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If an ASD cure was made would you use it?

Berlusconi

As the title says.

Yes I would!!! I just want to be normal and accepted in the world. Being ASD is tiring and not a lot of fun half the time. My time at school was awful from the start to end because I was singled out for being different, no one wanted to know me because of that difference and it's kind of like it in adulthood as well. I would give anything to change the way I am.

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  • Berlusconi said:
    no one wanted to know me

    Well, we want to know you, and we might not have had the opportunity of getting to know you if your Autism hadn't helped be part of bringing you to this community.

    I don't believe I would be the quite the person I am today; had I been a Neurotypical person across the decades of my life.  For all my "other-ness" or "outsider-ness" of Autism, I do feel that there are some things which I am able to contribute to NT people (and hopefully ND people too), including in dire situations, which a NT version of myself might not have been suitably equipped to achieve, deploy or share.

    You might not feel so right at this moment, however, I suspect there might well be unique and beneficial things about you, valued by decent people who have met you, and your Autism may have had a part to play in shaping some of their positive experiences of "you".

    At first, it is not always easy (or comfortable) to discover, explore, acknowledge, capitalise upon, and become generous with sharing our personal worth-while-ness with other people.  I feel this forum could provide a safe space within which you could choose to practice that process of worthwhile-ness discovery.  An opportunity, waiting for you, when you are ready.  On your own terms.  Without judgement (as it is your personal choice and journey).  Others may encourage you along the way, but the development is your personal achievement to gain and your own credit to award.

    All people are worthwhile.  Welcome to being worthwhile.

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  • Berlusconi said:
    no one wanted to know me

    Well, we want to know you, and we might not have had the opportunity of getting to know you if your Autism hadn't helped be part of bringing you to this community.

    I don't believe I would be the quite the person I am today; had I been a Neurotypical person across the decades of my life.  For all my "other-ness" or "outsider-ness" of Autism, I do feel that there are some things which I am able to contribute to NT people (and hopefully ND people too), including in dire situations, which a NT version of myself might not have been suitably equipped to achieve, deploy or share.

    You might not feel so right at this moment, however, I suspect there might well be unique and beneficial things about you, valued by decent people who have met you, and your Autism may have had a part to play in shaping some of their positive experiences of "you".

    At first, it is not always easy (or comfortable) to discover, explore, acknowledge, capitalise upon, and become generous with sharing our personal worth-while-ness with other people.  I feel this forum could provide a safe space within which you could choose to practice that process of worthwhile-ness discovery.  An opportunity, waiting for you, when you are ready.  On your own terms.  Without judgement (as it is your personal choice and journey).  Others may encourage you along the way, but the development is your personal achievement to gain and your own credit to award.

    All people are worthwhile.  Welcome to being worthwhile.

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