if there was a cure......would you take it?

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I admit I am close to the borderline, but I have had more than my share of troubles in my life. If it had been available when I was 5 or 6, just starting school, I probably would have wanted it, but now? No. I like who I am too much to want to change, even if it would make dealing with others easier.

I would take it, because I want to be naturally social. Don't care what s**t I would lose.

I want to be NT, soooooooooooooooooooooooooooo bad. I hate having AS, it's too much for me, I know everyone thinks I'm weird at work, just because I'm no good with banter. I'm too serious, too nervous, too shy, too unconfident, too weird, and people know it. I know they know. I have quite a nice crowd at work, but I wish I could do more to get closer to them, instead of just standing out because of my severe shyness.

I just want more friends. I want to be part of a crowd where I can speak up without feeling shy to, and I want to go out on outings with them and go on holidays with them and just make the most of my young life, being young and healthy and enjoying myself. But instead I'm just stuck as a solitary person, afraid to communicate with confidence, and there's just no help anywhere for me. Well, there's not a lot doctors can do with people in my situation. I've just got to help myself, but I do enough of that and still get knocked back further.

I just want to be cured. That would then be the end of my unhappy life and I could start a lovely social life, still being in this same body. Yeah.

Absolutely. First in line without a second thought. I'd give up my "mutant powers" to be normal like my sisters any day. Screw the details, screw the side effects or mortality rate, I don't care.

Hell NO!! !
I like pretending I'm a mundie in social situations (even though soon enough most everyone starts seeing through my act), but being one?
Hell NO!! !
I'm having way too much fun being the way I am and loosing that twinkle in my eyes would be unbearable. I would rather die.

I've invested to much effort in my AS life to quit now, i've made NT friends becouse of AS and have wondrful oppertunites in life becouse of AS, I like viewing the world from a different perspective. Killing my AS would be like kiling me from the inside, its the cornerstone of my life and taking at away I would no longer reconize myself. Becouse of AS it took me only 2 decades to learn life lessons most people don't learn until its too late, i'm greatful for that even if that ment getting kicked around alot. Cureing AS in full is playing with fire for anyone old enough to be reading this.

Absolutely not. I would be fearful on how the cure would change me. I would rather be alive and autistic, than dead and not autistic, or comatose and not autistic.

No, I wouldn't.

If i was still young and in my teens at this point, then yes because I already have issues with looking like a normal person while dealing with AS. But at this point in my life it's far too late for a cure to make any real difference or improvement in my life and long term goals.

I wouldnt want a cure, because it would just be too unpredictable on how it would change me. And also, in reality, I dont think an instant cure would be possible without severe complications, above a certain age at least.

Now, if it were possible, what I would want would be essentially a multiple personality type thing, an Aspie personality and an NT personality with the Aspie personality having all the quirks and differences that I do now. And I would have to be able to switch between them at will.

After thinking about it.

I would have to say no, I'm almost 30 now. If I got a cure let's pretend you become 100% normal. Then what, all the abilities I don't have. Dont magically come. Suddenly I wouldn be able to be alone and would probably ending up worse. Because friends and family doesn't just appear out of the blue.

I would be quite scary to be normal after an entire life like this. Then suddenly having to adjust and spend next 20 years to learn what I'm missing.

Absolutely 100% no!