Does a "cure" for Asperger's seem scary to you?

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Does a "cure" seem scary to you, rather than just undesireable? It think it would be quite scary to suddenly go from aspergian to neurotypical, if such is even possible.

Getting "cured" would mean my personality would have to dramatically change, so yeah, the thought of a cure does not sound very appealing to me, and I feel sorry for any young children forced to go through this "cure."

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I'm with Iron Man!

it would be cool, than again if I go the rest of my life with no cure discovered I'd probably be fine with it to. I'm getting used to myself I guess.

I don't know if scary is quite the right word.

I think alien, maybe even eerie, would be more fitting for the sensation that someone would suddenly get when, after going how many years being a certain way, being perceived a certain way, suddenly they're another person, and people treat them in ways that they never would've treated their old self. Even if one were biologically neurotypical all of a sudden, what guarantee is there that one would be experientially neurotypical as well? Identity isn't so much formed by nature alone as it is by one's interactions with the world, and therefore feeling isolated and flawed all your life isn't going to be erased immediately by no longer having the thing that marked you as such.

In this way, a cure could be jarring, even harmful for me in terms of forcing me to redefine myself as I am in relation to the world, and would instead only be helping the people around me so they knew how to deal with me. And since it's my mind and by extension my life on the operating table here, it's not worth it.

In all seriousness I'm not sure just how much difference it would make to me.

I am who I am and most of the time I like me. A "cure" for my neurological differences would mean giving up a lot of what makes me, me. No way. A "cure" would essentially mean the death of who I am now. A "cure" would also mean killing the developing person that is my daughter.

yeah this is a philosophical debate...why cure it?
to cure somethign would mean that what your trying to cure is a disease, and there the labels start.
i was fortunate enough to grow up without a diagnosis and i have developed, rightly or wrongly a strong sense of self and have never thought anythign was ever wrong with me and i dont need to be cured. of anything.

AS is always thought of as something to cure, to fix.....it, should be, in my opinion be thought of as a different way of thinking, with some individuals exhibiting advantages in their cognitive style.

What happened to "Just be yourself" ? As we appear not to fit into the world everyone wants then we must be cured, fixed to MAKE us fit. Makes you wonder who is right all along. Some people are blind enough to see us as suffering and do not understand us properly.
I think a cure for Asperger's is just a way of almost "helping" us to fit in but in fact alienating the real fact. The results could be dangerous.

There will be a stage of human trials, I am not sure how they are testing this "cure" but there has to be some failed attempts surely?

A cure why not just act like a jerk and "POW" everyone will then think you NT.

Yes, it seems very scary and disgusting and sick to me.

No it is not scary to me. AS is just a list of symptoms that can be outgrown as long as you work at it. I don't mean you will outgrow all of it, just most of it. You might never outgrow your social awkwardness but you get better as you get older.


Very few outgrow their AS because they are showing zero signs of it. I might never outgrow mine but I did outgrow inflexibility pretty much and I learned how to not talk about my obsessions so much. My sensory issues were worse as a kid but my mother had it treated by having me do occupational therapy. That's how my poor balance was also treated. I outgrew dyspraxia.


I am not upset my mother got me treatment because it made my life much easier. Who would want to suffer in society?

There is a difference between treatment and cure.

I would rejoice in the street

I wouldn't say scary, but if it was possible to cure ASD, it'd certainly not be like affects of strokes or brain tumors, autism affects the whole brain. To cure it would no doubt have to involve a deep and intensive rewiring, so one certainly would never be the same afterwards, even in comparisons to (and I mean no offense), the most die hard ex junkies and alcoholics. They may still have the same memories after their experiences, but their brains and thus personality and self awareness could never be the same again. Thus I believe that it would be the equivalent of killing someone, even if it's only the mind that changed drastically, and the body still survived.

I wouldn't want to suddenly become a different gender or race than I am. Same thing with suddenly becoming neurotypical.

I'll try to work on social things but I will NOT change my ways totally and completly so everyone around me can 'feel better'.

If society doesn't like my autistic traits, then society doesn't have to look.