Proud or inferior for being an AS?

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Please.. Let's vote!

I am me. AS is just another aspect of my personality, doesn't make me better or worse. Just makes things different. so, neither. I'm not lower or higher than anybody else.

Neither. I don't see why these threads are so ubiquitous on the forums, just to be honest. We--as people with AS--have different strengths, weaknesses, and interests in many aspects when compared to those without AS. And within that, we're individuals, so...

You can think about it in a different way.

General interests, ubiquitous things as you said, are also existing for a reason, like excellent things

Im very pessemistic so I voted "Inferior" because having AS,
it is said that a person with it can achieve more progress in a certain interest than others, ok thats all good,
but I feel like I'm one of the rest of the Aspie's who does not have a superior interest (hopefully not yet than not at all) because I have heard that not all Aspie's amount to dominate in a particular field and achieve success

I voted "proud." Now let me show you what I mean about pride---the kind of pride I mean. These are aspects of the definition of pride I am referring to:

A common understanding of pride is that it results from self-directed satisfaction with meeting the personal goals
There are many personal goals (met because of aspects of my autism) that I have met in life that I am satisfied with.

Pride is conceptualized in a spectrum ranging from ‘proper pride’, associated with genuine achievements, and ‘false pride,’ which can be maladaptive or even pathological
I have proper pride under this definition---pride associated with genuine achievements---achievements met because of aspects of my autism.

I voted neither. I feel proud of my positive AS traits but I'm much more proud of how I've kept on struggling along through my difficulties than of anything directly related to my AS. And I'm certainly not proud of the difficulties, which I think outweigh the positives for me (so far) unfortunately - yet I do not feel inferior because I struggle so much, because I know that it doesn't make me worse than anyone else around me. I don't believe anyone's inferior to anyone else in the entire world, and we certainly shouldn't be measured by what we struggle with or not. There's just too much in each person to make these kinds of measurements possible, and everyone keeps changing all the time too.

Well-divided disposition!

Thank you for your vote! I like your definition, and I like your way of thinking- I like to express myself with quotations as well

having lived the insane life i've endured, from being seriously abused as a child, to being dead, to standing atop an egyptian pyramid at sunset, to running past sleeping lions in tanzania..........

what i know ---- i would not want to be a nt human. feeling pride or feeling inferior has nothing to do with it. i was born into garbage, finally escaped, became a truly happy being, only to have it all taken away from me. down-up-down.
i have survived by being what i am. true, honest, different. the different part is what i am and never run or hide from it. never pretend to be what i am not. by that statement i could never be a normal human being. why would anyone want to be 'normal'. believe in yourself, the limitations and the talents. be you.

I'm just born with Asperger's, so it's who I am. The thing I'm proud of is the advantages of being able to think outside the box, and being hyperfocused on things. The Asperger's has caused me to be underemployed because while I might look good on paper, I don't get past the first interview. While the hyperfocusing can be a strength, it did cost me an internship because I didn't stop what I was doing to meet everyone in the office. The only reason I got my current job was that the agency I was getting help with through Department of Rehabilitation recommended me when someone else started working there.

I don't feel inferior, but I definitely don't feel proud. I just feel disabled.

I put proud. My counselor says I should be working on self-acceptance and pride in who I am. maybe if I tell myself it enough, I can brainwash it into there.