If I were neurotypical.....

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Another big one I forgot.

If I were neurotypical, I would have friends that would actually defend me when I'm being given a hard time instead of pointing out what I did to deserve it.

If I were NT I would get chatting to at least 1 person when I go away on holiday. Come on, all NTs do this, even the really shy ones. They at least get chatting to somebody when they go away on holiday. My uncle is very shy and very unconfident, and suffers depression, but when he went away to the USA last year he got chatting to a waitress at the bar. I suppose all NTs have that in them. Although I don't like to separate myself from NTs, I still believe that there is a line between Autism and NTism when it comes to socialising, no matter how good I may be. I think I have the social mind of an 8 year old.

If I were NT...
-I wouldn't be as smart
-I'd have a friend
-I would've been so distracted by the fruits of the social pie that I wouldn't have been able to philosophize, or notice how conforming everything about the social pie was.
-I would've been more easily amused.
-And I wouldn't have learned all that I have on my own.

I'd take Asperger's over the NT, honestly. Because friends are not with you all the time... your mind is with you all the time. Nurture the Aspie mind, get comfortable with it, and you won't need the social pie - you can have the smart soda.

Asperger's is good. Newly structured minds lead to new perspectives and new perspectives lead to creative thoughts, which can lead to good things. I'd rather be a comfortable, creative social outcast than a buzzing, boringly normal social bee.

....I probably would not be able to play music as well as I can

....I would probably not be able to draw as well as I can

....I would probably be much more judgemental than I am, because I would not have spent my life trying desperately to understand other people, one person at a time

On the other hand:

....I wouldn't have so much trouble with words

....My performance in academics would more closely match my "potential"

....I would never have developed severe social anxiety (maybe just "mild" social anxiety--who knows?)

....It wouldn't take me two hours to plan a trip to buy groceries

....I wouldn't spend half my life in a state of sensory overload (the degree of intensity varies)

....I would have a job right now

If I were an NT, I would have been more popular in school and would have wound up getting a sexually transmitted disease.

If I were neurotypical, I would lack an ASD.

If I were neurotypical, I wouldn't have spent this evening writing 4.2 single-spaced pages with bulleted lists of my AS and ADHD symptoms described in possibly excessive/hypergraphic detail for my diagnostic evaluation tomorrow.

I also would have been able to write such a list (even though I wouldn't need to!) weeks ago rather than waiting until the last minute.

If I were NT then my whole family would be a family full of NTs then, and that means I wouldn't have heard of Autism, and even if I did (eg heard it from friends, other people's friends, ect) I wouldn't of had an understanding of it, being that I wouldn't have to cope with any close relative with it or worse yet, myself.

I am NT and I am extremely intelligent and very creative. My life still has major hurdles and difficulties. I have made mistakes in communication and alienated people. I have screwed up in jobs. I have been attracted to people who haven't been attracted to me.

If I were an NT... I don't know! XD Maybe I never need to ask 'how was like to be an NT' at all.

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I probably would be a lot less interesting.