An Eganesque Challenge

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If some medical multinational would offer you a bazillon-dollar working anti-asperger treatment, would you take it? What defines you: the human "Normie" or the sidewise "Aspie"?

I'd take it, sell it on eBay for two bazillion dollars, buy the company and eliminate the treatment.

I'd then work on a series of treatments that targeted specific aspects of Aspergers and allow Asperger individuals to select what aspects they wanted to eliminate as a problem and what they wanted to keep as a benefit.

I think changing anything about AS is a bit stupid because its those things that make you who you are

If someone offered me a cure for AS I'd take it in a heartbeat.

Ed Almos

I don't think you can just pick out the good or bad from each other as they have the same cause, just applied to a different scope.

No, actually. I'd rather take something that removes the negative effects of it, I like being above average :/

No.

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Would I let someone drill three holes in my head and suck out my blood. Yes. The compression was close to killing me and the treatment made sense.

Would I saw off my foot to make my legs different lengths. No. Not today, at least.

Would I saw off my foot to detach myself from a sinking boat. Yes. I hope so.

Would I scramble my brain to make it the same as John Smith's? No. No. No. No. No.

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What does "An Eganesque Challenge" mean? A quick trundle through the usual sources gave no clear meaning. I take it it's some sort of neologism that hasn't made it. I only popped in to see what it might mean.

It's "Eganesque" because it's the osrt of intellectual challenge you'd be expecting from someone so witty, so clear and so brutal in his unique insight as Australian Hard/Near-metahpysical SF Writer Greg Egan

I'd be too scared to take it.

I'd like to know some things. I'd like to know how to make proper eye contact without thinking about it. (Or at all, really.)

I'd like to know how to enjoy small talk and have an instinct about the right things to say to make people happy and comfortable.

I'd like to be less sensitive to multiple noises going on at once, or certain frequencies of sound.

I'd like find it easier to accept spur-of-the-moment schedule changes, outings, and other plans.

I'd like to be less self-conscious and not to experience depersonalization.

But I don't want to stop caring about the sorts of issues that are dear to my heart, to be less intelligent, to stop wondering, to be satisfied with distractions and trifles.

I'm sure that sounds haughty... but I don't mean it that way. I just notice and wonder about things that most people don't even talk about, and the idea of ceasing to do this would frighten me to my core. It would feel like choosing to live in the matrix.