Hello! I've had this idea for a script nagging me, and I'd love some feedback on whether it would make a good story or not...
The story starts off with a man with Asperger's Syndrome, kind of like Autism but I won't go into the details now... he gets this letter from a cult who have this machine that somehow cures people of diseases and birth defects and whatnot, but they only allow people who they think are "chosen by God" to be healed... so he checks it out, and they "heal" him from his syndrome. This gives him a few things he's never had before, like the realization that a girl is interested in him, etc... but it also takes away from his personality, since he has lived his entire life with AS. Five years down the road, he meets a little boy with AS, and finds out that his parents have received the same letter from the cult that he got five years ago... after some serious thought, however, they decide not to "heal" the little boy of AS, because they realize that God made him that way for a reason. As this begins to sink in with the man, he decides to go back to the place where he was "healed" and demand that they change him back. He tells his best friend his secret, and it turns out that fifteen years ago his friend was sent the same letter... he had a deathly disease, and was cured of it. They both go back to get "uncured", but the cult members kick them out... however, one of them, who had just earlier decided to leave the cult, secretly changes them back.
That's just the basics, I'm still working some things out, but please let me know if it's a good idea, or if it's a pointless storyline, and so on. Thanks!
The story starts off with a man with Asperger's Syndrome, kind of like Autism but I won't go into the details now... he gets this letter from a cult who have this machine that somehow cures people of diseases and birth defects and whatnot, but they only allow people who they think are "chosen by God" to be healed... so he checks it out, and they "heal" him from his syndrome. This gives him a few things he's never had before, like the realization that a girl is interested in him, etc... but it also takes away from his personality, since he has lived his entire life with AS. Five years down the road, he meets a little boy with AS, and finds out that his parents have received the same letter from the cult that he got five years ago... after some serious thought, however, they decide not to "heal" the little boy of AS, because they realize that God made him that way for a reason. As this begins to sink in with the man, he decides to go back to the place where he was "healed" and demand that they change him back. He tells his best friend his secret, and it turns out that fifteen years ago his friend was sent the same letter... he had a deathly disease, and was cured of it. They both go back to get "uncured", but the cult members kick them out... however, one of them, who had just earlier decided to leave the cult, secretly changes them back.
That's just the basics, I'm still working some things out, but please let me know if it's a good idea, or if it's a pointless storyline, and so on. Thanks!
