If your aspies was curable, would u cure it?

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People either love me or they hate me. Sometimes I wish I was more typical. Then people wouldn't feel so strongly about me. I could just dissappear into the crowd.

Absolutely not! Our minds are better than NT minds at pretty much everything except understanding NT minds and their products. We autistics are not the ones that are locked into ourselves.
I understand that maybe you feel differently - maybe you're in high school? Know then that a "disability" is not a property of a person but a property of the relationship between a person and his/her environment. For instance, a fish and a mountain goat would be disabled in each other's environments, while they're particularly well equipped for dealing with their own environments. You have to figure out where you belong. We are disabled only in situations that have strong social components (and then only if most of the other people involved are NT's, I think we'd do quite fine if there were a lot of people around us but most/all of them were Aspies). High schools are jungles of socialness, precisely the type of environment that we're genuinely disabled in and should therefore avoid. Of course you shouldn't quit school; you should look forward to an adult life in which it'll never get as bad again as it is now, because you will be able to decide for yourself to a large degree what situations you're going to be in. You'll probably enjoy college a lot, because it's much less forcefully social than high school, and your Aspie mind gives you a great advantage (unless you'd make the silly choice of studying a subject that requires a lot of social understanding).
(This is assuming you're indeed in high school - maybe you're 58 years old, in which case I'm sorry for not telling you anything you didn't already know.)

A qualified yes.

I would fix the not understanding others body language and giving the wrong signals yourself, but I would keep the uniqueness and intelligence and objectivity that we naturally possess. So there are good things and bad things about being aspie, and I'd cure just the bad things, keeping all the good things, and become UBERMAN.

Nah.

nope!

Why?

Not only do I find that a strange question for a poll, but I find the large number of no replies even more strange. I mean, I came to this website seeking help with my asperger's autism, and help finding therapists to alleviate the symtpoms since I know its not curable.

Am I the only one?

Did you all come here just for camraderie or just to seek others like yourself so you could shun the rest of the NT world? I can scarcely believe that. I'm sure some of you had to have had hope for help here. heh.

I think a lot of people here want to alleviate some of the symptoms (hypersensitivity etc) and to be able to adapt to social situations more but the idea of 'curing' Aspergers to most people here would be changing their personalities, losing interest in things they've been obsessed with for years. So I think that's why so few people have voted Yes.

Yep, Sopho hit it head on.

Sometimes yes sometimes no. overall no, but (like what was said before) I'd like to get rid of or help certain things (example: panic attacks)

No, it would completely change who I am and my personality, and frankly, it doesn’t cause me many problems any more, if there was a cure 5-10 years ago, I would’ve taken it though.

I would like to stop getting nervous before important things in my life, such as interviews, and find out what I can really do. I also would like to function completely without medication. I would like to get rid of all of the negative things associated with AS, but keep the positive ones. I don't have a bad life. In fact, I have accomplished quite a lot, educationally speaking. I would like my accomplishments in the everyday areas of life to fall into line with my educational ones.

Yes and no. Would I do something to make a person better? Oh, absolutely! I am, however, one of those who recognizes positive qualities in the Aspie, and I would be hesitant to sacrifice them. If I could get the best of both worlds, then I would be the first under the knife. Hey, baby, make me the test subject! I'm in, y'all~!

I once had a dream that Dr. Roger Bannister was about to operate on me to rewire the loose circuits in my brain. My interest in him has reached a whole new, weird level. (Actually, he has long since retired from medicine.)

I'd want everything. I'd want to lose the bad things about being AS but keep the good things.

Hell no! I like having AS!