Having discussed this IRL I have found there to be much disagreement in this area, what are your thoughts?
Clarification: This is a hypothetical so imagine it is one pill (or your preffered method of taking a medication) with no side effects.
Some years back, this might’ve been an alluring thought. But now, I think in the lines of “there isn’t a cure when there’s no disease”. If anything, more and more, I see new strengths to be explored in this “issue” that is autism (as well as it “sibling condition”, ADHD).
Technically speaking, I’m already taking it (ritalin and sertraline) - and it’s barely working!
Absolutely not. I would not even coherently be “me” anymore - autism is a pretty fundamental neurostructural difference/neurotype. It would be akin to being lobotomised.
Regardless of some of the downsides of being autistic, it is a fundamental aspect of how I experience the world, think about the world, and understand myself. And it has some advantages, too :) .
I should share my own opinion: Like everyone else who has commented here, I wouldn’t either. Autism gives me so many small abilities most NTs lack and I wouldn’t give that up willingly.
No. I’m not interested in a cure regardless of application method, efficacy, or side-effects or lack-thereof.
I would like a medication that would reduce burnout and overstimulation.
that would be great
The fact there is no cure and even treatment is dubious is the main reason I have not bothered to get officially tested after it was suggested by another doctor that I do. What would be the point?
