If you could become NT, would you? seen on twitter

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I saw this on twitter and I thought it was interesting. Here's the tweet, tweeted by an aspergian.
"If you could become NT, would you? 99.9% Aspies say NO".

If you could become NT, would you? My answer would be no also. Why am I saying no? Because it's not my thing to be like that, it seems too alien to me. What's your response and why?

No. I like my interests and I might become an author one day because of it. I hate my sensory issues and my meltdowns though. I need to find a way to get them under control.

I look at society and I just think 'I don't envy you.' I really like who I am especially what interests I have. I love to think about things and talk about things hardly anyone does. Although I'm kind of surrounded my mad arty/jazz people so some of them are much likely too.
I don't care about popular music or fashion or whatever fad is going around today. I just don't. I don't even like how people spend hours on Facebook posting pictures of cats. I know some people with autism might do that but the people I know aren't. They're just bored at work.

I would; it would make my life a lot easier.....

It's hard to say because it could potentially alter me in so many ways that I would have to change my entire life in order to be happy.

No

Yes, definitely. For me, this question is like asking a person in a wheelchair if he'd like to regrow his legs if this was medically possible.

Edited to add: The missing legs example isn't that far off. Autistic people are missing connections between the frontal lobe and the rest of the brain. I believe if this could be repaired, it wouldn't change who I am, it would merely provide me with the abilities that I'm currently lacking. And even if it would change my personality, so what? I don't much like who I am and I'm not really happy this way. I'd definitely want to be fixed if this was an option.

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Sounds like a made-up statistic if ever I heard one ...

Definitely not,I would lose all the skills and ways of looking at the world that make me who I am.It might be intreresting to ask NTs whether they would like to become aspies,even temporarily.

Interesting, but are we confusing introversion with extroversion when we say or intimate "following trends ,fashions or enjoying small talk?"

People (NTs) have passionate interests, and have a presence of mind to be a unique individual. In fact one can have a beautiful mind and be "NT."

But do folks in this thread really believe that, though, as one can not have communication difficulties( AS), and have it all, as the saying goes ?

It is not something which will ever be possible so I never give the question any serious consideration. The same goes for all such hypothetical questions.

Tricky question. I'd still be as socially inept as I am now, but it'd probably matter to me a lot more. There's really no way of knowing that for sure, either. So I guess the real question concerns how well I'd be able to bridge the gap after becoming aware of it.

Yes. I would like to be a NT

But it will change every nice thing about me my kindness, compassion, helping and healing nature, forgiveness that i have and non gossipping
Probably it will take away all that is good in me but it will make me socially fit, sucessful in career, sucessful in relationship, lots of friends, holidays, party, vacations,

what's wrong with a little dreaming? as for me, i'd reluctantly turn it down, due to the fact that i believe god made me the way i am [IOW, addled] for a reason, and even if i don't fully comprehend this reason the fact remains that i am the way i am in order to learn something that i wouldn't be learning otherwise. this reminds me of when i was a new army recruit, and as soon as i was in, they asked me if i wanted out- and i gulped hard and very reluctantly replied, "no," and for the same reason. but the administrative clerk who asked me that question could sense that i was very much the reluctant warrior, his expression said it all.

Starting out as a 23/24yo NT with the experience and skill of a NT baby?

Having to learn everything at age 23 that others started to learn during their infancy? That makes normal development in tune with peers impossible as far as I can tell.

Being the quarter of a decade short while everybody else is nearly 25 years ahead of me? Developmentally delayed, huh?

I'd be disabled then again, trading in my pervasive developmental delay with... a developmental delay that could be a PDD again for all I know.

I'm not so sure that it will never be possible. Research has shown that the transplantation of neural stem cells, as well as the treatment with synthetic molecules such as neurodazine, can induce neurogenesis and repair neurological damage in adults (link). It might be possible at some point to improve the connection between the frontal lobe and other brain areas in autistic people.