Can there be a cure?

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I know ppl say its a difference not a disorder, but if there was a way to make ASautistic ppl like NT people, is it possible?

Why would I like to be like the people that I relate to, the least. I don't want to be walking around with bleached blonde hair and blue contact lenses covering my eyes, wearing form fitting clothes, with a cellphone up to my left ear, (I'm left handed) talking like a valley girl, worring about my make up, listening to Top 40 and trying to be a juniour women's size 10, while making ignorant noises whenever someone on the spectrum walks by me. I don't want to be like the people who hurt me. I'll stay the way that I am.

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I don't know if that is possible, but I read something on this site about a thing called TMS.

Hmmm.

Lying easily. The ability to display an emotion not actually being felt. Rapacious utilization of natural resources. A propensity for war.

Hell yeah.

Lets be more NT

Of course it's possible; we just haven't figured out how to do it yet. And I wouldn't want to completely lose my Aspergers; I would like to have my anxiety and sensory problems cured, but not my nerdiness. The nerdiness is who I am. If I could make friends easily and still be my nerdy, quirky self, I would be pretty happy. There should be an anti-anxiety medicine designed to prevent sensory overloading in autistic people. It doesn't sound that far-fetched, and it would make my life so much easier. There should also be easily accessible classes that teach non-verbal language skills, especially for dating.

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Thankfully not.

I have two computers here with identical motherboards (but the cases look different), and then I have several others covering a wide range of specifications, abilities and so on. Some of these machines could be made to *appear* to be like the others, and all of them will certainly run software. However, it would essentially require a brain transplant -- replacing a processor and maybe even a motherboard -- to make an Aspie neurotypical.

When I was younger I thought something was wrong with me.

I ended up trying to be normal and ended up with this one friend along with the people he knew. After a year and a half to two years I was thankful to not be around them. For a long while after that I thought I couldn't trust myself with people. I was taken advantage of couple times or so.

I never wanted to integrate into this society. I like my point of view.

I'd just like to have a lot less anxiety and be better at focusing on my life.

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It's hard to imagine since no one knows, on a neurological level, what ASC's are.

I saw something once (and it's only one possibility) that there was some hormone or something related to how neurons move in the developing fetal brain, that was different. If it's related to something like that, to the actual architecture of the brain, it's hard to see how it could be 'fixed.' Once the brain cells are in place they're going to form connections where they sit. I recall a ST:TNG episode where someone was offered "total synaptic reconnection" (or something like that), which would erase personality completely, but cure his problem. He turned it down.

Those qualities are all intertwined. If you change one part, you alter the whole. A 'cure' would change your entire personality as completely as a lobotomy (though not in the same way).

People just don't realize how complex they really are. If you had no anxiety, you would make friends more easily, thus you would not be considered particularly nerdy to begin with. The same neural pathways that cause your behaviors to appear 'quirky' also contribute to your anxiety, because you are constantly unconsciously aware that you are not quite like the people around you and that causes you to become anxious. Ying-Yang, you can't have one without the other.





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I don't think there can be a cure for ASDs because it's a congenital neurological alteration that affects many parts of the brain and hence affects our communication styles and sensory issues, and we don't have the technology to alter these things yet.

There is TMS though, which I'm going to undertake in a few weeks' time, but they're aiming at a specific part of the brain called the Medial Prefrontal Cortex. The technology for TMS has reached the stage where slightly deeper sections of the brain can be targetted. This is by no means a cure, but hopefully I'll be able to read body language and facial expressions quicker, and be more tolerant of eye contact. John Elder Robison underwent TMS as well and he experienced some benefits, but he's still by and large AS.

If that's the case, I would like to be cured completely.

Even if there was a cure for adult aspies how would your brain react to the cure? I always thought most autistics brain's are physically different from NTs, how is an autistic brain going to function after being rearranged to be normal? There would probably be months of therapy to get you to learn how to re-use your brain again.

I want to socialize better and not be seen as a weirdo or creep. But I also want to keep the positive of AS with me.

No.

I would like to be cured of sensory problems. Sensory problems are my bigest disatvantage compared to a NTs.
Anxiety is not so much of a problem since there are plenty of beta-blockators and anxiolytics.

Way we think is not disadvantage, but rather advantage. I dont wont to be "cured" of that.

As leejosepho already said you cant cure aspies because whole brain has different structure.