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"Cure" is the wrong word. Autism is a neurological/developmental disorder not a disease. It is better to think of it as enhancing abilities which are deficits for people with autism, such as a proper usage of theory of mind, perspective taking, emotional regulation, stress management, etc, etc. 

Anyway, I'm part of an experimental therapy program that uses Cognitive Enhancement Therapy to help build the skill-sets and induce certain neurological activity among people with ASD's. We (the people with ASD's) work on simple games that help with attention, memory, and problem-solving skills. Said programs will work on any person, including neurotypicals. They originally used it on people with actual mental illness, people with schizophrenia, to help rebuild deteriorating brain tissue (the cause of schizophrenia.) For people with Autism, what it does it build connections that were otherwise not built. In addition to the simple computer games, we had group sessions in which we learned about concepts like perspective taking, recognizing emotions, regulating emotions, stress-management, self-defeating thinking, etc, etc. All of this does translate into higher diagnostic scores and I personally found my social skills and my ability to recognize and regulate my emotions to have improved drastically.