i dont mind having asperger syndrome

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I prefer having Asperger's than not having it. While it causes real problems in my day-to-day life, it gives me many advantages.

-- I think about things differently than anyone else, and people often look to me when they have run out of ideas

-- Everyone thinks I'm a genius (I am not. It's the way I talk. But I'll take that perception).

-- Some of my social skills are actually better than many NTs because I have learned to be hyper observant

-- I feel so much pride in my accomplishments

it is difficult to have it, but I think that's because I didn't receive any help in dealing with it until very recently, so I have lived my whole life up until now struggling to understand why I couldn't act like other people. the more I understand it and talk about it the less it bothers me.

Struggles are there for so many, our NT son has his own struggles too - and we're not gonna touch my issues!

I look at my DH - undiagnosed (but definite) Aspie - as someone who is doing quite well in his life.
He is married (to a woman who pretty-much worships him!), is a great Dad who does all he can for his three boys, is a very active member of our community, is comfortable socially now - even gives lectures in his field, has some very good friends, including a best friend - also keeps in touch with the very good friends from his younger years too, and many friendly acquaintances, and he is well-respected in his field for his diligence and ability to work thru problems that others give up on because they don't think in the ways that he can.
He has made his AS work for him. That he intuitively recognized areas he needed to work - from observing others - on helped. The fact that his mother taught him social graces went a long way with too (have I mentioned I love my Mil?!).

I expect our two Aspie sons to be able to do every bit as well as their Dad - like their Dad they are at their core happy souls with very bright minds, and also have the love of a supportive family - AS will not be a hindrance in their life.

I don't know. I find it hard to imagine what life with an NT cognitive profile would be like. The only way I can answer this is to interpret the question as "do I mind being myself?". The answer to that is yes. I don't like being me. But I don't think i would like being any other type of human either. I don't really like 'life'.

I hate having this contition..it has ruined my life..i am not able to work or interact i have problems with noise..no friends and a social worker who sits on his ass doing nothing to help me to overcome my problems..he comes now only once a month to say how are you doing..then sorry i have to run something important has come up...so stuck with a condition that will never get better without some support, but in the UK there is no support...they will be taking the social worker away soon..saying they have no funds..then i will be leftl living alone totaly isolated from the rest of the world..and told to find a job
No skills
can'nt interact with the public
live alone
get bullied
stare at four walls all day
take panic attacks when i try to talk to people
and left to deal with all of this on my own
NO I HATE HAVING ASPERGERS.......I WANT A LIFE