If there was a pill TO CURE Asperger's, would you take it?

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If there was a pill TO CURE Asperger's, would you take it?

you bet!

How can you cure something that is NOT a disease?
Come on, now, some parts of AS suck, especially the sensory integration problems. But there are upsides as well. My synasthaesia is pretty neat, I love my awesome memory, and I see no problem with obsessing over one topic. So I have almost no friends. Whoop-de-freaking-do. Most teens my age are morons anyways. I would rather devote my time to other interests than compulsive social interaction.

A thousand times NO!

Given all I have observed of human society and what is recorded in history all I can say is that 'normal' sounds like an unimaginable thing to be afflicted with.

technicaly, if one is not at ease, then it's DIS-ease. I'm not at east with having AS or any other condition like ADHD. I wish there was a pill or some kind of cure for them.

I want friends and to be able to do stuff that NTs do.

Depends on how high I could get on that pill as a side effect?

Why am I reminded of "The Matrix"?

M

Morpheus: You take the blue pill and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.

Neo: Are you hitting on me?

One pill makes you larger
And one pill makes you small
And the ones that mother gives you
Don't do anything at all
Go ask Alice
When she's ten feet tall

And if you go chasing rabbits
And you know you're going to fall
Tell 'em a hookah smoking caterpillar
Has given you the call
Recall Alice
When she was just small

When men on the chessboard
Get up and tell you where to go
And you've just had some kind of mushroom
And your mind is moving low
Go ask Alice
I think she'll know

When logic and proportion
Have fallen sloppy dead
And the White Knight is talking backwards
And the Red Queen's "off with her head!"
Remember what the dormouse said:

"____ ____ ____"

that's kinda unfair. Kids have to learn about responsibility and after the homework or chores are done, they can go out and play. If Calvin there didn't take his meds, he wouldn't do his homework and be constantly hounded by distractions and eventually fail in life. Apparently the meds are working with Calvin and if it means sacrificing poor Hobbes, so be it.

wow, what an old stick in the mud you are!

sacrifice my best friend?? you monster!

It's fake.

What it means is that the meds siphoned Calvin's creativity and turned him into an obedient machine.
Which is sometimes how I feel about my meds, of course when I haven't taken them is when I'm at my worst.

I know it's fake, I know it's callous.

I guess I would need to learn where a good line would be to set. Maybe do some homework and take out the trash and then you can go play.

I don't want my kid to be like me - a failure with no friends.

The point isn't really that Calvin is doing his schoolwork like he's meant to instead of playing outside - rather, the way Calvin is behaving is completely unlike the behaviour we know him for. It's not really Calvin any more. I take the stance that I wouldn't want to take a cure, because I don't feel I would be myself any more. AS is too much a part of who I am.

The cartoon scared me. Your rejoinder almost sent me into a screaming fit.

My God.

double postie

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