Is it wrong to not want to be cured?

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I don't wish to be cured, because I'm not damaged by autism. I have autistic traits, not symptoms. I suffer from people, not autism. I'd rather celebrate my autism, not sit in the corner waiting for a cure. A cure would imply that I'm broken and I need to be fixed. I'm not broken, I'm autistic and I don't need to be fixed, because I'm not damaged.

Asperger's syndrome is the condition of being awesome, and having a brain that thinks things that actually make sense. If there was a cure, I would be completely against it.

Some gay people do want a cure. This is why they voluntarily enter gay conversion therapy.

It's a sad world that tells you that you are so wrong and bad that you have to change a fundamental part of who you are.

It's no more wrong or right for you not to want to be cured than it is for someone else to want to be. Everyone has their own opinions on it, and everyone has to make that decision for themselves, based on whats best for them. Although it's a moot point right now, one day it may not be.

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I'm giving it another shot. We will see.
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Many folks here have expressed distaste for being 'cured'. Your not alone.

It aint gonna happen in our lifetime anyway so why waste time even pondering it?

Im of the woodstock generation, and so I am comfortable with the idea of mind altering drugs.

So in my perfect world there would an LSD type pill you could take to turn aspies into temporary NT's for eight hours, and another to do the opposite.

So if you're an aspie- you 'drop' a pill and- and you ace a job interview by having steady eye contact and flawless reading of social signals of the interviwer. Then it wears off. And you are your usual self again.

LIkewise if your NT you drop a pill - think about the college course you're takng while you start to go under. And then suddenly you develop a aspie obsession with that subject- and then lock yourself in your room studying the subject. Next day- you get an A on your term paper, or exam, even though youve returned to being the NT gum chewing valley girl or surfer dude you were before.

Is this a disease or a different wiring of the brain?
Should we allow the NT to determine this just because they outnumber us?
It's similar to the debates going on about sexual orientation and sexual identity.
For me, I wouldn't change. But my symptoms are not as severe.
Maybe I'm too pessimistic but I don’t believe there will ever be a cure.
I think we will get more acceptance and learn how to function in a way that is cohesive to all "wirings".

NT's who insist on neurological conformity are the ones with the problem. Voluntary segregation might not be a bad idea, if it were established that enough people had a visceral negative reaction to a group and refused to accommodate them.

I hope the OP reported the abusive message first of all.

Next personally I would love a cure.

If you don't want a cure or do it makes no difference as I am convinced therr never will be a cure.

Well first of all there isn't a cure to begin with, so no chance of being given such a cure in the first place. As for treatment that can be helpful for some things. As for changing things about yourself in therapy it should be based on changes you want to make but I doubt trying to change that you have autism would really help anything.

I don't see not wanting your entire neurology re-wired as being just as bad as pro-ana....with anorexia its a disorder that can kill, so its cruel to have sites and such supporting and encouraging the whole not eating and starving ones self thing. Autism can cause some difficulties and all that but its the way our brains/neurology is wired....you aren't in danger of dying from autism so by wanting to remain autistic, thats not really encouraging anything harmful.

The person who said all that might not be a troll though, maybe they have been shamed a lot for having autism and feel like its their duty to be 'cured' if possible because the idea has been beaten into their head somehow.....or maybe they are a troll, or maybe they just think everyone should strive to be normal or else they are doing a dis-service to society. Either way I'd say they are wrong about what they said to you.

I don't believe in a cure; I believe in an alleviation of negative symptoms (e.g., self-harm).