Is Asperger's Syndrome a gift or a curse?

Is Asperger's Syndrome a gift or a curse?

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It depends on the person themselves. Some view it as a gift such as the ability to stay on task and be interested in a subject. While others view it as a curse if they want to persue social activities like dating.

I myself find my bi-polar more of a curse because it makes people look less of me as a person and only focus more on my behavior and see me as emotionally unstable and untrustworthy. I know that this is a discussion on aspergers but my general feeling on my own mental illness is pretty much the same as people who view their own illness more of a curse.
 
Other, at least you don't get slagged off for 10 pages because you have dyslexia.:lol: which by the way I'm loving, these guys crack me up.

Learn to live with it, you'll never learn to live all the way with the discrimination you face, but you will learn to laugh at people for discriminating against you based on a condition.

Today I feel like it's a curse, despite its advantages, I have to put up with faccile crap from knowlessmen.
 
Hmmm...

Not a curse, in the sense of "bad thing".
Not a gift, in the sense of "woot I can do stuff".

Both, however, for more archaic meanings of both curse and gift.
The way I would describe it is that I see all things with dreadful clarity.

I had to learn social interaction from the ground up, where others absorbed it as infants and took it for granted. I stumbled for years. But now that I have learned most of it, I know what "a human" looks or should look like in most states, and I can act appropriately, working in metaconscious mode a percentage of time that seems far higher than in neurotypicals.

And in the end, once I've accepted it, it is a gift. Living slightly outside of normal society is a price I'm happy to pay to be able to observe normal society, rather than merely participating.

Of course, this may be because I have Asperger Syndrome, and perhaps neurotypicals in general would not be willing to pay this same price. Perhaps the shift in my perception included my perception of said shift.
 
If i could vote two options i would, but i say its a gift and curse.

Its a gift because... well i dont know but i do know lots of famous people and geniuses have had aspergers. Or supposedly had it.

And its a curse for obvious reasons.
 
I have found other good things with my syndrome. It is surprisingly enough in the social sector. While other people talk like crazy we Aspergers listen. The average individual uses the time somebody else speaks to find up something to say when it's their turn to speak. I prefer to listen. When I say something I've been thinking about it a lot.
 
Neither. It's just a condition.

Just be thankful Aspergers is not as bad as those other kids you see who are in those weird chairs and constantly twitch and scream randomly when someone touches them.
 
It is neither a curse or a gift, rationality or intelligence are present in everyone in some degree or another. Most rational, intelligent and interesting people i personally know does not have asperger. I even doubt the validity of it as a disorder (which supposedly i have)
 
taillesskangaru said:
Depends. I see it as a curse. Seriously limits your ability to be accepted in society.
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Is being accepted in society really all that?

Marylyn Monroe and Elvis were both very much "accepted in society", look at them now.

The most important thing is how you feel about yourself.
 
Asparagus is a gift from god! I love it even though it makes my pee smell!





oh wait...

You said Apserger's. Dammit, I was confused there!

I'd say it's mostly a curse. There are some cases where it does benefit some people, but mainly it seems to cause problems. This opinion is soley based on my experience on CFC.
 
Uh ... It's clearly a curse.
 
For me it's neither a curse or a gift, although it can, at times, seem like a curse.

Asperger's syndrome has made (especially when I was younger) my life seem like hell. Especially with regards to dealing with other people, but now days one could barely notice that I even have the condition. Learning to deal with people, and their reactions to different things, was key in blending in.

Asperger's has made various subjects, that I'm intrested in, vastly easier for me, such as History, various languages, etc. But it has hindered me greatly in things which I could care less for, such as math. I just can't get myself motivated in it, the moment I have to do something related to math, I just all motivation. But with work, one can survive that aswell.

All in all, I couldn't imagine what my life would be, if I didn't have Asperger's. But, if I was now given the, impossible*, choice of either keeping Asperger's or living without it. I'd probably choose to keep it.

*Since Asperger's is not something that can be 'cured'
 
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