How to deal with the Asperger Syndrome?

How many of you have Asperger's Syndrome and what is it like?

• Answer these questions: 1. Do you have Asperger's? 2. Are you male, female, or other? (other includes all types of transgender or intersex people) 3. How old are you? 4. Were/Are you in special education? If so, rate it from 1-10 5. Are you proud to have Asperger's? 6. What do you feel about having it? 7. Do you have relatives with Asperger's? 8. What do you want to be known more about Asperger's?

• Answer:

  1. Do you have Asperger's? -->Yes I do :)  2. Are you male, female, or other? (other includes all types of transgender or intersex people) -->I'm female  3. How old are you? -->15, nearly 16. 4. Were/Are you in special education? If so, rate it from 1-10 -->Nope, I've always gone to regular schools. 5. Are you proud to have Asperger's? -->Honestly I'd prefer not to have it. I know a lot of people with AS don't feel the same way, this is just how I do. I like being able to educate people and speak about it with first hand experience. I wouldn't say I'm proud to have it, but I'd like to be.  6. What do you feel about having it? -->Mostly misunderstood. It makes me sad sometimes because you only get one life and you only get to be one person and I have to be someone with aspergers. Even though in most ways I'm like everyone else, it frustrates me knowing I'm different in ways and I don't know what to do to change that.   7. Do you have relatives with Asperger's? -->I only know of one formally diagnosed, but I would suspect it in a couple relatives.  8. What do you want to be known more about Asperger's? -->Firstly, that not everyone with it is the same. That despite how someone may seem 'weird' or 'off' underneath they're a person  who wants to be happy like everyone else. Also, yes I know I'm weird or different or whatever. People need to stop reminding me. I'm well aware.