Proud of being Asperger's?

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11 Aug 2006, 12:50 pm

HI

I just wondered.....

My self AM very proud.

Regards,

Daniel.

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11 Aug 2006, 1:13 pm

Well, I'm certainly not ashamed of it.
But I'm not going to claim it turns me into some kind of Superman.

And just to be a little correcting, that's "Asperger's"

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11 Aug 2006, 1:17 pm

Emettman wrote:

Well, I'm certainly not ashamed of it.
But I'm not going to claim it turns me into some kind of Superman.

And just to be a little correcting, that's "Asperger's"

I always make that mistake

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11 Aug 2006, 1:33 pm

I'm no more and no less proud of my Asperger's than I am of my eye color, heritage, or name. It's just something that makes up part of who I am. It's nothing to be ashamed of, but nothing to feel special about either. It just is what it is.

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11 Aug 2006, 4:39 pm

I find the concept of pride a bit ridiculous when it comes to an accident of birth. real pride, that which is a positive force comes from the great things that one achieves imo.

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11 Aug 2006, 5:01 pm

i don't really care about it either way, i wish it would leave though.

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11 Aug 2006, 7:34 pm

You can't justifiably be proud of something that is not an achievement.
Like where you were born, what color your skin happens to be, or how your brain works.
It's not like you chose to have AS, is it?

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11 Aug 2006, 8:41 pm

Tails wrote:

Exactly how I feel. It always baffles me when I get asked this question here--I feel roughly the same way about having AS as I do about being female.

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11 Aug 2006, 11:32 pm

Yes.

Composer- I am also a composer. What type of music do you compose?

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12 Aug 2006, 12:38 am

With my intelligence, largely facilitated by my AS-level focus on topics of interest, I sure do have a lot to be proud about.

By concious modeling of human behavior and application of those models, I am quickly gaining the social skills to compete in the NT world. I still mess up all the time and can't read people, but I'm becoming much more skilled at general social communication.

It's only a matter of time until I get to the point of studying the non-verbals to the point of cognitive understanding. From there, it's only a matter of time before I can decode it in real-time.

So yeah. I know my strengths and am learning to compensate for my deficiencies. What is there to not be proud about?
(ok... the many years in which I gave up entirely and accepted total isolation, but I'm mostly past that now)

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12 Aug 2006, 1:08 am

Damn straight I'm proud of it

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12 Aug 2006, 8:43 am

Yes, I am proud to have AS.

It is a blessing.

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12 Aug 2006, 9:50 am

Who_Am_I wrote:

Yes.

Composer- I am also a composer. What type of music do you compose?

I compose classical music - you?

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12 Aug 2006, 10:16 am

i love classical music.

i also am proud of myself. no matter what i am, or what others think. i know me, and i wouldn't have it any other way...
except i would be happy to lose about 30 pounds.

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12 Aug 2006, 10:33 am

aspoid wrote:

i love classical music.

i also am proud of myself. no matter what i am, or what others think. i know me, and i wouldn't have it any other way...
except i would be happy to lose about 30 pounds.

Haha

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13 Aug 2006, 3:37 pm

This question caught me off guard . I am not ashamed of it certianly but I do not go running around telling other people that I have Asperger"s Syndrome. Pride or shame has notthing to do with this I just do not want the hassle of having to explain Asperger's syndrome.

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