Have you ever just been unrepentant about your ASD?

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If I ever get repentant about it I'll let you know, but don't hold your breath.

Have I ever not been? At least since discovering it was in play.

I just think Asperger's can be an embarrassment, and my poor mother has often been shamed by people for the emotional behaviour me and my brother (both on the spectrum) have displayed. Both my parents are NTs, but my mum has always suffered with anxiety, especially social anxiety. My dad might have had some learning delays as a kid but I can't be sure. But I think his IQ might be slightly below average. But anyway I have done some shameful things in the past due to being an Aspie.

Now that I live and work where nobody knows I have Asperger's I feel much happier, and now I feel more NT than I ever have since I was 4.

I get what the OP is saying, because it's not unknown for me to belatedly feel highly embarrassed about my AS behaviour and feel the need to apologise. In fact I think it shows a level of enlightenment, self-awareness and care for others' feelings to do so. Even when the behaviour was not intended to cause offense - I need to recognise when it has.

I agree with the OP in the sense that while I might apologise for a specific behaviour which has caused offence, there should be no need to apologise for my autism. And I should not be embarrassed to lay claim to my autistic behaviours.

The problem I find is that it's hard to draw the line between apologising for behaviour which causes offence and apologising for my autism (especially as the one is intimately related to the other). If I was unrepentant to the extent of never feeling the need to apologise and instead just saying (essentially) "hey, that's my autism, deal with it", I don't think that would help towards furthering autistic-NT relationships.

It's just not that easy, I think.

Tonight, I was in a Zoom meeting and got so irritated at someone spouting bad data that I shouted them down. I checked with the moderator afterwards, and he was glad I did. He knows I'm an aspie, but thought I was acting normal enough.

Your checking with the moderator afterwards is an example of what I mean by enlightenment.
If he had said, no, your behaviour was out of line, I imagine you might have apologised for it?

"Unrepentant" is a really bad choice of word, even if it's tongue-in-cheek.

He probably really means "unapologetic", or "unabashed", or ...maybe even "out of the closet"...about your autism.

The OP seems to think that you're choices would be 1) to conceal your ASD, or (2) reveal it, but be humble and apologetic about it, or (3) just wave your geek flag high and just be a flaming autistic and not apologize.

The trouble is that for many its not that simple. My life was affected by ASD all of my life, but I didnt know that I was ASD until well into middle age. So I didnt know what to apologize for (or to "repent" for) until very recently.

According to the Pope you have to recite 14 "hail Marries", and then...you have to promise never to be autistic again!

In the Catholic Church you at least get to confess your autism in private to your priest.

If you're Protestant, or Jewish, you just hafta deal with your guilt about committing autism on your own.

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In short, what comes to mind for me is when I have been shamed and ashamed related to my differences and would like to respond without the shame --- and I fantasize about being "unrepentant".

It seems I was either born or socialized to be anti-assertive, so it's been interesting exploring assertiveness which is adding a dash of "unrepentant" if you will. If I am wrong, I have no problem saying "sorry", but when it's a matter of difference, I have to be very careful I am not wrongfully wronged (which happens too often --- I'm a sitting duck that way it seems. I'm working on a more confident quack to start).

Autism as a normal life feels most likely no different than anyone considering their life as normal .
If could perceive the need for repentance than I might consider it . But. I am what I am .
To quote. Very famous cartoon character .
Often periodically I think the need for NTs to be repentant .

^^2 I'm Canadian, so "sorry" comes very easily. We can say that we are sorry about a traffic accident and not be in any legal trouble over having said we caused it.