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Old Jun 02, 2014, 05:57 PM
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Originally Posted by TheatreKid View Post
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.
Sz has hundreds of genes identified most of them rare mutations...they'll never be able to screen that prebirth because there are too many combos....I have 20 of those mutations myself and of almost 40 years if life have only had 1.5 months of psychosis....plus environment is clearly a factor...
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