If there was a cure for Autism, would you take it?

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If there was a cure available for your autism, would you take it? A cure woudn't change who you are, it would just significantly improve areas where autistic people have troubles at. For instance, your social skills would improve and become normal, language skills would become normal if applicable, and cognitive abilities would reach normal intelligence if applicable as well.

If you had a cure, would you take it? Why or why not?

No.

LOL....this question has been asked at least ten times in the past few months.

I lean towards the turtles.

I like turtles

Definitely turtles, was obsessed with Ninja Turtles once upon a time

Yes I would take a cure, with no hesitation or regrets. I don't care if Asperger's makes me ''who I am'' and all that crap, I want to be able to cope better in a job, be more able to chat more, not be so startled and jumpy by sudden loud noises, not be the most eccentrically eccentric of the eccentric, and not give off these uncanny vibes that makes other girls keep staring at me funny. Life would be great without all those things.

No, I would not take the cure. Why? Well, here is a plot synopsis of the play 'Harvey' that should help explain it ...

When I was younger I think I would have done anything to become "normal." I worried more about what others expected of me than what truly gave me satisfaction and joy. I've had to re-think the desire to be normal- or even to try to appear to be normal- over the years.

I don't know what normal is, just as I can't imagine what it would be like to be unable to read. I can't recall a time in my life when I couldn't read. I could read before I was 2 years old and have no idea how or why that happened (one of those things peculiar to hyperlexia.)

I could do without the social awkwardness, physical awkwardness, and emotional disconnects of HFA, but the older I get the more I embrace the way I am because that's the box of chocolates I got. I also enjoy the places that my wiring allows me to go, places that many NTs have a hard time getting to at all. My outer world may look boring, but I do most of my living inside my head anyway.

I don't think I would be game at this time in my life to magically be made NT- then I would have to learn a whole different road map than the one I've known for the past 45 years.

It's an interesting thought on one level, but the older I get the more comfortable I'm getting in my own skin.

I have been doing a lot of research into aspergers/HFA and I'm beginning to think that autism in general may be cause by sensory perception problems and not so much by internal brain issues. Think about it for a second, If your entire perception of the world is being distorted and that's all you see and are unaware that your perception of the world is being distorted. Your mind is gonna develop in that distorted environment and that's all your ever gonna know about the world around you.

Now with that said. Would you want a cure? Here's something to think about. you grew up your entire life, seeing the world through the lens of this sensory perception distortion(SPD). What do you think would happen to you, psychologically, if that SPD where removed from you?

If taking the cure means I start wasting time socializing with people, and start believing in idiotic things, then no. For NTs, ignorance is bliss.

No. I've found happiness for the first time in my life after being diagnosed with an incurable, neurological disorder. Autism is awesome.

No, because being on the spectrum makes me a sweet and unique person, who looks at the world in a pea flavoured way.

this thread has been done enough times already, but no i wouldn't, even though i feel like dying right now. i feel the question is flawed though, because if such a 'cure' existed, you just simply would not be yourself after it went through.
it would be like killing yourself and giving your body to a new personality to enjoy, it wouldn't be like getting over a cold.

if the cost and side effects were small, i'd probably do it. i'd like to be more persuasive in things as different as getting my elderly mother the best care and the safety of aspartame.