Post A Favorite "Happy Aspie" Story From Your Life

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Since this is a place to go when you're feeling MISERABLE, I thought it might be a good idea to stick in something to remind us all of the GOOD things about AS. Lest we buy into the "experts" opinion that difference is deficit and it's all just a detriment, period.

Post some of the things you love about yourself, happy or funny stories from your past (or present). Anything at all, as long as it's semi-positive (at least to you) a vaguely AS-related.

I'm working on mine. I think it's going to be about growing up in an all-spectrum home.

OK, I've been watching this thread, waiting for somebody to write something positive. Since nobody has, I'll start.

Often, we eat dinner in front of the TV. Often, we put the show "Bones" on the tv while we eat. If you've ever watched "Bones" you will know that it is a great show, but it often starts out with very gross situations, i.e. a body with the flesh torn and muscle and bones exposed, maggots, etc.

After the 50th time of my husband and I putting "Bones" on while we ate, our 15 year old Aspie son looks long and hard at us, and says "Seriously, you are the WORST parents ever."

Kind of have to agree. Bones is definitely NOT dinner-time viewing...

Probably what I love most about Aspieness is the sense of humor. I think this is a trait? I tend to find humor in the little things, word play, puns, and even other things. Plenty of times, people will look at me odd because I'll just bust up snickering/laughing because something someone said reminds me of something funny, I take it into a literal meaning at first, and it just becomes entertaining to me. Such as this:

Grammar is important, read these two lines.
I helped my uncle, Jack, off a horse.
i helped my uncle jack off a horse


A bit dirty, but hilarious because it becomes so literal, and I agree with the whole grammar aspect very much. I may not have it perfect, but I sure as hell try because of it!

Lana, I'm going to have to agree with you on that one. Aspie humor is win. NTs will never live up to it. Personally, I immediately envision the literal meaning of what is being said. Not always fun, but always... interesting? I'm very easy to horrify.

Speaking of television, though. I've been watching Criminal Minds recently. It stimulates my love of trivia and sociology and holy f**k, there is an aspie at my level of competency (excluding the reading superpowers and IQ) and he is running around kicking ass. It makes me want to, like. Contribute usefully to society or something. -Fistpump-

I enjoy my sense of humor, too. It's something you've got to have an Aspie friend for-- life is really hilarious, and NTs just don't get the joke.

Another thing I enjoy is being able to see through society's BS. My NT female friend often says she's very glad I'm around because 1) I won't try to sleep with her boyfriend (evidently NT chicks have this problem a lot??), 2) I'm very loyal, and 3) I'm the best problem-solver she knows.

Too bad I can't solve the problem of the fact that her 7-year-old son is AS/ADHD and she has too much ego invested in the kid to see it. He does the Jekyll and Hyde thing-- he is well behaved at school and violent and horrid at home, so if he's going to learn to cope with it before it gets him in serious trouble it's going to be because his mother does something.

Speaking of kids-- others take offense to it, but I like the fact that parenting is a job I'm doing. Not to say I don't enjoy it or love them-- I'm just much more objective about my little darlings than most mothers seem to be. Really puts my MIL off, but I think the kids have benefited from it. My father was the same way-- always said kids and dogs had a lot in common. It drove his sister crazy, but it was very good for me.

I like the fact that I don't assume typical gender roles. It took a long time, being told that I was so smart I just HAD to go to college, but I like the fact that I enjoy (and appear to be good at) tinkering with and building things. My FIL was disappointed that neither of his sons took an interest in carpentry and cars and such. My interest has become a foundation for a relationship between us. He's taught me some carpentry and home repair. If we both live long enough, he's going to teach me to work on small engines. He enjoys this, and so do I.

Working on a story about a neuro-atypical home-- my AS father, my stepmother who had a stroke in infancy and lived her life with half a brain, and me. It wasn't perfect. Misunderstandings were common and the fights were epic. But it was a very unique and happy home.