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'Autism drug aims to balance brain signals'

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  1. Pseudojim

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    http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20727783.900-autism-drug-aims-to-balance-brain-signals.html

    This might be interesting to anyone else in the spectrum, or if you're just a nerd.

     
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    Oh my God...I mean for me who lives with Asperger's Syndrome, part of the Autism Spectrum, I can only hope this works. I mean seriously my stress alone comes from how my brain works...I know stress is normal for everyone, but I really believe the ways I react to it and just experience it causes a lot of disruption and in my case is caused by my autism....It would also be nice if this somehow fixes how I interact with people and stop being so freaking awkward...in a bad way...
     
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    Yeah, it's something to keep an eye on, for sure.

    It might end up being something that ends up helping only the most severely affected though. The article didn't go into details of the study sample. Time will tell =)
     
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    God I go to get some I may not be bad but It will Help me a great deal. It will make me well "normal" (if there is such a thing)
     
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    Oh, here's an interesting study that just recently was done in Toronto.

    http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/100915/national/autism_boys_genetics
     
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    You're aspergers too, right Revan? Can i ask when you were diagnosed? I was 23. I wish i had known a LOT sooner.
     
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    I was 18...you know...at the end high school....wish I had known before that, then maybe those idiots wouldn't have created the "We Hate Sean and it's Not Because He's Gay" Facebook group >_> (I had read so many bad coming out stories I basically would shove me being gay in peoples faces thinking I didn't care if they were okay with it or not, I'm not letting them pick on me.) I would have kept a LOT more friends probably if I had known...
     
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    sounds like you had it a fair bit worse off than me. Well done for hanging in there and coming through it so well, dude