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Are you genuinely happy?
Yes, I am genuinely happy. 34%  34%  [ 17 ]
No, I am not genuinely happy. 66%  66%  [ 33 ]
Total votes : 50

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07 Dec 2007, 11:15 am

I am not sure this poll can accurately determine what percentage of people with AS are happy or not since genuinely happy people with AS probably wouldn't visit this board.



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07 Dec 2007, 11:20 am

I don't know that happy is the word I would use to describe the way I feel, its not that elated joyous feeling all the time, but I am content and fullfilled with what I have in my life.

Bad times happen, Im going through one right now, but they always pass and overall I think I have things pretty well figured out.

Now if I could just convince the rest of the world.


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07 Dec 2007, 11:31 am

I get shot bursts of it and some of the time I feel ok, but most of the time no.



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07 Dec 2007, 11:36 am

I sometimes feel moments of joy when lost completely in the moment, but reviewing my life as whole, and the course it has taken so different from what was long expected, fills me with regret and discontent.



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07 Dec 2007, 11:38 am

I expalined it once by saying:
I'm not happy
I'm not unhappy
I'm just me

I don't think I'm happy like other people, but I'm not unhappy or depressed. I'm very content with what I have in my life, and don't miss what I don't have.

I don't socialize, except a little on WP, and don't have friends, but I don't miss friends in my life for the most part.

Hope that makes sense, for what it's worth.


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07 Dec 2007, 11:40 am

duncansbass wrote:
I expalined it once by saying:
I'm not happy
I'm not unhappy
I'm just me

I don't think I'm happy like other people, but I'm not unhappy or depressed. I'm very content with what I have in my life, and don't miss what I don't have.

I don't socialize, except a little on WP, and don't have friends, but I don't miss friends in my life for the most part.

Hope that makes sense, for what it's worth.


Makes sense to me! :D


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07 Dec 2007, 11:59 am

Happy is such a nebulous word. Nobody can agree on the definition of it, therefore, I cannot be it. Neither can anyone else, except to their own standard. This involves a certain amount of self-delusion. (or perhaps they've been given a good definition that I haven't heard of yet ;))

I am content, and I feel joy often - but joy is fleeting, and depression is anything but.



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07 Dec 2007, 12:02 pm

There are moments when I feel "happy" I guess. Overall that emotion just doesn't register. I'm usually neutral at any given moment.



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07 Dec 2007, 12:23 pm

I find that I'm a very jolly person. :O)


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07 Dec 2007, 12:25 pm

CockneyRebel wrote:
I find that I'm a very jolly person. :O)


I know people that are jolly but not happy inside? Are you happy inside and out?



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07 Dec 2007, 12:26 pm

not happy, don't think happy aspies would have much of a need for this site.



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07 Dec 2007, 12:28 pm

chesirecat wrote:
not happy, don't think happy aspies would have much of a need for this site.


Yeah. This poll is pointless. I wonder what % of people with AS are happy?

I would guess no more than 25%.



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07 Dec 2007, 12:33 pm

I'm content. I'm either blue or gray, I'm never a traditional form of 'happy'. Content, perhaps.

If I don't complain about it it's generally fine.



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07 Dec 2007, 1:13 pm

Good question.

The answer is: none of your buisness.


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07 Dec 2007, 1:16 pm

Hm, I'm sitting here wishing I could say yes. But alas, no.



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07 Dec 2007, 1:20 pm

I will be once I can finally get a good amount of distance between myself and my pathologically narcissistic family. That will entail getting hired(been trying that since I graduated college) and then getting my own place to live.

I feel bad for my poor step mom. She's going to be stuck with my dad, but if he mistreats her again, she will justifiably dump him.