Do you suffer from asperger?

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28 May 2008, 5:19 pm

I am Annoyed that I have Aspergers
Do I suffer, no, I didn't know I had it
for most of my life.

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28 May 2008, 5:51 pm

Yes and no.

I don't like the fact that I've never really felt I've been part of the world, or that the life ahead of me will probably be one of continued isolation.

Do I suffer from my individual way of thinking, my offbeat sense of humour or my desire to find out lots about, well, boring and pointless subjects? Nah.

So Asperger's is both a gift and a curse - a double edged sword.

Oh, and the whole Aspergian Supremacy drivel is just a natural psychological reaction against supposed lifetime oppression. It's nothing to worry about.

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28 May 2008, 6:22 pm

Joeker wrote:

I'm sure I'm not the only one who thinks that you're going way too far.

I think he well knows the rhetoric he's spewing is ludicrous and pointlessly divisive (certainly not like this statement, which is the furthest thing from divisive).

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28 May 2008, 8:30 pm

I enjoy who I am. This way of being is a lot of hard work, but there's no way
in hell I'd trade this IQ for an ability to talk small and fit in. I couldn't pursue any
sort of higher purpose without the focus AS gives me. It would have been
nice to know what it was earlier, though - that might have saved me a dozen
years of fairly hard drinking.

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29 May 2008, 8:22 am

If I were to suffer from having AS I would be a crazy kid. I do not suffer from it, I enjoy being different and would rather be different than be a clone of everyone else.

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29 May 2008, 2:11 pm

NeantHumain wrote:

Asperger's syndrome is a context disability analoguous to how being left handed is a context disability in environments set up for right-handers (of course, Asperger's syndrome is probably more disabling in most contexts unless the context is burning lefties at the stake!). There are benefits to the AS cognitive profile set, but since our pool of skills and weaknesses happens to be so different from the norm (and because, where we tend to be strong, we're very strong but where we're weak, we tend to be very weak), the plupart of social contexts will be disabling for us. The ideal would be to mitigate against the disabling contexts while emphasizing our individual strengths.

I like that.

I voted I suffer, cause I do. I couldn't read the average facial expression if my life depended on it, and my troubles in life have left me extremely apathetic. My personality has suffered for not being able to fit in.

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29 May 2008, 5:25 pm

In my early life, I suffered terribly, but this was mostly due to not knowing and just thinking I was fundamentally flawed. Now that I know, and can see the gifts that come with it too, I have come to fully accept myself.

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29 May 2008, 11:23 pm

No cure for me. Life isn't easy no matter who you are, but I feel that due to my experiences as an aspie, I have a bit more compassion for those who are different from me.

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01 Jun 2008, 11:32 pm

Again; who cares? Yeah, you can suffer - hell, I've suffered the rocks being thrown a my head, the insults, the spitting. But, really, who cares? The people who want to view us as crippled and incapable like to think they care; people who constantly bag on normies for being normies (I get it; they're technically inferior and little more than glorified pack animals - so?) think they care; you guys don't either. Strong emotional contacts with a concept and actual interest, depth of concern are subtly different and often confused.
I don't like normal people. I've had bad experiences with them. But I don't hate them as individuals because of what they are as a group. That makes us no better than those of them who suggest we all suffer. I suppose we do suffer in so much as they would if they were in our world.

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02 Jun 2008, 1:20 pm

If you asked me in high school, I'd say "Yes." (after you explained autism to me, at least)

Today, I will say no. Especially considering the alternative, I'm quite glad I don't have to deal with all those petty social problems and silly dramas that NTs do.

I do suffer from dyspraxia, though :roll:

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01 Sep 2014, 1:31 am

I suffer, but it's not just because of AS.

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