aspergers is almost gone

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Ive been working on it a lot. It's almost gone. No one can tell I have it.



just a word of encouragment for everyone out there!

Asperger's does not go away.

Congratulations, however, on learning to fake normal well enough that other people might think it went away.

Please do not claim, however, that though "working on it" you've rewired your brain. Nor that other people not being able to tell means it's gone away.

why would anyone want to NOT have aspergers?

Curious.

You are working hard at making it 'go away' and I after years of hiding it, I am giving up and just letting people deal with it. If they don't like me because I'm different, then it's their loss.

If it's working for you, cool. Don't stop on my account. I'm just fascinated by the difference.

How has it gone away?

I prefer to celebrate my differences, but if it makes you happy, than good for you.

I call troll.

How can you change your entire brain function? Unless you're using drugs...

Uh, I think this was supposed to be a joke. Am I wrong?

I agree this must be a joke, or a troll. Either way it does give false hope that it can be "cured" If people dont like you for who you are who cares that shows they arent a good person to be around. If indeed that this is true congrats on being able to cope well with your symptoms I havent been able to yet.

Exactly, this is the question we need to answer.

I fully support a cure for AS. There is nothing wrong with that.

I think it depends on exactly what you think "cure" means. If you're willing to support weeding out the AS genome through eugenics, using therapies that cause distress, or using therapies that change the personalities of the people involved, then yes, there's something very wrong with it. And even if you don't support those things, I do think that the perspective that disability is inherently bad, and that the first priority of a disabled person should be to become non-disabled, is a damaging idea that has caused us a lot of trouble.

I have an example, a question for you guys:

If I was having this operation thing to weed out my AS and I was going through pain, at what point would what I want to do give you the right to interfere in my decision? What I do is up to me, not anybody elses thing to think about.

That's not the issue, really. If there were a "cure" for AS, like brain surgery, people wouldn't be making their own decisions. Society would naturally force them to do so.

Kids would, of course, be forced by their parents; and in many cases parents who disagreed might lose custody.
Adults on disability would be forced by the government, who can mandate treatment as a condition for continued disability payments.
People who had health insurance would find a prohibitively high cost, so that they could not obtain health care unless they were treated.
Prison and institution inmates and those who had been declared legally incompetent would be forced into treatment against their will.
People who had jobs could not get accommodations when treatment was available to make those accommodations unnecessary, and so would be unable to work.

Of course, thankfully this situation will never happen because we will never be able to cure autism in an adult. Even gene therapy on a fetus or at the most a neonate is at least a half century in the future; but what will happen first is that they will find a genetic test, whereupon most autistic fetuses will be aborted and most autism cure research will stop because autism will be considered "preventable" and the funding will dry up as existing autistics age and are no longer cute children.

I would do anything to get rid of my AS. It causes nothing but trouble and it makes people see me in the wrong light. Its a disgusting joke and Hans should have been shot during the war for his stupidity.

LOL, troll.

Even if that had happened, not only would the syndrome would still exist, but someone else would have discovered it anyway.