If you could be an NT, would you do it?

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"No"
I was raised to be NT and as a child, very much wanted to be "just like everyone else". But I have realized that a lot of NT coping mechanisms are very, very painful for them. There are people who get very depressed from Media, or any conflict they see in the community. They can be very influenced by what seems to me as very stupid events and other people.
NTs can be very superstitious, fearful, and bound by superficial perspectives.

BTW, I consider "NT" to be anyone without "atypical" neurology, meaning anyone who isn't bipolar, genius, ASD, ADD et al and those personality/depression issues.

Sign me up right now, and cancel the midnight expiration. If I became somebody else, I'd just be wondering how I used to be such an idiot.

My girlfriend is gonna get upset because I spend so much time at the bar with my friends watching football instead of taking her shopping...

Maybe this isnt such a good idea.

Only if I could go back and repeat my whole childhood. Except I don't think I would want to go through some of that again, even as an NT.

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what if some fairy could make it so, that you would live like an NT for a while, that youd get a brain for a day, as if you had been NT all your life, with all the experiances and such?

its possible, but not all are like that. i guess youd still be able to keep your personality...

also btw i dont think personality is neurological. thats psychological.



at any rate, being somewhere in teh middle of all neurological conditions, id like to know the difference, id like to know where i really stand. and i so want to experence a full day without having to fight the restlessness of my mind, the constand ineer conversation and i dont know freaking what. sometimes i actually feel rest, then i actually hear sounds around me as treuly being those sounds coming from their respective source, instead of something playing in my head, muffled by the sounds of my thoughts and such. only last max a few seconds though, but everytime that happens i know its the best few seconds since the last time that occurd.
a whole f**king day.....f**k id do anything for that....
id give my arm up for my mind to calm the f**k down, i swear.

and im very surprised people here arent so determined not to be neurologically atypical. i would have expected aspergers to be so actually.....cause what ever the hell i am i f-ing hate it. i often have these periods of months in which i frequently throughout the day fantasize about blowing my mind out just cause i hate them.
it is slowly getting better and that all the better...id rather die then spending the rest of my life like this...

Then it could be interesting, but that'd require the memories of being NT for a lifetime and such, so it'd be more than a day's experience even if it was compressed into a day.

I think personality is a combination of a lot of things, simplistically put; nature and nurture.
I think our perspectives have a lot to do with how we were raised, plus how we interpreted that.

Like I mentioned, when I was a kid, I wanted to be like everyone else. They seemed so carefree and never complained about the anxieties I had. They knew what to do and how to act and how to get along. But I realized there was a lot of stifled emotion there. They were fearful and learned to ignore it, they could have low self esteem and become bullies. They had been abused and became "cool". They were raised in an intolerant religion and learned not to question.

They tackled the same issues I tackled, just in the opposite way and it seems to either haunt them or they are just plain dumb and simple.

I don't hate my personality, I have a lot of freedom in it. No, I don't have hardly any friends and my son may be completely unfit for school. But when I have a conversation with someone, it's meaningful to me. When I go out for fun, I learn stuff. I don't fill my head with nonsense or go to a church where they tell me what to believe.

No, I will be an aspie the rest of my life.