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Quite Right

If the attention deficit and obsessiveness associated with Asperger's illness are traits that are mostly learned over many years (like many personality traits are learned), then a chemical change could not rapidly change these characteristics. Chemicals do not encode logical thinking, approaches to problems, and behavior styles. Drugs therefore can not quickly remake deeply learned personality traits.

But chemical changes can in fact dramatically and rapidly decrease obsessiveness and improve attentional capacity. Therefore attention deficits and obsessiveness are not deeply learned personality traits.

They therefore must be, to some extent, chemically created characteristics.

by a reader on Tue, 06/20/2006 - 04:29

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