Would you take a pill to cure autism?

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Exactly!

It would still be worth it to me.

It is a relatively boring question.

Be johnny be good? What's the point.

It's evolution. Right, or wrong. That's what it is. You're stuck with you.

A pill just mucks up the way of things.

Why don't you just take a pill, and turn yourself into a piece of jello.

It is one below vegetable.

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!! !! !! !! !! !! !

Uh...because it sucks to have Asperger's Syndrome, at least it does with me.

i couldn't ever do it. autistics who want a cure either haven't been treated well by society at all or have been brainwashed by the media's frequent depiction of autism as something that's so bad. remember, it's not the autism that's the problem. it's the other people. if other people were kind to you or more understanding of you, you wouldn't be suffering. it's the others that have to change, not the autism.

I was about to say I would take the pill. I was about to say I wouldn't care if it changed my personality because I hate who I am anyway but...

I took pills like that in the past. I was a vegetable. I was a walking talking vegetable. I could have normal conversations. I was a lucid vegetable but those pills made me not care about anything. They sapped most of my energy. I was on them so long I didn't know it was the pills doing it. I thought I was just like that. I was on those pills for eleven years.

I want my adolescence back. I started taking them when I was fourteen and stopped taking them when I was twenty five. During that time I had virtually no cognitive or emotional development. When I woke from that dream I went from blissful apathy to horror as I saw what I was.

I knew I'd have to rebuild my life from scratch but I still had the mind of a fourteen year old. How could I catch up? Before I started on those pills I'd been an energetic and bright child. Then I went from top of the class to bottom of the class. I lost what should have been the most formative years of my life. What would I have been without those drugs? I will never know.

I think I'm not so bad in my natural state. I don't hate who I am. I hate who I was.

Doctors shouldn't be so quick to reach for the prescription pad for every ailment. Most of the time the brain can regulate it's own chemistry better by itself.

I'll bet the side effects would be a million times worse than having Aspergers, like nearly every other drug I've been forced to take by pill-pushing shrink-quacks in order to "make me less angry". And if I were somehow "cured" of my "disease", would that mean I would automatically turn into a normal average woman? But people hate normal, average women who shrill with delight when there's a shoe sale or see a man they think they must spend the rest of their lives with and fight like wild dogs over the bride's bouquet. I know this because yesterday on Youtube I saw a clip of a cartoon where a character said, "No wonder no one likes women". Which was funny because the character who said it was female.

So here's the question for today on the topic. "a pill to cure autism; what exactly would it cure?"

I mean, unless it's some stuff with halucinatory properties, you don't suddenly have more friends. You don't have the skills an NT learned in, in my case, his 30+ year life and taking a pill doesn't come with knowledge and a degree that might for no small part be attributed to my AS (something about the inability to deal with standardized education and how only that seems to earn you a diploma/degree).

It's also interesting to see how people want to be NT; but seriously, do you all think NT's don't have any problems? Heck, I don't even want to be that overly emotional mess with someone tells me bad news. I don't want to feel bad when I see something awful happen on the news. I'm not the most emotional person, but that's probably something I really, really, really appreciate about my AS. Someone in the family died? Good... let me grive for about 2 minutes and move along and enjoy my life with things I care about.

Here's something else to consider; my AS diagnostic process was lengthy in that therapists weren't really sure if I had AS or just an extensive list of personality disorders; Antisocial, narcissistic, avoidant and the list goes on. Does a pill take those away as well? Or do you remain stuck with these personality disorders, that, once again need treatment. To make matters more interesting; what if your AS actually complements these things by a handful of traits that are amplified because of your AS? While I won't disagree that I have my share of antisocial behaviour, it compensates by not being much of a team player anyway and just lack a bit of flexibility, things that are a bit more common for people with AS.

So yeah, the question; what would a pill exactly "fix"?

I agree. The problems I have with people mistreating me and being misunderstood are usually much worse than my autism symptoms. If people were more accepting and understanding I think my life would be much easier. I would still have some trouble, but I think it would be easier for me to deal with those issues.

I can't be certain but I think I would have had a greater chance of getting those things if I took less pills.

Well, that's what I'm getting at. Going over this thread, it seems many think it would magically make all problems disappear and grant them all the things they struggled to obtain in life.

There's nothing wrong with dreaming.

The other's will not change. Change happens on an individual level only.

I promise that if you got a tase of what it was like to be an "NT", you would never, ever wish to be autistic again. You would beg for someone to give you that pill

I guarantee if you ever had a taste of what it's like to be an autistic, you would never, ever wish to be an NT again.

This. ^^

I think it's the fear of change that is scaring away some AS people from a cure. Before I lost 50 pounds, I said that I was fine the way I was. Right after I lost those pounds, I said that I will never be that heavy ever again.

EDIT: My 100th post! I'm a raven. CAW!

please don't compare being autistic to being fat. being non-autistic is just as bad too. most aren't as nice as autistics are, and most don't have the qualities an autistic has.