aspergers is almost gone

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Yeah. Whatever. As if Hans dying before he wrote his papers would have changed your underlying neurology. You would still be you. It would just be called something else.

Or are you using dark humor?

Its called a vent, a rant. No need for you to call people names. Calling someone a troll without backing up your response is trolling in it self. I should be the one calling you a troll, but luckily, I am not that ret*d.

I am not a humourous person. Give me a time machine and I'll go back and clip him myself.

I'm not sure letting you use my time machine would be high on the list if I had one.

I did back up my response, you just cut the second paragraph of my post off... Because you're trolling.

I cut the second part of your post off because I didn't have a response to that. What is the point of quoting something that you can't reply on? Hmm, where is the logic?

Because that was where I explained my reasoning, you just chose to ignore that part because you have no response to reason as you've just admitted.

not that that's wrong, but I curious how exactly you see a cure working.

For the social aspect as i see it, there is a lack of the ability to recognize and learn, and there is the lack of practical knowledge. The first being the condition, the second being the effect.

Even if you had a magical cure that could make you see everything normally, it couldn't teach you what you don't know. You would be left with the piratical social knowledge of someone half your age, but all the things that interested you would hold no value anymore. Not having sensory issues might be nice, but then you would not be able to see little things (i could watch complex clockworks for hours, or strange water flows, ferrofluid ...).

I would like to learn better practical social skills sure, but it's not the top of the list.

That being said, congrats to the OP. You seem to have found something you wanted

Sadly, I think you're right about what would happen, if this were possible.
Happily, I think you're right that it will probably never be possible.

But, if it were ever to become possible, and people were being forced to accept a "cure", I'd go hide out in the woods. I am who I am. No one else has a right to forcibly alter my personality. I do support the right of an adult, without pressure, to undergo whatever treatment they decide is worthwhile for them. For parents to make such a choice for their children, for society to make such a choice for anyone, for any pressure to be applied - that, to me, is a fundamental violation of our basic human rights.

As far as eugenics is concerned - it is pure, raw evil. I would support, as a criminal punishment, tattooing every eugenicist with a huge swastika across their face, to warn the world of the ideology that has twisted their minds. If they get their genetic test, before they can succeed in eliminating us, I hope a bunch of aspies get together and figure out how to clone ourselves. And do it. Millions of times.

Although I find it sad that society drives anyone to feel this way, I accept the right of any one of us to seek to change or hide what we are - as individuals. That's a personal decision. But none of us - or anyone else - has the right to make that kind of decision for anyone else. Although I'd rather be an aspie myself, I would never think of suggesting that NTs be forced to undergo some treatment to become more like us.

It would be incredibly ironic if the person that discovered the cure had Asperger's.

I'd rather not have the negatives that are caused directly or indirectly from aspergers..

I agree with all of the above.

You can put nice shiny siding on a two hundred year old house and it won't look the same, but it's still a two hundred year old house.

What about the philosophical or psychological implications of being "redesigned"? How would that change one's character? I'm afraid that genetic engineering on children will usher in an age of heartless, psychopathic hedonists.

luckily we're not even close to being at that point... we discussed it in genetic ethics class. i mean, that statement doesn't solve the fact. genetic counseling is still in its infancy. we can only *really* choose children for their gender, and only by making some zygotes and choosing the one with the XY or XX. If you couldn't tell, the industry is a bit unregulated as of yet, until people start to become decided on these issues. Right now, it's super expensive. Then, there are tests for genetic diseases. The cruelest response was people aborting all of those down syndrome babies. Gene therapy currently can only sort of treat monogenic diseases, like severe combined immune disorder (the most "successful" treated disorder.) Not trying to dis it, only portray how far we are from getting anywhere to that point. I only hope that ethics will be considered in the future. The problem, really, is public ignorance, which society seems to tote ignorance like a designer label.

Because it can make you miss social cues, leading to a less than desirable social life and unnecessary conflict, hence sabotaging your opportunities to advance in the world. I don't know if I have it, but I do NOT enjoy dealing with whatever I have.