Would u take a pill that would make you normal for a day?

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I hate being an aspie, I so wish for normality.

i would take it. atleast try it and see what it would be like... not thinking like i think i think it would feel very very weird and understanding alot of things all of a sudden and losing iq lots i think id pass out for being too overwelmed

I probably would have jumped at the chance when I was younger...now not so sure. I am finally comfortable with being an Aspie...I guess I wouldn't want to go through questioning and loathing myself again. From my experience NTs aren't all that together either. We are so cool. We are so different. Big deal if some people don't get us. BIG DEAL. For those of us who have found our place, you know what I mean. For those of us who still aren't comfortable in yourself...you are awesome. Just because you are different..it doesn't mean you need a pill to make you like them. Unless you want to visit recreationally then it is a whole other proposition. I seem to have outgrown recreational seeking...might have something to do with random drug testing........

See? THIS is the big problem! I agree with you totally, SM. I have also experienced these sorts of boooooring people all my life. Is this what it is to be NT? Never to question things? Never to question authority? Never to step outside the box in case you lose the approval of the majority?

Is that what being NT is? I don't know. So how could anyone invent such a drug in the first place. (Ok, ok, too literal there...)

This is one reason I'm starting to not like this site. You act as if everyone without autism is the same. Do you ever watch TV? Everyone has a different personality, different interests, etc. I find people who prefer to be alone and spend all their time with one or two interests incredibly boring. I'm autistic and I prefer NTs because I think they are so much more fun than aspies.

I would never take it, I'm too old... I did all my mind altering substances years ago, in a galaxy far, far away.....

Having been under the influence all those years ago of nitrous oxide, both professionally applied and recreationally, I always imagine thats what it felt like to be "a normal person". A kind of warm, senseless happiness like a fuzzy blanket between me and the world... and feeling a little dull.

Ok, maybe that's a little overblown, but seriously, I hear things they don't hear, little sounds, are they deaf?? I'm frickin huge, not Austin Powers Fat Bastard size but way too big, and I still move so quietly in the office I'll walk up to someone doing something and start talking and they scream. They never heard me coming. They don't see details, walking in the woods it's like they're almost blind. The military calls is "situational awareness" and tries to train their people to have it. Most normal people I know have sense so dull, I don't know how they function sometimes.

I must tell you yes I would try the normal for a day pill once and only once. I in NO way whatsoever hate being high functioning autistic matter of fact I enjoy it. I am however curious. I would love to get some insights on this condition they call Neurotypicality because so many people on Earth live with it every day. I figure maybe if I understood neurotypicals better I would be able to present things in more neurotypical friendly ways when I revert to my autistic self at the end of the day.

I would only take the pill if I get to keep the insights I gained on my field trip called a day in spent living neurotypical. I honestly do not want the neurotypical qualities just any field notes I took during the experience. Only problem is if I was neurotypical when I wrote my feild notes when I revert back to my high functioning autistic form the notes would not make complete sense any more.

Oh heck. Naw I guess I am wrong. I would not take the NT for a day pill at all because its not worth it. The only reason I would want to be NT is to gain insight that I could bring back to my autistic world intact and it does not seem I could do that. Also I would wonder if all the neurotypical features would leave once the pill wore off. Last thing I would want is to lose any of my unique high functioning autism inspired gifts to some NT pill. The more I think of it NO I would not take a NT for a day pill. Neurotypicality is not worth even the slightest possibility of losing the autism traits I love and that define me as an inidividual.

Hmmm, maybe, Zendell, it's not NTness that I find boring, maybe it's average intelligence?

My post in response to SM, was a) to identify with the sort of situation she's experienced and b) to question whether anything like 'NTness' can actually be isolated and replicated via medication - precisely because of its very nebulousness.

And you'll notice that I posed all my comments as genuine questions and actually articulated that 'I don't know'. I didn't 'act' in any identifiable way to negate or assume that all NTs are the same. Please read my response again and please try to avoid using others' innocuous posts as evidence for your growing antipathy to this forum.

I'd take it once and then think over how to proceed from there. Even if I liked it, I might not keep on going in case it felt like I was losing my indentity or the side-effects were still unknown.

Last edited by Keoren on 05 Jan 2008, 1:11 pm, edited 1 time in total.

I'd take one on a regular basis it it meant HOLDING DOWN A JOB! I've had soooo much problems in the past keeping a job, volunteer and paid alike, because of my 'strangeness'.