Poll: Do you want to be cured, treated, or are you content?

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I see my autism as something to celebrate. I don't wish to be cured or treated, because I'm a free-range aspie and I'm not broken.

So, for all of those who selected that they'd want to be treated:

Are you treating yourself? If not, why not? There are options. They just require commitment.

Just waiting to be processed

By who for what?

By CAMHS for I have no idea To find out what is wrong I guess

I suppose it depends on what you mean by treated. If you mean medications or medical procedures to reduce symptoms, no thank you. But learning adaptive traits or ways to function better / be happier, yes please. Basically, I'm content and that's what I chose.

I wish my sensory issues were better, going to a mall and not shutting down sounds nice. I also wish I could deal with stress a lot better than I do.

My social issues can be kinda depressing and troubling for me personally but other than that I can still manage to make friends, i think I still have issues in other areas of socialization that I'm not aware yet.

My biggest issues are my fixations and obsessions, it causes me to loose focus in school and have a lack of intrests. It doesn't cause me any emotional distress or depression it just has a strain on my school marks..

I'd take treatment over cure. My autism doesn't cause any huge issues, but the things it does cause problems with should be managed.

how would you define the gap between moderate and mild autistic anyway?

My problematic comorbids are already treated & well managed. I don't feel my autism limits me too much.

I want to be cured of my actual disorders or impairments. I don't want to be cured of my personality. Which one are you talking about when you're asking about a cure or treatment? People will use the word "autism" either way. I voted in the poll that I want a cure, but when most researchers or parents are talking about a "cure" or "treatment," it sounds like they are actually just interested in making us superficially appear more "normal," so I don't want their crappy idea of a cure.

care to share them?
being able to talk to people could be a good start.

I've been sharing them here for a year and a half or so.

As others in this thread have been concerned with this: I haven't "become someone else," or "lost my identity/personality," I'm just a happier healthier me who's a heck of a lot more productive in work and life. I've minimize the negative symptoms that were a hindrance to life, and maintained the positives that allow me to think differently & problem solve the way I do.

I've done this via a medicinal herb diet, detox/cleanses, and probiotics which seem to act like neurotransmitters in the enteric nervous system. (Like in the Nature of Things Documentary "Autism Enigma") Certain antibiotics reverse the effort and made symptoms return fairly strongly, but once I realized I was able to improve significantly again via the protocol I follow. Feel free to pm me an email address if you'd like to read my story and what I've done & continue to do for myself. I'm more than happy to share & discuss.

I really don't know. I can't imagine what it would be like to be different from the way I am. Sometimes I do think it would be "better" and therefore I'm curious about what a cure, if there was one, would do for me.

It's a complete unknown.

I will say "treatment" might be good, as long as it's in the form of what I would call more management. I don't want medication but I wouldn't mind better practical and psychological coping skills and techniques. I don't think I myself know enough or do enough to use basic methods of coping. I could do more.

What is the difference between "Mildly Autistic" and "Moderately Autistic"?

Brace your self along winded response ahead.

As for my answer, I want to be better understood I would want the instructors that I am currently working with to have a better understanding of me and that it's not "one size fits all" & that I am more visual in my learning then auditory learner, I want a friend of mine to better understand that I don't have a "small touch" of Autism (to my knowledge there is no such thing as a "small touch") and to better understand some of the things I may say or may do is because I don't know where "the line" may lie and that I'm not being being a Dick....I'd would like for him to quit making jokes of Aspergers as "ass burgers" and assuming those whom are on the spectrum all wear helmets flap their hands or spin around and realize it's a spectrum disorder.

Finally,
I'd like to let my job coach know that I don't want to rush through my studies just so that he could find me a job & that I want to try college and get a degree in a field that I'd like to get into and that when I finally get the job that I want I won't lose it due to my social skills.

As for do I want to be cured treated or content....I dunno I don't like not knowing if somebody is being sarcastic towards me I don't like not knowing if I'm the butt of somebody's joke I don't like the fact that I dunno where the subtle line maybe in terms of social aspect what is appropriate and what may not be. I don't like the fact that I can't pick up on somebody facial expression, I don't like the fact I have 3 different learning disabilities as well as anxiety issues that are intertwine with Autism..and that I am literal it IS black & white with me there are no shades of grey which I feel may not be totally bad but with NT's it's not Black & White yes or no there is a shade of grey and that with NT's they may not be speaking in a literal tongue with me and that I have issues picking up on if they are speaking in the literal term or if they are joking around.

That said I like the intense knowledge of a two subjects that I have, I kinda like the routine I have made for my self, and the fact that I'd do OK being alone in life where as NT's would need for some human contact.

So a long winded answer to a short question.