If you could be non-Autistic for one day, would you try it?

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I would. It would be interesting to see how different everything would be.

I wouldn't want to be different, not even for a day

I'd never separate myself from my Autism, I'd be frightened.

Sign me up. I don't know how it could possibly be different, though I'd like to, hence why I'd do it.

I imagine it would be something akin to becoming a human when one has been a Pak protector.

I just... fail to see how it would alter me much. It could, possibly, turn me anti-conformist, rather than simply being independent...

I would need more than one day in order to see some real results. I say maybe a week at least but yeah I would definitely do it.

Sure. I think it would be fascinating. Maybe I would understand NTs a little better that way--you know, the way you can understand people better once you've "walked a mile in their shoes" (idiom: To live someone else's life or be in someone else's situation).

This is assuming that it would be "as though I'd had NT wiring my whole life" instead of "suddenly NT with autistic history". That second one would most likely leave me too unconscious or otherwise out of it to even remember what happened, which would of course be useless.

Probably. Though I'd rather have an accurate and clearly-remembered dream of what it was like to be non-autistic for a day. I'd worry about the real-life consequences of me being not my normal self around people for a day, and then being back to my normal self again, and people wondering what on earth had happened to me.

I've long wondered (even before I knew I was likely autistic) what it would be like to experience the world with a different mind. This would be sort of like that. I'd be interested in experiencing it with other sorts of minds different from mine too - not just NT ones.

Yes yes YES! Definitely! I would LOVE to be normal for a day!
Maybe not permanently, but it's exhausting being exhausted by people
Sometimes (rarely, though) I get so sick of being the odd one out. I used to feel like this all the time, so it's an improvement, but all the same. For one day, yeah, it'd totally be worth it.

I feel "non-autistic" for about 5 mins after I wake from 8-10 hours of sleep. I feel much more social for those 5 mins like an NT might feel like normally, I don't know.

I would do it as long as it wouldn't have any permanent effects. Curiosity.

No way. I'll wait until the film is released and watch that from the safety of my own head instead. I certainly wouldn't want to play a part in it, even for only one day.

If I was going to a concert, yes. If it was just a regular day, no.
At a concert I can't be around my special interests anyway so it's like I've really got nothing to do.
Some sensory filter and a few minutes of banter with my favourite drummer would be great.

I'd try it; it would be interesting.

What I'd really like is to experience the world as a non-human. A day would be way too much. A wild bird for 5 minutes. A clam for 5 minutes. A day as someone who was different from me would be interesting, too. Modern NT wouldn't be my first choice, though. Paleolithic. A Neanderthal woman. An modern NT man might be interesting (I'm a woman).

I would not know how to be different than what I am now.