Autism cure

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There are times I wished I was not autistic. I don't think I have any major benefits when it comes to life stuff & functioning. I'm the opposite of the stereotypical high-functioning Aspie. I have NO special skills, strengths, nor talents. I'm NOT an intellectual genius & I struggled MAJORLY in school due to learning disabilities & most people are aLOT smarter than me. I'm actually also bad with technology & NOT able to have any career in the STEM field. However I have other various disabilities that majorly limit me & it's very hard to say what problems, issues, & struggles are due to autism & what are not. I do think I woulda done better with obtaining & maintaining employment if I was not autistic. All my jobs still woulda been unskilled minimum-wage stuff but I woulda done better at job interviews, I might coulda found some jobs by networking, & I might woulda been more respected by my coworkers & employers. I woulda had an easier time getting girlfriends as well. I coulda compensated for being disabled some if I was not autistic & had better social skills & some friends who woulda tried to set me up with someone.

There is currently NO cure for autism even if some people insist changing our diets would make all autism symptoms disappear or people pushing other such bull$hit like apothecary's selling miracle snake-oil cures to desperate suckers for quick & easy cash.

I can NOT stop being autistic & I can NOT change my past but I can try & learn from things. In some ways I have made a lot of improvement by spending time on this forum learning about autism, the many various ways I am different from NTs, & I have a better understanding about myself. Also some psych meds are approved or used off-label to treat some autism symptoms or comorbids. I found decent treatments for some of my autistic comorbids like anxiety, OCD, & irritability by researching psych meds. Plus having a great girlfriend I'm living with instead of being stuck living with my parents is a huge improvement.

Before they diagnosed autism as a spectrum. No one knew to look into a child’s function or lack of function unless they looked off, or did not speak .. So if I had known,or my mum had known . About this could they have helped me into a more normal , interaction with society . Friends, relationships, whatever.?
Am very stupid concerning societal things !, but other things , I have researched, am very good at , thanks to Aspie pragmatism, and correlation skills.
Often I think and wish,? What if I were not autistic, but I have no yardstick to measure that by ? Have always been this way. And I cannot be in the shoes of someone who is not . But on my best days can try to approximate based on what I have seen of NT ,if given a chance to focus on it...but they were just different , and interactions with them could be perilous . Masking helps .
Also if you can get support with the right person, it is priceless.

I hate being on the spectrum too and I don't know why there's literally 0 cure. Well, I don't even mean cure, but treatment at least, like for quicker social responses or to filter out sounds easier, things like that.

I wouldn't take the cure if I was given a million dollars to take it. My autism makes me who I am. It gives me a unique way of looking at the world.

Cure is very unlikely, as it's really impossible to define a condition as complex as autism in terms of molecular causes in molecular biology.

Meaning there's no one molecular culprit for all stripes of autism.

Genetics likely very complex as well.

There's also a lot of misinformation and hype in science news giving people a sense of mysterious and complex conditions such as cancer and autism as possible to "cure."

I can relate to the word "cure" as a remedy to alleviate some of the occasional "intrusive" symptoms.

Argh. If it weren't for autism, I would have done something with my psychology degree. I could have gone further in my uni studies and become a psychologist.

If it weren't for autism, I would at least have a casual job where I volunteer by now. I wouldn't be nervous about speaking to customers and working at the till. Instead I stay in my comfortable little corner hanging clothes.

If it weren't for autism, I most likely wouldn't have co-morbid mental illnesses that I have to take 5 head meds for.

I'm definitely not at ease with being autistic.

I just had a thought that one way to cure autism in the future would be for us to have our brains replaced with the brains of NTs If that idea sounds scary to you guys, keep in mind that any miracle cure for autism would change the wiring of your brain & you could be a completely different person mentally so figuratively speaking it would be like having your brain replaced

autism is not curable, nor will it be in our lifetimes.

Also, careful what you wish for...

I would want a cure for autism.

But not because I want to live the so-called normal life, be "happier" in life, that idea of being sociable and feel belonging.
That's not a problem to me as an autistic.

Nor the pretentious "fighting for a cause" so other people won't suffer.
I'm doing this entirely for myself, not for others.
In fact, me becoming an NT isn't a favor for my friends and family -- except to make them stop or worry less about me.
To be free of them, not the whole "understand them and they understand me" part because it's irrelevant.


I desire something else entirely.
I want the control of self.

Regulation. Organization. Processing speed. And little to no need to externally regulate and be stifled by emotions and stress.
Happiness, sadness, hate or love. It doesn't matter as long as it's regulated or easily under control.

It doesn't have to be a cure for autism, but the specific symptoms in executive function, specific developmental issues around emotions and make aspects of being a human easier or at least a non-issue.


TLDR;
I want a cure because I'm not a patient person.

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I am of the opinion that those who speak of the concept of a "cure" for autism are confusing the phenomenon of the potential traits found within various autistic persons with the base, which is the underlying state of being. My intrinsic bio-genetic make up cannot be changed, as it is substantially , and essentially what makes me who I am as an unique individual human being, rather than a clone of somebody else. My phenomenon however can and should be effectively dealt with, so that I can to the best of my ability manage and cope with the issues that are characteristic of my given condition. In other words , while the form of my genome is inherently inalterable, the function can possibly be improved upon, so that I can as best as is humanly possible become the best version of myself, in terms of maturity of personal development. But at this point , completely rectifying pathological comorbidity within an autistic subject is idealism, as it lacks a material basis. And so it is pointless to even speculate as to what all it might entail.