How much do you "identify"?

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With being aspie or autie or ADHD etc? i don't really think much of it, but I do feel a kinship with anyone else who has AS, because it automatically means we probably have a lot in common. but i'm not the type who defines myself around it either.

I had a hard time coming to terms with it all and for the first several years after diagnosis I couldn't participate in online community because I'd get so agitated and drama would ensue and I'd run away to lick my wounds. I had come to the conclusion that I hated my diagnosis and wanted nothing to do with anyone else with the diagnosis.

Now I'm nine years into knowing about my asperger's and I've come to terms with it much better than before and I seem to be able to get along with other people on the spectrum for a change. I still feel my autism as a burden in my life but I'm mainly past the heavily grieving stage where I was mourning for my past and mourning for the loss of several futures and feeling awful, like I was stuck this way and wouldn't ever improve.

I have improved and I have hope for the future now (though I still worry a lot) and I'm coming to accept who and what I am but I'm still not to the point where I would wear a t-shirt or button or talk about having "Aspie Pride" or anything of that sort. Now it's just another something about who I am and a thing to cope with and try to have a good life in spite of.

So I don't really know how much I identify with being autistic. It's definitely part of who I am and it definitely shapes every aspect of my being. And when things get confusing or difficult it's the first thing on my mental checklist for assessing a situation and trying to figure out what to do next. So I guess I'd say yes, I identify with being autistic very much.

I identify pretty well. But seeing AS people in real life is much more difficult. I haven't had much experience, but the experience I'd have, I didn't respond well. I was however, not educated on the matter back then.
I am not officially an aspie yet, and maybe never will be, but I can identify with them.

I identify more with our kind, than with the typical NTs.

There are very few NT's I can identify with.

I miss my aspie friend Dennis. We met in junior high and while we didn't hang out much, we were "sympatico" as the Italians would say. Basically on the same wavelength. It feels lonelier in the world since NT dramatics separated me and Dennis. I.E., his girlfriend hates me.

There are very few humans of any neurology I can identify with. I have a much easier time identifying with animals like dogs or rats.

I feel like I identify with it, even though my family and diagnosticians say I'm very 'mild.' Before diagnosis I felt like I identified with being an aspie and they sort of said that I just decided that's what I wanted to be and I went looking for the diagnosis, even if it meant changing myself to fit it. But I don't think that's true in the least.

I use to hate my AS diagnosis, but now I identify really well.

I got told that my doctor was a quack and I didn't have it and was just trying to change to conform to the diagnosis (and that asperger's didn't even exist, isn't a real thing.) But then I sat the person who was saying that down one day and started reading off a list of symptoms out of the blue without saying what they were, asking "do I do this?" with each one and except for one thing on the list of thirty they said yes I did do it, very much. *Then* I told them that it was a list of symptoms of asperger's syndrome. They still fought against it after that but very weakly. I think I made my point. Now, nine years later, they don't even bother to deny it or call it "alleged" or even say that asperger's doesn't exist. I think I opened their eyes enough that they started really seeing my patterns of behavior and realizing that I couldn't possibly fake something that consistently for that many years.

I identify a lot. I spent most of my life feeling like there was no one else like me anywhere, that I would always be alone. Now, I know that there are many others with very similar experiences. I was never one for really wanting to "belong" anywhere, but that is still quite comforting. It's also really nice to have some other people (besides my bf) to talk to about what it's like to be "me" who actually get it.

Thanks for being here, guys.

About 99.9% and if people don't like it they can jump in a lake.

I didn't even know what Asperger's was until like, a week ago. Having looked into it, I have to say- it sounds almost exactly like me, especially when I was younger. I was dragged to several therapists/psychologists throughout the course of my childhood, and nothing was diagnosed to my knowledge, but I think it may be worth looking into again.

Only marginally better than I identify with NT's.

Which is pretty much like saying I don't identify with aspies, auties or any other
non-NT's

Down through the ages I have been tightly linked / identified with my innermost circle. So come to look into it, see I fit into the spectrum. Look closely - surprise - so do all my innermost circle.

A lot of what gets said here matches me - a lot of what does not turns out to match one of them.