Do I need to change myself?

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Hi. I am 22 and I recently diagnosed with asperger’s. And It was a total epiphany. Now a lot of things are explained about myself. A lot of behaviors I don’t get why I am being and behaving like that, who I am and why I am.

But the thing is, I don’t know what I have to do with it now. Do I need to change my condition and myself? Because if I try, I think I can pretend to be not like that. you know, try not to be like an aspie.

Or like people always say, just be myself and be comfortable being me. I really don’t know. Because sometimes people say you gotta come out of your comfort zone. There’s really a lot of mixed sayings out there, and it confuses me. Now I know why I always had hard times doing much about everything people usually do so easily. And I don’t know how to deal with it .

Please give me any advice who go through this situation or feelings. I’m afraid one day, like on my deathbed that I would realize that I was the outcast from life’s feast.

The only thing that one has to do in life is die; everything else in between is simply choices.

My mother was always telling me I needed to change, or I needed to change my personality.
I never thought to reply when she said those things. I never asked why I needed to change or how to change or what to change into.
But now I am wondering what she expected me to change into. I guess she wanted me to be somebody else.
That's a ridiculous notion.
I would say to just do the best you can while being yourself.
I think what you really need is acceptance and understanding and I hope you will find that.
You are a whole person just the way you are and if you pursue the things that make you happy you will not be outcast from life's feast.

listen to the good doctor seuss who said "be who you are and say what you feel, because the people who matter don't mind, and the people who mind don't matter."

Amazing how everybody is getting diagnosed with AS these days (even though it's been completely removed from the DSM ever since its version V came out). You do not need to so much change as you do need to more simply learn about these subjects & question everything you can. The more you learn & understand about the "popular diagnosis" and why it came about being a diagnosis the better-equipped you will be to best-determine how to evolve yourself.

Well I'd say don't pretend to be whatever. There's some saying that goes something like....It's better to be a first rate version of yourself, than to be a second rate fake". I strive to improve in certain areas to make life easier for myself. But at the same time I'm realistic about my autism. I am who I am and nobody is perfect.

I think essentially the ideal state of being is that you need to be yourself while trying to improve on anything that causes your life to be worse, as Ezra says. And I second auntblabby's Seuss quote, very wise advice.

The reason some are still arriving here saying they've been diagnosed with Asperger's is because some other countries have not yet changed-up to the ASD label as found in DSM 5.

I don't know where the OP is located, but in the UK for example, which uses the ICD system rather than the DSM, some professionals still use the term Asperger's although things are catching up.