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jlf1961 -> RE: Bi-polar and schizophrenia (6/16/2008 8:17:55 PM)
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ORIGINAL: DragonLadysFire
Being retarded, bi-polar and schizophrenic are all parts of low functioning autism.
Excuse me?!?
None of those conditions are PART of any form of Autism!
While an autistic individual can exhibit any of those conditions, it does not carry on to the entire population of Autistic individuals. To make such a generalized statement is borderline on prejudice and indicative of a complete misunderstanding of the condition.
I have a nephew who is low functioning Autistic, he is not retarded, bi-polar, schizophrenic or anything else, he is just Autistic. The only other impairment is an inability to use verbal communication. However, he can use sign language.
Like most low and high functioning Autistic individuals, he thrives in an ordered environment. Strict schedual, everything with in the proper place, and properly ordered.
Low and High functioning Autistic individuals have earned college degrees, even graduate degrees. They can maintain jobs, live independantly, and even fall in love and get married. It is not uncommon. The IQ of an autistic individual is often above average, often in the low to high genius range.
Mental retardation, is defined as an individual with an IQ of 70 or below, and the degree of retardation is based on the IQ level.
Hence, autism and mental retardation are not normally linked. The so-called idiot savants, which is actually a misnamed condition, are autistic and have an uncanny ability to learn, and usually have IQ's that are well into the high genius range.
A schizophrenic individual may during the course of his condition slip into a autistic state, however that does not classify the individual as autistic, and with the proper medication and treatment, the condition can be reversed.
Under many of the old medications, bi polar individuals often ended up in autistic states, usually after prolonged treatment with thorazene and other related drugs. None of those drugs were even remotely intended to treat the individual but to control the individual, to the point of so screwing up the brain chemistry of the individual they were in a perpetual zombie state. While this prevented manic or depressive cycles, it also prevented proper treatment, contributed to the individual's inability to function outside an institution, and left the person with an infant like mentality that became permanent.
For the record, and the facts are open to any one wishing to look into them, Thorazene and related medications were used quite extensively in mental institutions, both private and public to control bipolar, schizophrenic, autistic, any one with a violent social disorder (including combat fatigue, PTSD, and related conditions.)
Actual treatment of individuals suffering these conditions is actually a relatively new idea, beginning in the last 40 years or so, and becoming common practice in the last 10 to 20, and widely accepted during that time as well. Prior to that, individuals with those conditions were institutionalized, drugged, and controlled.
There is still a large percentage of the population that would prefer that people with these conditions be institutionalized, using the arguement that 'there is no way to insure the person will take his/her medication as directed, therefore they would become a danger to the community and themselves.'
Those words are straight from the wording of a suggested bill sent before a state legislative body last year.
I find it wonderful that people are so concerned with the welfare of the individuals who suffer from these conditions, as well as those vets who suffer from ptsd which in turn created the basis for paranoid, schizophrenic, and bi polar behavior. It was also the motivating arguement that put individuals suffering the same conditions into Nazi death camps.
Now, I have PTSD, Bi Polar disorder, social anxiety and mild agoraphobia, all steming from my service in the US Army and combat duties. You see, the military trains people to kill, they train you to react instinctively, they do not make a provision to return you to societ in a condition that is stable, which is why so many combat vets suffer from a number of psychological conditions.
We got those serving a country with a percentage of the population who would rather place people with those conditions behind fences and walls, regardless of how the developed the conditions.
Which, FYI, is another reason that many combat vets solve the problem they place on the public in the easiest way possible, suicide.
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