do some ppl want AS?

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I love it. It helps me to be perseverate with the scientific problems.

I thought there had been some terrible mistake when I found out. I wanted it to just go away.

i'm with the "not glad i have it but glad i know" brigade.

it's so good to know there's a reason i have so much trouble with social stuff when i've tried so hard, done so mauy courses, read so many books... and its still 'social skills by numbers', it will never be an instinctive thing for me. it is much better to know why, than to just stumble through life assuming i'm just dumb and not trying.

i can see some people who would 'like' to have it, i know people who 'have' the strangest disorders for a week or two, until they get tired of it and find something else to 'have'...

ps - broken keyboard. sorry about typing strangeness.

I'm in the "I'm glad I have it because it makes me different from everybody else" department.

What? You mean I'm the ONLY one here?! Well that's a kick in the pants...

NOPE, I said much the same thing! I wish EVERYONE had it, but I'm happy I do.

Steve

I havent been diagnosed but this dr i went to hinted at A.S or autism.

People that dont know me have asked me if i am autistic. People I do know have thrown the name A.S. at me.

is not that I want to be an aspie over NT, I actually would like to be born again and be "normal", I used to feel awful about myself, I thought I was a loser and very useless, until I found out about AS then I started to see things differently, it is a great relief to me to have a scientific explanation rather than a prejudice one.
After some info from the net I have found some of ADD, developement disability, panick attacks, RLS (thanks Erilyn) in me, not a good thing to proudly describe in a dating service or job interview, is it?

I can't imagine being me without it, and I DON'T want to be not me.

Funny thing is, when I revealed my suspicions to one of my colleagues, his response was that the fact that I even entertained the idea was clearly proof that I don't have it. I have no idea where he got that concept from. The level of introspection that many of us seem to undergo, along with a tendency for honesty, seems to almost ensure that we would admit it easily.

Yes exactly right. I wish I wasn't so honest sometimes.

I have already said that I was upset to find out, but now I couldn't be happier, I think its because there is no more struggling to try to be neurotypical.

one of my friends got to know me real well, and told me he no longer felt "inferior" to my intelligence. he thought i was some kind of genius because of my math skills and ability to apply them in physics so effortlessly. he said he could not understand it no matter how hard he tried; but i told him it was the only thing im good at. after he got to know me better, he realized it really is the only thing im good at, just like i told him. so he had thought AS made me smart at math, and therefore everything. he had no idea about the rest of it. most ppl dont.

I love it, but it has made life mighty hard.

AS doesn't make life hard, ignorance makes life hard. I am proud to be Aspie, many of our people have made great contributions to mankind.

*Harder

Im still figuring out what HFA means to me, but I would like it if I had better short term memory and could multitask better, who wouldnt though.

I was not diagnosed until rather recently, so yes, you could say (correct me in saying) that ignorance of asperger's plus having asperger's made life much harder than was necessary.

After learning about AS, I am doing much better!

However, I cannot imagine not being an aspie or not having an aspie's life, so I can't really answer the question of whether I would change my being an aspie, except by saying, "I am actually very thankful to be me so far as now."

Sing along with me to the tune of "Im Proud to be an Okie from Muskogee"

Im proud to be an aspie from Muskogee

Where were wierder than the NTs and the straights.

We dont waste our time with silly headgames.

And the kitchen tiles are counted everyday.

EH HA!

Me thinks I have too much time on my hands.