If there was a pill TO CURE Asperger's, would you take it?

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The cartoon made me wonder if there WERE a 'cure' for AS, could we sometimes NOT take our pills and have our own personalities back for a little while. ... like just 'getting high' on our real selves sometimes???

or would we have to be 'chemically straight' all the time??

Merle

Depends on what it would cure... if the way I think has to do with it-I'd wanna keep that... but if it just kept me more focused, allowed me to concentrate on what needs to be done vs. my interests, helped with noises being too loud at times, helped anxiety, and social problems, then I suppose it wouldn't be so bad... I suppose that could give me an outlet at times to get the thoughts that swirl out, and that would be good

I kind of flip flop on this one at times.

The point is that taking the pills takes the color out of his world and the life out of his best friend Hobbes. I grew up in an era where they might be able to give you pills that would straighten out your behavior, even though what they really did was marginally improve the behavior of your parents and your teachers. They also made you stop loving your dog. The formula is simply that if it poisons you just enough, makes you just sick enough, then you are fit for society. If you show too many signs of life they see that as deviation and drive you crazy over it.

Are you sure it isn't just saying that at the moment he is so focused on the homework that he isn't even noticing Hobbes or what he is saying, therefore, Hobbes just went back to normal for the time being. Obviously it didn't last forever... unless that was the last comic, lol.

I think that I can safely say that I know what point I was trying to make by posting that image somewhat better than you do. Unless you're looking into my brain, in which case I'd better run upstairs and grab my tinfoil.

...And say goodbye to my perfect pitch, video memory, and huge reserve of general useless knowledge? No thanks.

doh! Didn't initially realize you had responded, lol. I realize what you are saying, I was just more focused on the image itself and what it *could* mean, lol. Sorry!

I voted yes but technically, I find it difficult to believe pills cure anything and in fact seem to add on to problems if taken for too long. If there was a cure, I'd love to see it implemented but with all the money made through research, who would want to find a cure??

My response was mainly aimed at Remnant - seeing as you said "Are you sure it isn't just..." which suggests that you were simply offering your view on the image, while Remnant said "The point is..." and responded with a quote of my post, suggesting that I didn't actually know what I'd been trying to say with the image.

You'll get over it.

I'd keep taking the pills to make me an NT just like there are pills out there that help people for their conditions they have. I take pills for my depression so I do the same for my AS but I won't be cured from it, just treated.

I'd rather just somehow get physiotherapy for my weak "social muscles" and keep the cool traits I have.

Of course... my musical and artistic genius is going to waste since I'm either addicted to computer games or wallowing in deep depression doing nothing at all.

No, I wouldn't want a cure. Not now.

I'm 45. I didn't even know I HAD AS until a couple of months ago. I've spent my life developing coping strategies to deal with my dyscalculia, my social ineptness, my clumsiness... This is me, now. This is the person I've become within the constraints of AS. This is the person my husband met and fell in love with. This is the person my two teenaged children know as Mum. If I was to suddenly take a pill and become "normal", I don't know whether I'd even like that person...

I'll keep the AS, thanks. I don't know if I'd even like my "normal" incarnation.

I answered no, but if it said you can take a temporary pill that can make you NT for a while, I would have answered yes.
Maybe you fancy this girl in a club or something and she comes over to chat you up, she asks you a question and the full repitour of your social skills is a tentative, "yeah", then she walks away in boredoom.
Well, Imagine if you could pop that pill and become an NT talking machine, spouting all the irrelevant nonsense that has a meaning hidden from us.

Then I would say you are not interested in that woman for any other purporses than getting laid and for that night only, because the minute you forget to take your little cure pills she would be out the door!

you can accomplish the same thing by going to a profesional sex worker and flashing a few bucks, ergo. . .no NT drivel necessary and you still won't have to see her later!

Let's not suggest you are trying to establish a meaningful relationship with your little 'NT' pills. . .

i know a lot of us were raised on calvin n hobbes comics.. i love them! but personally, i think calvin learns best through play and experience, and he's just not himself otherwise. it may be actually hindering his ability to reach his maximum potential. kinda creepy how it all goes gray and hobbes basically dies.