People for whom their ASD is clearly a disability...

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I have no idea just how disabled I am or if I am disabled at all. Everyone has a different opinion. My opinion about myself is I am not disabled.

Only when I'm around people or heavan forbid ring me, I'm 1 of 5 people on this planet that does not have a phone

I know at least one extroverted Aspie in real life. He knows lots of people and one of his special interests is organizational structure (the social bonds between people in a hierarchy). One thing that I notice about him is that he hasn't really got a problem with being different and he doesn't seem to worry that much about whether he'll embarrass himself.

That's probably the best arrangement for Asipe extroverts--go for the confident-eccentric approach to socializing. Extroverts who spend lots of time worrying about doing exactly the right things in social situations don't seem to enjoy themselves nearly as much.

I find it as a disability because it pretty much is the cause for why my life is so screwed up. I'm close to loosing my job that I love (programming at (NOT Sony) Ericsson) due to sensory processing issues or that's what I at least think is the reason.

I can't stand being with my family neither and I think AS is causing that.

But I've been very relieved by the DX, since it has explained a lot that there is about me, and it has given me room to forgive myself for how my life has turned out

//Arash

Yes the Dx helped me enormously forgive myself........and then slowly start the process of living more creatively within my limitations and more abundantly within my gifts. I wish you well.

Sometimes I wonder if the reason no one but me seems to recognize that I am severely disabled, because of both AS and ADD, is because I am not miserable.

I don't see any reason or logic in wallowing in misery over that which I have no control.

Unfortunately, I also think that because I'm not miserable, I neither appear miserable or disabled, so I can't get any of the help I know I need. I had a friend years ago who tried to get help for other reasons, and couldn't get any. Once, he disappeared for three weeks. When he reappeared, he told me, "Guess what? If you show up at a crises center wide-eyed with hair messed up and ragged, dirty clothes, and say, 'I feel like I wanna go on a rampage, killing and maiming everyone in sight,' you'll find out what a rubber room with a tiny little window in the ceiling looks like from the point of view of a straight jacket really quick!"

The guy was a good friend who didn't have it in him to hurt a fly so I knew how ridiculous his statements to the center were. It's a good story though, that demonstrates the extremes some people feel forced to go to, to GET any help.

I've been tempted at times...

For me having Asperger's Syndrome it has given me some skills and talents however social interaction is an grey area and its one of the things i am trying to work at.