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Don't be so negative Katarn: I have actually been a lot happier since my diagnosis in 2008 as it has helped me find my strong and weak points and enabled me to understand the problems I had all the years before. I could have handled them all more effectively had I known better. No medical professional ever put a name to it and were mystified.

I agree with Auntblabby that diagnosis brings a form of liberation.

And I do admire Fnord for his go-for-it take on life, not letting AS get in the way of what you desire.

Being an aspie undoubtly sucks.

Yes, it sucks to have autism, even a high-functioning form. There is no denying it. The worst part is that 'normal' people seem to think that Aspies and Auties are incapable of learning, growing, working, and maintaining relationships, and they will try to convince us that this is our unavoidable fate!

In cases like mine, the diagnosis was both a relief and a release - I finally understood why life sucks for me, and I'm now better able to deal with it. In a way, having an HFA has made me stronger. Since I never new that I was supposed to be unable to cope (according to the common perceptions of autism), I simply worked harder and smarter to overcome what I thought was the rotten luck of being born into a dysfunctional family, being stuck in school systems that favor only jerks and jocks, and working in a job market full of slackers and self-serving suck-ups.

Proving to myself that I could succeed before learning that I wasn't supposed to succeed made all the difference.

KyleK, you may feel bad about your autism, but saying things like can be hurtful and offensive to other members. I'm one of them.

Fnord ironic? Naaahhhhh!

Maybe he has more severe form of autism than you, so..if he thinks his life sucks then, maybe it's happening in his world in that way.

Hi, Drawyer!

Could be. I have mild high-functioning Autism. You may be right.

Hi, Kyle!

Yup, I knew you have hfa...that's why your life is different from his.

You are in this moment? How about the next moment? Or the one after?

I wish nobody gets offended by that some other fellows have very little luck in their daily lives...

I'm in this moment..means that I want to be in this moment, rather than past or future.

Sad, but true.

On the lighter side of things, Christmas is coming!

How did I offend you?

I just don't like to hear how Autism sucks, because I don't feel that way. I understand it is harder for some than others.

Because you said this way Katarn, *being an aspie* has many different forms, so some asipe's lives don't suck that much..you know that..

It might be more fair to say that being an Aspie sucks for everyone in some way, and to a greater or lesser extent depending on the person.

For some highly-functional people, 'Aspie' is only a label, and they wouldn't want to be any other way ... if only non-Aspies wouldn't treat them so badly.

For those with the more severe forms of Autism, it really sucks.

For the rest of us, we're somewhere in the middle, and the suckage depends on the situation and the environment - both of which we have some control over.

So please don't take it personally when someone else says "Being an Aspie sucks", because they're likely speaking only from their own perspective, which seems to be a common behavior among Aspies.

You're right, Fnord. Thank you. I apologize is I offended anyone.