Have you ever wished to be NT .....even for once ?

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Many autistics refuse to be cured ...but have u ever wished in ur entire life to be a NT , even for once?
When i am sad and depressed i wish if I can see things like the rest of the people ...like a NT ....I dunno but this what I feel sometimes when I am depressed .

Probally back maybe the 7th grade maybe to high school but then I didnt know what it was just that I was different and wanted to be like the other kids

I have wished to be NT when difficulties associated with my AS hurt other people. Like when my comorbid LD gets in the way of being a decent employee and earning a wage.

I've never wanted to be different. This is how I am; if I wasn't this way I'd be a different person.
Sometimes I have wondered why people didn't just accept me as I am, but I've never wanted to change just to please them.

I always have.
I don't think authism fits me.
So i've never once felt glad i had it.
Though it was a relief finding out i did.

I've wanted to be 'normal' many times, but I'm not sure I'd take a cure for it.

Very much my experience as well. Growing up was tough.

I believe I am just as capable, "normal", beautiful, talented, communicative, and powerful on a certain level as NTs, because my body is not my soul or my identity. It's a physical manifestation of me. AS is a physical disability. Strictly speaking, I don't have AS; my body does. I think of myself analogous to a NT who's missing a leg. I'm a whole being, but physical barriers keep me from fully expressing myself as such sometimes.

i'll admit it: i have wished to be NT multiple times. but if i were NT, I probably wouldn't be an artist...

I've felt that wish, many times. I used to think to myself, that if I could only be NT for a day, I would be treated with the same respect that my Younger Sister is given. She's three years younger than me, yet she's treated like she's the older one. Than again, I cherish my AS, because I'm such a good Artist, and I see my obsessions with London, and the 1950s and 1960s, as Gifts from God. I also get a kick out of my quirky Routemaster Obsession and I joke about it, to myself.

I am not entirly sure weather i am not NT. But what i do know is that i have wished i was many time, but infact i am only really discovering myself. and now that i have i donot really want to change it, embrace yourself.

jammie

I've always liked being different...

Before about the 5th grade, I was often sad that I wasn't accepted by my peer group; but after that, I decided to live with it, decided I could be my own best company. Strangely enough, after a few (ten-ish) years of watching people interact from the outside, I'm capable of interacting and being accepted by NTs--though I still find their company quite boring. Most of my friends are non-NT in some way or another (bipolar, seizure disorder, ADHD, just plain nerdy...).

So now that I can make friends if I wish to (though I don't usually interact with my friends to a great degree), I don't think there are a lot of disadvantages to being an Aspie at all. I've even found ways of stimming that don't annoy people (I twitch different muscles in my torso... it's not apparent because I wear loose clothes).

Now, if I could get rid of this depression... that, I'd do near anything to find a cure for!

i'd give everything i own not to have been born with this terrible affliction. its making my life completely miserable and not worth living. i dont know whether it would make me into a different person or not but i hope so!

No. And i've got good memory. I was born with one of those indomitable personalities. If someone was threatening to kick my ass if i didn't give up my principles, i would gladly lie broken and bleeding on the floor laughing. Others are not so lucky. So i can understand their despair somewhat. But personally, I'd gladly die in leiu of being some one else.

If i was born in a less forgiving age, i'd probably be dead by now. I would have told some guy with a gun or a club to go f**k himself, and had my testicles sprayed all over the landscape.

can u make a thread abt that ?....we might try to help u .

Yes of course, I would have to be madder than my condition if I voted no.
It has really messed up my life. But it would have been better if I was not kept in the dark about it for 44 years when I was diagnosed autistic at age 8. I was put on a disability support pension for social chronic anxiety and treated with medication that was totally unsuitable.
I cannot wind back time and run my life over again, but at least I can warn others of the serious implications of this disorder if it is ignored or goes on undiagnosed.

Paul

I was too busy crying in Middle School over why I'm misunderstood to think about being normal. Now a days, is there even a normal anyways?