What would you do with your life if you didnt have AS?

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suppose if you were born a NT or maybe you get cured of AS at an early age...

What would do with your life? What kind of career goals would you pursue?

Now I know that techincally we would have no idea what our lives would be like if we weren't born with AS...given we wouldn't have the personalities or obsessions we have now.

But have you look at the different kinds of career paths and wish you could give it a shot but know you couldn't on an account of poor social skills or poor coordination getting in the way?

For most of my adolescense I was obsessed with wanting to be an actress...then I found I suck at acting. Heh.

I dunno if I still would want to get married and have kids if I was an NT. I know most people would still want to pursue that.

I've been watching way too much TV lately...I think it would be cool if I got to go into something like being an FBI or CIA agent. Travel places, solve puzzles, and all of that risky but adventerous stuff. Too bad I know I would get killed on day one because of my mind blindness, weak persuasion, and my poor ability to pay attention to my own surroundings. Also my parents would never approve and think I am full of s**t.

i'd be living the american dream

I'd probably be a lot less interesting...

i wouldn't probably dedicate my life to science, since i would be more out going. i am supposed to be good looking so i would enjoy that and have fun and also i guess i would end up in some private company doing some management job instead and would have been divorced with kids by now.

Dman, that's hard. I'd be such a different person. I'd try to go back to school and get my PhD in Psychology to be a psychologist. I'd also try to find a woman quick.

My ego would demand for me to obtain a high-status position. I would be ruthless and do anything to achieve power.

I would be a college professor. I would own a home and have children.

Probably be in school and I wouldn't even be with my bf. I would have taken a different pathway in my life. I'm not sure what i be like without my AS. I know I wouldn't have gone to Europe if it weren't for it. I was obsessed with 101 Dalmatians so i got obsessed with London too and my mom promised to take me there if I finish school. She took me there alright and we decided to do other things. I bet I would have had lot more friends and maybe have a boyfriend in junior high and maybe have other bf's in my teens and I bet I would have never met my ex boyfriends maybe not end up with shrinks. I probably still would have ended up with speech therapy since it runs in our family and maybe still have a learning disability so maybe I would have still been in special ed. I probably would have have an easier time finding jobs in my late teens and maybe ended up with a different job than I have now. .

id prob be in a university college, have friends, have a good job, a financee, saving up for a house, would be great.

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I'd probably have passed school, made friends, and not feel as hopelessly isolated as I have been since the age of five.

I probably would have been very social and a party animal. I would have done dance as an extracurricular and wouldn't read as much in my free time. And I probably would have not achieved the honor roll standing that I have today thanks to my dedication, high standards, and a need for perfectionism.

Probably the same thing I'm trying to do now: become a professor of music and a professional clarinettist/composer. My academic ability hasn't been affected, thankfully, but the better executive functioning would be useful. I'm sure, though, that the fact that music is my biggest obsession is useful to me now, and if I was socially able and inclined to be social, that socialising would take up time that I currently spend on music.
It might make it easier to move out of home, too, if I had a brain without a complete lack of organisational ability and that didn't get exhausted just with what I do already.

A pirate.

...I would be one of those manipulative annoying people that can get away with everything. Someone with a lot of charm and not much in the way of ethics. That's how I view certain people. Seriously. I see many of them, not all, but quite a few, as people who can use their charm and wit and "niceness" to get away with stuff I can't get away with. The nicer the person and the better the job, the more they seem to do without others getting upset. It's just what I've noticed.
I tell myself it's cool that I'm this way because it keeps me purer in heart.

I'd have top grades in school, stayed in one high level secondary school, wouldn't have been bullied apparently, as I was told besides my odd behaviours (the autism) I'm cool. I'd go about just the careers I want to go, with the difference that I'd definitely succeed because of my grades, social ability and lots of additional time in my childhood that I didn't spent with meltdowns, being bullied and learning stuff others can do easily.