is your diagnoses a gift or disorder

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I certainly can't disagree with this and I might even take it all a step
further. I'm pretty much of an anti-natalist these days. Bringing humans
into existence is like playing russian roulette with the devil. Considering
it's possible to produce one such as myself, it seems to make procreation
an action with the cruelest of all potentialities even in the case of ideal
parents. In any event....I think people ought to get a PhD in parenting
before they're allowed to raise children. Needless to say...I am exaggerating
JUST a bit .....but I think my point is clear.

People act like parenting is just a right and i'm not arguing whether
it should be in the legal sense of the term or not. I'm saying that it
SHOULD NOT be in the ethical sense of the term. If billions of people,
rich and poor, "dumb" and "smart", etc....truly viewed the welfare of
their children as the highest priority....they wouldn't have any.

Some people just aren't cut out to be parents...it doesn't matter what
other qualities they do or do not possess. Again....I can't say for certain
I would've turned out any better if I had better parents, but there's at
least reason to suspect I would've. My parents weren't even invested
in my education on any level. Even after I pleaded with them for 18
years to believe me when I told them there was something terribly
wrong with my brain. I'd say it's pretty important for parents to be
invested in their child's education when that child has a significant
learning disability/neurological disorder.

It's a gift with some drawbacks. You can learn stuff a lot easier with AS. Except, you can't socialize very well and you get in trouble a lot.

Disorder that has its humourous/memorable moments.

I'm not sure I understood the question, so here are the answers for either way I could read it:

If the question is whether the actual diagnosis and explanation of my Asperger's is a gift or a label/excuse for disorder; clearly it's a gift. Without the diagnosis, I puzzled for 43 years about why I'm different, and why I don't get what other people are thinking and perceiving.

If the question is whether Asperger's is a gift or a disorder; I'm going to have to say disability or disorder. True, I have many advantages for which I can thank Asperger's, but the pain and suffering through growing up as the "weirdo", isn't nearly worth the advantages of being able to memorize the license numbers of cars I saw on the highway in 1973, or knowing the model number of every TV set built from 1938 through about 1990, or knowing the model and location of every air raid siren installed in Los Angeles County.

Charles

Both. But right now, it feels like it is a stupid disorder that ruins my life!

Neither, it's a collection of symptoms that make up a part of my personality.

I neither like or hate the fact that I possess traits that put me on the spectrum.