If your aspies was curable, would u cure it?

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I yam wot I yam and that's all wot I yam, I'm nutbag the aspie maam!

Not a chance.

Hell yes. I'm 24 and don't have a job or any friends. I haven't seen a lot of benefit from the unique "skills" I could theoretically have, so I'd much prefer to be stupid and live a happy easy life, than whatever I am now.

You have ME pegged! In fact, I'm not really so sure at this point I would even want all the sensitivities and social problems to be cured. TODAY, I took two flights. I had about 4 runins with audio hypersensitivity. It all makes sense now! NOBODY learns to speak right, or fix the PAs/Alarms, because others aren't bothered! And I had a few runins with light hypersensitivity too. Still, THEY should change THEIR ways. I can't believe it is good for ANYONE. They have proven such things hurt hearing and retinas. But HEY! Today a person in his inimitable way mocked me implying I was STUPID.(BTW I respect him, and he seems to respect me, and in like 5 years this was a FIRST!) WHY did he do so? Because he saw me come to work with no jacket on in 30F weather. But HEY, that is one symptom I LIKE!

Steve

hmmm, not really

I'd like to get rid of some of the sensory issues, but I wouldn't want to change my personality. I like my obsessions, and they're even useful.

i dont know, i don't have any aspies.
just a sprained elbow and a couple of fish.

I don't have any Aspies either.
I might get one though...

For me it would be NLD, not Asperger's, but I'm not sure. I'd love to have improved visual processing and be able to form internal maps, not to mention better organization and so forth, but what would that do to my verbal skills? What if my verbal skills are so good partly because my brain is so focused on them, since it doesn't handle other types of information well? Also, I don't know what it would do to my personality. Plus, I seem to have an interesting way of thinking about most things that surprises people. I don't know if I would want to lose that. A trial run would be interesting. I'd need that to make a decision.

No, I would not want a "cure".
A cure, by definition, takes away any free will on the part of the person experiencing
Asperger's Syndrome. My efforts to keep on living from one day to the next, sometimes
against my Asperger-related traits, sometimes trying to work with those traits to my own
advantage, have done so much to form what personality and character I have today.
Asperger's Syndrome and its effects have not always been easy on me, but I would not
trade what I have gained from that syndrome for the promise of a cure. No thank you.

Nope, but the NT population should be "cured".

I've always wished I could have been born normal.

I look back to when I was a teenager and think about all the things that I managed to accomplish, but I now wonder if it was worth it, as I never had any real friends or fun.

I think about academic awards I've won when I was in school and now realize that they're nothing more than worthless certificates and pins. Now that I'm an adult, I sometimes wish I could go back in time and trade all of that for a social life.

Having a social life is pobably crap. I'd rather be intelligent but have no social life than the opposite.

I fully agree. We're the scientists, the inventors, the thinkers, they're the sheep.

i hate haveing aspergers i wish i was normal

Having Aspergers is better than having Neurotypical Syndrome. It's just harder.

Why? Because the NTs want you to be normal? F' them! You should be proud of your gift.

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