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8:22am December 8, 2011

➸ Can Ecstasy Treat Autism?

goldenheartedrose:

sinistervegan:

Please Note: Yes, PTSD is not the same as autism, if you read the article it discusses the findings in a study with PTSD. Thus opening up research in other fields. Also not trying to cure or fix autism. It is just an interesting article. Also, for the lower functioning people who are on ASD, it would be nice to see them be able to function with in society (no they are NOT a burden, viel, etc.) Autism is incurable and there is no know cause, there is also no need to fix people with autism. It is a part of them. However, please keep in mind if you do have autism or Aspergers and can interact, clearly you are higher functioning. It would be nice to see lower functioning people with autism use a computer too as well as communicate, be able to take care of themselves. Just saying before you get all mad. 

Excerpt: “A team of scientists at a California non-profit organization just announced a pilot study to determine if Ecstasy might help fight the effects of autism. This isn’t the first time that MAPS, or the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, has researched the psychiatric benefits of MDMA. A 2010 study of twenty Iraq veterans suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder found that a combination of Ecstasy and therapy resulted in an 80-percent success rate, high enough to convince the Food and Drug Administration to greenlight further studies of the drug.

This newest study is part of an ambitious plan by MAPS and its president, Rick Doblin, to make MDMA an FDA-approved prescription medicine. MAPS considers itself a “non-profit pharmaceutical company” that focuses on treating illnesses with psychedelics and medical marijuana.” 

Check out the rest of the story at AlterNet  It’s interesting. 

Not everyone reblogging this is considered high functioning, op. Please keep that in mind.

And doesn’t the OP know that as soon as anyone so-called low functioning uses a computer they’ll be assumed by people just like the OP to be “high functioning” and therefore able to take care of themselves? That just goes on and on in a feedback loop of some kind as far as the nonsense goes.

(Mind you, I don’t like any terms involving functioning level. But I like even less when people use it as an excuse to tell people we’re wrong just because we can object. It’s like, if you can object, then your viewpoint doesn’t matter. And if you can’t object, then your viewpoint must automatically line up with the OP (so your real viewpoint doesn’t matter, it’s just assumed to be in line with whatever viewpoint the person is pushing, even if it’s not).)