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

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If the side effects aren't severe, I would take a pill that makes me more socially acceptable. If that means a total elimination of my autistic traits, so be it. The hatred I have received from the human race has permanently damaged me and I'd love to be someone quite different than what I am.

God if I could only get my hands on that magic pill.

You'd have to fight me for the first place!

Aspies fighting Aspies just for the promise of being like NT´s who have only inflicted pain and suffering upon the world, always destroying what they don't understand or ignoring what goes beyond their scope of beliefs. We will kill each other to be like these savages and sadly I would do away with any of you to be like them; it's funny though, so much lost to be something that really isn't all that great,but done just so we can fit in. Brethren, we are on the planet of the apes. We fail to tame the beast and instead seek to become one, we are not animals. If we had tamed these beast in ancient times as was our purpose,then we would not now live in such a world.

unless we can somehow escape to a place where autism is the norm then we will forever be the odd ones out.

I'll be "cured" when I die.

How is that like either one? HFA is a little more robotic? Can you explain how the picture represents each condition?

According to the DSM (Mental Health Bible) it is difficult to separate High Functioning Autism and Asperger's. The reason is because of the following. While from a social view point, people with Asperger's are often more Animated and appear overall normal, people with High functional autism tend to exhibit greater inability to understand and even react to social cues. Aside from this however, on paper it often looks the same; with the exception that people with high functional autism speak later that they developmentally should and the shocking aspect of some aspies actually speaking very early (I spoke when I was less than a year old), there are few to any difference. More than likely Asperger's Syndrome will be digested into the term High Functional Autism and simply instead state that people with High Functional Autism can develop speech early or late but it should not be used as an indicator to deter the assignment of Autism as a Diagnosis, completely removing the Asperger's classification which will no longer appear in the DSM (Diagnostic Statistic Manual of Mental Disorders) as of the 5th edition due out May 2013.

I would totally take it because i feel like my dissability or AS or what ever it falls in...the doesn't have the advantages listed here such as high IQ. I find I have trouble learning, and remembering things and I consider that the worst part of my dissability amongst the other negative things like trouble socializing.

No, Asperger's has made me who I am. I would want to keep things like my obsessions. I wouldn't be the same without it

I have discovered that I learn differently than others. Likely you are the same. I can successfully understand subjects that are in the same learning scope such as history and literature, but classes like Calculus require that I devote separate time to focus only on this subject. My brain will often have a hard time wrapping itself around complex subjects however once I truly understand it I understand it permanently and can build upon it or utilize this information in startling ways. Sometimes we have to narrow down our focus on one specific thing; even if that means focusing on it separately; also ask yourself "how much are studying"; I would study 1-2 hours a week a maintain C's and B's in college; you are probably the same, the social anxiety clouds your focus and takes away from your focus. When you are busy feeling like you don't fit into this world, it will overlap into other things in your life.

We all want to be loved, have friends and a social life; its just finding a place where we fit in. Asperger's is not classified as a disability; there is no cure and can never be a cure as the brain is wired differently. I suspect that specific regions of the brain that were set aside for things like emotions and social development in the brain of NT's are being used to process information in Aspies; it would explain Einstein using more of his brain and why Apies are often considered to be so smart. Our brains are just wired for this kind of thing. it could be something that stems back from prehistoric times where in tribes specific individuals developed thought patterns to think out of the scope of normal neanderthals; it's possible that a genetic mutation occurred that caused every so many people born to have this trait. The draw back is we have access to larger regions for data processing but smaller regions for social and emotional understanding.

Man, you do live up to your name in every thread. You deliver with style


I disagree though. Haruhi has no AS traits. If anything she has ADHD.

Nagato oth...plenty. Poster child of.

Would I take the cure? Absolutely. It will not change my life experiences or what I have learned up until now. That is what makes me..me.

If anything, the 'cure' would open the social world and THAT is boldly going where I should've gone before...

Pretty much, except I don't agree that most aspies appear overall normal, but a lot do. They're closer to normal than HFA for damn sure though. When I went to a spectrum gathering, you could easily tell who had aspergers and who had autism. Every one who had autism was impossible to make conversation with, whereas the aspies it wasn't so difficult. It was obvious.

The real problem is that there are benefits to have Asperger's; these benefits do not exist for people with general autism. It's very weird. If a pill actually existed that could help to alleviate the symptoms of Asperger's but reduce intelligence in Apies, it might be dangerous. Many of the greatest innovators have been aspies. This leaves me to wonder what would have happened if Einstein had took that magic pill; or the guy who makes the next break through in physics that allow for inter-planetary travel. While we aspies suffer with fitting in, would curing (I'm hesitant with this word) Aperger's actually harm the greater human population? Maybe we really aren't meant to be cured.

In a second. So tired of being the outcast

Why would I want to change my brain so much that I may as well be a different person? I'd rather live with who I am then try to change who I am to fit someone else's idea of who I should be.