If you were an NT

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In what ways do you think your present life would be worse today if you had been born an NT instead of an Aspie?

I wouldn't be "me." I'd be a totally different person whom I might not like.

Personally I can not think of it as worse in any way. I don't associate my autism with my personality. If anything it buries my personality. It is only online that I can display who I really am inside.

Well, I would probably be more involved with social drama, which would make my life harder and more stressful.

I'll be someone different.

Instead of this clueless me, I'd probably be some flirt with a lot of boyfriends.
I'd be an extrovert than an ambivert that leans on introvert tendencies.
And most of all, I'd be a big sister to my own sister if not a rival.

Better social life, but not anymore 'sucessful' than me for sociocultural reasons.

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Well I'd be a completely different but person but if I were NT I probably would of gotten into a lot more trouble considering where I grew up. Lot of heroin, lot of crime, lot of just wasted lives. I'd probably still be happier.

As I'm hard working, I imagine, I'd have been a good student, and I'd have a nice job now. But I imagine that I'd have a very different job and I'd like different things. I'd probably not be interested in physics, biology, technology like I am...
I'd like to be NT, but also have the advantages of both sides and zero problems How wonderful that would be ! Wonderwomaaaaan !

If I were NT, I think I'd be a successful music teacher in a public school setting. My life would have just as much meaning as it does now, I think. I believe only the setting in which I would find success would be different.

I would probably not be bothered so much by the social requirements of working in a school and would be better able to navigate the politics and negotiate things. I'd probably be able and willing to hob-nob in such a way that would help me worm my way into the music education community so I'd look really good to other people. I'd probably be well-known.

But, I'd teach less students privately. My family life would be different than it is now. My kids probably would have gone to school instead of being homeschooled. I would have *much* less freedom and control over my schedule. I also probably would not have studied composition. I would not be playing piano and accompanying so much.

I think I would make more money as an NT, but other than that I don't think there would be a big change in "success", except on a social level. I feel successful now, even though I don't make a whole lot of money, because I live by conviction. Being NT would enable me to live by different convictions (not contradictory ones) that I can't fulfill as well since I'm not NT. In other words, I see being a public music school teacher as a VERY important job worthy of praise, but it's not for me nor is it something I could realistically pull off. I feel that I have avoided much stress by staying away from working in a school.

if I wasn't addled/cognitively crippled, I'd probably be an alpha ahole. my impairments forced me to learn the golden rule.

I'd be happier and getting lots of dates, but I wouldn't have any respect for the law; I'd drink underage and probably do illegal drugs. But I wouldn't care because of how happy I would be. I wouldn't have my skills in my special interest areas, though; still, I'd give them up for being able to live like an NT.

[quote="Grammar Geek"] but I wouldn't have any respect for the law; I'd drink underage and probably do illegal drugs.[ /quote]

Unfortunately I did those things while being an Aspie, so being an NT isn't a requirement for drinking underage and taking drugs. In some ways, I wonder if being an Aspie caused those things, as I might have used them to escape the pain of being different and not fitting in.

I think if i was an NT i would be a lot like my sister.. Would only care about how i look and what others think of me, wouldn't like sonic, would try anything to make people like me...

I think i would be a lot different. Id be in school, have a job and probably wouldve stopped drawing a long time ago...