Why are you proud of having AS?

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Yes I am. I was a bit scared at first. Now I'm angry I wasn't diagnosed earlier but that is something else.

AS is me I see it now. I don't see it as a problem. What I'm really frustrated with is my other problem that although some might be associated with AS I see them as separate problem and I think they can be treated as such (hopefully). I just what to get rid of this s**t executive problem (maybe ADD) so I can be the person I am. Basically if i can't my life is over.

edit - I guess proud is not the word I'm just me

Last edited by 0_equals_true on 20 Apr 2007, 7:44 pm, edited 1 time in total.

How could anyone be PROUD of what they didn't do?

I am HAPPY!

HAPPY that I actually lucked out in a way.

HAPPY that I lived to find out what was wrong.

HAPPY that I understand everything now.

HAPPY that I can at least get much of it back.

I am only angry that I didn't know it when I was 3.

Steve

I like having AS for tons of reasons :
1)i have stuff n common w/ einstien newton grandin and v.smith
2 I am smarter
3 I am uneek
4no peer pressure !
ps. sory about my spelling I am posting from aa PDA

*5) You can write dang good books!

Jake,

I agree with you. Having AS is not something to be proud of or ashamed of. I am happy that I am intelligent, have a good memory for facts, am good at my job and that I am honest and love animals.

I am embarrassed, however, when I do stupid things or miss subtle social cues that could help me communicate better. I hate being anxious in social situations and interviews. I cannot fully show what I know. I have a job I love and one I have worked at for almost five years now. Eventually, I would like to work full time. I hope to accomplish that goal when the new library in my hometown is completed next year. I want to pass the behind the wheel driving test and get my license. I would like my functioning in everyday life to catch up with my intelligence and educational achievements. (I have a Master's in English, but not a driver's license.)

As for marriage, I don't anticipate that could happen for me. I feel that, at 42, I am too set in my ways and too comfortable with my life as it is to adjust to someone else's way of life. Plus, I have to think about future children. I have a seizure disorder and my medication could have adverse effects on a child.

I don't feel that I am handicapped by my condition, but would my children be as fortunate? I can't be selfish and think only about myself.

Why would I be proud? My left wrist is f****d up, should I be proud of that too?

I'm not proud of having AS, because people where I live don't understand it.

I am not sure if proud is the word. I am 'out' though and have found myself a MAGNET for others with AS. I don't advertise the fact I am AS, but mothers come up to me in the grocery store ( I have shining grey hair in a stylish bob, so I am pretty hard to miss if someone has described me ) and shyly ask if I want to do a cup of coffee with them because their child, or a child of a friend of theirs might have AS and they are looking for a little HOPE, because they heard I had it and don't mind talking about it.

I find so much satisfaction to look at their worried faces melt into releif and smiles when they see how I have 'overcome so much!' Well, yes I have, but it is not like I had a choice or anything. And I tell them that. I am glib and I am straightforward about AS. I know the slim to few resources our isolated rural valley has for AS and I am open and honest. They refer me to others and refer others to me.

I don't want children growing up now to have the stigma I had. So I am 'out' and telling the world if they wanna know. If others don't want to come out, I can hardly blame them for not wanting to be misunderstood, but I figered, I was misunderstood ANYWAY, this way I am not ashamed of how God made me by sneaking around pretending to be something I am not!
your milage may vary,

Merle

I'm happy with my personality. I can't imagine being any way else.

I'm not proud of it but I'm not ashamed either. I just accept that I have it and that trying to change that would be like trying to change your eye color or something. I do have problems interacting with people but I'm getting better at that little by little.

I'm less a product of the culture I live in than most people are.

My unusual cognitive profile often causes me to analyze things in a unique way, and that's a benefit more often than it's a detriment.

The fact that I have to understand intellectually what comes to most people automatically forces me to live an examined life.

I have strong interests. I can't imagine how mundane it would be to go through life without any obsessions.

"I yam what I yam." - Popeye the Sailor Man.

It's no reason for me to go around with my head hung low, you could say.

Whatever I am, I like it better than I would like being neurotypical.

I'm proud (nor am I ashamed) of nothing. It just all "is".

Not proud. I aspire to normal.

thats another reason why i like having it!

PS. KBABZ, thanks. that goes for you too!