The Pro-Cure Thread

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im pro cure. a.s makes my life so miserable and painful.

i apreciate many other people can live with their a.s- but that frankly sounds like a different condition.

i cant work, cant have realtionships, cant manage money, cant pay bills, cant sleep for being woken up by each tiny sound or vibration (adverage of 5 hours, broken sleep a night), get distracted by things, cant think striaght anyway- what life do i have with this??
i spent my entire time at school getitng bullied by teachers and pupils for being weird, adult life is not much better.

what benifits does it confer for me? none- i just cry and get confused all the time.

briliant if you can work, get married, have children.
i cant, and i find the concept of being told to 'accept' myself or my life or condition laughable. this doesnt mean i tihnk EVERYONE should be 'cured'- id just really like to, as i have no moeny for food, as i hvae spent it all again, as well as loosing some; i am just a mess.

each person has a different experiance of a.s- and there are clearly people who can live with it, and those- like me- who cant.

@ kingdomofrats. I do expect my CLOSE friends to have an understanding, but I take it upon myself to educate them. As for people involved in ASD work they must have an understanding, much like HI and VI.

good on you for taking time to understand other disorders.

I have no problem with the ASD community pushing for greater awareness, in fact I fully support this. My argument is with the very vocal minority who expect the non asd community to learn all about us, make allowances for all our behaviors and go around belittling and insulting the very people they want support from.

I would love a "cure" if it made my boyfriend less sad and frustrated with himself, but I would also be sad myself if he lost the part of him that I fell so in love with.

BTW, I sometimes get the impression that radical anti-cure people are ignorant. Sorry, but that just happens.

I am pro-cure... without treatment I will not be what I am today.

Wait wait. Cure does not equal treatment. Treatment can be social skills lessons or anti-anxiety medication or sensory integration therapy. Treatment--at least the good sort--is meant to help you learn things to become more functional. Cure-oriented treatment is meant to yank your brain forcibly in the NT direction, assuming that becoming NT is your first priority. There is a big difference between wanting to learn to cope better and wanting your brain re-configured.

Uhhh... Maybe i'm not understanding this correctly(but i think i am).....But, isn't the entire idea of a "cure" completely unrealistic? I mean, after a person has already developed, anyway. Your entire neurological functioning can't just be switched from "different" to "normal". It all builds on itself, so wouldn't you really have to completely rebuild the person's brain to change something like autism? Before someone's born, maybe docs could learn how to modify whatever unusual genes might cause it... but to think you could just inject a person with something or whatever, then they're like "okay, i'm gonna be normal now," doesn't seem like it could work in any way... Because that difference is something that has influenced your whole mental development, it's not just a single thing that can be turned on and off. It's not like making a medicine to fight off a virus, it would have to be something that actually messed around with your own basic genetic information. And, in the unlikely case that it's not at all related to genetics and it's some wacky thing like vaccines causing it( ), it would still have to completely alter the person's existing neurological structure to "cure" their autism.

Treatments, on the other hand, i can understand. Perhaps they could come up with something that helps the areas of the brain that are responsible for social functioning to run in a smoother manner, or something similar. Y'know, like how antidepressants treat things by inhibiting the re-uptake of serotonin, which results in a better emotional state. But, if they did that, that's definitely not something you'd call a "cure for autism"... Just a possible treatment that could help out a bit with some of the "symptoms" that are giving a person problems.

So, yeah... Short of some magical Harry Potter stuff happening here, i don't really understand how this notion of a "cure" even makes sense...

To me the cure if there will ever be a cure is something that won't happen in the next 10-20 years. Your life in that time will still go by. Do not just give into misery. Enjoy yourself.
I used to lock myself in my room, dread social contact, especially going to the big city. Ah, but now I see every gig I attend as just another adventure, with many happy memories.

Oh well, those treatments that make me NT --- well, if this really makes me more accepted in society, so be it...