Do you think it's possible for aspies to be succesful?

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Successful later in life. Like getting respect from people, having a good looking girl, having a decent job etc...

Sure! Many have been.

Yes, by being a good spirited and natured person to be around. Sure it's tough being introverted and shy, but if one honestly does opposite of evil doers. Say the Politburo of the People's Republic of China. (and I just saw a news cast the other night, of those ugly ugly ugly ugly freaks. You know the old Hutts (ie Jebba) looking men), then genreally you're a loveable person. Who inspires the nurturing Free breath of relief. Instead of the holding your breath of fear and farts.

As Dave Thomas says "Just be nice"....

Im only mildly aspie, but having been told i would be 'unlikely to succeed at high school' I now work as a Design Engineer at JCB having got ABB at a-levels and completed a 5 year masters in engineering and got a 2.1 and a load of freinds out of it.

Theres no such think as cant, get on with life. As long as your happy you successful.

Daniel

It depends on how you define success. For some people, keeping a roof over head is a measure of success. For others, until they have great wealth, they will feel like failures (and even then, they may not be happy.)

Amongst my peers, I am fairly successful, but mostly I feel like I have failed in a number of areas. I have had a number of my photographs published, including two books of photography. I have a good paying job in visual effects and graphics for film. I'm buying a house etc. These are all good things, but I can't say that I feel successful. I am in a creative lull in photography right now and the work I am doing doesn't really interest me. The films I have made are not as good as I wanted them to be. I am unsure how my life will go and if I will be able to get good work in the future.

And the areas that most people would think are serious failures in my life don't mean that much to me. I have never been in an intimate relationship and while that bothered me for a long time, I don't think too much about it anymore.

It's not always easy to predict in what areas a person might be successful. I think being practical helps. The Aspies I have known who have had a harder time in life have been dreamers who didn't believe that life could be hard work and didn't make the effort to realize their dreams.

I'm not sure that success is a useful goal. I think it's more important to live your life well and to do things that interest you. If at the end of your life, all you have to show for it is a wad of cash, I would think of that as quite a failure. I feel a successful life is one that is filled with fulfilling experiences.

I agree that "a successful life depends on your experiences."

I define success by a job and am currently unable to work. So I have to focus instead on many other successes - and see the value and beauty in them. Most of all I have to stop dreaming of tomorrow and find a way to enjoy today.

I agree that "a successful life depends on your experiences."

I define success by a job and am currently unable to work. So I have to focus instead on many other successes - and see the value and beauty in them. Most of all I have to stop dreaming of tomorrow and find a way to enjoy today.

Yes, just as soon as I get my hands on a mill my success is guaranteed.

Um, Vernon L Smith has Asperger's, is a professor and shared the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2002 - http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7030731/

Is that successful enough for you?

Each individual is different. People do not always agree on what merits success. If I don't need the above criteria to feel like a success then I can feel fulfilled without it. So yes, it is possible for Aspies to have success in life.

Academically. Very possible. Outside the education system, it's a lot more difficult, I would think. In university, you have some control and there's a lot of structure. In the "real" world that's a lot more difficult to find. I wish they had businesses, hospitals, etc. that catered to individuals like me. I think I can succeed but I need a lot more patience and calmness than most work environments provide.

This is said in the most humble way possible : I got voted most likely to succeed in high school, and I intend to prove them right. Anyways think of all the famous aspies: Einstein and Tim Burton jump to mind, there's a list somewhere.

It occurs to me that the first time I heard the term "Asperger's Syndrome" was in an interview with a successful Aspie software developer.

On vaction in Prague, I met a man who has been highly successful in buisiness on two continents, a European whose English was so good he had aquired a regional accent. I would have pegged him as a fellow Chicagoan if I had not been told where he was from. He never really made eye contact, moved clumsily and had a gait that was all too familiar, monologued about a special interest, and missed every social cue that came his way. He has a lot of money, a wife and children, and a useful life that seems to satisfy him.