Demographics of who does/doesn't want a cure, part 2

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WOW, anbuend. To be honest, I don't like the categories of executive function and autistic inertia and stuff either. It doesn't help that there's nothing to be found about how to deal with it. Plenty of stuff for parents of kids with executive dysfunction, but nothing for us. OTOH, what if you have sensory-based compulsions? When you say compulsions, are you talking about having to do something, or the feeling that something absolutely has to be a certain way and you can't rationally consider the consequences thereof or anything it's just that it has to be that way no matter what? And-- well, I'm not totally certain I understand what would be in all of your categories. I especially don't understand how communication wouldn't fit under social.

But I actually had that kind of issue (as well as hyper/hyposensitivity) in mind when I came up with that option. Perhaps I should have specified that that's included as sensory.

Nosirrom, I don't understand your post.

Okay,
A person in a wheelchair does not want to be in a wheelchair. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure it out.

But that's not even true; there are people in wheelchairs who would rather not be cured.

No two humans are the same - even identical twins are not 100% identical in everything. Human brains are wired in more than one configuration. I'm not so sure that biodiversity needs curing. I think acceptance and understanding would go alot further than 'a cure'.

You are right. I don't know anyone in those circumstances. So I have no basis for a rebuttal.
It is the things that hold us back that we want to go away, and the people who have the most obvious problems, someone in a wheelchair, ....
(I am having a hard time explaining my thoughts, but thanks for the practice)

...I don't want a cure because I have little executive function problems and very little sensory problems, but I wouldn't change the way I think because it is who I am. If I had trouble walking or I couldn't go near cars then I would wish for a cure for those certain problems.

Only from the sensory and executive problems. I'm fine with not being very social.

So... I think you're saying "people want to fix the things that bug them." Is that right?

I do stand behind that.

Language issues are not the same as social issues.

By compulsion I mean like things a person feels an almost involuntary level of force behind a drive to do it, yet it serves little to no purpose on its own.

I'm in a wheelchair and I don't really care whether I have to use it or not. It's not the he'll some people make it out to be.

I wouldn't know.

Mine would be multiple. And I do not want a cure.

In no uncertian terms I love who I am issues and all. I do not want a cure as I am the perfect me if was changed I wouldn't be ME anymore.

I would like to be cured of being short... 5'3" is harsh, even for a woman...

And have life be easy? Screw that.

What's wrong with being 5'3?

Wow, Dandelion! You really come up with some very intriguing and original questions! Quite awesome. My biggest problem is sensory issues, and no, I don't want a cure. I feel that many good things about my skills and personality come from AS, so I'd never get rid of it. Yes, there are many problems from AS, and I do so wish I could get rid of sensory issues, but I'll put up with the sensory issues in exchange for my photographic memory, special interests, and honesty.