Dreams/aspirations

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Poll, here: do you have many dreams or aspirations for the future? I read in Attwood's latest book that lack of competitiveness and ambition are seen in those with ASDs, but that's all I can remember being said on this... Myself, I've only briefly had that sense of ''yeah, bright days ahead, let's do something" I think I'm supposed to be feeling. For me, I think it's depression and feeling that there's not much waiting for a person with AS. Others?

I always think it's the same ol' thing every day, lol.

As far as dreams/aspirations-I have things I'd like to do with my life, but it's a lot of different things (I can't really pick one out of 3-4 different ideas)... and the motivation doesn't seem to really be there to do much about them.

I dream of being an Autism therapist who has a marriage that lasts a lifetime. I would also play in my local symphony orchestra on the bass clarinet.

I have a lot of dreams: to get a full time job, to get a driver's license and to go to London for the 2012 Olympics to meet Roger Bannister. I don't know if my dreams will come true, but I will try. Tony Attwood's book sounds great, but that remark seems very defeatest to me. I am very competitive at things I like, and want to do well. I am not ambitious in a cutthroat, step on people to get what I want sort of way, but I am competitive in terms of self-improvement.

I always wanted to go to Mars, since I did my graduate research on the place.

"I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're going so I can hook up with them later." -Mitch Hedberg

im going into a grad program for scientific research on autism this summer.... another 3-5 yrs of school... afterwhich, maybe ill get paid to do the same thing. lol

Yeah…I’m hoping that I’ll die someday.

My dreams usually are not good.

In the past I dreaded the future as it promised very little. Now every one of my dreams is being driven by the desire to meet people. Two countries I'm very keen on travelling to are Japan and Iceland [well, at the moment I'm motivated by the former, not so much the latter, although eventually I'll be writing the opposite]; often I check out photographs from these countries, especially those depicting scenes of daily life, and picture myself standing there with others that I know and also acquaintances which don't exist in my present life.

Such thoughts also exist closer to home, especially certain bars I picture myself, in attendance, chatting with people without faces.

All this is very important as it's driving me in smaller goals, pushing me through day to day life with a purpose that didn't exist some years ago.

sounds like most of us have problems with motivation

I use to have a lot of motivation

I think we must have aspirations for the future, and must be looking for good goals.

I use to feel very well when things run like this, otherwise I probably feel bad.

Maybe part of it is that people with AS really value structure and stability, and pursuing one's aspirations is often a risky-feeling experience. Just a theory.

My aspiration at present is implied in my username -- my novel is on the 3rd (final?) draft, but now I need to get some publishing house to print it. Further bulletins as events warrant ...