Anyone tried to "cure" themself?

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Have you tried to cure or make your asperger bether, by for example eating supplement, vitamins, eat a lot of certain types of food, or STOPPED eating certain foods?

I tried 'curing' myself with suicide a few times.
Even that was unsuccessful.

How do you cure the self? Is the self a disease?

^ I think maybe in my case at least - yes.

No, although I'm dairy free, but that's because I'm really very much lactose intolerant.

I also found very high-dose b12 and d3 doing wonders to my mood and stress levels.

Bit if I want to be social and around a lot of people, alcohol is the only thing that temporarily works for me. That, and a fay of solitude afterwards.

The best cure is to make AS irrelevant. Right now, I have a therapist, psychiatrist, and 2 vocational disability professionals all saying I don't belong in the work force. Appeals hearing happens in a few months. If the judge rules against me getting disability, that would effectively discredit all 4 of those people. It would make their services irrelevant. It would make the mental health community irrelevant. Life moves forward from there.

Why would I want to cure myself? I don't see the point.

I wish the talk of "cures" would honestly go away.

I tried to cure a couple of my comorbids by doing research on medications.

My cure was trying to do the opposite of the AS symptoms I would read in books or online. For example I read that kids with AS are often upset with teasing and sarcasm. I realized me getting upset about it because I missed the sarcasm or that i didn't know someone was teasing, I stopped getting upset about it because I was just making my condition worse so to make it better, I stopped getting upset about it. Another time I read in a book about an example of an aspie teen stealing a truck and driving it but he sees a box in the middle of the road and he decides to drive over it not realizing there could be something heavy in it, I wondered how in the world did this even have to do with AS. If it was about driving over a box in the middle of the road, I just won't drive over boxes, there, I am even milder now.

Throughout my highschool years, I tried to 'filter' my behaviour by being overly-polite and agreeable towards other people and never saying anything that was actually on my mind. This led to me basically avoiding any social interaction with people outside my comfort circle while being terrified of accidentally saying something rude and offending someone.

Yet this was way before I knew about Autism Acceptance and the fact that my Asperger's doesn't need to be 'cured'. But it could also be a gendered thing too...

As I've said previously -here-, I've seen the effects of Autism nullified through years of therapy, but as I said in my Introduction thread...

The best cure is to surround yourself with positive influences. For me, dwelling on my limitations and mistakes makes everything feel worse.

I spent seven years photographing New York City. This was a positive influence. I would come home totally spent. It would take days to recover from a big event. But, I learned about people and got good at photography.

There is no cure for me. Only hard work. Be mindful and walk softly my friend.

It's about as effective as trying to "cure" homosexuality.

Asperger's is the way you are, you can't cure it. But I would surely become NT if it was possible, as it would much better and more fun.

Nope never. Only tried to deal with it as best I can. My autism social worker sais there is no cure.

Tony Attwood's cure is putting the child in their bedroom by themselves.