Having trouble being okay with it.

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Even though I got diagnosed a couple years ago; me and my family have known I've had Aspergers since I was 15. I've been trying my hardest to not let it destroy my life, yet all I can think about is how much easier my life would be without it. I would've had more friends in high school, I would've gone out more, I wouldn't have gotten bullied as much. It just seems like all my problems come back to this.

Posts like that make me so glad I wasn't diagnosed until I was an adult, because I'm afraid I would have sat around whining and feeling sorry for myself and blaming my disability and never have lived my life.

Instead, I ended up having a handful of really good friends over the years and a career and relationships and eventually a family and kids, and I managed all that in spite of being a complete socially dysfunctional disaster, because I didn't know I had the option of just giving up and blaming my lack of accomplishment on my neurology.

I may never have been a raging success, but I'm glad I had the experience of trying.