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.

  • Auster@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    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).

  • sapient [they/them]@infosec.pub
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    1 year ago

    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 :) .

  • OptimsticDolphin@lemmy.worldOP
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    1 year ago

    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.

  • Halasham@dormi.zone
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    1 year ago

    No. I’m not interested in a cure regardless of application method, efficacy, or side-effects or lack-thereof.