How does one manage the stigmas of ASD symptoms/diagnoses?

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Hello! I am the AngryDesiDoughboy! I have been diagnosed with autism for most of my life, and I am currently 18 years of age. But lately I have been struggling with acceptance of my diagnoses as well as how to fully interact with people. For me, I have a problem of feeling embarrassed or ashamed, because I can do many things that stump everybody from one end of the world to the other, for my age, and my awareness of the world and my insightfulness is amazing for my age, or so I am told. I don't mean to get cocky. However because of the nature of my autism, I have a lot of problems. I have been shifting through many group homes because of these deficiencies(which in the near future will hamper any efforts to live independently for some time). I also have a lot of anxiety that, when left unchecked, becomes psychotic in appearance. The very idea of spending a lot of time in a group home is causing more negative feelings.And there is also this feeling I have of truly being on a wrong planet, where the people who rule are unsympathetic, idiotic close minded people who can't see al the brilliant things about the world that I can, and are either clueless, moronic, or perhaps 100% jerk. I guess I am wondering is there anybody who has a similar experience with feeling marginalized, like many people don't understand you, and those are the people who often determine negative perceptions, or maybe there are people who are working on life but they get set back. I just want to hear what others think or feel...I myself am doing a lot of work to challenge this, but this is an autism community so I thought I could generate some discussions.

We are the aberrant mutations built to last. I believe our youth is harder than NTs but our later years are more productive. Let 'em laugh now and score their hockey goals. When they creak into 3rd marriages and bald spots and what have I accomplished in life, you'll probably be inventing a static electricity route off this rock. Chin up.

Thank you for the encouragement. I am not much of a science person myself, but I am a literary person, an intellectual(a happy one, at that) and I consider myself globally competent. I feel like I will at some point leave everybody behind in the dust. I have an autism blog on Tumblr. I don't keep it updated much but I want to.

I kw this may be wrong, but I simply don't tell people unless I know they are open-minded and will not tell others. So far, that group consists of four friends.