A few weeks after my diagnosis someone asked me what it's like to have a mental illness. The question threw me a little because I don't see Asperger's as an illness. It describes everything that is right with me, not wrong with me.
This led me to consider how we define negatives. Did they assume Asperger's was "bad" because it's less common than being neurotypical?
Yes certain sounds can illicit a feeling of terror in the pit of my stomach, but I stopped reacting to that when I was a child, and it comes with the benefit of having ultra sensitive hearing, which to me far outweighs the perceived negative of quelling belly butterflies occasionally.
I have to have a few hours to myself to process everything that was said and intended after social interactions, but more often than not this means I notice things that NTs didn't, even if it takes me an extra day or so to get there.
Sometimes I'll come across as aloof, or stupid, or just weird to people; But those opinions aren't considered. They're judgements about the surface rather than the interior, which means I'm able to ignore their general ignorance instead of reacting as if it were a personal slight.
Of course I feel the bad sides of the condition. But I can remember variations of those feelings right back to when I first came "online" as a sentient being. Many many thousands of times I have felt like I was in a searing, white-hot hell;- but an equal amount of times I've kicked that hell's sorry ass.
TLDR; I am okay with having Asperger's. How about you?