I'm Glad I'm Aspie TODAY Because ....

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This is an affirmation thread. Post things that happened today that make you glad to be aspie.

My rugby club sponsored the national women's 7s rugby championship tournament this weekend. A beer company had donated a canopy but it was a badly designed kit with a bazillion parts. Five of my team-mates had been struggling trying to put it together, following the instructions, but they had a lot of leftover pieces they couldn't figure out, and were just going to leave out (bad idea). I saw what they were doing, laughed, and put it together correctly, without looking at the instructions, in 5 minutes.

I'm glad Im aspie today because I can use my special abilities to help my friends.

Way to go

i like knowing i have aspergers since knowing makes all the doctors from my past wrong when they keep calling me a lazy psycho criminal to force me to just stop having problems and the just get over it advice

this happened a little while ago but it is very fitting to the thread

One day after buying a brand new LCD TV and DVD Recorder my roommate was trying to hook everything up so the satellite went to the DVD recorder and then to TV. After staring at the back of the 3 devices for 3 hours he gave up and went and got a drink. During the 5 minutes he was gone i managed to hook everything up properly with half the cords.

This happened a few days ago but my mum was trying to change a printer ink cartridge and she was sitting there reading the manual for ages. I have a look at the settings on the screen, make a few mistakes but 10 seconds later the ink cartridge automatically comes out.

I also spend a lot of time on my own during the week and some weekends. My NT friends will go insane if they had to live the same life as me.

My partner broke a crystal wine glass this morning and felt bad. I looked at it and said "good, that was the one with the thicker base".

I'm glad to be aspie today because my obsession with detail made my partner feel better when he was feeling bad.

I'm not always glad to be aspie. But I was one day.

My computer teacher didn't tell me what all the program instructions meant, so I didn't understand them. (Computer program code is like a language to me, I need to know what a 'phrase' means.) Then it was time for an exam and I hadn't been taught properly, so I just memorised the entire program without knowing what it meant.

I went in to the exam and while I didn't remember every single character to make the program work, i had memorised enough to put down most and got a B+. Only from memory. I'm as good as Rainman.

Also I'm good at assembling IKEA furniture by myself.

I'm a pretty good driver, but it terrifies me. So when people want to move into my lane, I always let them in and give them a lot of room. Today, I let an SUV in at a difficult merge point, and ended up behind them going through the toll booth. When I pulled up the toll-taker said "the car in front paid your toll". Apparently a Random Act of Kindness. Their plate was OMSHIVA.

I'm glad I'm aspie today because my impairment helped me extend a kindness to a stranger, who returned a kindness to me. And so on.

I'm glad I'm an Aspie today because...

My brain neurology helps me spawn new ideas and inventions that will help people when they get put into practice, and look at 'big' problems from angles which most people don't think exist.

Today, I'm glad to be on the spectrum.

I'm sitting here designing and printing my own circuit boards for my final masters project.
I've never taken an electronics course in my life.
Yay for my spatial-mechanical skills!

I just got back from a 4 day road/camping trip (we hiked White Mountain, CA - 14,246') with two friends. It's the first time I've really talked to friends about my AS. I explained the basics, and stopped trying to act NT. I let my hands do what they wanted, and said things the way they are in my head without much translating.

By the end of the trip they had adjusted pretty well, and we had a lot to joke about <grin>.

It was SO liberating to just be myself, and have them accept that.

I'm glad I'm aspie today because I'm glad I'm ME, and if I weren't aspie, I'd be someone else.

...because I won the math competition last week

...because wrongplanet.net makes me happy

..because I am good at Scrabble on-line
..because I like my special interest: making videos

I'm glad i'm an Aspie because i was the only person in a class of 30 to get a B grade in a piece of English coursework.

Everyone else got 'E's because they forgot to put in paragraphs. ^_^

I'm glad I'm Aspie (yesterday,today and tomorrow) because,

I very often have a calendar to fill with my very own desires:)

I can soak up the content of a whole lecture in class basically, and do well on exams as well, with minimal studying.