Question by gemadness:
A man at my church cornered me and asked for money, stating he has a five-calendar year outdated daughter with autism who will go mind dead if she does not get medication. I know autism is a significant sickness, but I’ve never heard of this kind of injury occurring. Everyone with some knowledge able to reply if this man is lying to me?
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Reply by SilverCostumer
Mind lifeless? Really unlikely.
I hit Google, WebMD, MayoClinic, and the Oxford Journal of Medicine, in addition AutismSpeaks.
Although some of the more recent studies are suggesting that autistic children often have fewer neurons, they also advise that it is due to the fact of neuronal cell loss of life as a result of insult (damage) to the brain when youthful.
This smells strongly like week-previous unpreserved fish in a very hot area to me.
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I’m pretty sure not. Autism, in my experience, affects development rather than medical issues. Though changes in diet can help, along with some therapies which can be expensive and are said to work best when started as soon as possible, I’ve never heard of it to cause medical damage (other than seizures, in some cases, but I’ve heard that’s typically around puberty). I have been working with people with autism and studying autism since I was five (due to my little brother) and have never heard of this. If it were true, it would be sudden, not something that one would have warning for. If you’re sure it was autism, then I’m 99.9% sure he just made it up. It’s not even as much an illness as just a need to be taught and/or interacted with differently. Hope this helps!
No, autism doesn’t cause brain dead. Maybe he is lying to you, or maybe he or you misunderstood something