29 Ways to Succeed with Asperger's Syndrome

By Andrew Bushard

Do you have Asperger's Syndrome or do you love someone with Asperger's Syndrome? Have you felt as if a successful life is out of reach for those with Asperger's Syndrome? The good news is not only can a person with Asperger's Syndrome survive, but actually live the most noteworthy and fulfilling life. This book shows you how.

 

41 pages.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Andrew Bushard
• Release date: Aug 16, 2015
• ISBN: 9781516325481

Andrew Bushard

Find empowerment through the First Amendment here:We leverage freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly, freedom of religion, and freedom to petition the government for a redress of grievances (the First Amendment) to empower youWe leverage creativity and inspiration to empower youWe leverage presentations, talks, mp3s, and videos to empower youWe leverage movies, DVDs, internet videos, and video games to empower youWe leverage integrity, understanding, diligence, and maverickism to empower you

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One: Out of Step

Books make a difference.  I have long believed I have Asperger's Syndrome.  For a long while (my whole life), I seemed very different, not just a little bit different, but a lot different.  After I learned more about Asperger's Syndrome, I realized it described me to a tee.  In retrospect, so many things make sense, seen from the perspective I have had Asperger's Syndrome.

Tim Paige's book, Parallel Play: My Life with Undiagnosed Asperger's Syndrome, validated my perception.  No other book so perfectly described MY life experience.  It was as if the author had watched my every action and thought for my entire life and recorded it.  Never before have I witnessed anyone describe my perspective better.  Now, I have no doubt I have Asperger's Syndrome.

It is my hope this work will also validate others' experiences and give comfort and hope to Aspies (those with Asperger's Syndrome). 

Maybe, just maybe, if you like, you too can write a book of your own.

Two: Not a Disability

Is Asperger's Syndrome a disability?  Many would say yes.  But anyone who says yes is thinking like men and not like God.

Though it's a cliché to say it's only a disability if you make it one, it's true!

Everyone is good at some things and bad at other things.  So it would seem everyone has  disabilities, not just people who are labeled disabled. 

God calls us to make lemonade out of life's lemons.  As Robert Bly put it, Your wound is your greatest strength.  God's way is man's way reversed, so God's strength is so called disability turned inside out.

As the saying goes, everything in life comes with pluses and minuses.  Asperger's Syndrome is no different.  In some ways, people consider Asperger's Syndrome to be a disability; in others ways, people consider it to be a form of genius.  Thus, Asperger's Syndrome serves as paradigm example of God's laws in action.

Everyone has a cross to bear.  The cross of Asperger's Syndrome is a social and communication disability.  We ought to transform our disadvantages into power.  Like motivators say, one faces this life choice: either lie down and be defeated or rise up and conquer.  Also like motivators say, life asks us: will we get our power from victimization (the weak way) or will we get it from empowerment (the strong way)?

People like to ask, when were you diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome?  This is a non-question when viewed from this perspective.  If Asperger's Syndrome is not a disability in the eyes of God, then there is no need to be diagnosed.  Let's not call it a disability, because it is a gift.

Three: Stephen Covey's

"Seek First To Understand,

Then To Be Understood"

One of Stephen Covey's 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Seek first to understand, then to be understood, is essential for Aspies.

Part of me says give me, give me, give me.  Sadly, that's not the way the world