Aspergers...

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...has saved me from society, even though I probably don't need it any longer.

I can't wait to spend my days shopping while thinking of publically harassing a celebrity, and just sit inside my house playing videogames, only then I will truly enjoy life.

Not with 2500 posts, unless it's an account hijack. Maybe it's meant to be sarcasm?

I agree with the OP. Asperger helped me to view society with a critical eye.

I don't understand.

If it was sarcasm it was bad
If it was a troll it was bad

If it was a serious non troll, it was pointless.

I'm proud to be an aspie. It's given me a mind of my own, and I don't feel the need to fit into mainstream society, just for the sake of being indistinguishable from my peers. There was a time that I did fit into mainstream society, as a Beatles fan at the age of 12. That was because I liked The Beatles, and not because I wanted to fit in and be like everybody else. The way that my mind works, is that I know what's right for me, and I pursue that, instead of just going for the latest things, as far as music and video games are concerned. Clothes are a slightly different story. I've bought some pretty Moddish looking ladies clothing hot off the racks in clothing stores, the closing months of 2009. Why? Because that style matches my personality. The thing that I'm getting at, is that I'm able to think for myself, without feeling the added peer pressure to be like the young woman of today, is because being an aspie has enabled me to grow up to have a mind and a personality of my own.

Actually having AS has made my life harder. Now today it isn't so hard anymore. I know even some NTs have hard lives and people with other conditions so I don't see having AS as any different.

I have pointless gifts like thinking outside the box, seeing things different, viewing the world different, my obsessions because they're useless, knowing trivia facts, but I like myself. I don't follow authority. I am also not connected to my feelings much. I guess that can be useful in some areas but lot off times it's useless. I don't even know if I enjoyed something or not unless my feelings were extreme. My husband says I'm logical, my mom says so and one of my aspie friends. I know normal people can be logical too but I think the difference is they can give out emotional support and do emotions while we have difficulty with it so we stay logical. I know I can be illogical. I sometimes do stupid things like taking phrases literal, saying the wrong thing in my thank you card, the usual aspie stuff we do. Thinking logically has sure helped me overcome couple of my aspie traits like learning to be flexible and dealing with change. In that area our feelings take over and we get irrational and act on them because it leads some of us to meltdowns. Some others just get annoyed or irritated or flat out refuse. I used to act up or had troubles adjusting to the change and it make me function different and not be myself. Then in my adolescence the meltdowns came because of the anxiety. I don't remember having any before age 12.

Maybe he just really enjoys video games.