1Million Dollars Vs Lose Your Aspergers.

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Definitely would use a lot of money to buy access to reporters for the purpose of exposing and closing The Judge Rotenberg Center and fund an anti Autism Speaks campaign.

I am going to sound the jarring note here.

I would gladly take the cure if it cured all my co-morbid conditions along with aspergers.

My personality is quirky, silly and annoying, and I'm so slow-witted which makes me look ridiculous a lot of the time. So yeah, I don't like my personality much. I wouldn't mind having that changed.

Well hmm I'd take the million dollars.

I'd take the million dollars in either case ASD cured or not lol.

If I had a million dollars I would buy (or lease) a building and then open up a Jimmy John's sub restaurant, and I'd do everything to make it the best Jimmy John's ever. That's pretty much my dream job. Doubt it pays as much as my major though... so I'm thinking I'd only open the Jimmy John's when I'm 45+ and 'retired'. Maybe I could open up 2-3 locations?

Million. It will make life more interesting while losing Aspergers may do the contrary.

So... where can we get the chosen result?

So I'm being offered £660,000. That's not enough to live on forever. Even if I only lived another fifty years and was really clever with my savings, I'd be looking at an income of about £14,000 p/a.

However... that's a lot of free money! I'd take the cash and top it up with casual work.

Says the employed high-functioning aspergian

I'll have the million dollars. Being an Aspie is a part of who I am, and no one can take that away.

Yep, being a millionaire isn't as good as it used to be. £660,000 might bring enough interest to live on if it was in term deposits, but it might be hard to increase the returns by enough to compensate for inflation, without taking some risk.

I'll take the money. It may not buy happiness, but as a good friend once told me, it will buy the kind of misery you like the best.

At this point in my life I'm pretty much used to the way I'm wired. Why change it now? But I can always use cash.

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So I'm going to be in the minority and say I'd cure my Asperger's. I enjoy some things about my Asperger's such as my special interests, unique abilities, and the way I think. However, I really can't stand the loneliness that comes with having it (not to mention my comorbid depression, anxiety, and OCD). So assuming curing it would enable me to have a decent social life and a healthy romantic relationship, I would take the cure, even though it would no doubt completely change me.

(P.S. Though I would cure myself of Asperger's, I am in no way implying that people should be cured of it against their will. I understand and respect that some people don't want to get rid of their Asperger's, but in my life personally the cons of it seem to outweigh the pros).

Easy choice for me -- I'd like the million.

Because, as others have mentioned, it would give me the means to take myself out of the situations in which my autism causes challenges for me in the first place: work, and my living situation.

Although the work I choose is the closest thing to tolerable, there are still issues, and I'd love nothing more than to have independent wealth so that I could spend my time doing what I really love to do. I have no problems filling free time even if I have a lot of it; it's my favorite state and I'd drop my work like a burning turd if I won the lottery tomorrow.

I'd also be able to get away from renting and finally own my own home. My particular current situation is a toxic one but, long story, I'm stuck with it. I'd be without some of my stress factors if I could buy my own home. I don't care if I still have my traits to deal with, these other things improving in my life would go a long way to relieving some of my stress, and the decreased stress in itself would make my traits milder as I've seen from my own experiences with mine.

Maybe you should try goldfish's remedies. I'm being serious.

I think that being an Aspie is actually ironically a better tool for "curing itself" (due to superior intellectual-capabilities that simply need "activating") than being a millionaire (a million isn't sufficient for most people these days to cover their life-time unless they're very frugal like me).