Re: Autism / oxidative stress

From: Doug Goncz (dgoncz_at_aol.com.bat.exe)
Date: 06/21/04 

Date: 21 Jun 2004 11:00:34 GMT

Wow.

As a schizophrenic, I experience some autism. The old "four A's" of
schizophrenia are: autism, affect, ambivalence, and associations. These are
replaced in modern nursing school by alogia, anhedonia, affect, and
association.

I am brilliantly verbal, and yet autistic. This is no contradiction. What
happened to me caused me to give up my faith in language, and so develop a
pattern of highly intellectuallized, yet ineffective speech. I swear, I can sit
in "talk therapy" all day and share affective speech (emotionally honest
speech) and intellectualize around it, but it does me no good. My speech is not
substantially _effective_. That is, talking about my emotions doesn't change my
life. And as for making plans with speech, that is, considering anything more
substantial than when is my next appointment, I am paralyzed, mute. Yet the
therapists I am with do not notice this. They think, he must be able to talk to
anybody about anything, and so, doesn't need help.

But I can't. It's as if I'm mute. I've lost the critical belief that language
_does some good_, that's it's useful.

So what I am looking for is a diagnosis of autism secondary to schizophrenia,
and treatement with a speech language pathologist operating at a very
challenging level.

How does this sound?

Thanks, interesting article and I will ask my psychiatrist to interpret it.
Perhaps she can test for:

>red blood cells
>thiobarbituric acid-reactive substances (TBARS) levels, and superoxide
>dismutase (SOD), catalase (CAT), adenosine deaminase (ADA) and xanthine
>oxidase
>(XO) activities

and determine if there is

>lipid peroxidation

Yours,

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