Nexus wrote:
If someone came out with a cure from being NT, making you Autistic; which allowed raw savant skills in all realms of audio, visual, mathematical, imaginative, common sense skills, etc comfortably (basically making you a super-genius with an IQ of 300) in exchange to loosing most social abilities but retain a level of empathy and essential social skills; most NTs would protest. They would be stating the exact same reasons why as above about feeling subhuman and forced to comply, feeling the exact same way I do.
After all to me, you'd think it'd be more logical to cure people from socializing so unnecessarily in exchange for super-intelligent capabilities to advance civilization and culture thousands of times faster; and be able to factor in all ramifications of technologies they create (and could have prevented massive environment damage, in favor of finding eco-friendly means to support new technologies). Also, the world would be at peace because everyone would be intelligent enough to form universal understanding without irrational emotions or primitive social cultures clouding their thoughts.
Hmm. Sometimes I think I'd like that. I'd finally have those great cognitive skills I envy, and social stuff wouldn't be much of a loss because I kind of suck at it for an NT anyway. Or so I've been told most of my life...(although they wouldn't have said "for an NT" because there are no aspies in my family - I learned of this place through an aspie friend/boyfriend)
But society would probably still be better off with the full spectrum of human cognitive and perceptive styles, which includes neurotypicality. Surely an Aspie-dominant society would benefit from services that someone with a big picture orientation, dull and well-integrated senses, and ease at shifting attention, just as much as our NT-dominant society benefits from those with detail orientation, acute and variably configured senses, and ability to pay obsessive attention.
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Right planet, wrong country: possibly PLI as a child, Dxed ADD as a teen, naturalized citizen of neurotypicality as an adult
10 Jan 2007, 3:53 pm
