Would you take "The pill?"

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No. I would not take such a pill. I like who I am with Asperger's. I do not want to be NT. I view Asperger's as a difference and not a disorder, so I need not be cured of it. I accept Asperger's with all of its challenges, because for me it has many gifts.

This is the easiest question in the world for me to answer. My answer is yes, I bloody would take it. Even if it just meant I will have more average social skills, it sure will change my life.

Hell no. I figure the effects would be like a hangover, like coming out of a high, it would feel like hell, like you lost a sense of depth you used to have, and now you can only see forms, not colors anymore. I'm afraid to take such a pill as I do not believe it would be worth the cost.

Only if it lasted around 12 hours. Kinda like some ADHD meds. I wouldn't want it to last forever, just when I really need it.

It would be better to make a pill that removes painful sides of Asperger, allows a more fluid way of interacting with NT's while still being Aspie, etc.

So just a pill that would solves the problems, but keep the essentiel properties of Asperger. That would be great.

There is a reason not to take it. I do not want to be like "normal" people ! When you are Aspie, you realize how pointless are many things NT do.

Well then you consider that a negative side effect, so it wouldn't happen

I don't think differently about why NTs do what they do. I just get annoyed when people become critical of eachother and conformism and competing comes first before anything, but other than that, I sort of do the things NTs do too. So that is why I would take the pill, so I can become better at conforming. I hate being different.

Only if it could be demonstrated that it didn't inhibit the user's capacity to still think about things in the same way that they could before.

That is to say, it's not going to make a person forget how illogical it is to do certain things.

You gain the ability to easily tolerate heavy involvement in bizarre and ridiculous social rituals, and understand their inner workings perfectly, without your mind being changed in a way that forcefully makes you want to do things that you did not want to do before, and you still retain your previous ability to see how utterly stupid they are. It changes none of your beliefs or values, and only provides new functional abilities and tolerances.

Find me a magical pill like that, which doesn't cause addiction or cost a fortune, then sure, I'll take a few.

No I would not take it.

Not because of "I think being NT is over-rated," or perhaps "Being autistic is the way to go," I just genuinely like myself the way I am. I don't have any problems with the way my mind works (Probably because I've grown accustomed to thinking this way), and I think I'd be okay without changing myself.

But of course, that's my opinion.

Well by that the author mean that you would become a NT without NT problems. But I don't want to. I sure do not want to have problems, but that's it.