I can empathize, but I can't really relate, because I haven't been where you are. However, I completely believe your lived experiences. I don't understand why there would be mixed feelings about a cure. How many times have we told our Autistic loved ones (or ourselves, as the case may be) that autism isn't a disease to be cured, but a different way of being and learning? But it's difficult to think that way when the person you love is locked inside a body that is betraying them. On top of all that, it can be very isolating.
I can empathize, but I can't really relate, because I haven't been where you are. However, I completely believe your lived experiences. I don't understand why there would be mixed feelings about a cure. How many times have we told our Autistic loved ones (or ourselves, as the case may be) that autism isn't a disease to be cured, but a different way of being and learning? But it's difficult to think that way when the person you love is locked inside a body that is betraying them. On top of all that, it can be very isolating.