1Million Dollars Vs Lose Your Aspergers.

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Hard to say, I don't particularly like NT people (or at least get along with them), so I'll stay where I am, even without the million dollars. But if someone's going to pay me for who I am...

I'll take the million. I am fine with having Asperger's. I have had it all my life. I would just use the money to move to a quiet place and I would be very happy Asperger's and all.

If I could relive my life without autism, that to me is worth more than a million dollars. Some things cannot be described in money. Even though in my line of work well over 6 figures with enough experience is not uncommon, I really do not care all that much about money. As long as I have everything I need I am content and if it wasn't for the fact that I love this work then I would be filling groceries at a mall. But physical needs aren't everything... a person also needs mental nurture, friends and love. That is not something you can buy but that is something for which autism becomes a huge issue. It is a constant struggle to find nurture for your mind sometimes becoming so desperate you want to beg for friendship or love. Money isn't going to help with that, it becomes just another red herring where you try to fulfil your emotional emptiness with materialistic gratification which lasts only very short until you need your next fill.

The million of course.

a)cure my "aliment" that impedes my ability to possibly make money
b)have the instant resources to live out a large chunk if not all of the rest of my life happily, also granting me the ability to attend school with no financial burden and at my own pace, giving me better grades which will make me more eligible for a job if I so choose.

Give me the money.
I would buy my own cure.
Solitude.

I don't see the point in losing the autism at this stage of my life.
Maybe if I was a teenager or even in my 20's that would be a different story.

There are other aspects of myself that I would much rather lose.

Wouldn't know what to do with a million. Money's a headache, and that's not enough to do the sorts of things I'd want to do with large sums of money. Now, not having Asperger's? Oh, I could do a lot with that. Easy choice.

You'd have to put a lot more on the table before I'd consider the money option. Get into ten or more figures, then we'll talk. I could think of some things to do with that. It'd make up for my still-impaired ability to get it done through other means.

Either is nice.
Tho I'd take the money.
Why?
Because being NT doesn't guarantee any kind of success.
Money on the other hand puts food on the table.

Took me 55 years to find out why things are the way they are for me. Why would I want to start over? Give me the money. It won't buy happiness, but it would help with security.

1 Million dollars pretty easily.

@zykdz and skibum:

That's what I find interesting about this. Both of you were diagnosed later in life. I was diagnosed about as early as it's actually possible to do so. It makes one wonder how much that colors one's perceptions of this issue, among other things. I haven't met anyone else I can compare myself to in this regard.

It makes perfect sense how you both feel about this. Making such an adjustment would probably be very difficult, perhaps more than many people would be willing to endure. I do feel differently, but I understand where you're both coming from.

As for the posts themselves, you both go over a lot of the same points.

I'd expect that if I woke up tomorrow (trying to distance it from the "cure" talk and take this into purely hypothetical space) "neurotypical" and for the purposes of this discussion aware of it would absolutely be a shock and take a great deal of adjustment. I'd fully expect parts of my personality to change. However, I've thought about this and realized that the parts that would likely change are not the ones I value as they are now. They're parts I've been struggling to change but haven't quite managed to get control over. At the same time, there are deeply important parts of my personality and identity that come into constant conflict with my ASD, especially since most of them do not seem to stem from it. Without it, those traits that I deem desirable would be able to develop freely.

Basically, if it means I wouldn't be quite the same person? I'd be fine with that as long as most of the parts that matter to me are still there. I believe they would be. A few might not, but that's something I could "write off". If the adjustment was painful and trying? I would endure. Given that I've been consciously working on dealing with a non-autistic world and understanding non-autistic people for pretty much all my life, I would not be going in unprepared. This is where awareness of one's diagnosis and approaches to it comes in. What we talked about already.

I don't expect many people would be willing to put that much on the line if this scenario were possible. I don't blame them one bit.