If you could be a neurotypical would you?

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Greatful for everybodies opinions. This is of course a totaly hypothetical question since such a technology does not exist.

i've though about it a bit and I have to say that given there was some hypothetical (and probably impossible) whatsit that would alow me to be a neurotypical i'd be greatly tempted by my curiosity to try it out but i'm still unsure if I would. I do wonder if neurotypicals would choose to become apsies.

Willard wrote:

Simply put, if I didn't have AS, then I wouldn't be me. To expand on the point that Willard made, we would be so fundamentally different from what we are now if we no longer had any signs of AS. Our personalities, interests and life experiences would be so different, we wouldn't really be the same person. So I don't really know how to answer this question.

Why would I want to bcome normal.. thats no fun.

If that would mean having less physical ailments, less mental ailments, being more independent and being able to take care of myself completely without being severely stressed after every socialisation - then hell yes! I don't care about my "identity", "personality", etc - NT or Aspie, as long as it would be less pain, tension, stress and anxiety in my life.

I'm not sure. I would really love to be able to interact with people more easily and in a way that other people don't think is completely awkward and strange. But there are a lot of things that I like about myself, and I would be afraid that becoming neurotypical might eliminate or change some of those things about me. I wouldn't want to become a completely different person. So I don't really know.

No way!

ruveyn

Not interested, I'm fine with myself the way I am.

How can one possibly answer this question correctly? We don't know what it's like to be NT.

For me being an aspie means to be always lonely but hate being around people. I could careless about the lack of eye contact or the ability to understand social cues. What I want to do is be able to touch someone without feeling like I am going to die. I would have to say hell yes I would become an NT.

If we're really going to do science fiction, I'd like to be a grizzly bear in Yellowstone National Forest for a week! I'm top predator. No one's going to get me. And if I happen to be wandering off property, one of the rangers will shoot me with a tranq gun and haul me back.

Now, that would be a week's vacation! That would be an entirely different experience for a week.

And remember, we definitely have some strengths. A NT person is likely to just start a restaurant and expect it to 'naturally' work out (because they're used to things naturally 'working out'). Whereas we're likely to think through the issues, for example, figuring out the three key things we need to hit, figuring how to hit them, a schedule in which we know that we have hit them, a game plan to take it to the next level, etc. This is a generalization, but I think there's a lot of truth to it.

Yes, I bloody would!! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !!