NT's who want to be AS? When will this happen?

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I thought we could take bets on when some NT's become envious of AS, and wish they were AS. 2014 is my guess year.

I'm guessing this wont be far away, that as/if awareness of AS increases, and that when/if more HFA's fly the flag with pride then some NT people will want to get off the NT bus and ride with us. Hell, a landslide of wannabe AS DX's could happen if NT's keep screwing things up.....

Revenge of the nerds!

Keep up the good work everyone, stay positive and help AS kids be proud of themselves.

It won't ever happen. That's not how normal people work. If it does, people will only be envious of the really smart Asperger's type because of the careers they can obtain in technology, and even then regular people can do these jobs as well.

NT 1: "I wonder what a meltdown feels like.... that must be pretty cool!"
NT 2: "Yeah. How sad is it that I've gone my whole life without being able to experience sensory processing disorder. I hate how my brain processes all this stuff automatically."
NT 1: "And I'm so tired of being able to make eye contact without any effort. I wish I had Asperger's Syndrome."
NT 2: "Me, too! Then I could obsess about seventeenth century France for such a long time that I would forget to go to the bathroom ... and to eat ... and to sleep ... and I would just think about France all the time ..." *sigh of longing*
NT 1: "Don't give up hope. We just have to wait until they isolate the autistic genes and figure out how to alter our genetics accordingly."
NT 2: "I hope that happens quickly! Being neurotypical is just so ... easy ..."


(yes, I know neurotypicals have problems, too)

I thought it was happening already. I have lost count of how many times I have tried to discuss my issues with an NT, only to hear, "Oh, I wonder if I am on the spectrum. I get like that, too!" Or, if a friend of theirs acts in any way eccentric, they eagerly try to plaster on the label of AS or Autism, to explain away the quirks.

I admire AS's for there ability to just say what they are thinking. We need more honesty and less egotism in the world. I like when my son debates an issue with me.

I think that it will happen in 2020.

This could be the very first limerick suggesting a yearning for an autistic condition....remember I said it first.

I could have been one, and I could have been free,
But nature played this trick on me,
Group consciousness forever rides my ass,
I'm competing in life, like a car always trying to pass
Oh woe is me if only I was diagnosed with AS.

I think it already happens, on occasion. NTs who are social outcasts for some reason other than neurology may decide they want to fit in somewhere and pick AS as a possibility. I think I've seen them on WP on a couple of occasions; and the odd thing is that since they do share the experience of being on the outside socially, they have more in common with autistic people than most NTs do despite their mainstream neurology.

A mistaken diagnosis, either professional or self-diagnosis, when the actual problem is something like social anxiety disorder, could also be the culprit.

Of course there's also the possibility of someone with factitious disorder trying to mimic Asperger's (Munchausen syndrome, if you've heard of it by that name), but I've never seen such a case reported in the literature; it's kind of doubtful that AS would actually be the target because people with this kind of problem tend to pick disorders that require intensive treatment, such as schizophrenia, DID, or active bipolar mania, when they pick psychological disorders at all (usually the disorder they are mimicking is physical or a severe mental illness; AS would be an unfavorable choice for these folks because it does not require the intensive treatment they are going for). But whether someone who is faking mental or physical illness specifically to be a "patient" could even be called neurotypical in the first place is anyone's guess.

I thought it happened now, albeit rarely and mostly to uninformed grass-is-greener types. I don't predict that it will ever become the norm, but I do predict that the percent of NTs who want to be AS will eventually be very close to the percent of Aspies who want to be NT.

I've heard people in school (NTs) say "I'm so OCD" or "I'm so ADD". Soon it will be "I'm such an Aspie" I will laugh so much if this happens. It will be like an inside joke for people who really are Aspies.