For those who would take a cure if the was one

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Is it because you hate your autism or because the world doesn't adapt to your needs? Or both?

If the world did a better job of adapting to your needs, finding ways to help you better cope, better learn, better live, finding ways to help you thrive. would you still take the cure?

I guess what I am asking is: is autism the problem or if it the world not being a fit for us that's the problem?

i think it's my autism personally.

society has it's traditions and ways for good reasons. and as a man, i don't feel as though i can fit into the world because of my disability. adult men are held to a high standard that i don't meet. if i weren't autistic, i feel as if i could.

That's my point exactly. this world has expectations and rules that we don't fit into/with or cant understand... but what if the world were to adapt to us, like wheelchair ramps for those in wheelchairs and closed captioning for the hearing impaired. what if the world starting making adaptations, changing there expectations to be ore inclusive, accepting asnd understanding of our needs, what if the world became "autistic friendly" for lack ofa better phrase, so that we could fit in, we could be accepted, the world adapted to us or met us half way so to speak?

I'd take the cure for relief of symptoms, not because I hate autism or feel like the world is insensitive to my needs.
Asking the world to adapt to the unique needs of every autistic individual would be unrealistic, if not impossible.

Its society in general I'd imagine. But not much you can do to change that. Anyways, no, I would not take a cure if I had the option. My Autism has become synonymous with my personality, my very self. Erasing it would be such a radical change that I wouldn't be me anymore, therefore it would be almost as bad as suicide.

^ Of course you would be you.
Who else would you be?

Brain injury also affects my mindset and how I think and act.
If that was cured, would I become a gross misrepresentation of myself?

You don't know how life without autism would feel.
I think a lot of the time, people opt to stick with what they know for fear of change.
But it's all hypothetical anyway.

My autism is a bit on the severe side, so society isn't really an issue. I go to school with other autistics and have autism specialist teachers.

So for me it's 100% the debilitating impairments of autism I would gladly take a cure for. Rather than it changing who I am, I believe it would allow the real me to break out of my withdrawn nonverbal autistic confines.

There's been so many interactions that the other person could have done nothing better, they were so incredibly patient and understanding, and I couldn't have tried any harder. Yet they're unsuccessful. I struggle with communication, many times it's solely on my end. It's not the other person's fault, it's not society's, it's not mine. It's because I have a communication disorder, ASD. But there's no cure so it is what it is. I don't see what the world could do about this, but a cure would definitely improve my communication.

I personally won´t because I love who I am. Sure I have autism and find a lot of things more difficult to do and understand than most people or teenagers. But I love who I am. My differentness. The good things about me. Like my honesty towards stuff and me being more innocent than a normal 17 year old. But I wouldn´t want to be cured from my autism. Because I like who I am and don´t wanna be a complete different person with a different personality than I already am.

It is true, the world could never adapt enough for me. Maybe I would have taken the cure as a child, but I'm too old now. I'm okay.

I am my autism and it is me. It's boundaries are endless. It's not a disease, but a condition or lifestyle. I could change some of it, I could work on certain things, other things are stuck like glue.

So if you ripped the sticky tape of Autism away, you might pull off parts of me with it, maybe the whole top layer. You can never tell with tape...

See I dont know what it would be like or what I would be like. If only we could test the cure to see what it would be like. If being neural typical would make me happier then I would take the cure.

The world should never have to adapt to a vast minority.
As such, the minority is left the options: make the best of it OR attempt to become the norm.


My opinion is that a full 'cure' isn't likely after development of the brain. My hope is research into 'cures' can lead to things like the mental effect of taking xanax, permanently, without the many side-effects.