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leejosepho
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Age: 59
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Location: 100 miles east of Chicago
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For me, maybe something like a lobotomy might do the trick, but I would rather just continue on with my usual "run what ya' brung!"
But more seriously ...
One thing I have learned in these past couple of weeks here is this:
NT = NeuroTypical, not "NeuroNormal".
My "normal" is not an NT's "typical", and an NT's "normal" is not something I envy.
I still do not know for sure about whoever that is in my mirror, but now I at least know I am "within the norm" (spectrum) among us atypicals.
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AnotherAngle
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Joined: Sep 22, 2009
Age: 24
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Aspergers, if that is what is going on with me, had made my life extremely difficult in a lot of ways.
But I would never want to cure it. I love the way I see the world and I don't want to lose that. Aspergers is not something I have, it is something that is a part of who I am.
The fibromyalgia, on the other hand...!
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Mysty
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I was reading a book by Temple Grandin about her life, and I notice she uses the term recovery. I like the term. Of course, in this case, it doesn't mean getting back something one had. More of an analogy with alcoholism. Loosely, better, but not cured. On the BPD board I post at, we use the term recovery, and, there too, it's not getting back something one had. It's getting something one didn't have. But, again, a whole different attitude that thinking "cure".
But, whatever the terminology, there are things we can change and improve. But "cure" isn't the word for that. How about "betterment". While I like the term recovery; still, it's not quite right. It doesn't, for me, fit my experience of, well, of overcoming the traits that keep me from being the best me I can be. Betterment does.
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SoulcakeDuck
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Joined: Mar 04, 2009
Age: 23
Posts: 643
Location: a bubble called Cognitive Entropy
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*error* *error* ... does not compute. 
Aspergers is no disease therefor a cure is an imaginary wish.
Jeah AS is a challenge, but you're still normal from a natural perspective, from societies you are different.
Cure? Ha!,... what have you been smoking? Can I have some?
Bottom line, No, not a disease therefor no need for a cure of any sort.
I think you've been affected by NTs talk of "fixing" you.
Guess what, you ain't broken.
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Acacia
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Joined: Dec 13, 2008
Age: 27
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Location: Florida
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Short of a "cure", I would appreciate something to lessen or eliminate the manifestations of AS. The sensory issues, the memory problems, the executive dysfunction, the social inconsistencies.... These are not a part of "who I am". They are impediments to who I am.
AS is a neurological condition, exacerbated by environmental factors. We can remedy some of these environmental factors easily enough. But I would love to see some hard science directed at getting to the bottom of AS neurology. And maybe after truly understanding how it works in the brain, there might be some kind of therapy out there that can help to change it in positive ways.
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