Yes, if someone had just been diagnosed with Asperger's I think I would try and tell them that it’s actually not a bad thing to have, because obviously have Asperger's does mean you do have certain challenges and life can be a bit difficult in certain areas. It’s not, you know, it’s not ideal, but it’s not the worst thing in life to have. It’s not like a disease. It’s not going to kill you. It can give you quite great, great, I mean it can, in many ways, it can make your life quite… it can actually enrich your life in quite a few ways. Like I mean if I didn’t have Asperger's I wouldn’t be so, I wouldn’t develop so extreme interests. It can make you see things in a very orderly way. I mean I don’t know how many other with Asperger's have this, but for me, I have like a sort of layout in my mind, like quite visual kind of thing, colour, for like days of the week and things, months of the year, it’s kind of quite synaesthetic in a sort of way. I’ve always had that, and I’ve always been quite pleased about having that. I like seeing things in order.

And I think well I’d say if I didn’t have Asperger's I probably wouldn’t be quite so obsessive. But the obsessions are kind of not all bad, because okay there’s the OCD side I think it all kind of mingles in with the extreme interests which can be a problem but at the same time they bring enjoyment as well. So it’s not like my life is really bad. I mean it could be a lot worse. So I don’t think having Asperger's is a really bad thing. I don’t like it when people say you suffer for something, say suffering from Asperger's that implies it’s a disease, that implies that your problems rooted within you when often you place barriers because that’s because the way people see you, because they don’t understand. So it’s more for another people than yourself, who can make your life bad, but I don’t see it really as a bad thing. It’s not like you’re in pain, it’s not like you have to take drugs or you’re going to die. You know. So I don’t think it’s that bad.