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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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  • I'd love to get rid of some of the difficult parts. I'd love to naturally fit in better. But what would a "cure" look like when it's a condition that impacts my whole brain and being. Would I also lose my joy for my special interests and my really logical brain? Most likely! What else would I lose? What else would change? Yes autism can be really really hard and sometimes I really do wish I didn't have it. But me without wouldn't be me.

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  • I'd love to get rid of some of the difficult parts. I'd love to naturally fit in better. But what would a "cure" look like when it's a condition that impacts my whole brain and being. Would I also lose my joy for my special interests and my really logical brain? Most likely! What else would I lose? What else would change? Yes autism can be really really hard and sometimes I really do wish I didn't have it. But me without wouldn't be me.

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  • in reply to Expecto_Patronum

    No I wouldn't, I'm 63 and having been this way all my life, I can't imagine life as a non autistic person, would this wonder pill/cure mean that all the social cues and thier meaning would suddenly pop into my head? Would I suddenly understand the world through NT eyes without having to have months of therapy to deal with sudden new understanding? Now if someone found a cure for arthritis I'd take it, thats far more limiting for me than ASC.