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Kris94
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29 Sep 2008, 1:05 pm

having aspergers/ADHD/or any other 'disability'.

do u hate yours or love it?

i love mine lolz



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29 Sep 2008, 1:08 pm

i like mine..i wouldnt go so far as to say i love it but..yeah definetly dont hate it



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29 Sep 2008, 1:26 pm

I love having Asperger's and I'm extremely proud. If anyone says anything bad about it I take it as a personal offence, and feel infuriated. I challenge their opinion.

Up the AS! 8) Get it?


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29 Sep 2008, 1:32 pm

if disabled by disability,why would anyone like it if it really is disability to them? maybe they could like what they say are good sides of their condition and what it gives to them and not actually be disabled by it.

am have multiple disabilities mostly at severe or profound level [autism,epilepsy,hyperacusis,multiple learning disabilities,up to day long paralysis from waist down due to sensory shutdowns and seizures,mild CP type in left leg] and dont like having them as they affect life in even the smallest of ways,though dont sit there thinking about hating them,most of them will never go away so it waste of hate.


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29 Sep 2008, 1:41 pm

samtoo wrote:
I love having Asperger's and I'm extremely proud. If anyone says anything bad about it I take it as a personal offence, and feel infuriated. I challenge their opinion.

Up the AS! 8) Get it?


Yes i do, I lol'ed sooo hard

XD

Anyway i feel like dat 2



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29 Sep 2008, 3:13 pm

samtoo wrote:
I love having Asperger's and I'm extremely proud. If anyone says anything bad about it I take it as a personal offence, and feel infuriated. I challenge their opinion.

Up the AS! 8) Get it?


+1! :)


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29 Sep 2008, 3:49 pm

There are parts of AS that I love and parts of it that frustrate me. It has it's good and bad sides.

I mostly hate my other disabilities.



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29 Sep 2008, 4:07 pm

KingdomOfRats wrote:
if disabled by disability,why would anyone like it if it really is disability to them? maybe they could like what they say are good sides of their condition and what it gives to them and not actually be disabled by it.

am have multiple disabilities mostly at severe or profound level [autism,epilepsy,hyperacusis,multiple learning disabilities,up to day long paralysis from waist down due to sensory shutdowns and seizures,mild CP type in left leg] and dont like having them as they affect life in even the smallest of ways,though dont sit there thinking about hating them,most of them will never go away so it waste of hate.


Yes there are some things that can't really be embraced as "just different."

I just get the bodily discomfort thing, nothing really wrong but I do NOT celebrate it. It would be nice to be comfortable.

I've no big problem with the "mental" Aspie traits - years before I even suspected AS I was lucky enough to find people who accepted me for what I was and loved me anyway. So I know mainstream prejudice against anything different is down to the other person, and I've learned to be defiant against that. I only have a vague sense of what others can do that I can't.



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29 Sep 2008, 5:00 pm

Oh yeah I love not being able to read facial expressions, I really enjoyed getting beaten up constantly at school because I did not understand that my behaviour was pissing off the school tough guys, the school population without AS had the misfortune of knowing how to avoid infuriating them, the poor sods missed out on all those black eyes and split lips. I have really enjoyed all the stuffed up relationships, abandoned friends and distance between myself and the rest of my family.

Yeah having Aspergers Syndrome is just so wonderful :roll:


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29 Sep 2008, 5:44 pm

It's part of me. I can't very well hate AS without hating myself, too. For the most part, I don't.


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29 Sep 2008, 5:49 pm

It's good that people love their Aspidity.

But bear in mind that they only do so because their Aspidity means that they're unable to see how it affects them from an objective perspective.

If it could be switched on and off, so that Aspies could temporarily become NT, they'd bluddywell hate it.
The love or hate of one's own Aspidity is pretty meaningless next to a comparison between what it's like to be Aspie and NT.

NT parents are petrified of Autism/AS in their babies for good reasons.



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29 Sep 2008, 6:07 pm

Well, many times I have said I wished that everyone was as I was. SURE some things, in this world, are disabilities, but every THEY are often nice. So what would I like to be different:

1. Better social skills.
2. Better coordination.
3. More cynical from the beginning, and willing to fight against it.
4. No shutdowns.



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29 Sep 2008, 6:27 pm

I don't know, because I've never known any different life. Sometimes I wonder what it would be like to be normal, but I try not to dwell on it. I'm a weird person and proud of it.


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29 Sep 2008, 10:47 pm

If I have excellent skills socailizing with people then I will feel much better in any kind of situation. I love my special teresrs,my rhythm of life and my lifestyle but I HATE how I ack in the social occasions.

If I could wipe out my ret*d , well, it's not bad to be someone
different, maybe?



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29 Sep 2008, 10:53 pm

MemberSix wrote:
But bear in mind that they only do so because their Aspidity means that they're unable to see how it affects them from an objective perspective.

Why do you think that?



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29 Sep 2008, 11:10 pm

Kris94 wrote:
i love mine lolz


ditto. Autistic Pride 8)


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