Is an Autistic Spectrum Disorders: Curse or Blessing?

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My AS is a blessing, though I see the negativity and pity that others have for us as a curse. The AS is the blessing. The ignorance of others is the curse. I'm happy to be alive and I'm glad my mum didn't abort me. I also don't believe in euthanasia and assisted suicide for anybody who's on the spectrum, because I feel that all people on the spectrum have the right to life from conception until natural death.

Autism Speaks, never!

Autism lives forever!

Speak for yourself.

Just because our perspectives differ does not mean that I am deluded. It means our experiences and our opinions are different.

I agree with Verdandi, I feel that all people have a right to protected life, whether they're autistic or not. It's not the 1940s anymore when Hitler was killing off handicapped people. I feel that every life is worth living and all people who are conceived in their mother's womb should live a life that's protected from the womb to the tomb. Every life is a gift from God and in my mind, there is a God and he loves us.

Another reason I love The Kinks:

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Our truths are different.

The only problem I have is with getting and keeping a job. Having money would take the edge off most all of the associated problems.


So I would say mostly blessing, the whole employment issues most of us seem to face pro only have more to do with NT perceptions rather than us.

This is in direct contradiction to what you actually post. What you post isn't truth, it's self pity peppered with complaints that the rest of us don't hate ourselves enough for your standards. You have no insight or truth about my life. Stick to your own.

Autism Speaks does not speak for me, because I don't want pity. In fact I think the word, pity is as vile and disgusting as both Autism Speaks itself and their blue misshapen puzzle piece.

Although I feel like my social skills and potiential life is cursed and robbed just because of having an autism spectrum disorder, I think I'm happily blessed with it as of now because I'm actually trying to sort out my problems and managing my disability.

We can all learn that it isn't our fault that we are born with an autism spectrum disorder and we can't use it to gain pity and as an excuse to fault other people for our troubles, failures, and shortcomings. I can understand that there is negative stigma about this disorder because there are ignorant individuals who don't take the time to understand and learn about this disability, but we can beat those stigmas through education and cementing those myths with actual facts.

The only truth I see is that your whining and complaining are really quite pathetic.

Your emotional rigidity, by your own beliefs and values makes you quite pathetic, you advocate the value of personal responsibility, yet your fail consistently to deal with your issues of aggression, and rigidity

Anyways take what I said as direct feedback, I generally avoid being this forward, but by your own belief system you should at least accept my advice as genuine.

Anyways is a bear a blessing or a curse, it's not even a question I think most people would even entertain.

I was born an aspie, I see no reason to be any other animal, nt, bear, etc. I'm simply part of the ecosystem.

I call it being assertive and having standards - essential qualities for success.


No.

It's caused lots of problems in the past, but it has also created opportunities that I would never have otherwise.

I think that the illusion of social order is a curse on mankind and we suffer from the effects of that even if we are not flawed enough to buy into it.

So far, it seems that most people consider an ASD to be more of a blessing than a curse, with about 50% more in favor of "Blessing" than "Curse", and 80% more in favor of neutrality than "Curse".

It looks like the majority of people have either learned to live with their ASD or they've turned their ASD around to their advantage!

It only makes sense that people who have an interest in advocacy would not vote negatively about how they feel about their condition - Not everyone who visits this subforum is but I'm saying a disproportionate fraction of people. Your results might have been different if this was posted in a different subforum?