Anyone wish they were NT?

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I would say yes and no, If I wanted to be NT, but I feel like I am close to NT in many ways. But many mistakes I made in the past were AS-like, like really careing about important things in life when I was in high school, middle school etc. As well as trying way too hard to be funny (due to the fact that I was trying too hard to seek attention.) If I was NT or at least cared about school back then, my life would be ten times better in my opinion. These are my opinions.

I don't know, because I have never lived life a full NT so there's nothing to compare my current situation to, if I had a week or so as an NT then I'd know.
But the thing is there are all different kinds of personalities in both AS and NT people, so it's not like they're 2 distinct categories, so if I wished I was an NT what kind of NT would I be?

There are times when I wish I could communicate my feelings better. I can tell my wife how I feel about her, but expressing strong emotion is extremely difficult. There is much I would give up for the ability to do that.

I wish I could change the lack of social and communication skills part of it, though I didn't mind having better grades than my NT siblings.

I gotta say I do. I wouldn't have the constant anxiety I have and I wouldn't be so socially oblivious to everything. I think I would certainly be a living a much happier life. If I could have that confidence and no fear of perusing women, that would be a bonus.

yeah, at least I wouldn't be a social cripple, or maybe if I was more autistic I wouldn't be aware of what a cripple I am

I like being an aspie strangely enough. it gives me different ways to see things, and life would be extremely boring if i was normal. the reason i say normal is, the reason people say were different is we aren't like them, and them is the bigger amount of people who think alike. if we we're the majority, this whole topic would be "do you wish you were autistic"

Why, so I can be just like everyone else in the world and have a boring normal life in which pretty much nothing of any interest ever happens?

If I was NT, I'd be a completely different person. Therefore, I don't want to be NT.

I'd rather die than be cured. If I had to, I'd give up everything in my possession to stay Aspie.

I'm new to the labels of AS and NT. Before I knew there were such conditions, I never wanted to be like the people I've known who were capable of treating other people in really shoddy ways. People who were capable of violence as a means to bolster their sense of superiority and entitlement. People who could take your job and/or your home away from you, smile about it, and still sleep at night. People who would make you stay outside in -20 weather because you were a minute late getting home. People who were always right, no matter what, even if they were wrong, and would get obnoxious and belligerent trying to defend their indefensible positions. People who know everything and have experienced nothing. People who do the most illogical things because they can, and anyone who dares to call them on it gets a shot in the head. People who scheme and plot to screw over people who are not like them. I could go on, but I think you see the point.

Never having knowingly met another person on the autistic spectrum, I can only assume the people I have known who fit the above criteria were neruotypical. All people who fit that description can't be as horrible as the ones I've known. Some of them must be nice. Somewhere, there must be people without any trace of autism who live well and treat others the way they would like to be treated, are reasonable, kind, approachable, informed, have a sense of humor, and live by a code of honor. If only because of the law of averages, there must be. But I don't know any.

I couldn't behave like the ways I've described. I couldn't talk myself into believing that it was all right to treat people that way. I couldn't convince myself that wrong was right, and that no other point of view is possible. If that's what it's like to be someone not on the autistic spectrum, I wouldn't trade the way I am for anything.

If I was 100% NT I don't think I'd be me anymore. I just see AS as a label that happens to coincide with some parts of my personality. Things aren't always easy, but I don't think they are for anyone. Personally I don't think being completely normal would be worth losing the ridiculous pointless things that so often make me grin inanely and feel so happy.

Sometimes I wish I were to see what it's like. But other times, no.