If there was a way to figure out which meds would work specifically for that person, that would be great. I just wouldn't want it to turn into something that would cause fewer babies at risk of mental illness to be born. If they could have screened me in utero and found out I would be a transgender 3 month preemie, with mental illness and possible ADHD, what would my parents have done?
I have one foot on the edges of the autism community because I've been diagnosed with Aspergers (but I think it's ADHD instead, almost certain it isn't aspergers but at one time I did) and a lot of autistic activists are against the charity Autism Speaks because they're advocating for a cure for autism and autistic people see this as an insult, that their neurology will be wiped out.
Maybe schizophrenia and psychotic illnesses aren't a useful adaptation, but it's getting kind of close to eugenics and that scares me.
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Bipolar I with psychotic features/GAD/Transgender (male pronouns please)
Seroquel/Abilify/Risperidone/Testosterone
My Bipolar Poetry Anthology
Underneath this skin there's a human
Buried deep within there's a human
And despite everything I'm still human
I think that I'm still human
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