What do you regret the most about your life with Asperger's?

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The opinion that i am weird.

Intelligence deemed useless when around most people... regardless of how able and intelligent I may be, most of my peers will survive easier than I will in this world.

I regret how much it destroyed my younger years. I know that the degree to which I was ostracized in elementary/middle school defined a huge amount of who I am, and now that I have the mental capacity to consciously decide who I want to be, I can't, because the experiences of my past have so strongly and deeply defined who I am.

i'd like to be able to make desicsions and stay that way
i'd like to drive maybe
i'd like to be more independent
i'd like to have more energy
i'd like to be intrested in other things

Being born.

I regret blaming everything I thought was wrong with my personality on having asperger's syndrome and not doing anything to better my situation.

don't regret anything as an autie,the past cannot be altered in any way,am see autism and life in general as challenges and experiences,the challenges in autism/life have only made am stronger.

Oddly enough, I think I was better off growing up without a formal diagnosis. I was also lucky enough to have parents who encouraged me in my academic endeavors. I had one teacher who gave me a diagnosis I knew was false. (She said I was hyperactive, but I was really high energy.)

I only learned about AS in 1997. I saw the description and thought it fit, especially the part about special interests and social difficulties. I don't believe my life would have been better had I been diagnosed young. I could have had a teacher who used it as an excuse not to challenge me academically, as my kindergarten teacher did with the earlier, false diagnosis. I would have liked to avoid the problems with bullies, but otherwise, my school experience was positive.

That I went through the psychiatric system at a time when people on the autism spectrum, like me, were labelled and treated as schizophrenics.

39? try finding out at 49...
I regret that there wasn't a 'formal' diagnoses until the early 90s. I regret the only autistic person I ever met was so far off the standard deviation that he was mute...so I had no baseline to compare what the far more numerous versions like me.

I regret the way I was toward childhood friends, at school and to my family, I wish I coulda came off as nicer, more social and easier to get along with, this will haunt me the rest of my life, and I know had I not had AS I woulda done much better and probably been happier today as a result.

I regret not knowing why I felt like I was "different" until this year (I'm 37).

If I had known what it was that was "wrong" with me all along, I would have been proud of learning and adjusting as much as I have to the social world, instead of ashamed at how I didn't get it and having to work for even a rudimertary understanding of what is instinctual to NT's.

I see I'm not the only one here who feels that way - I'm in good company!

I regret nothing except my gi tract problems.