X-Men 3 Parable: Would you become "normal"?

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As a big fan of sci-fi and comics, I went to see the X-Men 3 movie the other day. I was struck by how the delimma posed in the movie relates to my situation with aspergers. For those of you who haven't seen the movie yet, the plot revolves around a "cure" for mutation. Although in the world of X-men comics and movies, mutants are gifted with superpowers, their powers alienate them from mainstream society. So, in the movie some mutants wanted to forsake their powers and become "normal" while others took pride in their mutant abilities.

Sometimes as an "aspie", I think about how I would give anything to be "normal" (NT) and fit in with others. Still, I realize that in doing so I would forsake my obsessions and everything that makes me me. But the opportunity to fit in with others and not feel like such an outcaste!

So if you could change and become NT, would you?

No!

But then i belong to quite a few minority groups allready so i don't have much of an urge to fit in with main stream society.
I'm a lesbian, a pagan and the hippy child of hippy parents. i've been a road protestor and a traveller so honestly, i'm used to people looking at me funny( when i notice them looking at all)
That said sometimes i do think it would be nice to be able to be emotionally close to my family and the few friends i have. And dispite all the different groups i belong too i have allways been apart while in them. I have allways been weird....its just that with some social groups (like hippies or travellers)being 'weird' isn't all that unsual!
I think among such groups the instance of people with emotional, mental or drug related problems is quite high.
Still even amongst open minded people i tend to fade into the background and absent myself from large gatherings of people. I tend to wander off by myself and have problems with conversations etc. Only thing is with hippies your not being rude, only off your head or meditating and they give you alot more slack.

No. I am satsified with my personality. The very thought of changing my very mind gives me the screaming horrors.

Yes. The only times I've ever been truly happy are when I'm with other people, and my Asperger's is getting in the way with that.

Normal people suffer a lot of issues we aspies don't have to deal with, so no I wouldn't take a cure, but it would be nice to get away with the best of both worlds, if you could select which parts of "normal" you want to take.

I'd like to be fully bilingual. And I'm not talking about my studies in French

But actually, I don't want to cure me. I want to sort out the rest of the blind, stupid and illogical world

Would that make me Magneto??



I'd want to do it peacefully though...just make them understand we're not freaks and we're not outcasts - we're just people who think a little differently and that's fine

Apple

long version: No.. i like people... but not enough to reprogram my brain... I don't mind being seen as strange, i like the way my brain works.... but i am not 100% against a cure. i think they should be available for people who want them, but also the option of only getting rid of undesirable traits…. But I am against many of the treatments currently available.………………………………................................…………………



Short version: No cure for me but optional for others

If I could do something cool like fly then no way.

AS- i'd be interested in what I'd be like without it, but probably not.

No way!

I'm glad I'm able to tell that there's more important things than getting to the top of an imaginary social pecking order. Hobbies are great!

Depends which areas it would effect. I'd take one for sensory defensiveness.

hmmm,

i am stil not confirmed autistic although it is quite likley, they thought i was when i was younger.

if i am i dont think i would change, but some upgrades to my NT mode woud be helpful, and for Nt mode to be less exhusting.

jammie

I'd NEVER take the cure. I'm happy to be an Aspie and I'd probably be right there beside Storm telling Rouge that there's 'nothing to cure'. And a part of me would be with Magneto.

I've also been thinking of the X-men III with that Aspie twist to it. One day somone should write a take-off of that only with Aspies and give us powers and stuff...that would be funny. I might do that sometime, it'll give me something to do. lol ^^U

Where I am now, I don't want to change into an NT. I'd rather just be born an NT than become an NT when I have already made some progress in my life. On the opposite side, I'd rather just have AS from birth than become an Aspie in the middle of a progressing NT life.

I don't want to be cured. I already said why in the first paragraph.

No.

uhm. morphia: i dont wanna "relate emotionally to my family and friends" gosh. aspies can already do that. i dont see ur point at all. we can relate to other aspies. NTs cant relate to other aspies.

well there were 3 kinda groups in x-men3, andi am definitely in the "destroy the cure" group. it kinda sucked that the audience were supposed to be in the "pro choise" group. sorta the ones the audience are naturally rooting for. but hey it was an awesome aspie movie!