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Do you like being autistic?

Do you like being autistic?

  • Love it. There are no disadvantages.

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Love it. The benefits outweigh the disadvantages.

    Votes: 8 29.6%

  • Like it.

    Votes: 3 11.1%

  • Not sure/Neutral.

    Votes: 10 37.0%

  • Dislike it.

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Hate it. The disadvantages outweigh the benefits.

    Votes: 4 14.8%

  • Hate it. There are no benefits.

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • I'm not autistic.

    Votes: 2 7.4%
  • Total voters
    27
I love being High-Functioning Autistic. Helped me to see through so many people's fake manipulation games such as trying to get me to root for Sean Connery over Pierce Brosnan and overall trying to turn me into an edgier person for no reason. I'd say that's a mighty fine trait to have in a social environment.
 
I'm neutral. It doesn't bother me.
The scales of advantages vs disadvantages are about equal in my case.
 
It is always hard to judge how I'd feel in someone else's shoes. In general, I like being able to do and understand things that others can't. I don't like not being able to share it.
 
Neutral.

Whether it makes life easier or harder or changes nothing depends on the situation - just like with any other personal attributes I have.
 
Neutral about having aspergers ,it has helped personal clarity on why i think the way i do but other than that im not overtly affected by knowing
 
I'm not sure if I quite fit the criteria or not, but I like having some autistic features either way especially pattern recognition and noticing details that others overlooked. I also like my ADHD minus certain things like the losing items and forgetting parts of conversations until reminded. I also love having an exuberant temperament, which pairs in some interesting ways with my ASD?/features of ASD? + ADHD in some interesting ways sometimes. I just wish a more jovial, bubbly, inquisitive, and hyperactive demeanor was acceptable in more settings.
 
A few others have already said it but it's not like I had a choice. I know prior to diagnosis I had days where I wished I was someone else from the misunderstandings I was having not realizing that I was on the spectrum. Finding out alleviated most of that. But the way that poll is structured I don't feel like I can pick any of the options as they all apply some of the time to certain things. I'd go with neutral, but in combo with "not sure" I don't think it apt anymore. Then too is the added difficulty in placing myself in someone else's shoes. I've only ever known being me, I'm not neurotypical so I honestly can't imagine what they must experience. Seems like they got a ton of their own issues to contend with, so I'll just stick to being myself.
 
I was in my mid fifties before I found out who I really was, What I thought was bad luck, was actually being on the spectrum. Life was not bad just more difficult than expected ended up getting more education then a equivalent NT would have needed, Now retired. life's great. No complaints.
 
I find it difficult to contribute to the above poll as not one of the choices is anything that resonates. I have felt alien since birth as I have never met a single person in my day to day existence that I was able to connect with in any significant and lasting way. I did not even know the term Asperger's Syndrome until someone studying psychology opined that I exhibited signs.

That pushed me to seeking a diagnosis. That was over 35 years ago and it offered me nothing more than a convienient label. I will admit the label helped me over a rough spot or two, but otherwise I typically pay no attention to it.

I guess I am something akin to a self sustaning island in a sea of societal turmoil that more than anything just makes me shake my head; then I slowly slough off the anger that it typically engenders. Angry since birth, succeeding decades have only seemed to inflame that a little bit more, which has nothing to do with me (thank you very much). It is just that I do not condone or suffer societal idiocy.

I have had a charmed and very successful life; more or less by stumbling through and following my feelings. I keep my mouth shut in unsettling situations so that I do not make things worse (which is quite easy for me to do and I have learned to moderate it - more or less). I have a few regrets that may or may not have anything to do with my Asperger's, but all of those have passed the statute of limitations and so will always remain regrets. However, they raised my level of maturity by realizing and acknowledging them.

In summation: I have made it this far with little more than short isolated periods of upset that I refuse to attribute to my ASD. While it may have been a contributing factor at various times, it was never the cause. I believe myself to be about as well adjusted as one could hope and I am comfortable in my own skin. That is a milestone that was not easy to achieve, but it provides a source of strength that I can and have offered to others.

My life, my achievements, my joys and my failures are all down to whom I have always been and at a primary disconnect from my ASD. I will specify that the accident of high intelligence that was on tap as compensation was most responsible for my success in life. I also celibrate my mothers intelligence as well, for she gave me all the life tools anyone would ever need and, unbeknownst to me at the time, also helped me to discover my passions which she suppported whole heartedly.

Apologies for the long ramble, the poll triggered me. :p
 
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I don't know. I don't know any different. I guess I have some advantages, but it's lonely sometimes. I see other people in my life who I know well and are generally crap human beings and they are getting ahead in life. And while I know it's not good to compare, because you never really know what is going on in someone's life, it's still hard.
 
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