Does anybody here want to get better?

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Don't want sensory issues or migraines. Or epilepsy. Or PMDD. Or having to take codeine for dysmenorrhea.

I think without those my autism and ADHD won't seem as bad.

If I didn't have those 2 disorders I probably wouldn't be as driven to be organised and make something of myself, so in a way I like some of the challenges.

Anxiety sucks too. I don't want it any more. It's something else I have to constantly work on.

I think I have brain damage but my autistic symptoms are worse. So, option one does not work. Option two might still mean I'll be an autistic ghost.




I don't post on Wrong Planet because I suffer. It happens to be the biggest autistic community on the web.
I didn't find it on google by typing: 'I'm so miserable, gonna slice up wrists because I hate this world' and Wrong Planet showed up. No, people recommended I went there because I was finding out I was autistic.

And I like talking to autistic people. Sure, I have some issues but I don't suffer. It's difficult living with my symptoms but they make me work hard and people really see me as a fighter. They think that I must be suffering and so miserable because I take stimulants and see a psychiatrist but I'm not miserable, just living with two lifelong disorders that I need a little help dealing with.

I suffer from my sensory issues. Hey, maybe I should look for a forum called, 'Wrong Sound.'

I would like to improve in certain areas such as social interaction, reduce my anxiety levels and hopefully get somewhere in life.

And if society could be more accepting we would not have to suffer from a lot of social pain and discomfort.

I agree with this......like I say just because someone has some problems does not mean they should constantly be working to minimize/overcome difficulties. People with disabilities still like to enjoy themselves, they don't want to constantly focus on their 'flaws' that just makes things depressing.

Get better? Sure, as long as I get to decide what "better" means.

Yeah, I'm sure as long as this thread is, plenty of people have already told the thread started what a bad question this is, but at the risk of redundancy, I'll go ahead and give my opinion as well. If by "get better" you mean learn to cope with some of the problems my autism presents, then yes. I would like to be able to filter out some sensory information and not get overwhelmed like I sometimes do. I would like to be able to figure out what someone is feeling without them needing to spell it out for me. I would like to be less awkward when I'm talking with someone, and overcome my social anxiety.

However, if you mean would I like to wake up one day and be "cured" of my autism, then the answer is emphatically NO. I like the way I can get so intensely focused on something that interests me, even if I do wish I could turn it off sometimes. I like that I notice details and patterns others don't. And I love that I can explain something I've been thinking about or studying to one of those few people I do feel comfortable talking to and hearing them say "I've never thought of it that way." There's plenty I don't like about myself, and things I wish I were better at, but as a whole, I like who I am.

Sometimes I wish I didn't have autism but it's apart of me and that's all that matters.

No. I'm fine the way that I am, I'm not sick or diseased and I don't want to get better, because I don't need to. I accept my autism and celebrate it and I don't with to be fixed or cured.

Treated, sir I don't believe there is anything wrong with me. I have a healthy body, great friends, and I am completely mentally stable the only thing missing is a girl I love.

No. I think the things that people would think I need to get better from or overcome are parts of my personality which can't be changed.

I had therapy sessions, but I didn't get any better because of them.
It's hard for me to learn something that is taught to me by somebody else.

I have never been able to acquire skills that are considered "typical", but despite that I've always been able to go ahead in life.
That's because I act on instinct.
If I didn't act on instinct I'd probably not be able to do anything, but I've always used my instinct to compensate the skills I lack, and apparently it has always worked.
Maybe because of that I've done wrong things, but I'm still alive, so I don't think that using my instinct is that bad.