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26 Apr 2007, 11:33 am

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Well how am I supposed to know?! I'm only 16!!

I thought that was a darn good example if you ask me... I like my uniqueness anyway...


Don't mind me, it is just one of my personal quirks: I just can't stand to see people wearing their genetic quirks as a badge of pride.

I mean, for example, I have green eyes and brown hair but I don't go around attributing all my success and admirable features to it.



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26 Apr 2007, 12:29 pm

Because I'm the only one in my family, or my clubhouse who speeks with a Cockney accent. :)



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26 Apr 2007, 12:41 pm

I'm coming to terms with it-although I still feel ashamed...
the lonelyness, the deression, the bad times-the days I wish I could be like everyone else
I don't like this at all but I have to live with it so I gotta learn to!



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26 Apr 2007, 2:51 pm

JakeG wrote:
KBABZ wrote:
Well how am I supposed to know?! I'm only 16!!

I thought that was a darn good example if you ask me... I like my uniqueness anyway...


Don't mind me, it is just one of my personal quirks: I just can't stand to see people wearing their genetic quirks as a badge of pride.

I mean, for example, I have green eyes and brown hair but I don't go around attributing all my success and admirable features to it.


Well some of us actually believe we deserve the right to life, liberty, and the persuit of happiness.



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26 Apr 2007, 3:33 pm

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Yes, I'm proud because now I finally understand and appreciate myself.

Totaly agree. It makes me who I am, and I like being me, so why not be proud? 8)


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26 Apr 2007, 3:49 pm

i am not proude of having AS and i am not sure i have totaly admited it to myself yet but i am pround of who i am. and i guess AS is part of who i am even if it makes me flince to write that.


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26 Apr 2007, 8:26 pm

snake321 wrote:
JakeG wrote:
KBABZ wrote:
Well how am I supposed to know?! I'm only 16!!

I thought that was a darn good example if you ask me... I like my uniqueness anyway...


Don't mind me, it is just one of my personal quirks: I just can't stand to see people wearing their genetic quirks as a badge of pride.

I mean, for example, I have green eyes and brown hair but I don't go around attributing all my success and admirable features to it.


Well some of us actually believe we deserve the right to life, liberty, and the persuit of happiness.


I don't see how your quoted statement relates to the one of mine that you quoted... I never stated that I was against the right to life, the principle of liberty or the pursuit of happiness (legal act and general principle). In fact, I am all for them (all).

I just happen to find people having a sense of pride in things that they have no control over distasteful. That doesn't mean I feel that people should be ashamed but rather that they should be neither proud nor ashamed for things they don't have control of...you just have to accept them as they are.



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26 Apr 2007, 9:12 pm

JakeG wrote:
snake321 wrote:
JakeG wrote:
KBABZ wrote:
Well how am I supposed to know?! I'm only 16!!

I thought that was a darn good example if you ask me... I like my uniqueness anyway...


Don't mind me, it is just one of my personal quirks: I just can't stand to see people wearing their genetic quirks as a badge of pride.

I mean, for example, I have green eyes and brown hair but I don't go around attributing all my success and admirable features to it.


Well some of us actually believe we deserve the right to life, liberty, and the persuit of happiness.


I don't see how your quoted statement relates to the one of mine that you quoted... I never stated that I was against the right to life, the principle of liberty or the pursuit of happiness (legal act and general principle). In fact, I am all for them (all).

I just happen to find people having a sense of pride in things that they have no control over distasteful. That doesn't mean I feel that people should be ashamed but rather that they should be neither proud nor ashamed for things they don't have control of...you just have to accept them as they are.


Maybe it's not so much that people are taking pride in their Asperger's, but maybe they appreciate it because they feel it has helped them to become an interesting person, or whatever. Maybe "pride" just isn't the appropriate word to use. Your eye color example made me think of that. I have green eyes too, and I think that's cool because green is among the rarest eye colors. I appreciate my green eyes, but I'm not "proud" of them in the sense that I would be "proud" of an accomplishment ("Wow, I just have the coolest pigmentation around! Go me, it's my birthday, go me!")



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26 Apr 2007, 9:29 pm

LostInSpace wrote:
Maybe it's not so much that people are taking pride in their Asperger's, but maybe they appreciate it because they feel it has helped them to become an interesting person, or whatever. Maybe "pride" just isn't the appropriate word to use. Your eye color example made me think of that. I have green eyes too, and I think that's cool because green is among the rarest eye colors. I appreciate my green eyes, but I'm not "proud" of them in the sense that I would be "proud" of an accomplishment ("Wow, I just have the coolest pigmentation around! Go me, it's my birthday, go me!")


Ok, so we actually agree in principle - I have no problem with people appreciating their genetic features and indeed I feel that it is best if we are able to be happy with what we are given.

I am content with the genes I have found myself with, on the one hand I would be happier if certain things were different but on the other I am happy that they aren't any worse. So in terms of appreciation, it would be fair to say I appreciate some of my features.

In terms of pride however I am entirely neutral, that is to say I feel neither pride nor shame in who I am. It just is how it is - I am not responsible for any of it, i am only responsible for my actions and I reserve feelings of pride and shame for those.



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26 Apr 2007, 9:38 pm

How can I be proud of something I don't want?



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27 Apr 2007, 12:49 am

*sigh* I give in. I'll say I like AS even though I can't help it and leave it at that.


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27 Apr 2007, 1:45 am

i like having as and am proud of it because if i didnt have it i would be a different person to who i am now.
my view is that everything we do or have adds up to make a picture of ourselves and if we were to lose one of those things then we would in theory lose a piece of ourselves and not be complete anymore.
which is why if they came up with a cure for as i would turn it down completly.