Collecting poop, doing things that try to minimize pathogen transfer, and inserting that poop into someone else. Rectally, I think.
If such things caused better absorption of nutrients and/or reduced intestinal pain (e.g., gas, etc.), then I'm sure there might be a lessening of stress, and thus a lessening of the "symptoms" of a stressed autistic person. (Which probably describes most or all of the autistic folks they've been dealing with.)
I would not want to throw around words like "cure," however. Not least because I do not want my Offspring to shiv me, but also because most of the autistic behaviors that upset neurotypicals tend to be responses to stressors*, and therefore a "lessening of autistic symptoms" is probably "individual has more spoons to cope with stressors in the environment." They're not "less autistic"; they're less stressed.
(*Others are "happy stimming" behaviors, which neurotypicals find unpredictable and thus get all bent out of shape about, and some are "avoiding a stressor in the first place" behaviors.)
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Date: 2019-08-31 05:14 am (UTC)If such things caused better absorption of nutrients and/or reduced intestinal pain (e.g., gas, etc.), then I'm sure there might be a lessening of stress, and thus a lessening of the "symptoms" of a stressed autistic person. (Which probably describes most or all of the autistic folks they've been dealing with.)
I would not want to throw around words like "cure," however. Not least because I do not want my Offspring to shiv me, but also because most of the autistic behaviors that upset neurotypicals tend to be responses to stressors*, and therefore a "lessening of autistic symptoms" is probably "individual has more spoons to cope with stressors in the environment." They're not "less autistic"; they're less stressed.
(*Others are "happy stimming" behaviors, which neurotypicals find unpredictable and thus get all bent out of shape about, and some are "avoiding a stressor in the first place" behaviors.)