Is there anything you like about having AS?

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Is anybody PROUD of being an ''aspie''? Recently, I have decided that I am proud to have AS. Now that I have overcome social challenges, I do not take being able to naturally carry on a conversation for granted like an NT would. I feel proud to have come from being a little nerd to having lots of friends and telling jokes that people actually laugh at. I now feel CONFIDENT and UNIQUE. It does not matter whether you are short or tall or pretty, as long as you are approachable.Everyone has SOMETHING to contribute to society!

To be honest, I'm not proud of it at all... but I am proud of myself, especially for overcoming the problems I have with it. I believe that having pride in yourself should come before anything else.

the ability to see patterns in wide scale and small scale..

Also my perfectionism

No.

I am proud of what I do, not what I am.

faire > etre

Same.
Although there are things I like about AS.

I'm happy that my AS has allowed me to retain my childlike qualities.

I am really proud of being aspie wanted to be nor a gnu, nor anything else, only myself, a great aspie!! !

I like this too. There are many things associated to it; everybody likes babies, not only human babies but animal babies, the same to animal children. In fact, animal can only really learn when very young.

I think the great difference between humans and animals is the fact that our childhood lasts for so long, what permits us to learn a lot, such that we can create culture and teach other youngs...

aspies are learners for their whole lives, what is a great bless!

SAME HERE!

I'm comfortable with my aspieness

I guess I'm just proud of who I am - not necessarily being an Aspie (although being able to show off nerdiness once in a while isn't bad)

I like my intelligence, my good memory, and my ability to be successful at my job.

My new psychiatrist asked me this question when I saw him last week. I thought about it, but haven't really been able to come up with anything. He said he was thinking of increasing my antidepressant, probably because he thinks I don't like myself...

I guess it's hard to figure out what I like about having AS because I've always had it, so I don't really recognize all of the good stuff that comes along with it. The bad stuff is easy to spot (the whole social awkwardness making my life suck thing), but the good stuff doesn't really stand out. Maybe I figure that everybody (NTs included) have the good traits. Also, many of the diagnostic and trait lists for AS focus on the more negative aspects. And a lot of my recent focus has been on the negative aspects with regards to how AS is affecting me in school and how we can work with it.

So I'm looking forward to seeing what people have to say here.

I am happy to be who I am, and wouldn't change my personality for the world. I think my favorite Aspie trait would have to be obsessions. They keep me busy, and are fulfilling.

how would be life without focusing???
I would feel blind!
This is a great bless!! !

I have no idea what it would be like to be somebody else, so I don't know. But *knowing* that I'm an aspie has helped me so very much and for that I am grateful.