Great post. If someone gave me a magic wand and said I could “cure” my daughter today, I wouldn’t do it, because she’d no longer be the girl I love, she’d be someone different.
I see multiple problems with that approach. One is, should you have the right decide she shouldn’t have “the cure” if one existed? What if she would want to be cured?
That’s really up to the person. I know I wouldn’t want to be cured if the option was available, and that’s because…
Another is, why wouldn’t she be the girl you love?
I think it influences my personality a lot. Being “cured” would be taking a part of me out, it would figuratively make me a different person.