Recently on the news was an item about autism and DNA. It did not go into great detail.
I am not an authority on the subject by any means but there are certain aspects that seem worthy of mention.
But first: Once when I moved to a new location, someone had left behind a large medical textbook and later I acquired a “Professional Guide to Diseases” for physicians published in 1989.
I have never been able to find the word autism in either of these volumes. The only mention of autism is in my dictionary which says that it is a word used in psychology: A state of mind characterized by daydreaming, hallucination and disregard of external reality.
Note that it ssys ‘external’ reality.
To my knowledge, DNA is representative to whatever degree of an individual or anything else that has DNA.
Nothing was said in the mentioned news item about the following: A comparison of the DNA of mentally healthy parents and their autistic child along with how the child’s DNA is represented.
Question: If as a person develops and changes, does a change in DNA follow suit?
Skip to the medical profession and the wide use of pharmaceuticals.
First, the assumption that the brain is the mind. A thorough analysis would prove that this is not so which many know from their own experience.
There are a number of parts to a human being: the physical substance of the physical world, the life part which the plant world has, that which the animal world has, the self conscious aspect with the developing mind and the ability to say “I Am.”
The mind is divided into levels of concrete mind and the same for abstract mind.
At our human stage, this is generally as far as we will go for now except becoming self conscious to a degree in the higher realms.
We also have a higher mind, the actions of which we notice at times.
At present, I am compelled to say that an autistic person is a ‘troubled soul.’
What this statement means and represents is way too much to go into here.
What I can say in confidence is that the medical profession takes a very atheistic viewpoint and believes everything can be cured with pharmaceuticals
One does not hear much from psychiatrists these days though they have quite a degree of insight.
Are they baffled by autism? Their solution historically has been shrink anyway.
There are others, however, who have the development to ‘see’ into the higher realms.
Only they would be able to reach and perhaps help the autistic.
Charles Samek
Mineola
