I've Been On Antidepressants For Years, And

When You Take A Drug To Treat High Blood Pressure Or Diabetes, You Have An Objective Test To Measure Blood Pressure And The Amount Of Sugar In The Blood. It Is Straight-forward. With Autism, You Are Looking For Changes In Behavior.

Some Autistic People Have Savant Skills. All Autistic People Do Not Have Savant Skills. Autism Is A Very Variable Disorder Varying All The Way From Einstein, Emollient Scientist, Just A Little Bit Of The Trait, Many Scientist And Engineers, Down To Somebody That's Going To Remain Nonverbal.

Engineering Is Easy - It's The People Problems That Are Hard.

I'm Seeing Too Many Kind Of Socially Awkward Kids That Get Through Schools And Then They Can't Hold A Job Because They Haven't Learned The Discipline Of Get Up In The Morning.

I'm A Believer In Biochemistry. But I Tell People To Try Only One Thing At A Time To See If It Works. And If You Do Give A Powerful Drug To A Kid, It Better Have A Big Wow Factor.