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roygerdodger
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11 May 2007, 8:08 pm

Is this you?

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Many individuals with AS can adopt strategies for coping and do lead fulfilling lives - being gainfully employed, having successful relationships, and having families. In most cases, they are aware of their differences and can recognize if they need any support to maintain an independent life

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Children with AS can learn to manage their differences, but they may continue to find social situations and personal relationships challenging. Adults with AS are able to work successfully in mainstream jobs and live an independent life

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On the other hand, many adults with AS do get married, get graduate degrees, become wealthy, and hold jobs. The intense focus and tendency to work things out logically often grants those people with AS a high level of ability in their field of interest. When these special interests coincide with a materially or socially useful task, the person with AS often can lead a profitable career and a fulfilled life. The child obsessed with naval architecture may grow up to be an accomplished shipwright.

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11 May 2007, 8:10 pm

The bit about coping strategies and being aware of differences applies to me. But I've never had a relationship or a job.

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11 May 2007, 8:20 pm

It's pretty much me, but it's not everybody. It's not even everyone with AS in my family.

This statement definitely needs to be qualified:

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Adults with AS are able to work successfully in mainstream jobs and live an independent life

Some are, some aren't. Technically, if your aspie tendencies don't interfere in pretty big ways with at least some aspect(s) of your life, you can't be diagnosed. So it would be a lot more realistic to say that all aspies have problem areas, and their attempts to overcome those problems meet with varying degrees of success.

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11 May 2007, 9:17 pm

Me in a nutshell.

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11 May 2007, 10:37 pm

Certainly.

I don't doubt that AS can be severe to the point where it isn't possible to live a full normal life but I believe that most would be able to live fantastic lives if the situation were right. Unfortunatly the opportunity doesn't always present itself and the very nature of AS makes it hard for aspies to create those opportunities on there own.

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11 May 2007, 10:39 pm

Well, I'm lacking in the relationship department but working on it and hope to get there..

Career wise, I've have just finally started using my special interests to build successful businesses. Only time will tell how it will work out as they are in the start up phase, but I am driven and optomistic and can visualize my path to success.

So pretty much me.

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11 May 2007, 10:56 pm

I hope this describes me one day. Definitely not there yet.

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11 May 2007, 10:57 pm

newaspie wrote:

Career wise, I've have just finally started using my special interests to build successful businesses. Only time will tell how it will work out as they are in the start up phase, but I am driven and optomistic and can visualize my path to success.

Best of luck to you!

I'm a big fan of goals and dreams.

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11 May 2007, 11:09 pm

I try to be like that. I have a job, but I can't say I'm being very successful at it. I try to cope, but it's hard. Getting married: no propects. Becoming wealthy: I ain't counting on it.

Still, the part about social difficulties, I relate to that part.

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11 May 2007, 11:11 pm

Is that me? Sort of. I have a decent job, I own my own home, I have friends that I hang out with from time to time (my weekend RPG gaming group being most of them). But I am hardly wealthy, nor do I have a "relationship".

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11 May 2007, 11:14 pm

No.

I don't care either...it's not whom I am; I find it absolutely hilarious that these things are listed as a "pick me up", I know it's not directed to those with "classical" autism like me, but it still makes me laugh.

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11 May 2007, 11:24 pm

Pretty much me. Qualifications: I own my own business, it is profitable but barely, I have not starved yet. I am asexual so no relations.

I am like polonium in that I have a half life.

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11 May 2007, 11:55 pm

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TylerPaul wrote:

Best of luck to you!

I'm a big fan of goals and dreams.

Hey thanks!!

I believe fears and dreams can both be possible realities.. I'm working on reducing the fear and creating the dream.

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12 May 2007, 12:06 am

Sounds like me.
I don't plan on having a family of my own, though.

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12 May 2007, 12:07 am

yes, that could be me. I didn't know I was AS so I didn't have anything stop me.
I just thought I was dumb or something.
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12 May 2007, 12:57 am

nutbag wrote:

I am like polonium in that I have a half life.

sinsboldly wrote:

I didn't know I was AS so I didn't have anything stop me.
I just thought I was dumb or something.

Me too! When I was diagnosed, I went through a stage of being really angry with the world in general - why didn't anyone work this out earlier?! All these years I've wasted beating myself for being crap at things I'm neuologically designed to be crap at! Now though, I'm kind of glad I didn't find out until I was an adult - I think I've aimed higher than I would have otherwise.

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