Aspies For Freedom

How many times do we have to have the NOT ALL ASPIES ARE MATHS NERDS debate before people start to accept it?

My job is about 50/50 between dealing with people and using computers.  Does that mean I should be half cured?

I agree wholeheartedly on this.  I can see that Jay9 is insecure with his AS status, and therefore enjoys jamming pro-cure propaganda down the throats of other ASers with his rather dubious technique.  His words are a pox on this forum, a malignant cancer that threatens us all.

Do you perform complex Math on those computers...?

If not, you should be 100% cured.

Would everyone please read this and think about it?

Ta.

(***fixed up the quotes - Zakkie***)

Indeed... after all, where is the research that tries to understand how the brain of the hypergifted can do what it does... where's the "dissection" of the 15 year old who enters MIT and gets a master's by 21... is there anyone trying to unravel this mystery?

No, there isn't.  And I feel there's a bit of "elitist supremacy" going on behind the scenes, here.  It's like the researchers--who have superior, hypergifted brains themselves--don't want to find out the secrets behind their own neurology.  Elitism likes where it is, and it's not interested in sharing.

It's not the kind of society I want.  If you thought the world was too bureaucratic for your tastes right now, imagine what would happen if this became the new reality.

Terry Gilliam's "Brazil", anyone?

Hopefully the kind that you receive, somewhere in the future.  You'll come back to this thread and say "those are not my beliefs, and never were..."

Well, that's where it ends, isn't it?  First get society used to aborting all the fetuses which test positive for things like Downs syndrome, after all it's "for their own good" so they won't be "a drain on resources".  

Then the autistics, for the same reasons.

Then hose with ADD, learning disabilities, dyslexia, epilepsy.  Then the schizophrenics, the depressed and the bipolar.  The diabetics.  The racial minorities.   The poor.

No offense to anyone but I have to agree about a cure. The only kind of cure that I would think I would take is some kind of medication that helps me think better about social awareness. Then BOOM!, no more problems with Asperger's.

I remember before I used to beleive that Asperger's was a gift and that we can all communicate together without any kind of arguement..................every perfect, etc. Later I found out that we don't all think alike, we just have this illness. But then again we are all people. Aspie or NT. If we enjoyed simular interests then you got a friend.

I still have a good friend in my life who's Aspie. But even if she wasn't and we still meet eachother, I would think that we would still be as good friends as we are now.


I love humor so I laugh at everything. But it took me quite awhille to learn how to laugh at myself and my AS problems.

Today I walked into Blockbuster and seen the film "Mozart and The Whale" placed in the humor section. First I was alittle offended then I said to myself "I deserve it, my problems end up being silly anyways".

So laugh at life friends and laugh at yourselfs.

Anyway, I'm sorry that I'm going off subject but anyway. If there was a cure, I would like to know how it would be done before taking it.

If it's drugs or medication, then yes.

Brain or any other kind of sugery, FORGET IT! Besides, I don't like pain of any kind. LOL

The only medication I would take, which kinda addresses something I have related to Asperger's, is something that would improve my executive functions.  From observations on AFF, and people in real life who I'm pretty sure have AS, my executive functions are actually below the average for most AS people.  And that says a lot.

But as far as a medication that would target autism itself, no--I would not take it.  I resent, ericc, that you call Asperger's an "illness."