Are you openly A.S (on the spectrum) ?

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Obviously my family knows about the diagnosis. Other than that, I'm fairly selective about the people to whom I disclose it. Generally I make a note of letting my teachers and employers know about it, if only as a sort of safety measure. Not many friends or other acquaintances know about my AS, though, except the very close ones.

Self-diagnosed and reveal my possible AS traits only here-I don't use my real name here. However, someone who knows me and reads this may figure it out because my interest in Denis Istomin is well-known to my friends.

My feeling about Asperger's (and autism) is that it's not like having some terminal condition.

What, exactly, makes it a tragedy to have Asperger's or high-functioning autism? it's not exactly a death sentence.

It's a pain in the butt----and can cause lots of pain.

But it's just not like some terminal condition.

Something between "open" and "limited". I don't yell "I'm an aspie!" left and right and I didn't put it in my fb account so it's not like the world knows but I don't hide it and there are quite a few people that know.
I am just as open about it as I would be about "I like red color." or "I live in Poland". A normal thing. If it matters or if someone asks I just tell. No big deal.

But I am kinda activistic in certain places. For example today my class watched the movie "Adam" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1185836/ which was my idea (every week we watch a movie suggested by someone and discuss it) and afterwards I answered all questions they had.

I have never told anybody I have AS in my life. The only way my family knows is because my mum told them when I was first diagnosed as a child. But I do talk about my AS to my close family, mostly my mum and my two aunties. I'm not sure my cousins know or not. I doubt they even know what AS is. Some of the people at my previous job knew I had AS, because my job mentor told the employer when I first went for the job. But my boyfriend doesn't know I have AS and neither does anybody at my current job. I'm too ashamed of AS to tell people. I just want to get on with my life and rely on my skills I do have and hide the symptoms I do have.

I think it's probably obvious to people when they meet me in person that I have ASD. I only really talk about it in detail though to my close family, doctors, and my best friend, aside from on here.

Open, but not proud of it (Where did you get that idea?)

I tell people if the need arises, i've been going to lots of interviews lately and i've asked about being able to get a calm working environment and told them why. I can't stand extroverts standing around talking about complete BS like sports and waste my time since i cannot concentrate when they do.

On a need-to-know basis, too, and the only reason anyone needs to know is that I haven’t found a better way to survive. I hope to fix this some day and for the world to forget as soon as possible that I was ever diagnosed.

Only my close family and a few other people that I trust know about my AS. I have no intention of telling anyone else unless I feel that it is necessary.

So... Decided as a birthday present to myself to go "public" this week.

So far, so good.

I had to tell my company and I chose to tell a few people at work, just people I trust. I suspect that others at work have worked it out though.

I am obviously autistic. There is no hiding it.