Am I the only person who wants to be cured?

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The best thing about finding out about my neurological differences is that I could finally grasp the concept that the problem isn't me. There's nothing wrong with me. My not fitting in with other people is their problem, and as a few people have discovered, their loss. I am a useful association.

Yes, there are people out there who seek to make their problems mine but that only works if I buy into their charade. When people treat me like I don't have the right to exist, I just blow them off and go on with my life. It's an immature attitude that insists the world should be just so - an attitude not worth my time or even acknowledgement.

Trying to be the perfect NT made me physically ill for a long time. It wasn't until I stopped wasting my resources trying to "fit in" that I started to see the light of wellness. I hope you don't waste your life wishing for something that doesn't exist. It can only bring you down.

My mother always told me to "rise above it." Not that hard when you realize who you're dealing with.

I just watched Brave. Few days ago. And I got- what
Be careful what you wish for.

I don't want to be changed. I want to stay who I am.
Being cured would probably mean getting rid of all your special gifts , you're talents.

I hate being grounded from computer. The Neo2 I got for Christmas freed me from having to 'tether to a computer."

And it's actually pretty good you don't fit as well into society. Normal kids are more likley to die sooner.
I think in the future, 'we'll' be taking more of the land.

Yes I have, I know meny people who firmly beleave the purpose of autistic people is to fix the worlds problems by our different and honest perspectives and inabillity to conform to the twisted mediocre ideals of socity, I don't really beleave that however its quite possable that with more of us in the world that will happen, nice thought anyway. I just wish I could be let in on the plan. I just got sick of the Catholic churchs/schools irrelivent preaching and politics the end for me was ther stance on gay rights, i'm not an in the box thinker so I tend to reject beleafs and morles forced on me.

I doubt trying to look NT will make me physically ill. So far it's only made me tired and a bit more anxious than I would be otherwise. I think try to be NT is worth it because I don't get mistreated as much when I do. If I were to stop trying to be NT I would be stressed out and anxious about how I get mistreated.

I don't know how old you are but I was 28 when I started getting sick. I have Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia. CFS is caused by a virus that lies in wait for the perfect set of circumstances. Many people carry this virus and don't know it. Stress and anxiety sets the virus in motion and severe fatigue is one of the first symptoms. Fibromyalgia is a human response to severe trauma. It can come on after a car accident, mental or physical abuse, illness, war... anything traumatic. For me, it was my now ex-husband. He was emotionally abusive and got worse the sicker I got. I was very sick for 23 years (raising 4 kids in the meantime while still enduring occasional emotional abuse from their father.) It wasn't until I learned about autism and my own situation that I was able to turn things around. I was never the problem. I sure wish I could have headed it all off when I was younger, say about 20.

Masking autism is a resource sapping affair. I say one is better off being honest; being themselves. It sure works for me.

Try a heart monitor or blood pressor tester and see the difference, if acting NT works for you, makes you happy then go for it however from your posts that dosn't seem to be the case.

I don't understand your post.

Making it a Yes/No question is not justifying. I would never take "the pill" but many do

Easy, your anxious and tired, do that long enough and you are well on your way to a heart attack or something, You talk about how acting NT makes you happy however your tone on here is very depressing, are you happy or not?

Acting NT has definitely paid off. Before I acted like an NT I was constantly bullied by peers AND adults. In the last five years I've only been bullied twice, once by this crazy guy on the spectrum with serious behavior issues and another time by a group of NT girls. I don't actually think being myself will make me less stressed out. Things will probably go back to the way they were before. I also get EXTREMELY happy when I can have a successful social interaction. That can only happen if I say the right things and not act too immature or weird. When I was a kid I was moderate functioning and I was always being treated like a ret*d. I don't want to be EVER treated like that again. I bet if I acted like myself random people on the street would know I have ASD. I bet I won't get a "heart attack or something" because I don't eat McDonalds all the time.

You would be a completely different person if cured.

I'd happily take that if I could trade in the depression that I get when friends and family suddenly start ignoring me and I have no idea what I said or did to upset them. It's happening to me right now, my entire family isn't talking to me. That sucks.

I go through depression. Reality causes my depression.

I highly doubt it. I might lose a few of my special interests, but since I don't have any strengths that NTs don't have I probably won't lose much. I bet I would feel a bit strange at first, but it probably won't be too bad because NTs are better at dealing with change. I will also have way less anxiety and depression because NTs are way better at dealing with things. I will also make friends and not be lonely anymore. I will also be able to go back to public school. Right now I'm in a special school because I don't have the motivation NTs have to go to school. I'm thinking about dropping out. I'm sick of my life and I don't see much point in living. My point is that I'll still be the same person. I will probably have the same non-special interests and my personality will be the same. I will probably be more social because socializing will probably energize me instead of draining my energy like it does now.

A cure would make my life better than it is, by lifting the limitations that a person with Asperger's has compared to a NT, so in that sense I would liked to be cured as well.

I want all those crazy people out there to be cured. I wouldn't want everybody to be Aspie, though. There would be too much rudeness. Can you imagine every social encounter ending like the average comment section after a news article? By cured, I mean they wouldn't exhibit their all-to-common bizarre social behaviors, such as status sorting. They would be able to interact with Aspies without their crippling awkwardness.

Consider the horrors of being "cured" of being an Aspie:
>Inability to think in ways that are simultaneously concrete and abstract.
>Can't comprehend deep humor.
>Frequently speak in nearly incoherent sentence fragments while using simple words and sentence structures that are inadequate to convey their intended meanings. NTs refer to this as "spoken" language as if the use of the mouth exempts them from the rules of grammer.
>Knee jerk respect for inappropriate "authority" figures.
>Psychological projection combined with careless "instinctual" recognition causes them to misconstrue the emotions of others.
>Empathy easily trumps logic, allowing them to be persuaded with dishonest fallacies of exploiters
>Easily flattered by salesmen, allowing them to be persuaded with no logic at all.
>Moral sense often impaired by emotional reasoning
>Watching baseball. NTs frequently waste time learning extensive but irrelevant sports statistics.
>Overrate sex when they're not getting it and underrate it when they are.
>It usually takes an NT only ten minutes alone to start feeling lonely.
>Emotional states are contagious among NTs. While this is sometimes a good thing, it still freaks me out thinking about the mass insanity that followed 9/11.