I don't want aspergers

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People don't like me, but I don't care. I am quite content with who I am, including having Asperger's

It would be interesting to see the world from an NT perspective for a day, just to see exactly what it's cracked up to be. Maybe being 'normal' isn't all that fun, or then again, maybe it is.

The main point is that you have to work with what you've got. It is possible to develop a good, quick sense of humour, gain friends, have some social awareness and be accepted. But it's not easy. In fact, trying to be more socially aware is, at times, like climbing a mountain blindfolded, wearing clogs, with a 5 ton weight slung over your back. Sometimes we feel like we're going nowhere.

I for one wish I could have a knack of making friends, but I have a small number who have come to appreciate, and (dare I say it) even like my quirks. You just have to look at your positive points (don't say you don't have any or I will come over to your house in person and hit you over the head with a plastic mallet,) sell yourself, show off your strengths. And the only way you can practise things such as reading body language is through practice. Constant practice.

I have all of those things and AS as well. It just took me a little longer to learn how to do these things. I have a sense of humor, perhaps not as good as the real jokers of the class but certainly passable. I've always had a small circle of close friends and get along with almost everyone around me (although being in all honors classes has helped in this respect). It took me years to figure it out but I can typically at least tell when someone is uninterested in what I'm talking about. I'm actually amazed at how well I can read the girl I'm going to prom with, I've figured out things about her before I've had any real evidence of them (I knew she didn't completely conform to typical girl behavior, and later I found out she knows more about auto-mechanics then her older brother does!).

And you can have these things too if you are willing to try your hardest. With enough willpower and practice, you will be amzed at what you can do. It might take years, but it will work.

I agree with both of these statements. Except that life does not always suck.

I once was on a flight that lasted slightly over an hour. Across from me a young man sat reading a magazine the entire flight. As we stood up to exit, I saw it was one of those men's fashion mags.

If that was the height of my day, I'd rather turn into a parrot, thank you very much ...

I agree.

People who are cool and nice like me. People who are jerks who have few real friends themselves hate me.

Thanks to AS I'm worth my weight in gold...or silver...or - oh okay, rusty nuts and bolts and the AS doesn't make any difference with that. Wah.

I like my aspergers, it makes me who I am and I couldn't stand not having it.

"I've already accepted that I have to make this work. I will find a way."
Until I started listening and talking to people on the spectrum, I never thought having autism was one's identity or persona. I thought it was something I was stuck with that gave me great challenges I would have to try and overcome with the support of family and good therapy. I don't consider AS who I am. I consider me who I am. Yes, I'd trade it in a heartbeat in my case, because the minuses far outweigh the pluses, but that isn't the case. The case is going forward, as much as I can and walking straight over anyone or anything negative that stands in my way

My AS makes me the unique individual that I am, today.

Sometimes I feel sad for those who has Asperger's, though I don't want to sound like I am pitying you because I know some individuals don't like that.

My boyfriend has Asperger's and EVERYONE I know hates him. My friends dislike him and want me to dump him, my brother's think he's a complete moron, my counselor wants me to get rid of him, and my mom is constantly getting annoyed with him. And yes, even I go through times when I am angry with him and want to strangle him. He does things that are so dumb but I know it's not his fault. I really wish at times that he didn't have it because I know others would accept him more and I wouldn't have to face all kinds of challenges with him. Sometimes it's emotionally straining for me.

Well digger1, quite frankly, thats just Tough Shiit ..................................................................................
We all have are own cross to bear, and for nearly all of us on WP it happens to be the same one. Sometimes I wish I didnt have it, but I do. And so do you, so Deal.

i understand wantin to get rid of aspergers but no way would i! im unique and i love it, even tho im alone, i handle it! only thing id ever even consider changing would be the ability to read folk if i could do that makin friends would be easy i think!

I wish I could be NT in the same way I wanna know what it'd be like to be a female, or an animal, or a tree...just one day (or maybe a reincarnation, if you believe in that sort of thing), but for now I enjoy being me.

Before I found out I was on the spectrum, I would freak out a lot, and hate myself, and go "Oh, something must be wrong with me, I'm such an idiot." But now I know why people treat me the way they do, why I suck at interviews, things like that.

So people are ignorant? Screw it, man. Their whole social hierarcy totem pole bullcrap or whatever is so ridiculous, I don't even care.

I don't care if who I am went away-no one really likes that me anyways-I don't
you know, I want to be someone people actually like
ya know