Why are you proud of having AS?

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22 Apr 2007, 7:35 pm

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When the brain sacrifices social functions, it replaces those functions with an intellectual gift. If we didn't have that, then the NTs would be correct in their assumption that we're just a disability. Autism without a high intelligence is just social anxiety disorder on steroids.
We do have a compacity to be alot more intelligent than most NTs, but we're brought up in a NT world where we're educated through NT means, taught to assimilate in a NT world and try to emulate their behaviors, we're taught their theories of mind, and it generally makes some aspies not very aspie. As a matter of fact, a high IQ is one of the main characteristics in diagnosing an Aspergian. We also have larger brains than NTs. Larger brains doesn't always mean that one is more intelligent, but in evolutionary bounds it kinda does.
Every time a new stage in evolution comes along, their brains are larger than the past breed. Higher intelligence means making better decisions, which will better aid the surivival of the species. Yes, I am proud to be Aspergian, and I would rather die honestly than to let intolerance continue to plague our people.

I don't think Aspergers is really like Social Anxiety Disorder with higher intelligence. A lot of people with AS develop social anxiety due to communication problems / bullying etc. but they are inherently different. AS includes a lot of symptoms which are unrelated to social problems.

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22 Apr 2007, 8:02 pm

But much of the time those aren't "symptoms" so much as they are differences. Like being overly analytical, but really the more you analyse something the better of a decision you'll make reguarding it.

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22 Apr 2007, 8:05 pm

I agree that they're differences rather than symptoms as I don't actually view AS as being a disability. It was just the only way I thought of phrasing it at the time, I had to type my post quickly.
I was just really pointing out that there are more differences between social anxiety and Aspergers really. Hypersensitivity, routines etc.

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22 Apr 2007, 8:53 pm

Because I have an excuse for having so few friends and it doesn't make me a loser it just makes me AS.

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24 Apr 2007, 9:20 am

I'm glad my thinking isn't fuzzy. I'm glad I see the world for what it is, even if it isn't that useful most of the time.

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24 Apr 2007, 9:29 am

But all this is pretty silly really. I mean, I don't think aspies are that rare, we're not that special. It's pretty much just a personality type and your average high school maths nerd probably had it.

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24 Apr 2007, 12:22 pm

mizkathy wrote:

Because I have an excuse for having so few friends and it doesn't make me a loser it just makes me AS.

rephrase that in a more positive way...

don't worry about comparing yourself to others!

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24 Apr 2007, 11:36 pm

I'm not proud of having AS, as I get teased about it.

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24 Apr 2007, 11:38 pm

mizkathy wrote:

Because I have an excuse for having so few friends and it doesn't make me a loser it just makes me AS.

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24 Apr 2007, 11:51 pm

Because it gives a reason, a scientific explanation of who you are rather than a prejudice one.
In other words:

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Because I have an excuse for having so few friends and it doesn't make me a loser it just makes me AS.

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24 Apr 2007, 11:55 pm

mizkathy wrote:

Because I have an excuse for having so few friends and it doesn't make me a loser it just makes me AS.

I couldn't agree more...

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25 Apr 2007, 12:03 am

I'm not proud. Of anything. =) If the way I'm disposed makes me better at certain things, then so be it, but I can't be proud of it unless I've been on the other side. And since that's fairly impossible, I guess I'll just have to be content.

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25 Apr 2007, 1:51 am

This is silly. It's like being proud of
being tall. It's no accomplishment.

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25 Apr 2007, 3:28 am

Rather on the spectrum or not, I should be proud who I am. I have been through a lot of road blocks in my life and got through them and if I do have AS or PDD-NOS, it makes my life more of a puzzle because I find ways to get through things and to make something happen. It makes my life more challenging and I have to find my way through it. It could be why I’m honest and straightforward thanks to being on the spectrum.
If I didn’t have it, I wouldn’t have had any special interests and I wouldn’t be into Spokane and I would have never gone to Europe if I didn’t have it. It was my obsession over London that made my mother decided to take me there when I finish high school and I stuck with that dream after I got over the obsession.

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25 Apr 2007, 3:45 am

calandale wrote:

This is silly. It's like being proud of being tall. It's no accomplishment.

Yes, exactly. We can be rightly proud of a positive individual decision which leads to a positive achievement. To declare pride in one's genes is a symptom of an internal psychological struggle, or a tool for addressing the belief, rightly or wrongly, that one is viewed by others as inferior in a way that cannot be shrugged off.

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25 Apr 2007, 3:59 am

I'm not proud of having AS, because I agree with what calandale said.

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