What Are The Things You Like/Dislike about Aspergers?

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30 Nov 2013, 8:54 am

The other day someone asked me this question and I realized that I've never really thought about it fully before.

So here is my list:

Like:
Being able to see the world differently than others
Being able to look at the details more closely
My great memory
Being able to memorize stuff easily

Dislike:
Being caught in a loop
The Anxiety
Having trouble learning things that come easily to others
The social skills issue

What about you guys?



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30 Nov 2013, 9:01 am

Likes
1. It's kind of rare to have so that's cool.
2. I like animals!

Dislikes
1. The heartbreaking loneliness.



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30 Nov 2013, 9:25 am

Although I view autism mostly as a disorder, and as such, consider its symptoms to be generally negative, I have learned to love myself w/ my autism from a very early age, so I can get behind the things you're listing in your post: the attention for detail, the ability to retain/memorize facts (though this is somewhat limited in my case), and how it offers a view that differs from 'regular folk'.

The negatives would be:
-the social awkwardness, and the relative slowness with which I figure out social conventions
-the build-up of frustrations that go unprocessed; sooner or later, it always leads to an anger outburst
-tendency to get locked inside routines that really have no merit

The negatives are balanced out significantly that I am currently at a (relatively) optimistic stage in my life. I do not currently feel debilitated by my autism.


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30 Nov 2013, 9:29 am

Likes (+):

Enhanced perception - extra senses
Being able to solve problems in new/creative ways
To see mathematically, in pictures and numbers
To be independent and strong
That order and patterns are apparent to me - logic

Dislikes (-) :cry: :

That others can be so mean, and that I know
Not fitting in when it counts
Not knowing 'simple' practical things (e.g. finding a bank or doing ordinary paperwork)
Hard to find friends
Being misunderstood, and judged accordingly
Having to listen to those neurotypical socialites who talk way too much, but don't know what they're saying :roll:

Oh, and another (+): my Wrong Planet friends! 8)


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30 Nov 2013, 9:34 am

I don't think there's anything to like or dislike about it.

I mean, it's something you've always had, so you don't have a perspective on what it's like to not have it.



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30 Nov 2013, 9:39 am

Likes
-ability to see things differently when this leads to breakthroughs (as I child, I liked my atypical mind unconditionally; I'd like to get back to that)
-that I understand my AS son
-the ability to concentrate for extremely long time spans and hold genuine interests over time has led me to be very knowledgable about a few subjects
-that math and physics are intuitive for me
-being so poorly understood and misjudged all of my life has shaped me into a person who always assumes the best in others

Dislikes
-sensory overwhelm and overload
-that I struggle to understand my NT daughter
-intermittent (often severe) executive functioning issues and the resulting social and intellectual faux pas
-variable ability to speak well (for the most part, I wish it just wasn't variable. I could handle consistent aphasia better...people would know what to expect and surprise word diarrhea wouldn't let me down.)
-sometimes crippling anxiety and panic attacks
-being misunderstood



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30 Nov 2013, 10:13 am

Likes:
Everything.



Dislikes:
Everything.



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30 Nov 2013, 10:37 am

Likes: (1) Being able to focus intently on a problem and develop solutions that no one else has thought of; (2) Obsession with learning all of the details before determining that solution; and (3) being proven right because only my solutions actually work.

Dislikes: (1) Aspies who believe that their diagnosis is a social death sentence, so they stop trying to socialize at all, and then complain because the big mean old world won't make accommodations just for them; (2) Self-diagnosed "Aspies" whose belief in the validity of their diagnosis somehow makes them superior to those of us who rely on appropriately-trained, experienced and licensed mental health professionals; and (3) Being called an insensitive, unfeeling monster because (for example) I've stated openly that a murder that took place fifty years ago is relevant only in the social and historical contexts of that day.



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30 Nov 2013, 11:17 am

Likes
-When I get a new interest, it's not like how an NT would usually handle an interest--it's an absolute joy just sitting and learning new things about it
-Stimming
-Personally, it allows my brain to understand math extremely easily, for the most part. I love math
-Being able to entertain myself for a long while without much to do

Dislikes
-Sensory issues in general
-Not knowing if something I'm about to say will be appropriate for the situation or not
-Personally, the way my brain works makes me awful in English class, because I can't make connections in there for some reason
-Executive dysfunction
-Anxiety :(



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30 Nov 2013, 12:20 pm

Nothing. There is NOTHING to even discuss about what there is to like about Asperger's. If I didn't have Asperger's, I wouldn't be sitting in my room (exhausted after a day of socialising), crying and pacing about because my cousin and my brother are here and I don't know what time she's going and worrying if she might stay late and make a noise, when I've been planning on having a quiet evening in solitude to watch my DVDs in bed early. Sometimes family can be so overwhelming and I just wish I could move away and have nothing more to do with my family, except for my mum, my dad, my aunts and both my grandparents, because they are always understanding, not unpredictable.

And yet I'm feeling so guilty whilst writing this. If I didn't have this f*****g psychotic s**t, I wouldn't be feeling like this right now. Don't encourage me to think of the ''good points'' because there is no good points for me. Maybe Asperger's has affected other people here in good ways but it hasn't me. No, I'm not a genius, I'm just average. I can play the keyboard with one hand, big deal, so can some NTs that I know. I like to write stories about bus-drivers, which is considered ''sad'' in the real world.

f*****g Asperger's - I f*****g hate it, end of.


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30 Nov 2013, 12:26 pm

Likes: nothing;

Dislikes: everything.



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30 Nov 2013, 12:28 pm

i cant say that i dislike or like anything about Aspergers because i have always been this way and never experienced anything different, i just dont like the way people treat me.


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30 Nov 2013, 2:04 pm

I started to think up a list then I realized for the most part the positives and negatives were based on how other people reacted to my autism and had nothing to do with autism itself. These below had little or nothing to do with others.

Positives
Ability to really appreciate a subject

Nagatives
It is so very complicated
Executive dysfunction


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30 Nov 2013, 2:26 pm

I like everything about aspergers

the things that make me not like aspergers are directly related to the fact that were stuck on a planet ruled by neurotypicals. Not being able to get a job even though I work harder than the rest and don't waste time socializing. Being depressed because of the current state of Earth's destruction due to irrational people making decisions based on money. etc. Aspergers is great. The world we live in is not ideal for us though and it sucks.



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30 Nov 2013, 2:53 pm

Likes: I have no idea what would be gone without these traits, so ... :?

Dislikes: The social issues, as so many above have mentioned. :(

Even if everyone were autistic-ish, socialisation would not become easier, but rather the opposite. The only advantage would be that everyone would have serious problems, so there would be no "normal" to be compared with.



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30 Nov 2013, 11:28 pm

co morbids "sensory issues" are anxiety call it for what it is. :cry:

Plus: Being unloveab;le and not taking offense to this I wish some one had told me this far sooner , cause sadly it took me a long time to work out :roll:


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