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02 Apr 2011, 4:47 pm

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You can't cure something that's not a disease! Who wants to be "cured" of what makes them special?

If you have a disorder that is crippling, like making you afraid to leave the house or talk to a person, then you may want help do deal with the anxieties, but that's not the same thing.

Besides, if we "cured" AS, we'd soon be faced with a severe shortage of engineers and scientists.


Not to mention mentally ill dole scum. Not sure the world can survive without me to be honest! :lol:



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02 Apr 2011, 6:39 pm

ducksinarow wrote:
You can't cure something that's not a disease! Who wants to be "cured" of what makes them special?

If you have a disorder that is crippling, like making you afraid to leave the house or talk to a person, then you may want help do deal with the anxieties, but that's not the same thing.

Besides, if we "cured" AS, we'd soon be faced with a severe shortage of engineers and scientists.


I think you should be made to share all that intelligence, which is needed for things like tech pursuits, with those who are deprived of it, by curing those who didn't have that aptitude to begin with.



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02 Apr 2011, 9:16 pm

I don't wish to be cured (of AS anyways) either :)



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03 Apr 2011, 1:00 am

I don't want a cure, what is wrong with how I am? lol I think society needs a 'cure'......not me.



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03 Apr 2011, 1:07 am

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I don't want a cure, what is wrong with how I am? lol I think society needs a 'cure'......not me.


Ever fantasize about being the only person alive? I do.



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03 Apr 2011, 1:30 am

jamieboy wrote:
Sweetleaf wrote:
I don't want a cure, what is wrong with how I am? lol I think society needs a 'cure'......not me.


Ever fantasize about being the only person alive? I do.


Yeah I have, I mean hey as long as there are still other living creatures and plants about i think i would be able to enjoy my existance if I was the only human on earth.



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03 Apr 2011, 7:02 am

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I don't wish to be cured of my autism. I've been living with my disorder for three and a half decades. My personality traits, likes and dislikes are all a result of me being on the spectrum. I have three decades of all of this. If I was to be forced to take the cure against my will, I would lose all of that, and I would have to re-adapt to the world as an NT, and I really don't want that for myself. People should either accept me as I am, with my vintage clothes, Kinks T-Shirts and my monotone Cockney accent, or just look the other way. Don't mourn for me! I've lived a jolly good life, so far. Autism is not a prison sentence. If you're going to cure something, cure meat. Happy Autism Awareness Month! :D


I agree and its great to feel this way about ourselves. God created me with Aspergers and it makes me who I am today!



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03 Apr 2011, 8:57 pm

Sweetleaf wrote:
jamieboy wrote:
Sweetleaf wrote:
I don't want a cure, what is wrong with how I am? lol I think society needs a 'cure'......not me.


Ever fantasize about being the only person alive? I do.


Yeah I have, I mean hey as long as there are still other living creatures and plants about i think i would be able to enjoy my existance if I was the only human on earth.


I'd just wander the earth forever. When i got tired or stressed i'd just break into someones empty house and chill out and sleep. Then i'd wander again.



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06 Apr 2011, 8:20 am

I'm told I have mild asperger's, and I've had a lot of therapy to enable me to socially intergrate properly, but the problem is, I now feel like I'm in a sort of limbo: not aspie enough to really identify as a 'proper' aspie, and not NT enough to be a true NT, but somewhere in the middle. It's almost as if I've forgotten some of the ways to be an aspie, i.e. I've learned the 'NT' rules so well that although they go against my natural way of thinking, I can't think any other way. I've never had a meltdown or shutdown either. That said, I can never hide my aspieness for long, and although few NTs actually spot it, most recently including the sister of an aspie, I can't help feeling that anyone who knows the slightest thing about Asperger's would find it blindingly obvious that I have it. Anyway, if I was more strongly in either direction (towards NT or aspie) I'd be less uncomfortable in defining my identity.



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06 Apr 2011, 9:33 am

There's no cure for autism... we don't even know what autism is.
How can a cure be found if you don't know what you have to cure?
The only realistic target is to help you to live with it the best you can and to to be respected as individuals.
This often doesn't happen yet.
There's an huge work to be done because people has a wrong idea of what autism issues are. I include myself also, because before I knew WP I had a wrong view of my son. It wasn't my fault because professionals have wrong views and popularize them.
You know, NTs fear by instict things they don't understand and autism is one of that things.



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06 Apr 2011, 3:04 pm

What's wrong with me is not that I need a cure, but that I get anxious, angry and depressed when people say I do need a cure, because I don't.



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06 Apr 2011, 4:17 pm

I wouldn't mind some form of treatment that made socialising a bit easier. I'm not talking about eradicating the "aspiness" from me or anything.



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06 Apr 2011, 4:20 pm

What would happen if I took my beloved family member's Alzheimer's tablets she takes? Would it help add new cells to my brain, (the cells which are missing, to make up the social skills I haven't got)?

Just a thought.


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06 Apr 2011, 6:37 pm

Joe90 wrote:
What would happen if I took my beloved family member's Alzheimer's tablets she takes? Would it help add new cells to my brain, (the cells which are missing, to make up the social skills I haven't got)?

Just a thought.

No, Alzheimer's medication helps to treat some of the symptoms by acting on some of the neurotransmitters involved in cognition (acetylcholine and NMDA). They don't actually prevent or delay Alzhiemer's, and they don't make new brain cells.