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Rhwawn comments on How to tell apart science from pseudo-science in a field you don't know ? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Rhwawn 03 September 2012 12:40:37AM 2 points [-]

Perhaps I'm missing a point here, but when I look in Google Scholar there seems to be enough existing research on CBT & autism to say whether it helped or not.

Comment author: Viliam_Bur 03 September 2012 01:42:52PM 2 points [-]

Those articles seem mostly about CBT used to reduce anxiety and obsessive-compulsive behavior at autistic children. Yes, that's an area where CBT is successful, and it's a great news that it works for autists too.

But to me it seems like it does not address the "essence" of autism (not that I know exactly what the essence of autism is), only fixes some symptoms. At the end, if everything succeeds, you will still have an autistic child; some of the problems will be fixed, some of them will remain. Yes, it's worth doing, just don't get your hopes too high.