Does autism ever go away?

Answer 1

YES!!!!! YES!!!!! YES!!!! With a lot of work, some people have completely recovered from Autism! I hope after reading a bunch of "No's" that you have continued to read to find the answer to your question. I can name 3 people that I personally have seen that recovered completely off the top of my head:
1) Raun Kaufman (NBC aired a TV movie about his recovery),
http://www.autismtoday.com/experts/experts_bio.asp?exp_id=36&name=Raun%20K.%20Kaufman&lname=Kaufman
http://autismpodcast.blogspot.com/2006/12/episode-50-raun-kaufman-ceo-of-autism.html
http://www.autismtreatmentcenter.org/contents/learn_more/where_is_raun.php
(I'm not sure where you are located, but Raun Kaufman is scheduled to be one of the speakers at both the Autism One Conference
http://www.autismone.org/homepage.cfm in Chicago, IL
and the Edge of Autism Symposium:
http://www.edgeofautism.com/ in Lancaster, PA.)
2) Kyle Westphal
http://www.kylestreehouse.org/about.cfm
3) Jade Hogan.
http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?vid=109310 ...and talk to me in a few years and I might be saying my daughter, Veronika, since she is improving by leaps and bounds with the Son-Rise Program® from the Autism Treatment Center of America.
http://www.autismtreatmentcenter.org
With Son-Rise, innumerable children have completely recovered from Autism and still others surge well beyond their prognosis. Note: To see a video of one of the complete recoveries using Son-Rise please go to Kyle Westphal's video: http://www.kylestreehouse.org/video1.htm Kyle's story was featured on the Discovery Channel and FOX News. Check your local library for "Son Rise: The Miracle Continues" by Barry Neil Kaufman, whose son Raun was diagnosed severely Autistic but eventually had a complete recovery and received a degree in Biomedical Ethics from Brown University, an Ivy League school.
So beware of false pessimism! Our children are amazingly resilient, as long as their spirit is allowed to soar.
Peace be with you!
---Nicole...Veronika's Son-Rise Mom
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There is no such thing as "false hope"!
http://www.autismtreatmentcenter.org/

Answer 2

Does Autism Go Away

Answer 3

Autism is a spectrum and can range from mild to severe, low functional to highly functional. Many autistic adults can live away from home, be independent, have a job and a family etc. Those are mostly the highly functional ones. The ones that are low functional are usually not able to live independently. They either stay at home, live communely with other people with disabilities or they might be able to live away from home with some support. The future of your friend's child depends on how functional they will be. There are ways to improve the skills they lack or help them compensate for them in other ways, but they will always be different from the majority and struggle with some aspects in life.

Answer 4

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Many degrees of autism exist and that is the answer to your question. Obviously, there are degrees of independence involved. There are also many therapies which exist today which if followed strictly - overcome many of the handicaps of autism. The dedication of some parents to following these practices, change the lives of their autistic children. Autism is not like "Downs Syndrome" - it is more manageable, however, even some "Downs Syndrome" people are independent to some degree.

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Does autism ever go away?

Answer 6

I am a 45 year old Autistic adult. Scientifically speaking, you are born autistic and will be autistic through out your life time; however, with allot of effort or maybe better said allot of practice you can appear and function like anyone else. The level of normal functioning is dependent on the degree of autism one has and how much effort they put into it. I was a pretty sever autistic that hardly spoke until the age of 30. I was pretty high functioning in other ways and have a near genius IQ but I am still very socially handicapped.

Answer 7

No. Autism is a lifelong challenge. Depending on the severity of autism, there are certain aspects that the person can learn to cope with, but it will always be there.

My son, for instance, is mildly autistic. For him, it affects things like...not understanding that he shouldn't hug the pizza man. After all, he's happy to see him! We have to teach him who it is appropriate to hug, and who it isn't appropriate to hug. These aren't things he will pick up on naturally as other kids do. We also have to explain, over and over, that he shouldn't get in someone's face - he should stay at least a foot and a half away. He has no natural concept of personal space. It's something we have to teach him.

So there are ways that certain autistic individuals can learn to cope in society. They simply don't pick up things that "regular" people learn by observation.

Answer 8

No but they're learning more each day. A friend's nephew gets some "relief" from behaviours by following a very strict diet (he's 3) with things like no glutens.

Answer 9

No, there is no cure for autism. It can be treated with therapy but it will never go away.

Answer 10

with intervention, it does get better.
There are autism support groups on line and ones that can be found in your local newspaper (you might have to get a week of them to find the section in your paper that has those listings. please hook into one of them in your area for support regarding resources in your area.
GOOD LUCK