Why wouldn't you want a cure or treatment?

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At this point in life i am so set in my ways i couldn't a cure it might kill me.
Who i am is who i am and everything leading up to making me who i am from when i was born until i die.

I hate to sound trite and silly about it, but

its not a Disease.

Its kind of like the same thing where the Mutants in the marvel universe dont want a cure because they were born the way they were.

How are Autistics any different?

Treatment didn't help
Cure doesn't exist

I do hate having AS and I’ve always wished I was normal, but as an adult I have learnt that being NT isn’t the golden ticket to a happy life. I know loads of NTs with problems, and those without many problems still seem to think they have problems and they find something to stress about. I know an NT who has always been quite an extrovert for as long as I’ve known her, plus she is good with making and keeping friends and has all the boys after her, but when she got a job working in a café, she said to her mum that she felt all anxious with having to ask the customers for their orders. She just said that she sometimes felt awkward, and she just felt that taking orders from customers wasn’t for her. Also I know some other people who are chatty with people and are good with people and you would think they have a lot of excellent social skills, but they still get into a rut and don’t really wish to break their routine and feel unconfident about change and meeting new people, especially as they get older. It is commonly known.

Thinking that does help a little, although I still would rather be NT than Aspie. I don’t like having AS because I feel I am stuck with a label, and I am more prone to stress and anxiety than the average person. I can be so highly strung, getting stressy over small things what other people generally wouldn't get stressy over at all. If I was to write them all down, even other Aspies would probably laugh. But I although I am unhappy with being like this and letting myself get affected by small, silly things, I still don't seem to have the courage to change myself. I probably can do it, but at the same time, I can't. Not sure if it's my Aspie brain being too stubborn to want to change a little bit. I do hate AS.

Good necro! This thread had been dead for five years!

I'd add to that: I want to be able to drive well, I want to get married, I hate sensory issues, and I hate social anxiety and being on the verge of suicide several times a year. Oh well I guess all these things are not a "disability" but merely a "difference." Maybe depression and social anxiety are a "difference" too since Aspergers typically causes both.

There are NT's who are screwed up, too, sure. But, in my case, Aspergers is really the only thing standing in-between me and an awesome life.

Don't look at all the NT's who are screwed up. Look at yourself. If you had all these talents AND had good social skills, your life would be so much better. Social skills are essential for most good things in life. EQ typically trumps IQ, and if you have intellectual talents and Aspergers weighing you down, you're going to be forever frustrated at being stuck in the gutter with idiots.

I can have friends with AS, it's not that bad, but typically, I can only be friends with or date ugly losers, so I don't typically bother at all. I would probably be on the path to wealth, a hot wife, and a great life were it not for having Aspergers.

And in that time, the "cure or not" issue has become totally irrelevant!

We Should Go After Big Pharma.. They are responsible. MMR vaccine and mercury. Simple problem reaction solution.

I've spent my whole life getting used to who I am, I can't imagine how unsettling it would be to get 'cured' and turn into someone else.

There have been countless threads started on this issue. I can't understand why someone has dragged one up from 5 years ago instead of either creating a new thread or continuing one of the many newer ones on exactly the same subject. Half the posters in this thread aren't even members any more and aren't going to respond to anyone quoting them or asking them any questions.

I'm sorry I don't have that problem, and it's one of the main reasons I love astronomy. I would assume Existential thinking is more common in people with an asd because of how inward facing our minds are.

I would want to be cured, but I don't see how because autism deals with physical abnormalities of brain structures...

^ digger1 is no longer a member of this site. Waste of time asking him any questions.

Wow, quite the thread resurrection here...really?

While it isn't against the site rules for people to necro old threads it tends to be frustrating for many who subsequently post, not noticing the date of the thread who quote or ask questions of people who left years ago who are never going to reply. digger1 left the site several years ago as I recall.

I also prefer that old threads are kept in the past and we focus on the present.