Saviour

You're right about one thing, that was nonsense, nonsense that you would think that way about yourself because you have Asperger's Syndrome. And don't take me for some overzealous wannabe counselor because I'm not. I have Asperger’s Syndrome myself and I can tell you right here and now that I have nothing to merit me feeling like anything less than everyone else out there. And sometimes, in some circumstances, I even feel as if I am something more.

I know why you feel alone. You think in a way that’s fundamentally different from others, and because of that you cannot understand them. Likewise they cannot understand you. But the way you think is not a handicap, nor is it a burden, and in many ways it is even an advantage.

If you hate your Asperger’s Syndrome, you are in effect hating yourself, because you’re Asperger’s Syndrome is a part of you, not a shell covering you that needs to be broken through. You have been born with gifts so unusual that many others would be deathly afraid of receiving it themselves. But mark my words, what you have is a gift, not an injury.

You can focus so intensely for so long on a single subject that you may find it easy to become an expert on almost anything you like. Something others struggle and pain over, it comes to you naturally and effortlessly.

Your difficulties with the most basic forms of communication: inflection, tone, posture, etc. is not a failing, but a small price to be paid for your endowment in the more advanced forms of communication: writing, reading, public speaking, and artistic _expression.

Your emotional separation is a source of power for you. You can think critically, without having to worry about your opinions and conclusions being biased by irrational feelings and desires. You can see any situation impartially no matter how close to you it may be.

Your Asperger’s Syndrome is not something to lament over, it is something you should celebrate, and something you should use to your advantage.