You are wrong on they don’t drug kids for autism. I am just wondering if you meant that, yes, there is no “cure” for autism pharmaceutically, but what Doctors do prescribe are behavioral suppressing drugs usually classified as Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRI. And this is used to treat the SYMPTOMS. So when you say that athey don’t prescribe drugs could you please tell me what Zoloft, Prozac, Luvox and Wellbutrin are? According to my PDR, these are drugs, typically used in treating ADD and ADHD.
I am admittedly very biased against SSRIs and SNRIs due to personal family experience and copious amounts of subsequent research done into the subject.
My oldest daughter probably has aspergers; the reason I say probably is because we haven't yet had her "officially" diagnosed, one of the main reasons being that I am pretty sure they'll want to give her an SSRI, not necessarily because she really needs one, but because these days they hand them out like candy (highest prescribed class of drugs in the US), which of course is much easier than teaching parents and child how to deal with the idiosyncrasies of the individual. Sorry, but no doctor is going to drug my child.
Are there true autistics? Absolutely! But these behavioral drugs are legally being pushed on the western world and I'm afraid that one day down the road we might find that this huge pharmaceutical cash cow was just bad medicine.