
   > is cause they themselves are driven by their own professional   
   > agendas.   
   >   
   > As for autism. Part of the problem is the lack of attention to the   
   > immediate environment. ADD & ADHD have similar kinds of problems.   
      
   Incorrect. AD/HD is characterized by the inability to maintain attention   
   the task at had. They have plenty of attention.   
      
   The   
   > autistic kids that I knew were really smart. If you could get them to   
   > pay attention to an IQ test, and within the parameters of what they   
   > could figure out, just brilliant. And I recall the subtle manipulation   
   > of the clinic staff in the residential setting.   
   >   
   > The main thing required was how to get them to pay attention. There   
   > have always been two ways to make hominid males pay attention: sex or   
   > violence. Pick one.  The current treatment millieu has been trying   
   > drugs. But if you look into the studies on sex and violence, you find,   
   > in fact, important changes in the chemistry of the brain. You dont   
   > need Ritalin You wont need Ritalin if you have a long enuf whip, or a   
   > deep enuf cuntBullshit. . And   
      
   Bullshit.   
      
     if you are able to apply both, why then the   
   > changes in dopamine, adrenalin, seratonin, etc will be dramatic,   
   > rapid, and obvious.   
   >   
   > Why havent researchers tried this? Because it offends their   
   > *christian* sensibilities. You can only go so far with real science.   
      
   Researchers found that physical discipline does not work in AD/HD or may   
   other areas.   
   >   
      
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