Are you a happy person?

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I'm not a very happy person, and the only thing in the world what is making me miserable is AS.

I am such a depressed person that I spent the last 6-7 years of my life studying depression, serotonin and stress hormones in graduate school. Parts of this are related to Autism, while other parts are not.

I voted I am unhappy due to Autism because it is one of the reasons that I have only had one GF in my entire life.

I'm not a happy person in general. I have my moments, though.

i've been told to try and be nicer to other people. my happiness kind of went with my childhood. and now that i'm wiser i know how the world treats us now and then. and for some or most autistics, ignorance is built on top of that, and loss of compassion... but for anyone who wants to stay on the positive side, thank God for family, or for simply... life. if this is destiny, laugh at it, and have fun as much as you can; its not evil, its being who you are.

Not sure anymore. I guess I am to some degree, at least the past month or two.

I'm not sure I know what happiness is. I may have known it once or twice but it was too fleeting to be sure.

I know other things that make me feel good, like pleasure or satisfaction, but I'm not sure they are the same thing at all.

When I was young I would often imitate or copy others, doing the things they did, as they appeared to be happy and I wanted to feel what they felt. It didn't work. When I abandoned this tactic and learned to be myself, I became less sad and stressed but still no closer to happiness.

I have not selected an option in the poll as there doesn't appear to be one for me.

I'm not a happy person, it's unrelated to my AS though. I just have really low self confidence because of my weight and other qualities that men don't like in a woman.

Overall I'm not very happy with my life. There are so many difficulties and I have not met my own expectations. But if you talk about nature, I am naturally an optimistic person with a sunny disposition. (see avatar) If I don't have that to counter all the unpleasant things in my life I'd be very very depressed, possibly killed myself by now. So I'm grateful to have that quality, I carry my own ray of sunshine inside to protect me from the cold world.

Sadly, the results don't surprise me.

Honestly, no not really. I hate my life, i'm frustrated, i'm poor, i'm trapped and I believe all these problems stem from my condition (whether it be ASD or something else).

Even though I put down a response, I'm really neither happy or sad. I'm pretty much a stoic, suppressing all my emotions in order to protect myself from this harsh and disgusting world. I've tried connecting with people, only to get shot down or manipulated constantly, and at this point in my life I've nearly giving up on humanity. Lately, I've become more of a prick, telling people off and what not, and generally being mean. At this point in my life I don't care any more about people or human interaction, I just care about myself, f**k everyone else. Each year I see the governments of the world act increasingly irrational and people around me are vapid,selfish,stupid, and narcissistic. However, I don't hate people, I'm not a misanthrope, rather I find them ignoring and ignore them. Apathy is my ideal state.

this poll needed a midway point between happy and unhappy.