how would you react or do if there was a cure for autism?

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ik theres no cure for autism but if there was what would u do or how would u react if you found out there was?

If I had a child who had to wear a helmet all the time, and could not speak, I'd jump at a cure for the child.

As for myself, I am what I am. Quirks, warts, and all. I wouldn't take a cure.

Not give a s**t.

If it involves surgery, a pill, or some other form of medication, the answer is no.

If it involves mindless conformity to the NT world, forget about it.

If it involves changing to a healthier diet, okay, I'll try it.

Meanwhile, what about books or lessons on things like body language, social skills, and small talk?

And what about all the NTs with all their alleged empathy ... do they have any to spare for anyone who's different?

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Honestly, I don't think that autism is something that needs a cure, so it would be something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5mLjKI968g

I'd like a cure for the sensory issues and insomnia, mostly. The personality stuff I can live with.

^ Me too. I'd love to get rid of the sensory issues, they're one of my biggest problems. If there were some sort of brain surgery to cure autism and make a person entirely NT, I don't think I'd want it; I like having my special interests and being an expert in narrow areas. So many NTs I know only know a little about most subjects here and there, they're not experts at anything, and I feel sorry for them, not being able to have the intensity of interest that I have. I'd be a little worried that society would force me into taking the cure, either by shunning or blacklisting me if I didn't, or more deliberately, by saying I couldn't get help for my condition beyond the cure, and making the only accommodations available to me the pill or surgery needed to make me normal. I'd recommend the book, "The Speed of Dark" to anyone who's interested in this sort of thing; it's an alternate universe type thing set in the near future in which a cure for autism has been discovered, and autistic employees at a certain company are being forced by their boss to take the cure because if they don't, he'll fire them. This is in spite of the fact that the autistics are the only ones capable of doing the jobs they perform, because it's so detail oriented and requires such a high level of pattern recognition and precision that no NT is able to do it.

I would be elated and want to be cured asap.

I'd be indifferent, it'd be for known low functioning individuals, who should get it so they have a chance at life. I'm very high functioning if even on the spectrum. Aspergers is a very "gray" condition. Somethings different about me than the average individual anyways.

I'd be afraid of it. Seems that many times lately, we are coming up with ways to do things without necessarily making life have more quality.

I would love a cure, but it would never give me my childhood back. Asperger's ruined my childhood.

I would say great because then the people who wanted to be cured would have that option.

I'd be terrified and very sad. Even for LFAs, I know some LFAs and if they were cured they wouldn't be the same people anymore. Would they be happier? It would depend. One boy I know had meltdowns, and might like not having those, but he also had the simple all-consuming joy of a toddler when he did something he liked. I think curing him would have lessened both his joy and his suffering in roughly equal amounts.

And there is no way that it would just be a matter of choice. LFAs who don't use assistive communication can't be asked if they want a cure, and their parents or caregivers won't necessarily make the choice they would have wanted. And even HFAs would probably find that refusing the cure means being denied needed services because 'if you took the cure, you wouldn't need this anymore'. Just like medication-refusing schizophrenic or bipolar people are often refused services today.

Plus, regardless of functioning level, many young children would be given cures by their parents without being offered any choice whatsoever.

I'd be interested at least, especially to get rid of my sensory stuff. I hate living with that.

I feel really disconnected from people and the world in general is a strange intimidating place to me, people are strange and I often feel as though I'm talking to them through a foggy window and I just can't quite connect. I'd love to get rid of that. It's lonely.

Other people's emotions really affect me, I get so easily overwhelmed by them. Getting rid of that would be nice too. Really my experience of autism is being lonely, disconnected and extremely overwhelmed by the world and most things in it. I'd love to eliminate all the negatives and just know what living in this world is like when you are NT. How you can possibly read faces properly, social things, how you can deal with noise, last minute changes of plans, not having shutdowns and sensory overload etc.

Then again I'm not sure I'd want a cure if I was more accepting of myself

I'd be worried that people would be forced into getting a cure.