Proud aspie or not?

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Are you a proud aspie in terms of knowing who you are and not being ashamed?

This is a poll so you don't neccessarily have to rant on why you are ashamed or not.

Gracias.

I am proud in a humble way for having AS nothing special in the end about Me.

kewl.

I second that response. But I think I am special in terms of the obivious difference I am around others in every respect.

But that is my internal pride.

Being NT, I can't vote, but I'd like to rant anyway My girlfriend is AS, and while I wouldn't exactly say I'm "proud" of it, we're certainly not ashamed, and I'm extremely proud of the brave way she's dealt with finding out about it (we found out just a week ago, as I was talking about in another topic). It doesn't make her any less of a person in my eyes, and I couldn't possibly love her any more than I do now.

I'd have been happiest with a neutral option to pick.

"I yams what I yam" as a great existential philosopher once put it.

And what I can do and think is more valuable to me than being at one with the mass.
Life near the edge of the bell-curve.



(added in edit: my vote was on the "proud", give the choice)

Since I had a little diffulcuties with that, are you more happier or less happier with the options you do have?

oh,you voted proud.

Some would consider me the most militant Aspie alive if they took the time to look at my website. But that is kinda beside the point----yes, I am proud of the strengths that AS brings to me. Very proud.

No.

Bland-Evidently I have nothing to be proud of because I dont fit into any slot. Apparently, Im not an "Aspie", my autism quotient being quite low, but must just be a bona fide weirdo!! I guess I could be proud to be a bona fide weirdo. Maybe I should change my user name to Bonafideweirdo!??

im not proud or ashamed.

As ive stated elsewhere, neither sentiment is relevant to an accident of birth, at least in a lucid sense.

I'm not sure I'd say that I am actually ashamed of it; I think I've come to terms with AS and recognize it confers both advantages and disadvantages. That said, I haven't talked to anyone outside of my immediate family about it, and I take steps to repress any outward signs of it during social interactions. I don't think ashamed is the right word to describe it, perhaps "insecure"...

I am ashamed of the condition.

Mainly because how people treat you when they find out.