Jan 30, 2008
Neuroscience: One Pill Makes You Autistic -- And One Pill Changes You Back
This seems to rest on misunderstandings of what autism entails. It doesn’t lead to “a break from having messy emotions about other people” and it isn’t “a state where human relationships are no more important than inanimate objects”. It doesn’t make you a number-crunching genius either. It does increase hte likelihood that you’ll be able to focus on non-social tasks for extended periods of time, but the tradeoffs aren’t necessarily worth it.
Not to mention that it’s a neurological abnormality. I don’t know what this pill does, but it certainly doesn’t induce autism.
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