If you could be an NT, would you do it?

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I've been wondering what my life be like if I were an NT. Would I see more body language, more emotions, notice more tones in people's voices. Would noise be less noisy, would I already have a few boyfriends already. Would I not be so shy, would I not be doing the same thing everyday. Would I not get stuck on topics as much or on thoughts. etc etc etc.


EDIT: okay there might have been a misunderstanding about my poll. I meant like if you could change your mind into an NT brain and it will oly be for one days or 24 hrs, would you let it happen so you can experiance it. It's like Cinderella. When the fairy godmother comes and grants her wish, it only lasts till midnight and bam everything is back the way it was. Except it be we have our mind turned into a NT mind and it only lasts for one day and the next day, you're back to your old self.

I am barely on the spectrum, so I don't think it would make that much difference one way or the other.

Tim

I apologize for my ignorance, but what is an NT?

"NT" means "neurotypical person".

Thank you

an NT is someone who isn't on the autism spectrum.

I really have no idea if I would want to or not. If I didn’t have AS I wouldn’t be me at all because it affects everything about me, and it has affected every way in which I have developed. So for me to not have AS I wouldn’t be “me” at all and then the question doesn’t really make since anymore.

I think I have probably been NT or close to it on medication before but there were side effects. I was taking Zoloft and my doctor added a seizure med and I did feel pretty good but not interested in trying to deal with the side effects. Of course what is "NT" really supposed to mean - how would you really figure it out if you haven't been one before (lol). My gauge would be the sensory issues mostly - but people who are not on the spectrum can deal with those too I guess so maybe I wasn't anywhere NT afterall.

I would, although any differences I'm yet to realise. I'm actually a bit on the NT side of the spectrum (y'know what I mean), so I'd actually be willing to answer yes to the question "If you could be more Aspie for a day, would you?"

But for both, just for a day.

No

Human beings are "chemistry" if you change one element you will alter other elements...I dont want to mess with something that complex....If I became more NT I could end up being a terrorist or something
I wouldnt want to take that chance,even for a day...I may have "flaws" but I am nonviolent by philosophy and have a bomb inside,I wouldnt want to do any thing to set it off...that's why I tiptoe at times.....

As an experiment... possibly to help me understand those weird things NTs do and say... possibly. But I'd probably feel pretty weirded out once I became myself again. I imagine it'd be upheaval akin to being male for a day...

For only 24 hours then I go back to being me? Absolutely. My curiousity demands it. Afterwards I would want to try being Asian, blonde, and as many other genotypes as I could be, so I could see what it was like.

I'm not sure that being NT for a day would make a lot of sense, so probably no.

The reason being, for instance if you blindfold a sighted person for a day, they still have no clue what it's like being blind. If a blind-from-birth person was given eyesight for a day, they would not be able to understand anything they saw.

So if you made an autistic person NT (or any other neurotype for that matter) for a day, the person would not experience what it's like to be an NT, because NTs are NT from birth and learn to experience the world as that neurotype. It's quite possible that an autistic person made NT for a day would be unable to function, and at the very least would get a skewed idea of what being NT was like, just as people who get themselves blindfolded for "disability awareness days" get a skewed idea of what being blind is like.

So, even if it were possible, nope. I don't think I'd be able to learn anything particularly useful from the experience. I would not learn what it was like to "be an NT," I'd at the most learn what it's like to "have NT wiring," and for that matter I would only learn what it was like to suddenly have NT wiring after never having had it before, which is different in the extreme from being NT from birth.

Yes, I would do it for a day to see what all the fuss is about.

If I was given the choice to permanently become NT it would be a firm no. It would change the entire way I work and I would basically be a completely different person. And AS has its uses