If an ASD cure was made would you use it?

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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  • There are quite a few good philosophies out there interrogating psychoanalysis and what is "Typical". I used to wish I was more like everyone until I started becoming irritated with how many are content to live life. 

    My summary is this: Autistic thinking can escape majority programming (even if immediately swept into mass hypnosis, things don't tend to 'stick'). Autistic and ADHD hyper-sense should help bring a balance to technology. Though we can have added disabilities further hindering growth. 

    The ability to predict a social atmosphere, and therefore somewhat project expectations of others through a learned social response by being "wired" for this also has a downside. Severe social anxiety, even if experiencing daily fluidity. You know the game, how it's played and at any moment you could 'fall from the graces of others'.  "I wish I was authentic AND I am terrified to do anything too unique" Or being pushed to extremes: "what can I get away with, how can I manipulate the social system I feel driven by". Using fluid words to play with meaning and even shape what is moral. In certain cases one relates with everyone, hates what they relate with, and might use word-play and social-play as a mechanism to dominate. 

    Desensitisation is thought to go hand-in-hand with Repression of... motives, drives, or instinct. Contrast this from engaging a survival mode of withdrawal for safety or shutting down from overwhelm. It's a habitual practice turned intuitive and a sort of internal gaslighting. The psyche intentionally displaces a problem so the solution is 'fixable' creating a sense of resolution. "Something smells off, adverts have reminded me it's probably a lack of scented things which smell good". So instead of cleaning or professionally checking a room for VOCs or other harmful smells one buys candles and incense, plug-ins and such which might contain formaldehyde or other toxic chemicals. Cutting oneself on repeat ends with a plaster rather than blunting the sharp object. Headaches require a prescription rather than exploring potential stress or too much of a vitamin / mineral producing a warning signal in the body. And so on.

    I've spoken with those who feel this is an evolutionary advantage. I disagree. It may be evolutionary but not an advantage. 

    We can desensitise through prescriptions, but all magic has a price. I'm not sure the degree of re-wiring which may be possible for social codes and linguistics, as it's not even explored because no one is asking the right questions. Anyone taking a type of substance which can rewire the brain might say they've actually found a momentary freedom from social anxiety which goes part and parcel with being NT. 

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  • There are quite a few good philosophies out there interrogating psychoanalysis and what is "Typical". I used to wish I was more like everyone until I started becoming irritated with how many are content to live life. 

    My summary is this: Autistic thinking can escape majority programming (even if immediately swept into mass hypnosis, things don't tend to 'stick'). Autistic and ADHD hyper-sense should help bring a balance to technology. Though we can have added disabilities further hindering growth. 

    The ability to predict a social atmosphere, and therefore somewhat project expectations of others through a learned social response by being "wired" for this also has a downside. Severe social anxiety, even if experiencing daily fluidity. You know the game, how it's played and at any moment you could 'fall from the graces of others'.  "I wish I was authentic AND I am terrified to do anything too unique" Or being pushed to extremes: "what can I get away with, how can I manipulate the social system I feel driven by". Using fluid words to play with meaning and even shape what is moral. In certain cases one relates with everyone, hates what they relate with, and might use word-play and social-play as a mechanism to dominate. 

    Desensitisation is thought to go hand-in-hand with Repression of... motives, drives, or instinct. Contrast this from engaging a survival mode of withdrawal for safety or shutting down from overwhelm. It's a habitual practice turned intuitive and a sort of internal gaslighting. The psyche intentionally displaces a problem so the solution is 'fixable' creating a sense of resolution. "Something smells off, adverts have reminded me it's probably a lack of scented things which smell good". So instead of cleaning or professionally checking a room for VOCs or other harmful smells one buys candles and incense, plug-ins and such which might contain formaldehyde or other toxic chemicals. Cutting oneself on repeat ends with a plaster rather than blunting the sharp object. Headaches require a prescription rather than exploring potential stress or too much of a vitamin / mineral producing a warning signal in the body. And so on.

    I've spoken with those who feel this is an evolutionary advantage. I disagree. It may be evolutionary but not an advantage. 

    We can desensitise through prescriptions, but all magic has a price. I'm not sure the degree of re-wiring which may be possible for social codes and linguistics, as it's not even explored because no one is asking the right questions. Anyone taking a type of substance which can rewire the brain might say they've actually found a momentary freedom from social anxiety which goes part and parcel with being NT. 

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