If you can't turn your boy into a girl, make him a robot.

> It's a biological condition and adding technology to the treatment will most likely, IMO, only serve to cover the source of the condition further. It's neurological, a collection of disorders lumped into a common name with varying degrees of severity. A lot of the existing treatments help, most of it being more similar to training and conditioning than clinical treatment. My wife works with them as a job (adults, not 100% autism) and has a family member with autism. The company she works at teaches them life skills and coaches them through social interactions and takes them out into society in an attempt to make them as self sufficient as possible. They make good progress even though they'll never be neurotypical. A lot of people treat autism with dietary restrictions as well, ketogenic diets being probably the most common that I've heard of. There are medications trying to treat it chemically, but they're more or less standard psychotic medications. I think there could be room for technological tools, as the author of this suggested with the Google Glass experiment, to help them to understand things about interaction that they normally cannot. It's not modifying the person directly, is there really a difference between direction from a person or a machine? Human interaction is stressful enough as it is for autistic folks. As for actually modification of the body, I think we should avoid that for a while. I'm not convinced anybody has any effective methods at this point anyway. > I apologize if I broke any rules about the title matching the article. I'm new around here and still learning. Definitely try to keep the headline in tact. Sometimes they get stupid long or have a lot of junk in them, like YouTube appending " - YouTube" to the end of the links, and you need to trim a bit.