Are you a happy person?

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Are you a happy person?
If you are a happy person, is it because you are autistic? or is it unrelated to your being autistic?
If you are not a happy person, is it because you are autistic? or is it unrelated to your being autistic?

I'm not a completely happy person, but I think that has more to do with my anxiety issues than with my having autism.

In general I am a happy person, though it has nothing to do with having autism. Thinking about my autism and other mental disorders makes me sad.

I am grateful to be able to say, that I would not change a single thing in my life.... Best wife in the world, Best health and working to keep the body in great shape (God willing), and as I perceive it, I have the best occupation for my likes, and I live in the best house in the best place on Earth, and just enough money to not worry, but not feel guilty or gluttonous.

Charles

I am an unhappy person at times because I feel the world keeps trying to make me more like it thinks I should be and will not let me do what makes me happy. I either find myself ostracised and lonely because I can't fit in with them or stressed out because I have to constantly wear a mask and live the life they think I should be leading so that I appear more normal. People are so quick to judge any kind of difference as a mental illness. Even my therapists keep trying to change parts of myself that seem to be built into my hard wiring...they are impossible to change and its exhausting trying to change them. My stress levels have gone through the roof since I have been involved with therapists again. I have never known them stay so high for so long and it's not getting any better. I am thinking of dropping the therapy.

There are times I wish I lived on a Island with a few close friends...with whom I can have interesting conversations instead of constantly having to make small talk and gossip.

I'm usually a happy person, but it has nothing to do with my autism. I'm a happy person, because I allow myself to be free and to be myself.

I wish I knew how to vote. I am a happy person, but it's neither because I'm autistic nor unrelated to being autistic. (As in, being autistic probably affects it, but it's not likely the cause of it.)

I do not know how to respond to this. I would not call myself happy, but only because I tend to... oh how do I phrase this... I am not generally an emotional person and when I have emotions, I do not process them well. When I get positively excited about things it causes me distress/exhaustion eventually. I do not aim for happy, I am for calm and void of emotion. I am very peaceful then and that is good. If that is considered happy, then yes, in general I am a happy person. If it is not, then no, I am not a happy person. This has nothing to do with autism though, it simply is who and what I am and how I function which stems from multiple things which make up the whole of my being. Sorry if this is not helpful.

I seem to be by nature a happy and optimistic person, despite having suffered from depression on and off my whole life, if that makes any sense... I don't attribute either of those things to autism, though it can contribute to either.

I'm happy, and it's unrelated to my likely aspieness.

I am happy for the most part, but not because I'm autistic.

Didn't vote cause none of the options quite fit. Sometimes I am happy and other times I'm not. My unhappyness is related to my AS but I don't know how much of it is caused by it. If I could do what I wanted to do and be able to feed myself/have shelter/working toliet/internet/pets/other needed stuff to be sane I'd be very happy. But the world doesn't work that way. From what I've been told repeatedly I am supposed to somehow get a job(not sure how I got the one I already have that I can't live off of) and maybe find a guy to marry(somehow without a 'how to' guide) and maybe have kids, raise kids stay married til you or he die and work til you can't work no more and if you can afford it retire and sit around doing old person stuff til you die or you have to be cared for my your now grown children and such forth.

The getting a job you can live off part I'm working on sort of my taking some classes to make me more likely to get a job doing the only thing I have job experience in doing (caring for other peoples kids). The geting a guy or friends(that aren't on the internet) is not going well at all as I have no idea how to do either and if I even get to the point where I am on my own with a pets friends would be very good to have(ie I wouldn't need to depend on my family quite as much or feel like a fifth wheel as the saying goes when out with my parents).

Sorry for the rant. And family's here now for Easter so time to go say hi and get through the event til I can hid in here(my room/"cave") again.

*Gets in a patriotic stance*
I am happy, and its because of my autism.
*Inspiring music starts playing*
I have come far. My autism has given me much trouble, but I have overcome most of it and can function socially much better than I could several years ago. Now this may sound like I dont like my autism, but that couldnt be more false. I have good social skills, but I still have the tendencys that make me autistic.
*I stand in front of the Wrong Planet logo*
My tendencys make me a unique person.
I still spout random facts in conversation, and my Fiance says he learns something new everyday with me, and this got me on the Quiz Bowl team!
My habit of sorting random items has helped my family get more tidy, and now I work in the library.
And my unique look on life has spread to everyone around me, giveing us all something to think about.
Everyone has a purpose in this life, there is a plan for all of us, and for all of us here at Wrong Planet, that plan includes having autism. A purpose may move, so you just have to move with it. Do this, and autism will bring you happyness.
*Music and flag picture fade*
I am Kimmy, and I approve this message.

not sure how to respond, I have a lot of mixed happy/sad states, I've considered seriously that I may have bipolar type 2, I think back just the last 7 days and think of a bunch of times I was sad and a bunch of times I was over the moon with happiness, though it may be because I am very sensetive, and i would simply stay happy without triggers.

If I could have a week without any triggers to make me unhappy and find I stilll end up alternating between unhappy and happy i think I'd say I'm bipolar, I have yet to have such a week.