Poll 3: Do you think that you need a cure?

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Okay, who is the lone person who voted for poll option three? Show yourself!! !

I would never take a "cure" - I would lose so many good things about myself; I would be a completely different person and screw the haters, I like who I am and abilities I have that I wouldn't have if I were NT.

I am me and autistic, and I do not wish to be anyone else.

if i had a 'cure' i would stop being who i am and wouldnt know who i am. asperger syndrome defines me in some way, even though i know that's not all there is to a person.

The poll results look like a non-verbal cue that I know and love.

I have pretty mild AS, and do I need a cure? No I don't need a cure. I function just fine as I am. Do I want a cure? That's a difficult question. I would like to not be so sensitive to stress, and to worry so much and notice every little negative thing there is to notice. I would like to not be so naturally awkward around others at times. Even though I fake it well, I still have awkward moments. I always have to try. I would like to be more physically coordinated. I would like to be able to see things in shades of grey, metaphorically.

What I would not like is for it to change my entire brain. I would like the rest of how I think to remain the same. I am 47 years old and thinking completely different would likely throw me for a loop, as it would anyone else.

Would I like there to be a cure, and a time machine so I can go back to my childhood and give it to myself when I was very young? You betcha I would! I would love to have grown up with a different thought pattern and sensitivities. I would love to be able to be more intuitive. I would love to have things come naturally to me without having to constantly try. I would gladly give it to myself then, because I wouldn't have grown up one way then suddenly become completely different.

If there were a cure and I had a child on the spectrum would I give it to them? Yes. In a heartbeat I would. I would want them to have an easier and happier life than I do. I always want my kids to have it better than I did, in every way. I try to make things better for them, every single day. So, of course I would give it to them if they had it. Not without their consent at this age, if they had it, but as a younger child, h*ll yes! I would give my right arm to keep one of my kids from going through what I went through growing up, and i only have it mildly.

If I had a child that was low or moderate functioning at the age they are now, and if a cure became available would I give it to them? Yes, of course I would.

I may get flamed to Timbuktu and back for that, but that's how I feel about it.

If I could cure my AS without changing who I basically am, but cure the stuff I do not like about it, in a heartbeat I'd want it. But do I need it? No, not at all. I'm doing fine as I am.

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Has psychiatry cured one thing yet??

No cure, don't know what causes it.

Drug companies, money.

Drugging children, more money.

Come up with new definitions of new mental illness, profit.

There is no known cause of normality. There is no research done on so called normal people and what makes them normal.

Where are the rules for what normality is?

If such a criteria were to be made, would people be diagnosed as normal which means no drugs or maybe they would make drugs for normal people too.

I'm autistic and I don't feel that there is a cure to be found or needed because I feel that there is nothing wrong with me. For somebody to push the cure on me would be like them telling me that I'm broken and damaged and that I need to be fixed and become normal. I'm not broken and damaged and I do not need to be fixed into being an NT. I was never all that interested in the NT World anyways. Top 40, slu*ty girls and cellphones. No thank you.

You're all going to disagree with me on this but I think that a cure would be nice. Life would be easier and I would make fewer social gaffes. I have always envied those with fulfilling relationships, both in terms of romance and friendship. Being unable to connect with others puts me in a lonely existence, and I often have to 'pretend' to be able to connect to fit in. I am sick of pretending but, alas, my career depends partly on my social skills and networking.

Yes, our autism, depression, and whatever else we 'have' form a part of us. And we would be different people otherwise. I am willing to give up my personality and my current "self" to be happier. But the grass is always greener on the other side...

Of course, there is no cure. And there will never be. It is in our DNA, after all. And I would rather not take drugs to temporarily suppress those "symptoms."

Yes, cure me from this sore throat. It's starting to irritate me.

Most of the people who want to be cured seem to me that they don't need to be. I don't just feel disabled I feel brain damaged and I probably am, and not from autism.

I like having my special interests and talking to people about them. I'm a little ok on social banter and sometimes I crash and burn. I'm not in a relationship and I don't really care about that. I don't have a job though I might be able to get one and then go through all the pain of having to learn something and interact with people. I still get stressed by just doing my day to day things without working. My sensory issues are crippling and the medication I take for them gives me anxiety. But I need them to actually focus and tie my own shoelaces (basic chores).

I can't even say if I want a cure or not because there isn't one. I like some parts about me but there are some things I really need to change. Having sensitive senses to sound and crowds is just too much for living in Sydney. I have to suppress meltdowns so I don't attack people or injure myself or get arrested.

Saying I don't want to be cured is like I'm saying I'm fine with how I am, but I'm not. Maybe I should just reboot my brain. Before all the medications and anxieties, before all the seizures and hallucinations and paranoia.

Being autistic is like being a basketball player with a broken leg: They can try to play the game but it's painful and difficult and they always lose. If they avoid the pain by sitting on the sidelines, they're bored silly and depressed watching others happily play. Who the hell WOULDN'T want their broken leg fixed?

More directly, an autistic person is just like any ordinary person except with sensory, emotional and social disabilities. Fix the disabilities, and you get the person they were truly meant to be. Otherwise, they remain a broken human.

So, yes, cure me! God damnit, I want a cure!

I don't think AS means there is something wrong with me but I do wish I could be cured because being different from the norm causes problems for me & people in my life who I do care about. I often get accused of being selfish & not caring about anyone but myself when in reality I do care quite a lot but they assume I don't. I feel horrible that people cant pick up on how sensitive I really am & how much I want to help instead of being a humungous burden. I HATE how my behavior & the way I act & talk makes people think I'm mean & hateful. I didn't vote in this poll

Sorry I should have made this a bit clearer, I want people to say whether they think they should have some magical elixir of some sort which erases all trace of autism from them, everything about it good or bad, and for this to mainly be based around whether they themselves think they should/would take the "medicine" and not based so much around thinking about others being "cured". So you have to make a decision, I have left no unsure/other option on purpose for this one; do you take it or not?