If you could stop being an Aspie - would you?

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Think of all the mistakes you would've make if you where NT. Ill bet they would've been a lot worse. Just be careful what you wish for.

I wouldn't have been blacklisted from working for one of the biggest grocery chains in Canada if I weren't an aspie.

No, I am too fond of the characteristics, that AS gives me.
Sometimes I could do without some of the confusion and the sensory things, which aren´t too bad in my case - but I wouldn´t miss my logic, my perfectionism and my love for knowledge and my crazy ideas.
Those are traits, I always treasured myself and the more I ask NT friends, how their minds work, the less I´d like to change.
Every condition has its weaknesses and strengths and I like mine.

Well, I think there are actually two issues up for discussion here:
one is whether you would change from Aspie to NT today and go on with the rest of your life as an NT,
the other is whether you would go back and have lived your entire life as an NT. Those are not the same things.
I might change if I could go back and do it over again, but I definitely would not change from here forward.

Would it make me a better person if I wasn't? Who knows, why take the chance. It makes me who I am currently, it would be changing a huge part of who I am and I'd be a completely different person.

Good point.

One thing I KNOW I would never want to do is relive my life as an Aspie (i.e. "do it all over again"). That would be way too painful.

I may want to do just that, - if I were allowed to know, what I know now! I would surely believe more in myself ad stand a much better chance of actually reaching my goals.
....just reliving my life as if first time....No Thanks.

We actually can stop being aspies. Dead people aren't "being aspies" (though they might have been aspies, the "being aspie" process halts as soon as life functions cease) and suicide is a relatively simple and straightforward matter.

I don't want to not be me though, and honestly, I don't want any aspies not being themselves. I would much prefer seeing allistic individuals stop being allistic.

The one big thing I would do differently is go to college right after high school and stick with it. Everything else, I'm pretty happy with myself.
I would not want to live life over again without knowing what I know now, NT or Aspie. To be frank, I don't want to have lived through everything I did ONCE, unless something really great happens to make it worth it.

No. It's part of who I am and I take great pleasure in many aspects of my life.

I would not. I am who I am and I happen to actually like myself. It took me a while to get to this point, and now that I have, I am happy with who I am.

The other thing is that I don't know how NTs actually function with having to deal with all of the emotional baggage that they have to carry. There is all of the grief, the hurts, the envy, the jealousy and on and on. When people who are close to me pass away, I miss them, but I don't carry a lot of grief around because of it. I am too socially inept to notice when I am supposed to be envious or jealous. How do NTs get anything done when they have to carry all that stuff around?

If I weren't an aspie I wouldn't be me! And I like me. So hell no.

No. You know why? Because humans are stupid, emotional, illogical and contradictory. They're dishonest, complacent, inconsiderate and intentionally ignorant. I don't want to be like them. I'd rather be an alien on this planet than a brainless native.

If I could stop being an Aspie would I? To even humor the thought of being anything but an Aspie is ludicrous to me. The only answer fit for this question, from my own perspective, is a firm and resounding no. Before I was diagnosed as having the condition I was cast as an odd ball and only further personified upon learning of my life long condition. I have limited social interest and wouldn't know what to do with the new found skill aside from look into the possibility of selling to someone who needed it more than I. My narrow interest are a gift that keeps on giving, I wouldn't trade them for immortality or all of Spain's gold and silver, which use to be, if it isn't still, a very plentiful and bountiful thing. I may want to change many profound things about myself but being an Aspie is not one of them.

Yes oh yes I would

Well said!