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I tried to look up your user name on FanFiction.net, but I can't figure out how to look for one specific author. Do you know how?

While I do post my writing on the internet, most of it is really personal. I'm still very shy about being here and, at the moment, I would feel embarrassed to share it.

@RabidFox, next to the search bar on the homepage there's a drop-down menu that says "Story" with an arrow next to it. You can click that and select the "Writer" option and it will show you results for writers instead of stories.

Ah, I see now. Thank you.

You've read Warriors. I've been trying to get into the series myself, but I have trouble reading when it comes to the mental states of characters. Outside of myself, the world looks very hollow to me and I have severe problems with speech. However, I have read the first book and part of the second. Then I've read a lot of the comics and most of the Ultimate Guide. If I could just get past my difficulties, I think it would be a really good series to explore.

It's all good, Forester. We got it cleared up and it's water under the bridge.

For me, it's more like I'm Superman except with really stupid powers, and I've got inoperable tumors that produce kryptonite.

LOL, thank you for the laugh. I call myself geezer man, able to leap curbs in a single bound, faster than a slow moving escalator, more flatulent than an upset cow, ....

No, mostly because can't separate myself pieces and know into what happens because of a personality disorder, what because of AS, and what is my personality. I would keep the diagnosis.

Decided to read some papers on brain differences in people with aspergers/autism. Looks like the problem is really deeper than I though, it affects entire portions of our limbic system! Gaaaaah! Stem cells won't work since they repair damaged tissue, not immature and condensed tissue. How can we stimulate growth in adults in these areas? Or perhaps we can develop a way to damage it with drugs and repair it with stem cells in a correct manner? Mind you aspergers and autisms are actually different conditions, related, but different so the possible treatment becomes even more varied.

From what I know, there's not really any chance of actually "fixing" it. There may be means by which to greatly mitigate the results of the different neurology, though.

Yes, so far it doesn't appear that we can cure or fix Asperger's but many of us can learn ways of coping with it and somewhat fitting into the NT world. I am one of those people. Junior High was pretty much a disaster for me. High school I did much better academically (graduated 36 out of 549), and wasn't getting bullied any longer, but still not that good socially. I have learned to cope with Asperger's enough to hold a career type job for 20 years, and been married for 16 years, complete with kid, house, and 2 cars. It just took me a long longer than most of my peers to get these things.

So there is hope for parts of Asperger's. I still deal with the obsessions, anxiety, depression at times, all the internal stuff. But from the outside I look normal today.

nope.

i've worked so hard to get to a point in my life where i can do the things i want to do and be independent and have very few but very meaningful friends. just because autism is an obstacle and a burden doesn't mean that it would be better to erase it, especially after i've come so far. i really do feel like being autistic is part of who i am, not just cognitively but in the history of my experiences and my choices, and i don't think it would be possible to be the same person as i am today if i erased it but left whatever "myself" is.

and i'm not saying autism is necessarily "a gift", but there are some things which offer consolidation, like being able to hyper focus on super cool special interests that make me incredibly happy and excited.

Yup, same reasoning for me.

For myself, I don't want to be able to hyper focus any more. I want to be like everyone else that way. One time, I managed to draw 100 people in one sit down, using a Boogie Board (LCD Writing Tablet). I literally did not get out of my chair even once. 100 people. 100. At first, it made me feel good. I enjoyed doing it and I felt like I had made a high score. But, looking back on it, I do what other people would have done and that is get a look of shock on my face. I wonder how in the world I was able to do that.


Picture of a Boogie Board

What would be great is if we donated our brains after death, but based on all the anti-cure advocates, getting enough will be hard. They have tens of thousands of brains of alzheimer patients, but only dozens of autistic and fewer asperger brains. These people won't likely find a cure, but they will be essential in researching ways to get better treatments, and to think if the anti-cure neurodiversity crowd were not around thinking any research into it is bad, they would be miles ahead in their research with thousands of brains and volunteers to help do research! It makes me so bitter.

I just now read 220 million usd was raised for als by the ice bucket challenge, 220 USD! Because of this the researched identified a key gene and such. Now is there millions of dollar being raised for Autism or Asperger research? Maybe, but the kind the neurodiversity anti-cure crowd would approve of! Honest to the lord! It is so troubling to think that in the present day the hope of treating our conditions is getting more and more possible but we are going the other way! Fortunetly there is no such neurodiversity crowd in other countries, so we can only hope China gets some research done, but they are sloppy and often publish results under pressure! I hope you anti-treatment folks feel ashamed you have doomed many low functioning autistics and some upset higher functioning ones to not live to see better and better treatment come into existence.

You know, that's a good idea. I wonder how one goes about doing that?

I'm not all for a cure, but I hope to be able to donate my brain to science if my family's okay with it. More understanding would be a good thing.