How well are you dealing with autism/Aspergers?

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I just wanted to know how everyone's doing dealing with Aspergers on a daily basis. I myself am doing fine. Though sometimes it's hard to maintain friendships because I can't empathize with other people that well. And when I get really stressed, sometimes I just blow up. How is life for you with autism?

Very good.

The jury is still out.

Besides not being able to keep friends, very good. But people begin to demand too much, anyway.

I don't see myself as dealing with anything. I see myself as a unique individual with a gift. My focus is on using that gift.

Not very well. But then again friendships are overrated, Oh and I acquired a hamster so that helps.

I am an aspie, going on 75 years of age I have have learned to adapt to the NT life going on around me. I am married to an NT and only one of my children shows any indications of being an aspie. He is 51 now and quite well adapted to the world, such as it is. One of my grandchildren may have signs of being an aspie but he is reasonably well adjusted. My other children and grandchildren are NTs and very intelligent. They are doing o.k. so I have no complaints there.

Not all aspies have done as well as I have, adapting to the mainly NT life in the culture.

ruveyn

Besides saying stupid things, being overly conscientious, spending a lot of time unwinding alone in the evening and being as clumsy as ever...very well

Better to be conscientious than clueless.

ruveyn

Not too bad really. Joblessness is my major malfunction. I've curbed a lot of the depression and anxiety, I found ways to make my life meaningful, and I can relate fairly well with people now and then. A far cry from how I was at 20.

It hasn't killed me so far.

Pretty good, reaching out to the world atm. Wait, bait and see where is reach for me.

Pretty good, doing better every day.

My life with Autism is just fine .

the last couple of years have been steady. exept for my alcoholism, (wich im currently trying to overcome) i have no complaints. it might not always be like this though, they could take away my disability, and then i'd have to get a job or go back to living on the streets

at 19 i was resolutely suicidal. my mind was an abyss of nihilistic despair. it was clear by then that i would never be able to support myself independently (and i felt it would be rather pointless to do so in any case (if after death there is nothing then it is the same to have lived and died as never having been born. so why should i go on suffering?)). i experienced severe cognitive dysfunction as my depression grew worse. after several failed attempts to end my life i set a "deadline" to find a reason to keep living (by my 25th year) or do something more decisive. my depression spontaneously remitted to a small degree after 5 months. it was enough to motivate me to actively seek to improve my condition. it began with just walking. that was my only goal, each day to go for a walk. my mind would move a little easier when i walked. i built up from there. in time i recognized some of the causes of my then present plight, and found ways to revise the deleterious patterns of perception that had instigated my depression. now, at 26 i am usually content. my brain is still sick. that will probably not change as long as i am living. whatever problems arise now, i tend to regard them as dispositional. if i am not structurally bound to them, i will not burden myself with them for very long. absent are innumerable details... hopefully i have said something, in general, i am having difficulty saying anything clearly, so i will submit.

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