Would you take the cure if offered $1 million?

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27 Dec 2008, 9:25 pm

only if it meant i could still be a creative person...if taking the cure meant that i would no longer have executive dysfunctions and social anxiety and all the other negative qualities it brings...

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27 Dec 2008, 10:06 pm

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No, I do not want to be cured. For me to become NT would take away who I have always been. It would be a horrible mistake for me to be cured. I love my interests, etc. No thanks, keep the million dollars.

it would seem so anti-climactic after living so long like this, not ever knowing there was a world seen differently by other people out there. I have only seen the world in such stark black and white differences as Aspie and NT for about three years now. Before it was me and all of them and now it seem it is a bunch of us against all of them.

I notice I never once had to ask WP in wonder "why?" I already knew why.

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27 Dec 2008, 10:24 pm

Keep your million and keep your cure.

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27 Dec 2008, 10:37 pm

I might do it just out of plain curiosity. Then I'd be a new NT in an adult's body with no idea how to handle my newfound susceptibility to trends and groupthink, blow the money on video gambling, Bud light and foreign currency schemes, and end up destitute and in academia, only more messed up than before.

I suppose.

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28 Dec 2008, 6:36 am

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yes if i can pay 1$ month :twisted:

You expect to live over 80-thousand years?

they would never get all moneys.....lets call it life time alv :wink:

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28 Dec 2008, 11:35 pm

to bad THERE IS NO CURE thatll majikaly make all ur social skills come back, god people y havent u figured that out...

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28 Dec 2008, 11:46 pm

Yes if I can keep my hyper focus, analytical mind, and creativity.

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29 Dec 2008, 12:10 am

*Twitch* Aw, can't I just have the money?
Money'd be better than a cure anyhow. Wouldn't need a cure if I could have money. (Not that I need a cure anyways. Don't need, don't want.)

I'd do a lot of things if it'd get me that money... but curing myself wouldn't be one of them.

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29 Dec 2008, 1:11 am

ANYBODY WITH INTELLIGENCE ON HERE WOULD SAY NO.

THERE'S PEOPLE STARVING AND PEOPLE WHO ARE VUNERBLE IN THE WORLD,

WHAT IS ONE ASPIE TO THE ETHIOPIANS FOR EXAMPLE?

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29 Dec 2008, 1:28 am

Hells no

I'm me -autism is a part of who I am.

Why would I give that up for money?

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29 Dec 2008, 1:39 am

angelgirl1224 wrote:

No theres nithing to be cured from.
im me and im happy
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and even though ive wondered wht it wud be lke if i didt have AS no amount of money wud make me take the cure.
It would change me.. so you can keep you're money!
in the past i wud want it but im content with who i am now..
no amount of money wud make me be 'cured' cured of who i am!! !! ! and turn me into a robot basicly with no personality!!
id rather die!! !

Me neither. There's nothing wrong with me, I'm not ill or sick or broken. I worked hard to learn how to interact with others -it cheepens all our hard work to just offer us pills or a shot to change us.

I won't surender who I am just so someone else can feel good about life.

I AM ME FIRST

I AM ME FOR ME

WE'RE HERE, WE'RE WEIRD, GET USED TO IT!

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29 Dec 2008, 1:45 am

I think the better question should be, how many NTs would take a cure to turn them into Aspies if we paid them $1 million?

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29 Dec 2008, 3:18 am

1Oryx2 wrote:

I think the better question should be, how many NTs would take a cure to turn them into Aspies if we paid them $1 million?

results

http://www.golivewire.com/forums/peer-y ... rt-yn.html

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30 Dec 2008, 6:08 am

DiabloDave363 wrote:

to bad THERE IS NO CURE thatll majikaly make all ur social skills come back, god people y havent u figured that out...

Well of course there's no cure, since there's no disease. Actuality is not the point of a hypothetical question.

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31 Dec 2008, 10:36 am

rdos wrote:

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It seems to me that in this context, 'cure' does NOT mean 'remove elements of disability' or even 'make NT'. It seems to me that 'cure' in this context means 'turn every Aspie into a clone based on our most stereotypical view of what an NT is'. Weird.

What else should I interpret it to mean? As far as the results from Aspie-quiz is concerned, the only way to make a suitable definition of Aspie vs NT is to include most of human diversity into these concepts. There are no other (natural) way to draw the border between AS and NT. And to say "remove the elements of disability" isn't exactly informative, as most of the disabilities are grounded in simple preferences, and are not well-defined. It is not even well-defined what constitutes disability in this context and what does not. For instance, is hyperfocusing a disability? Is liking solitude a disability? Is disliking socializing with strangers a disability? Is having weird facial expressions a disability?

If there were no way to draw the border, there would have been no way to diagnose any person with AS at all.

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31 Dec 2008, 10:56 am

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Signs654 wrote:

Would you change your gender or race if offered 1 million dollars? It's the same as asking this question. I wouldn't want to suddenly become a different gender or race than I am and the same goes for suddenly becoming neurotypical.

The DSM-IV doesn't list race or gender as disabilities though.

So. Homosexuality was once listed. Should all homosexuals take something to become straight?

What are you talking about??? Here is a questioin not about compulsory cure but about a choice, remember?
And how do you know that all the homosexuals would refuse to become straight if they are offered to, expecially for a million dollars? How can you assume that they would all refuse??

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