Not so bad being an Aspie?

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Happy to be an aspie hag! Sure it has been tough, however it is easier since I know of AS and can own my strengths and weaknesses.

I'm an aspie: homo sapiens sapiens Mk II

Being an Aspie makes my life misreable.

I'm still of a mind to say that we're diagnosing personality in the case of Asperger's Disorder or HFA, with the exception of really severe cases. Something causes a person to behave in one way, rather than another. It's time we stopped blaming the evil spirits. Aspies have been around in the past, and they have often become insanely successful because of their strengths of intelligence and character. Being an aspie isn't something you can rate as "good" or "bad." It's just part of how your mind works. Adapt.

I hate having obsessions...

I try to embrace my Aspie-ness as much as possible. I'm creative, I'm good at math, I like how I think... the only thing I wish I could do better is watching how I act. But it keeps me humble.

There's only one thing I hate about AS: those goddamned moronic NTs who would much rather go to urbandictionary.com and b***h about AS being a "fake condition created so that socially ret*d emo b*****s feel they belong to a label" instead of actually trying to look it up!

AS is WAY better.
If I had this social isolation without the benefits I swear I'd crawl intoa hole and die.

Finding AS has been great! For once I know WHY I'm not able to talk to others so well. Why I can take so much in without even listening, why I have such a short attention span. Why I'm so different in my ideas and why I'd just plain hate being popular (If I was).

I would never trade this for an NT brain dependent on socialising.
No offense to any NTs out there of course.

Okay, so I'm fine being AS. I don't know any other way so it's impossible to compare but it does have it's down side, even for a high functioning AS, such as myself.

For example, I suffer, and have suffered all my life, from endogenous, unipolar, major depression. That's not fun.
Also, I can be overloaded by certain social situations and I end up frazzled and cease to function - eg, this weekend my wife and I moved house. Lots of my wife's co-workers came to give us a hand. I knew none of them and they came into my house and were all very gregarious and friendly. They moved our stuff. The experience left me absolutely frazzled and I had to go away and stop myself from feeling like drowning. Fortunately, my wife knows all about this and was a star.

These aren't pleasant aspects of AS no matter how you look at it.
I'm lucky in that if there's an emergency then I can just get on and clearly deal with the situation but as in the latter situation there were too many people for me in my space and there was no real hierarchy nor emergency, so I didn't need to step in to get myself (or others) through the situation. This left me foundering in a NT situation that requires none of my abilities and no special reason to have to function in it.
Like I said, I was left frazzled and completely non-functioning for about 30 minutes to an hour until they all left.

AS isn't all bad but it isn't all good either.