Aspies For Freedom

what does this mean...that the new aspie medicine is going to make all aspies takig it have fevers all day and night

I had a high fever a week or two ago, became somewhat delerious. I became very talkative, sociable, and was 200% more articulate, with almost no trouble at all getting the words out, except that I had so much to say!

It was really a bit strange. I think I would drive people nuts if I were like that all of the time.

Calmer? Not in my case. Maybe the kids in the study just felt crummy from the fever and were thus more laid back.

Hm. Perhaps I am anomalous, but when I have fever, I feel MUCH less like talking, and my communication, socialization, everything is much harder to deal with, and when I have to be at school, such as for a test, things like fluorescent lights and certain sounds and smells that I have learned to tolerate to varying degrees, affect me much more, and I notice similar effects when I am relaxing, staying at home. Sick makes me feel crummy, usually no perks for me.

my fever are almost always accompanied by a migraine, vomitting, and super crazy need for sleep (like i will sleep for 48-72 hours straight) gotta love gettig a fever wake up with an I.V. in ur arm Yeah! actally I.V.'s make me feel high (just like my inhaler...what a coincendence)

Hopefully, it won't lead to parents trying to give their kids fevers, although that might be a possibility.

Also, that article uses "improve" like 10 times. Personally, when I have a fever, I don't feel improved, I feel sick.

id rather be pecived as a delinquent then be in pain and feel sick

if they do i wont take it

Careful reading of the 'research' referred to does not suggest any objective 'improvement' in the 'autistic mind' only that the behaviour of the feverish autistic child becomes more 'acceptable' to the parents during a fever.

???????

I know that I am even more tolerant of moody behaviour from my kids when they are sick - it's a sort of parental instinct thing - (and I am usually very laid-back) so perhaps it is the minds of the carers which should be studied!

I should add that I know that my own ability to cope with anything at all vanishes when I am feverish.

I wouldn't mind  a bit of relief from my socially related anxiety - without having to rely on drugs. I would like my speech to flow with more ease - without having mind blanks when I need to express myself with words. I find this really limiting.

Fever sucks.

I read on the topix forum where this came up. Immediatly a parent backed it up with an anecdote. I don't trust anecdotes much after what I've seen in autism controversies.

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If this is true (not saying it is), then it's certainly an improvement, insofar as it momentarily improves the children's ability to communicate and socialize according to the norms of society. Now, assuming this is true, which is far from certain, I don't see how you can say this isn't an objective improvement, or indeed why one might frame this in a negative way at all.

The negative thing about this research is, of course, if it causes researchers or parents to artificially induce fevers in children, and nowhere is it mentioned that that's been happening here.

ive noticed when im sick i feel zombieish and cant control myself so... why would i want to feel like that.... sure everyone else thinks im fine now but i dont feel "myself"

I should mention a few things that I neglected in my earlier post on this thread:

I only experienced the ease in communication, verbosity, extraversion, etc, when the fever was at a certain level. I had the fever for about a day and the differences mentioned lasted for only a couple of hours, if that. Must have been a fairly high fever to get me into that state, because as the other mentioned, I usually just feel crummy, not wound up and talkative.

I cannot imagine any parent wanting a quitet aspie or autie kid to transform into someone wanting to talk non-stop the I was, because I was just as obsessive as ever, only now I was verbalizing it.

i hate fevers