no cure? Why not?

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I've always been puzzled as to why a lot of you say that you don't want a cure for Asperger's. I kept thinking, "you don't want friends and for people to understand you?"

then I thought that I have certain things about myself that I attribute to my AS: My appreciation for the little things in life - wildlife, smells from a bakery, the way clouds look like things... also my insistence for use of proper grammar and spelling. I don't like kids spelling words with an unnecessary Z (eg, boyz) or what have you or using an apostrophe when a words ends with S but isn't possessive (eg, "Silly Boys - Jeep's are for Girls"). Not to mention lying and doing reckless and sometimes illegal things like doing "donuts" in a parking lot or racing through a red light. I got thinking, "if that's what it means to be NT, I want no part of it".

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I wouldn't turn down one.. It's a genetic thing, so until they can do genetic engineering on the 'ol noggin, I guess I gotta live with it..

Because I don't want one, and that's the bottom line.

It bothers me because to me it would be like walking up to a black person and saying "We can give you a shot that will turn you white... don't you want that???"

--or a gay person.

I think, like gays and blacks, the AS culture needs to educate and advocate for acceptence. If AS was known about a long time ago, I think religions would have sprouted up to condemn us as something unholy. Maybe AS people were often labeled witches and then were burned and hanged.

OregonBecky wrote:

That's likely true. Unfortunately, it's also likely there were Aspie's prominent among those lighting the fires, or organizing the witch hunts... the Church at that time would have been a perfect place for an Aspie of high intelligence to be. Even those of modest birth, could rise quite high (relatively speaking) if they had the ability. Don't forget that a not inconsiderable number of renown scientists were members of religious orders or the clergy. And as we've all seen from some posts... some Aspie's can be people of unshakable and profound faith... (holds up a vial of mercury and shakes it... BOO!! !!).

I've lived with my brain working a certain way my whole life. In some ways, it is superior to a neurotypical brain. So if that changed, what would it be like? I would be afraid.
And besides, I'm just happy the way I am.

Same here, lived with my brain my whole life, fought to do the simpliest thing in life, now you think i'm going to just throw all of that hardwork away with some simple cure, hell no!

Me too.

Because Diversity is what makes life interesting.

I want respect and acceptance. That's what I want most.

What's wrong with doing donuts on the parking lot?



Other than wearing down tires and clutch



It takes skill to plant a decent "donut." Ahh...burning out requires grace.

This is who I am. To arise cured would have someone else living in my body. Creepy.

If someone came at me with a syringe of cure and a determined look on his face, I'd hurt him!

The reason some people with AS don't want a cure is because they are high.

Several scientific studies have found high levels of beta-endorphins in autistics. Beta-endorphins are similar to opiates and make a person feel high. People who are high on opiates feel good being alone. The opiates are why some autistics are less sensitive to pain. NTs who don't have this problem socialize to feel good. Socializing may make NTs feel good by increasing levels of beta-endorphins.

The source is undigested wheat and milk proteins. Two treatments are gluten-free/casein-free diet or the drug naltrexone which is used in heroin addicts to block the effects of the opiates. Probiotics improve digestion and may cure the opiate problem.

I want a cure so I can have real life friends.

For aspergers I think that a person should decide if they want to take the cure or not, fur autism, maybe it would be best. I've been around twin boys way down on the spectrum, one could barely function in school and was teased constantly, the other needed to wear an adult diaper, couldn't walk, could barely talk, and stayed at home all the time. They need constant care and can't function on their own. ((I did teach the first one how to make basic no cooking required foods though)) Maybe someone like them would benifit from a 'cure'.