if you had the choice to be born would of chosen life?

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I agree with you Baffroom.

I'm looking to get a vasectomy when I am more financially comfortable. If I ever do want to have kids, I could adopt (in my eyes, lower chance of AS) instead of passing on my AS genes. I love who I have become and learned to appreciate my "quirks," but it took many years of soul searching and contemplation to be where I am now. I don't want my child to experience what I have; I want my child to be part of the in-group.

What would change my mind and make me decide to be born is the possibility of eternal life. In the next 30 to 40 years, scientists may discover a way to reliably regrow nerve tissue, and vital organs. Already they are pushing the ethical boundaries of "playing god" and have been able to grow lung tissue, albeit in rat form. With eternal life, life has meaning to me and I could spend unlimited hours in front of my computer or in a library absorbing knowledge to my heart's desire!

I'm too curious about what's going to happen next. Not so much in my personal life, but in the world. Esp. With the environment. I can't die yet because I won't find out what comes next.

Besides, consciousness is a trip. If I'm not alive how can I wonder how it works and how this miracle called animals came to exist.

Anyway, there's so much to learn.

[quote="krill"]I'm too curious about what's going to happen next. Not so much in my personal life, but in the world. Esp. With the environment. I can't die yet because I won't find out what comes next.

Besides, consciousness is a trip. If I'm not alive how can I wonder how it works and how this miracle called animals came to exist.

Anyway, there's so much to learn.[/quot

thats the positive thinking i love.

Agreed.

~Kate

before i was born, i said to my higher self of my earthbound self, "the flesh is very weak and reluctant to suffer the slings and arrows of the mediocre fortune of this most recent proposed incarnation." so my higher spiritual self said to my earthbound self, "if not now, then when? you've got to do this one sometime or another, so it might as well be now, IOW get it overwith so you won't have to dread doing it later!" so i did.
when i was in the army, i was given several chances to leave early, but minus benefits, so i reluctantly turned down each chance to vamoose back into civilianhood - this little vignette is a microcosm of my life per se, in that i needed to have this particular lifetime in order to progress spritually to the next level. i needed to eat my spiritual spinach before the powers-that-be would let me enjoy dessert. no way around the spinach but through it.
so reluctantly, i came down here and i'm staying down here until the boatman comes for me.

yes because if I hadn't my parents would of been devastated Im glad I survived why I did I haven't figured out yet.

YES, a million times yes. In fact, I want to live forever. (I'd need to learn swordplay and I'd need to watch my head, but it'd be worth it.)

A resounding no. I wish I wasn't every day.

I find the results of this poll pretty odd, because there is a majority of autism positive posts here. There are also multiple threads anti-eugenics. But, in all honesty, there have been many times I've wished I wasn't born. This was in my teens and early twenties though, and I'm 41 now. I wonder if age makes a difference.

Depression is highly co-morbid with autism, so it might not be that surprising for that reason. So, that's the flip side of the coin.

Yes, but I would have wanted to be born as something other than human.

I definitely would want to live. Even if I had a worse disability than this one. Even if I were blind, deaf, and paraplegic, I'd still want to live.

No, I would not have chosen life. I choose not to commit suicide because of certain people it would hurt; as long as they're around, I will not kill myself. But purely for my own sake, life seems to simply not be worth the trouble. I have nothing to show for my life so far, and I'm not talking about world-changing stuff but more ordinary things - I've done nothing worth doing and nothing I'm proud of.

Don't worry. I wish I was Dorian Grey too.

You bet I'd live. Sure, there's a lot of terrible crap to deal with, but there are many things that are worth living for. I am not a mistake; I am a slight variation on the same old blueprint.

Of course, this whole hypothetical situation requires that I be able to see 24 years into the future, since a newborn infant has very little cognition of anything... but oh well.

No.

There's no point to it.

I'm annoyed that I wasn't given a choice, put here against my will. In effect, my parents were selfish.

Funny, if I wanted to be here, would I still see my parents as selfish?

Actually, I think he's reffering to Highlander.