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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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  • Understand and respect your comment  

    Not a disease so question isn't a valid one is my immediate response :-)

    That said would I like to not demonstrate the negative characteristics that go with the diagnosis - yes.

    Happy to have the hyper-fixation and hyper sensory awareness capabilities, attention to detail, focus, creative problem-solving, and specialized knowledge.... maybe with an easy and non damaging off switch.

    Wonder if some lucky so and sos do live like that?

    Changing the way one is?  This is possible.  It happens as we live our lives in many ways already.  Trick is maybe not what is done but how it's done and whether one has a sense of agency about it.  Whether it's "life changing" well that's all a matter of scale perhaps?

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  • Understand and respect your comment  

    Not a disease so question isn't a valid one is my immediate response :-)

    That said would I like to not demonstrate the negative characteristics that go with the diagnosis - yes.

    Happy to have the hyper-fixation and hyper sensory awareness capabilities, attention to detail, focus, creative problem-solving, and specialized knowledge.... maybe with an easy and non damaging off switch.

    Wonder if some lucky so and sos do live like that?

    Changing the way one is?  This is possible.  It happens as we live our lives in many ways already.  Trick is maybe not what is done but how it's done and whether one has a sense of agency about it.  Whether it's "life changing" well that's all a matter of scale perhaps?

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