I do NOT want to be cured for Autism Spectrum Disorder!

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I don't mind if people goes for the cure or not. I understand both "sides". Either the optimistic ones or the whiners. Either curebies or anti-cure ones.
It's the system's fault that prioritizing so many mismatched 'ideal traits'. (Traits of what? Traits of charm?)
It could be the culture's fault for seeing autism as unnatural, suspicious. or look down upon.
It could be lack of other kind of empathy from the majority.
If not empathy, it's the lack of understanding or ignorance.
It's the majority's fault to force people to change into something they're not.
However, it could also be the individual's envy, hate, or lack of fulfillment thinking drastic change will change all their life's faults.



Somehow, somewhat, it's all about adding and removing certain social constraints. And declare a kind of 'Atypical' thinking or something as a 'Trend', becoming the 'Modern Way', then it grows into something to be 'Respected', and to the point it becomes the 'Standard Norm', no longer the 'Atypical'. Then such cycle could repeat itself to another and to itself.

In the end, time always win. Everything else can change, for better or for worse.

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General research on ASD and its causes I'm ok with, but wanting to find a cure for it and a way to detect it in the womb (remember reading something about it, not sure where) I'm not. The former because there are a lot of autistics that still are able to function in the real world without much of a problem, and the latter because I doubt the test would be able to tell if the child would be a high-functioning or low-functioning autistic.

Finding out effective ways to simply treat it like many other mental disorders, like bipolar disorder or schizophrenia, could potentially be a good thing though especially for low-functioning autistics and their parents. Who, let's be honest, are probably the majority of those who'd want them to find a cure for it and funding such research. Also the ones trying to get everyone to believe that the only kind of autism is the low-functioning kind.

If I had a quid for each time people on WP say "Autism makes me who I am" I would be rich.

But seriously, you say that you hate curebies, and I say I hate Autism lovers.
What's so fantastic about being unable to control emotions and having to live on antidepressants for the rest of your life?

What's so fantastic about being more prone to depression than the average person?

Autism is only fantastic if you're above average in IQ, and you are studious and focused and might invent a time machine some day. But when you're like me; average-below average IQ, highly anxious, inattentive, slow at learning, have panic attacks at work, wanting to socialise and be like your peers but have difficulties with this, does not make Autism so fantastic.

Yeah maybe we have special interests, big woop, NTs can have those too.

I wouldn´t want to be cured. I like who I am, - but I would like to relive a great deal of my life KNOWING.
I sort of did at some level, but I never suggested it, so no understanding came of it.
Knowing might have eased things a bit.

Would you stop saying "who I am" so much?

I hate AS. I f*****g hate it. I am not a genius who is able, and happy, to focus on a special interest. I am inattentive, anxious, unconfident and stupid. I got in trouble at work for being depressed. I can't even deal with work. I want to win the lottery and leave work.

AS ruined my childhood, my school life, my relationships with friends. All because I had the MMR vaccine. It done something to my brain. I feel like AS is NOT who I am. I feel there's an NT in me but the evil AS won't let it come out.

I f*****g hate it.

There is nothing any more "fantastic" to having an autism spectrum disorder than there is to having achromatopsia, amusia, or anosmia. These are conditions that people live with, have grown accustomed to, and for which there are no known cures.