A cure? (I want it)

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Aspergers, if that is what is going on with me, had made my life extremely difficult in a lot of ways.

But I would never want to cure it. I love the way I see the world and I don't want to lose that. Aspergers is not something I have, it is something that is a part of who I am.

The fibromyalgia, on the other hand...!

I was reading a book by Temple Grandin about her life, and I notice she uses the term recovery. I like the term. Of course, in this case, it doesn't mean getting back something one had. More of an analogy with alcoholism. Loosely, better, but not cured. On the BPD board I post at, we use the term recovery, and, there too, it's not getting back something one had. It's getting something one didn't have. But, again, a whole different attitude that thinking "cure".

But, whatever the terminology, there are things we can change and improve. But "cure" isn't the word for that. How about "betterment". While I like the term recovery; still, it's not quite right. It doesn't, for me, fit my experience of, well, of overcoming the traits that keep me from being the best me I can be. Betterment does.

*error* *error* ... does not compute.

Aspergers is no disease therefor a cure is an imaginary wish.
Jeah AS is a challenge, but you're still normal from a natural perspective, from societies you are different.

Cure? Ha!,... what have you been smoking? Can I have some?

Bottom line, No, not a disease therefor no need for a cure of any sort.
I think you've been affected by NTs talk of "fixing" you.
Guess what, you ain't broken.

Short of a "cure", I would appreciate something to lessen or eliminate the manifestations of AS. The sensory issues, the memory problems, the executive dysfunction, the social inconsistencies.... These are not a part of "who I am". They are impediments to who I am.

AS is a neurological condition, exacerbated by environmental factors. We can remedy some of these environmental factors easily enough. But I would love to see some hard science directed at getting to the bottom of AS neurology. And maybe after truly understanding how it works in the brain, there might be some kind of therapy out there that can help to change it in positive ways.

I'm happy with who I am. I don't need to be cured.

I need a cure
and not a day has gone by that i felt otherwise

Reading the two posts above, my thought is there's a big area in between.

Something like, "I accept who I am and I like myself, but there are things I'd like to change, and I would like to continue to grow and develop as a person."

Which, for me, is a good place to be.