I like it, just like my ADD (which is a main source of my creativity), it makes life a whole lot more interesting for me. Imagining myself without these traits, both good and bad, sounds like a boring life. Would be a whole lot less problematic probably and I'd probably have a shoddy mediocre job by now but ey, I'm not complainin'.
I actually had a hard time accepting it at first though, mainly because I didn't expect the diagnosis at, all. I was mainly looking to explain the ADD part. And I was kind of terrified of the idea that I'd always have problems connecting with people and intuitively understanding them, always lacking something in the social exchange. Also that I would be less able to connect with people on a more intimate level, more then just mostly functional. I mean, my 'job'(aspiration) requires me to understand how people experience things, how it makes them feel.
I never truly considered before the diagnosis that I actually experienced the world around me quite differently (I knew it was a little different, but not in that way) and so the same for emotions. So I can't use myself as comparison to check how people experience things. So that's kind of a bummer.
So I'm taking a different approach. Just do my own thing, adjust when neccessary. The work might not 'connect' with people on a deeper level, but that's okay. Making it look pretty often suffices and that's not so hard. If I want it to connect, I can always ask for help or research stuff, I'll work it out. And I know a bunch of tricks that work already, they're just that though, tricks. And a good artist is not a bag of tricks.
Finding a girlfriend however, is an arduous task. For that sake I sometimes wish I was a little 'smoother', so to speak. And people understood me a little more easily. Better find a girl who likes a mysterious man...and who doesn't have emotions made out of eggshells for when I blindly step on them.
Life never really makes it easy to succeed. Makes succeeding a whole lot more rewarding and getting there more fun. Oh yes, challenges are fun.