would you take the cure

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if someone were to come up with a cure for as would anybody take it....

i wouldnt

Nope, never, not unless I was being forced it with my mouth forced open with a car jack and I was pinned down and in a straightjacket.

There ain't nothin' to cure

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspergers

1. Difficulty reading the social and emotional messages in the eyes - People with AS don't look at eyes often, and when they do, they can't read them.
2. Making literal interpretation - AS individuals have trouble interpreting colloquialisms, sarcasm, and metaphors.
3. Being considered disrespectful and rude - prone to egocentric behavior, individuals with Asperger's miss cues and warning signs that this behavior is inappropriate.
4. Honesty and deception - children with Asperger's are often considered "too honest" and have difficulty being deceptive, even at the expense of hurting someone's feelings.
5. Becoming aware of making social errors - as children with Asperger's mature, and become aware of their inability to connect, their fear of making a social mistake, and their self-criticism when they do so, can lead to social phobia.
6. A sense of paranoia - because of their inability to connect, persons with Asperger's have trouble distinguishing the difference between the deliberate or accidental actions of others, which can in turn lead to a feeling of paranoia.
7. Managing conflict - being unable to understand other points of view can lead to inflexibility and an inability to negotiate conflict resolution. Once the conflict is resolved, remorse may not be evident.
8. Awareness of hurting the feelings of others - a lack of empathy often leads to unintentionally offensive or insensitive behaviors.
9. Repairing someone's feelings - lacking intuition about the feelings of others, people with AS have little understanding of how to console someone or how to make them feel better.
10. Recognizing signs of boredom - inability to understand other people's interests can lead AS persons to be inattentive to others. Conversely, people with AS often fail to notice when others are uninterested.
11. Introspection and self-consciousness - individuals with AS have difficulty understanding their own feelings or their impact on the feelings of other people.
12. Clothing and personal hygiene - people with AS tend to be less affected by peer pressure than others. As a result, they often do what is comfortable and are unconcerned about their impact on others.
13. Reciprocal love and grief - since people with AS have difficulty emotionally, their expressions of affection and grief are often short and weak.
14. Understanding of embarrassment and faux pas - although persons with AS have an intellectual understanding of embarrassment and faux pas, they are unable to grasp concepts on an emotional level.
15. Coping with criticism - people with AS are compelled to correct mistakes, even when they are made by someone in a position of authority, such as a teacher. For this reason, they can be unwittingly offensive.
16. Speed and quality of social processing - because they respond through reasoning and not intuition, AS individuals tend to process social information more slowly than the norm, leading to uncomfortable pauses or delays in response. This means that although the AS individual will tend to make a more reasoned and balanced understanding and/or decision, it can lead to the AS individual being told to use their 'common sense' to solve problems, a concept they cannot understand or use in the way a neurotypical person can.
17. Exhaustion - as people with AS begin to understand theory of mind, they must make a deliberate effort to process social information. This often leads to mental exhaustion.


...yes there is.

No! I was born aspie! I die aspie!

Indeed. Cool

Nothing to cure; everything to kill.

If you cannot understand this: you haven't observed humanity through an objective eye.

And you have achieved this supposed objectivity? What a subjective view indeed.

No. It would be like having a lobotomy, and experiencing personality change.

Besides, there is no cure.

Objectivity equates to viewing both sides of the argument without personal bias; then coming to the conclusion.

I'm an observer of humanity, it's all I've ever been; when you do nothing but sit and watch (and you're a person who's full of empathy) it's easy to see both sides of the axiom.

Difficult question, I can't say I definitely would or wouldn't. There are many brilliant,
intelligent and happy people with AS who don't need or want to be cured. But in my case I
feel AS does more harm to me than good. I don't have any special skills or talents that
are related to my AS. So if there was a cure I guess I would consider taking it.

there is no cure but we dont need one anyway aspies are perfect in all that we are and shouldnt change.
even if life is a little more difficult for us than for everyone else

long live the aspies

Sun Child 1969

everyone is special in there own way
keep positive sweetie im sure your a great guy

Wouldn't take it.

Tim

if there was a cure i'd tell them to stuff it! I'd rather be a respectful young aspie than an unpolite f***ing Nt! also id rather be aspie so i can talk to you guys and gals than have few real friends!

I voted yes.

I can relate to SunChild - I feel I missed out on the various positives of Asperger's that some of the guys who hang out here are blessed with - I'm not particularly clever, not especially good mathematically or linguistically, and my obsessions are never going to turn into a job - I can see how a love of programming or a particular branch of chemistry could pay off, but not tatty old comedy shows and papier mache.