If you could get rid of 1 AS symptom, which one would it be?

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This isn't reality, so don't go thinking that I'm thinking there's a cure, because I'm not. This thread is just one of those self riddles where you imagine yourself in a situation where if-you-could-only-pick-one-thing-what-would-it-be type of thing. It's just for fun.
So - if you got given a special potion where you could choose any AS symptom what you would get rid of (only one symptom), which one would you choose to get rid of?

I suffer from a lot of anxiety over everything - but personally I think I would want to get rid of the sensory overload issue, because you can't escape loud noises, and they can't be endured if you're someone with ears like mine, so it causes more frustration and adds to the anxiety.

How about you? Let's see what symptom you would like to ''cure'', if you had to choose.

The executive dysfunction.

hypersensory issues. I think the hypersensory issues are root cause of anxiety and even executive funtion issues. IFF that is true, I kill three of them with this one.

I would say anxiety but anxiety comes from emotional problems, sensory issues, social difficulties and at times logical thinking (being mocked for being too logical).

I would say sensory overload especially sound, because it is very impairing for me.

Sensory Overload (sound) as well.

This is making my home feel very unsafe/unwelcome lately.

I might say anxiety, because anxiety is probably a big part of why I am very resistant to interacting with strangers and I still don't know anybody in places I go to frequently. However, even low doses of anti-anxiety drugs have the effect of making me very withdrawn and even more uncommunicative than I usually am.

Some people who take anti-anxiety drugs have problems with paranoia and anxiety despite the drugs. I wonder if this might be a rebound effect, where the drugs make anxiety better on a short term basis, but worse overall. If anti-anxiety drugs impair one's social skills and lower inhibitions to doing and saying things that embarrass people or make people hostile, then a person taking these drugs might be caught in a self-reinforcing loop.

Most of my life my sensory life was intense in a pleasurable way. As I get older 45+ the pleasure has turned into pain. Especially for sight and sound. About the time this started getting really bad I was watching a rerun of the movie "Rainman" and saw his painful reaction to sound, and thought to myself, this is happening to me now.

When I saw the movie when it first came out I had absolutely no idea what he was going through, at that time sound and light excited me and I needed the excitement to enhance my executive function.

The bad thing now is excitement makes the sensory problems worse. I can no longer count on adrenaline to enhance my executive function.

I would rather get punched in the face than "cure" any of those, but the one I'd feel the least grief over is sensory overload. WHICH I WOULD NOT VOLUNTARILY LET SOMEONE CURE, because while it's annoying it doesn't happen in a vacuum and it's linked to stuff I like or am neutral on.

The others aren't even annoying, they're all really, really positive.

I DO NOT WANT ANY OF THESE TRAITS CURED. EVERYTHING YOU LISTED I WANT TO KEEP.

Social difficulties. The rest I can manage and mitigate to a tolerable extent. I don't necessarily want a truck load more friends and lovers, but a few more would be peachy.

My sensory pain started with sensory overload. Wasn't hard to deal with at first just get away from the offending stimulus. The problem now is as long as there is any light or sound the sensory pain does not go away. I'm not sure how everyone experiences it but the physical injuries I have received in my life are nothing compared to the pain of this. I think what I am describing is a stage beyond sensory overload. Does anyone else experience it this way?

Anxieties! Please just let it disappear.

I selected anxiety, but then I noticed someone said executive dysfunction. I have to say the latter. If I did not have ED, I would probably be alot more functional...as it is now, I am crippled by it. I see alot of people selected sensory overload expecailly sound. In some ways, my hearing impairment is a blessing cause I have a 45db loss which basicly means that I am legally deaf. The good part about that is if I had to have autism, it is better to be somewhat deaf than to be constantly assaulted by sounds. If sounds are loud enough for me to hear them...I do get overload. The best example is my mom had a moment of finacial indisgression and bought a molican cockatoo without even researching about them first. Well although he was quite a talker, he was also quite a screamer too. And when he started screaching at what seemed to be 100db for hours on end, my level of functioing really went down. I was having meltdowns constantly. Finally we traded him in on a smaller model, a caique, which is a small brazilian parrot. She has become part of the family and is very special to me. She only screaches in the morning wanting food and clean water, but after that she is mostly quiet exept to voice her opinion on a particular subject of our conversations by laughing or singing while mom is in the shower (wtf). Yes I have a laughing bird which is alot better than a bird that can do meltdowns better than me.

But my Executive Dysfunction is very crippling cause I usually cant get much of anything done...if I didnt have it, I might be able to finish college alot easier and be able to move my life forward, but mostly I just chase my tail in cicles where other people can just plan to do something and just do it and get it done. Sometimes it makes me feel like such a failure in life.

Honestly the first thing I would like to get rid of is not actually a trait of AS, it would be my lack of self esteem. It seemed I never did anything right, my parents always criticized me a lot, even at a very young age, I think the only thing they were proud of me for was my talent for drawing.

But the first AS trait I would like to get rid of would be my tendancy to "tell it like it is" (I tend to say whatever goes through my mind), to be able to know that something I am about to say will hurt a person's feelings, and avoid saying it. My way around it, which works if it is something obvious (a haircut I don't like for example), is to not say anything.

I could definitely live without the emotional problems. I'm too emotionally sensitive and intense about everything, and I'm very prone to overreacting. I've been told at various times that I need to "grow a thicker skin" (get tougher) and that I "take everything too seriously".

Social difficulties because I want to get married someday, and I feel like to gain success one has to be able to interact with a lot of people. I don't mean social success. I mean career success.

Obsessiveness, anxiety, and executive function.