Would you describe your life as happy or sad?

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I voted mostly sad but my life is sometimes good as my social skills are getting better as I'm taking a course that helps people with social difficulties. The saddest part is how I feel about myself, my rejection to my condition and my non-acceptance and how hard it can be in social situations. Right at the moment though, I'd say life is pretty good. Sometimes I feel good for no reason, if it only it lasts.

Happy.

Eh, I don't know what else to say about this.

I voted happy, though I would have voted differently a year ago.

I'd say mostly happy, even though I was recently laid off from my job. As I hadn't been scheduled in months, I was able to prepare myself emotionally for the layoff as I had started looking for jobs before getting the official word. That job wasn't one I really wanted, but as it was during the worst part of the recession, I felt that even that fast food job was better than nothing as it closed a gap in my resume.

I know I'm better off than a lot of people in the world, so that's something to be happy about.

I picked mostly happy, although I am not sure I have ever felt happy. I have alexithymia, so I either feel bad or ok. I mostly feel ok, so I guess that is closer to happy than sad.

For me, I'd say mostly sad. There were some times when it was downright deplorable. Talking about dancing in the abyss! Anyway, these day, I guess I'm okay. Yeah, could be better. I guess I'm one of those people who, if they think too deeply about their current situation, get depressed.

Happy. Definitely.

happy, but have had depression yeah.

I can neither say that my life is happy, nor that it's sad. It's both.
Surely there are moments in which it has been worse, and others in which have been better, but it's about avarage.
At the moment I am quite ok.

Im mostly a pessimist and I get stressed over small things and I have bad social anxiety. So mostly sad. Its very hard for me at times, I've been working on clearing my mind, less stressing, and accepting what comes at me more often over the last few yrs. I really havent reached a point in my life where Im happy and satisfied.

This is a tough question to which I say, "I don't know". There should be a third option for that.


If I knew what a happy life was, I might say mine was sad. But when I observe "happy" people, I can't help but notice that they have in fact a lot to be sad about but are mindlessly oblivious. Is that happiness? What monsters lie beneath their true realization of things?

And I am certainly glad I lack that ability that, in my opinion, lets people march themselves into gas chambers right next to the big smokestack while taking orders pertaining to "taking a shower".

I liked my childhood, but my school life makes me feel unhappy because I didn't really have any true friends. I got accepted on and off really, sometimes a few weeks came where others liked playing with me at primary school and I was included in games, then suddenly it all died out again and I was sort of lonely again. Also some moments in my childhood panic me, like some memories I have (by looking at videos and photos) I look and act really normal, you wouldn't think I even had AS, and I fitted in well with other children and was all relaxed and happy. Then in other photos or videos, I was looking all disturbed, uncomfortable, aloof, miserable, et cetera, and you might guess that I have something wrong. I remember when I was about 8, I had temper tantrums in the garden when all my cousins were round, and God knows what the neighbours must have thought, seeing an 8-year-old screaming and crying for hours. Then other times when I was in a crowd of other children (whether they were my cousins or not), I felt all happy and I mingled in well.

All that behaviour makes me feel incredibly ashamed of myself, and it makes me so sad. Sorry, there is nothing about AS that has made me happy.