Why is asperger's such a negative thing

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It's not negative, people just think it is.

That's a good way of looking at it.

I think it's negative...

If that was true then bigotry and hypocrisy are positives...

I agree.

I don't like having Asperger's because it gives me bad judgement and a hard time learning to get along with people. Even NT's who know I have the diagnosis sometimes shun me from volunteer organizations and things like that because they think my disabilities might scare people or something. It bums me out. I know you're going to hate me for saying this, but if there were a cure, I would take it. I think the only good thing Asperger's has given me is the ability to be able to understand other people with ASD's and be their friends. (Some people argue that it also made me a savant, but I'm not actually a savant.)

AS is only negative to those who dont understand it and its potential

it can be a positive and negative thing in me asperger syndrome is more of a positive thing beacause it makes me more intellagent than other people but im absoloutly rubbish at making friends

Dang, I wish that were still true for me. It's weird how my "intelligent" phase went. I started learning to read and count when I was very young (even though I learned to walk and talk relatively late in life), and then I was the "smart one" throughout elementary school. I literally got no less than 100% correct on every spelling test I took from first through fifth grade. But I wasn't happy, I screamed at people a lot, and I finally realized, "What's the point?" I purposely spent the next few years trying to bring myself down to a lower level, academically, just so I could be "normal" in some way. I got more friends, and I realized that made me happier than getting good grades, and it made me a better person. Still, as my senior year in high school is winding down, I still wish there were some way I good be good, happy, and smart at the same time. But that's too much for me to focus on.

See, I don't get why we're daignosed as "aspergers" and "A.D.D." It's really depressing some people. And I really don't get why some people have to take pills for it. You are who you are and phyciatrists can't alter that with medicine, no matter how hard they try.

I just wish I was normal...like everyone else...A normal life, just be like everyone else...

though I must say I have never felt so happy-because I found a place where people understand me-that's never happened before

you all rock!

Fortunately pills work for me, as long as they are the right kind. I take meds and practice yoga, and those things together help me to interact with people better and to control myself. I'm kind of glad I was diagnosed because having a diagnosis helps my therapist figure out the right meds for me to take more easily.

The part is that no one should rely on pills alone.

personally I think its terrible because it;s alienated me from the world the world doesn't want me and I despretly want to fit in
I keep saying how much I hate my AS and wish it would go away
I will go to my grave resenting it

OMG, I believe in that too! (Although, I don't like being depressed too much, but it's soooooo mush easier for me to be alone)

And personality "disorders" also have drugs to go along with it! So you have to question, "Okay, then, what is normal?"

To me AS is a good thing... although being in a mix of people in social situations is really tiresome a lot of the time.

There are certain attributes about it that I think have made me cope brilliantly well through the harsh, hellishly tough times of school and come out in 'almost' 1 piece lol tbf, school broke me.

Then Collage came along... this is where I'm showing my true potential. Apart from my rebellious approach toward academics, I'm set for trying my hand at taking on the real world soon lol.
The prospect of the real world is something I'm particularly apprehensive about... it's unfortunate that my biggest problem is finding motivation to do work... lol a bit of a problem that...