Love it or hate it?

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I love it. It gives me a sense of identity.

More to the point, why DON'T you think that ?

Answer : see my quoted quote (above).

I don't fully understand my feelings towards having it yet so I'm not sure if I like it or not. I'm fcuking slow lol

I'm indifferent/apathetic when it's in relation to myself.

Sure, I don't like the pain of sensory sensitivities, nor my anxiety (both of which are from the ASD), but eh, I'll play with the cards I've been dealt; no love or hate.

For those of you that would not wish to be cured - why? Personally if there was a pill I could take to give me a neuro typical dx I would take it. So I am curious to know what you find so great about having Aspergers

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I don't particularly love being autistic or particularly hate it.

I can imagine not being overweight or having bad vision or even without my crappy sense of balance, but I can not imagine myself without my personality. AS is simply a part of me, as my nerdy sense of humor. I really can't say that I love or hate it because the alternative is unthinkable.

I don't like it. It would be nice to be able to learn things faster.

I'm one of the people who said that being Aspie sucks (or words to that effect), but I don't know that I'd like it if I were suddenly NT. Not that it's great being Aspie, just that I've grown to have a strong contempt for mainstream society. They just seem so boringly stereotyped and insensitive, they seem to have sublimated their individuality into a stream of empty rituals. But maybe if I were neurotypical, I'd see the point of their pointless lives. Maybe I'm just bitter.

There's a tale by Kahlil Gibran in which an evil sorceror puts something into the kingdom's water supply so that everybody who drinks it goes insane. Gradually the whole population goes nuts, until only the king is left, and he finally runs out of his private stock of unaffected water, and has to drink the wacky water or die of thirst. So he drinks it. And the people rejoice when they see that their beloved king has returned to sanity after his long mental illness.

I don't mind having AS as, I also have other mental related conditions and one physical quality still, I'm aware of how alone I feel at times but, I do try to make the best of my life though!

While I do for certain, have ADD, I am pretty sure I have Asperger's as well. That's right - I'm dead sure I have both. I like to think of it as a "gift and a curse" if you will, seeing as I can think process brain logic real fast as well as be able to be creative and let my mind wander - it allows me to be open to new [intellectual] ideas yet still be able to not let my own personal feelings cloud my judgement (saying that, I could be a great candidate for a Jedi lol). I however, still overanalyze things, speak really fast and can't understand social situations and cues and am very stubborn about not wanting to conform down to the NT level, which can at times make me feel a little elitist. My over analytical and logical side can sometimes conflict w/ the aesthetically-inclined, wandering creative side. When I was a kid, if i can remember correctly - I can now realize that my ADD had a little more weight over the ASD, but now I think it's the other way around. I'm learning how to cope with it though:
I'm seeing a shrink who is more on the lines of giving me guidelines to go by (no official diagnosis yet), as well as getting advice from my dad who thinks he may have it (though as he said: the military kinda forced him to develop social skills), and now that I realize myself that I have this problem, I am working on improving my social skills. I was told by another Aspie that a way to slow down my speech is to learn how to do old-school hip-hop freestyling (he said it apparently helped him). My dad and my sister have both told me I have done some major improvement in terms of eye contact and speech (so has my shrink too) and keep giving me encouragement. I am basically trying to find a balance between the two disorders, which I believe will make it easier to cope with. It's basically a love-hate of what I have. I hate seeing myself in the social situations, yet I like the fact that I am always going to be different no matter how much I try to conform to society.

I don't love it, I don't hate it, but I still wouldn't want to be cured.

Neither. It's the way it is, and I love and hate results in some situations. I'm always one for drama, no matter what it is about. But the basic, underlying feeling is 'it doesn't matter' or 'it's just like that'.

I'm neutral about it. No one makes fun of me out in the real world, I don't get ejected anymore since I don't go and hang out. I don't get told to shut up. I'm an adult now so things have gotten better. My parents used to tell me in my childhood things will get better when I grow up and they were right.


I still get bullied sometimes on the internet and piss people off but that's part of life. I'm not going to stay upset about things or even hold grudges. Doesn't mean I have to like those people or hate them.


What I hate having is a learning disability. Makes me feel stupid and not smart. I also hate being shy so it makes me passive. My ADD isn't a problem, I no longer get distracted easily and can't do my school work.


But there are still things I need to work on. Everyone has things they need to work on.

I have some good and unique skills and it comes from being under the spectrum. But I hate the anxiety and I wonder if I am mildly bi-polar or have borderline personality as well. I don't see my psych until next week and never really said anything about my frequent and extreme mood swings.. but I am wondering if that is playing a part into a lot of my negative issues, not so much being under the spectrum myself.