Are you an Aspie if you want to be one?

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I think that if you want to be an Aspie, you are. A NT person wouldn't want to be an Aspie!

Well.. I didnt ask to be this way.. I was thrown.. Into this living hell. I totally stole that from Jamie Jasta but its true.

Ugh, anyone who wants to be an aspie obviously isn't an aspie because they wouldn't be saying that had they been an aspie. How could anyone who's not an aspie possibly understand how much it screws with your head and seperates you from the world. Hell is not a place people 'want' to visit and thinking you want to, is ignorance.

Ana, no offense but it's utterly stupid comments like these that make me have a hard time taking you seriously. It's no wonder tons of fake aspies are on these forums.
Ok, so if I wanna be a 400 lb. black lesbian, then I am?

You really don't have to share that piece of information with me.


After all, just because at the moment you want to always be smarter than me and never take me seriously again doesn't mean you are or are to get that way.

Well, the first description I heard of AS didn't sound all THAT bad. I guess I am lucky. I don't have a lot of the neater things, but I also don't have a lot of the problems. All MY problems are simply due to NT expectations. It is AMAZING at how they can be dumbfounded at som things I find difficult, that they don't, and astounded at how I quickly do, with ease, things they don't think are possible. But HEY, most of the good in my life can be tracked to AS, and all of the bad mistakes I made were while trying to go against the AS behaviour. If only I knew about it earlier.

But, anyway, I don't think a person should say they are AS simply because they want to be. I think most here are HAPPY about it, but some obviously aren't

BTW Just so you know:

SOME STRENGTHS:
Great cross referenced episodic memory
encyclopedic memory.
good logic
good spatial abilities
hyposensitive to pain/cold
Can learn a lot of things pretty fast

SOME WEAKNESSES
Hyper sensitive to heat/sound
Bad social abilities
no interest in sports
lack some sport ability
I can't learn some things very fast

no. thats not true at all.

WOW, all these terse responses! Even ones alleging or denying the veracity of statements with no reference. YIKES!

I have known non-autistic people who want to be autistic. They don't say they are though, they just want to be because of some stereotype or another they've heard, mostly.

At one point in early High School I wanted to be Schizophrenic, because I thought it would help my sci-fi writing. I now realize this was idiotic and insensitive.

I have been diagnosed as having depression, but that was all the doctor said to me. He talked to my parents and he probably told them what other stuff (bipolar, aspergers, autism etc) I might have inside me.

I saw a pamphlet about "schizophrenia" lying around in the house a long time ago, and I suspect that's what the doctor diagnosed me as. But I dont hear voices, I dont get violent and stuff.

But I can identify with what many of you guys are experiencing,
-depression
-poor social skills
-introverted
-acting younger than my age
-uncomfortable with physical touch, especially with strangers
-hate going to parties or big gatherings
-really,really scared of rejection

and a lot more things. Im comfortable hanging around here and I love reading your experiences. If Im not a real Aspie, Im sorry. Like someone said here, I dont think an NT would like to experience the inconvience, the rejection and the difficulties that I face, just to be called an Aspie. And why would someone want to be an Aspie if he wasnt one? I dont understand that?

Why would someone want to have AS?

It is something that I would wish on nobody, not even my worst enemy. If people want to be disconnected from the rest of the world, confused and have meltdowns then they can pretend it if they really want to. But just because if someone wants to have AS, it doesn't mean that they do.

How about...

Can you have most of the AS symptoms, but still not be an aspie?