Are you proud of having autism?

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Entirely proud, it's my life's crowning achievement.

I don't know how being proud should feel,
but I looked "pride" up:

pride
noun \ˈprīd\

: a feeling that you respect yourself and deserve to be respected by other people

: a feeling that you are more important or better than other people

: a feeling of happiness that you get when you or someone you know does something good, difficult, etc.

First yes: I respect myself for being autistic and deserve for being respected.
Second no: Autism does not make me more important or better than other people.
Third I don't understand in regard to Autism, I did not do anything to get Autism.

Proud of having Aspergers? No. That would be like saying I am proud I have brown hair.

But...considering some of the challenges associated with having Aspergers, I suppose I am proud of what I have been able to accomplish so far.

I checked "neither", but it is actually "both". I'm proud to see the world in ways NT's can't. I'm proud of having survived through some really hard times I experienced because I'm autistic, and of having remained an honest, fairly hopeful and well-intentioned person in spite of it.
I'm embarrassed because I say and do things that people think are stupid, that I can't handle the level of stress and activity NTs can, and I'm embarrassed to be associated with the various negative stereotypes about autistic people.

I couldn't agree more. That describes my past too, Bird in Flight. I continually worry about the implied "you are useless/you are disabled/you are worthless" messages young ASD people are getting via hate speech/media/internet etc which chips away at their confidence and self-perception. You can see the negative effects of this every day on WP. We didn't have to contend with that when we were young, difficult as it was to be young then in almost every way.

I'm embarrassed, not due to the condition itself, but because of society's view on the condition

I'm not proud of anything about my life, I'll be proud when I have a reason to be proud. It is embarrassing to have the struggles that I do and it causes me a lot of anxiety.

I like to celebrate all of my differences. I'm not proud or ashamed, but I do like the fact that I'm different and unusual.

I vote with the majority. Neither Proud nor ashamed

Depends on how I'm feeling, but today I chose yes

I'm proud of being a unique snowflake etc etc and of the outlook it's given me. It hurts feeling so lonely and disconnected but it gives me all of my best traits and abilities at the same time. I guess I'm proud to have an identity now rather than just being some fractured weird kid.

Not really, since I am more on the moderate scale of autism, most of it has generally caused me problems. People try to take advantage of me, shelter me up, isolate me completely, threaten me. I can't even get to any of my obsessions to calm myself down because of this.

It generally seems like people don't respect me and generally dislike me for not being higher functioning, even with people with Aspergers or HFA. I am just a joke on there scale and most of the people around me simply threaten me and find ways to keep me in my place.

My parents even sheltered me about it and I recently got terms of it, all I have I been doing was crying and the only thing that I can value from this is constantly being taken away from me by these people.

I use to have a quck obsession with Phenomenology, computers, and even basic forms of engeneeiring but people bashed me down and threaten me away from this. Especially with the engeneering.

Most people simply see me as this worthless ret*d that deserves to be abused and punished and my life is a living hell, even though I do have the intelligence otherwise. At least I hope it is, that's just what my family has told me.

In fact my records shown to be above average but most people just want me cooked up on SSDI and being medicated for the rest of my life, not speaking to people nearly at all.

I don't even know how to get out of this, even when I type on this board it seems isolating. I hate it its pure hell.

In order to vote I would have to understand what it is like to be proud of being an aspie. Since my mind can't conceptualize of this whole thing-- aspie , I can say I am proud of some of my traits that benefit me, though there are few. I'm not sure what feeling proud is... to be honest. Can someone give some examples? I can't imagine feeling this emotion, pride, for my condition of Aspergers. That's like being proud of my ADHD.... it really doesn't do anything for me to have it versus not have it, that I can think of.