Comment by lastcrazyhorn submitted on March 28, 2008:
Medicine primarily helps treat the comorbid symptoms like concentration and anxiety issues. The rest, you can get help for via various therapists. A lot of Aspies have speech problems, periodically speaking too fast, too slow, too loud, mumbling, stuttering, etc. Occupational and Physical therapists help with the bad coordination and lack of body awareness. Music and art therapists help primarily with the emotional and social aspects; however, they also do some speech and physical therapy via music.
I’m on anti-anxiety meds and they have virtually changed my life. However, meds haven’t been tested on kids that young; so I’m always a little anxious when parents start doing meds on younger kids; ESPECIALLY if they start mixing psychotropic drugs. Those haven’t been tested together and sometimes result in really strange things.
My reply I commented with on that same day:
I have no doubt meds change a person’s life. If people didn’t notice any positive return from taking them, the pharmaceutical industry would not be doing so great.
The reason I said meds are very dangerous was because I was thinking about how subtle and slow the other effects come about. The younger the person is, the more vulnerable he will be (in more ways than one). When I’m talking about observing people on drugs, I’m talking about long periods of time — as in decades.
I’ve learned a lot from one psychopharmacologist who is absolutely brilliant in his field, but unless a person ’stumbles’ upon such a character, you’re most likely not going to sample such different insights.
Maybe I wouldn’t be such a anti-med person if I wasn’t as familiar with the way that people think who are in this business. Not everyone in it is ‘bad.’ Most do want to do good. But the way they’re going about it is crazy and irresponsible! Just look at all the advertisements lawyers dole out for their services as they wait for the aftermath.
The biggest factor why I stay far away from what comes out of pharmaceutical labs is something I will not mention here. Besides that, there is no way for me to explain it to others without them first reaching a certain level of another type of awareness. It’s not my responsibility to explain and it’s not even something I have the power to do.
I’m just thankful that everyone can still have a choice to do what they want. I don’t want ‘meds’ and I can’t help but feel bad for children who are not given a choice. When society has no problem with murdering unborn children, I’m sure most have no problem with using children for experiments either.
When it’s a known fact there is absolutely no other alternative, then yes . . . there is a time and purpose for every drug. The user should have the last say so, but not the abuser.
