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I'm probably boring you with polls now, but I wanted to know whether people love or hate their aspergers
Please answer this poll and satisfy my curiosity.

I personally am proud of it. It's what makes me different to everyone else.

I don't know whether I love it or hate it. Some things I love, like being able to focus intensely on things, and being smart, and finding beauty in everyday things, but then, the loneliness, and depression, and general lack of friends are absolutely miserable.

I don't care too much about it. As far as I am concerned, it makes a nice explaination as to why I am so different. I don't see why I should be proud of it, its not something that I earned or won, or whatever. I just have it, and that is enough for me.

If there were a "HFA" type in question I would
have to say "It allows me a creative mind"
but it is not a good nor bad thing. I am happy
that I can be expressive in my own way, but
in the NT world I am dissappointed that having
HFA makes me so isolated! Hmmmmmm!

you're not isolated ghost *pounce's you*

And I say thankyou! being unpounced* and
rubbing behind your ears(I think pounce* means
cat).

What do you think of the "Wet Cat Mystery"
for the Starship WrongPlanet. It is a improvised
story, with me mostly as a narrator.

Where's the I'm sort of proud, and sort of hate it option?

:/

I just used the technique on my cat, it works very well.

I'm too old to hate it (although I wish I had found out about 30 years ago and occasionally mourn lost opportunities). At the same time, I'm not exceptionally "proud" to be an Aspie in the same way I'm not "proud" to be queer. I just *am*, take it or leave it. Pride should be reserved for accomplishments, not genes or accidents of nature/nurture.

Well if pride isnt the right term, then i guess i could say i feel like i won a lottery. Woot! Eidetic memory, don't have to look at other people in their eyes, perfectly fine living alone surfing a forum for THE ENTIRE DAY, obsessive interests, stimming is extra fun? Woot! I won.

"ounce" is a type of cat.

I'm just me.

I like some aspects of myself and dislike others just the same as everyone else. Some of the things I like and dislike are AS traits, some of them are down to my personality. I wouldn't say I either liked or disliked my AS, I just am.

I wouldn't say I'm particularly proud of my AS.

I would say I am proud of the creativity and my various talents like poetry and art which I most likely have because of it.

I'm not proud of any Executive Dysfunction symptoms, nor that I can appear really stupid at times. And I am especially not proud of how messy my apartment is (I usually don't allow people in because of it).

But one thing's for sure: I wouldn't change having Aspergers. I just need to get a maid, that's all.

I guess thats the 'I don't really care about it' option... though 'bit of both' would have been more appropriate I think. Goes for me too.

I don't know whether to hate or like it. Reality has finally set in for me for me coming to grips with this.

Last summer at this time I had this real magical feeling coarsing through me. Finding out about this made me feel like I was reborn. Everytrip to the library, every website I visited revealed some new piece of information about AS. That made me feel happy.

But when school came, I could no longer focus on that, and instead had to deal with the reality that I needed to go to school and that my AS would somehow be affecting me at school. I ended up seeking help from the counslers on campus becasue of it and they helped me a great deal. But as I look back on that year, and my life in general, I realize that I have never been able to accomplish the major milestones in ones life with out significant help from others, and at a much later time than everyone else, and that I'm going to need a lot of support from others if I'm going to recieve my bachelors degree.

And that makes me feel bad becasue I see other people I went to high school who are now in successful carers, getting married and starting families, owning their own homes ETC.

And here I am living in my parents basement still trying to get through college at age 25.