How do you feel about being on the spectrum?

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I wish I had known a long time ago..I wish it had been acknowledged when I was a child that I had serious issues that weren't simply "the system's" fault.

It's taken me a long time to accept having AS, but now I'm feeling pretty damn good about it.
I know that I have weaknesses; sensory sensitivity that can overwhelm me, especially in a crowd and a social awkwardness that may be with me for the rest of my life. I've also found it much harder than others to become an adult. Relationships have failed and I've not ever been employed, not for a lack of trying though.
But I have strengths; an over focused mind that can come up with stories, artistically taken photographs, strange ways to solve problems and an integrity that I'll never lose because I refuse to become like one of the crowd.
I may have extremely sensitive emotions and be insulted by even the friendliest joke, but I'm an honest person that would never even think about doing ill to another human being.

i like having aspergers since until i was diagnosed all my treatment was is people telling me i can do things if i just want to bad enough and that not knowing how to do things is only a excuse and i am only lazy

what people would not think about is that i will never know how to do things if you do not take the time to teach me how to do things and people skipped the teach me how and went straight to lazy

i want to be a nuclear physicist but if i do not go to college and learn how first then no amount of wanting will get me that job

Even though that having AS has left me friendless for the majority of my life, contributed to the abuse I used to get from my mother and I believe, was one of the causes of my depression, I accept that I'm on the spectrum.
Having AS has given me an insight about the world that other people have said is interesting, but I'm not happy that I was born this way.

I feel fine about being on the spectrum. It has its difficulties, but also its strengths, or gifts if you like. And it's nice to know why I'm a bit weird and I think it doesn't matter.

I feel rather honored and privileged to be among the "different ones"..I really think the world would be a better place if there were more of us.

(this is despite the suffering it might have caused me throughout my life and whatnots )

I feel glad that I have it. It's fun to have things like special interests, the only downside to me is the social problems.

Spectacular Spectrum topic

The Spectrum and I are old friends. We have been together since conception.

Together we have grown, learned matured, and now we age together.

Then we will eventually pass on, to whatever still hold us, into eternity.

Me and my Spectrum.

Strolling down the avenue.

i feel better.

finding out that my differences had a reason made me feel like i wasn't a total freak. finding out that there were other people out there like me made me feel less alone.

I'll say one more thing about this.

I'm ecstatic that I found out about being "on the spectrum".
Good Lord... it explains my entire life, and provides the key to a lifetime of confounding problems. In a sense, I could not be happier to be an Aspie. I'd rather know what is going on and be unable to do anything about it, than be clueless and continue to attempt to resolve the cryptic and uncertain issues and making myself miserable in the process. I've always known there was something up with me. But I kept trying to be normal, and kept failing, and kept ending up in pain in way way or another. Now that I know, I accept it gratefully.

However, given the choice, I would without hesitation choose to not have AS. I can see all the ways it limits me and hurts me. And I can see what life could be without it. I do indeed accept it as part of me, and I move on with life regardless, but I cannot bring myself to see AS as some sort of valued gift. Like my eye color and my height, AS is a trait I've been dealt, and one that I cherish, in the only way that one ever could if they truly embraced themselves as a whole. But let me make it perfectly clear that AS is not something I would ever choose to have. To me, it's a debilitating nightmare. But it's part of me, and I'm OK with that. What other choice do I have?

Okay, so that was a bad joke that went nowhere...

I've been battling whether or not I qualify to consider myself as on the spectrum recently. The past few days, I'm leaning towards more sure than less, so I think I feel very good about feeling like I'm getting somewhere. At the end of the day, though, I'm happy that I have the confidence to be myself, whether that entails being on the spectrum or not.

It was a visual pun for crying out loud. Folks just didn't make the connection on the contextual meaning difference of the word "Spectrum". If I had seen that the first time I read it, I would have laughed with you.

Heh, I guess it just proves that I think primarily in pictures. Whenever I see the word spectrum, I "see" an image of a rainbow. *checks off another trait supposedly indicative of AS*

I think in pictures too. I just failed to make the leap of logic on the other end.

I appear to be among the blessed; though I do seem to have several spectrum and rainbow attributes, and as a child I grew up feeling like I was among the few, the broken, and the cheated in life.