Does you hide you Asperger or you proud of it?

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Maybe I hide it a little, because I got the "Oh, so you are drawing the autism-card, right?"
If my difficulties become apparent, I tell about the aspect in question and maybe add, "I have aspergers".
Otherwise not.
I´m not proud - nor ashamed. It´s just me...the way I am.

I've been both public and private about my aspergers. I used to tell every breathing thing, but that didn't work out too well, and I've learned to be more conservative about who I tell. As for being proud, I think of it more like a blessing and a curse, not as something to be flaunted.

I try to hide it (but im not too good at it really...ish) because my parents and friends have and never will compromise, its either learn to adapt or stop trying to talk to them, nobodies ever "cut me some slack" hell my parents pretty much ignored my traits and signs so i was and always have been blamed for my mistakes, not making friends? clearly not trying hard enough. people getting offended for seemingly no reason? stop being so freaking rude then. being to blunt? no your just a bully, stop bullying people your supposed to love. so yeah generally i try to hide it because it just hurts people, but i end up hurting people anyway, its a no win situation

Having Aspergers is like missing a foot. I can imagine what it would be like if I had that foot, but mostly I just get on with my life minus the foot. It prevents me from doing a few things, but not as much as many people think. I am not ashamed about it, and will talk about it to anyone who asks. But I will not advertise it.

I don't hide it. I don't even try justifying my oddity. There's no sort of pride nor shame involved.
And, people don't want let alone need to know.

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I ususally hide it because most people don't know what asperger is

The question is meaningless.

If you took out the word "aspergers", and substituted the word "homosexuality", then you would have a meaningful question.

For most of history (including most of my lifetime until a couple of years ago) if you happened to be homosexual you would not go out of your way to advertise the fact.

The reason was (a) most of the public knew what homosexuality is, and (b) most of the public also had an attitude about homosexuality. And that attitude was a ....BAD attitude.

In contrast even today very few people have even heard of "aspergers", nor have any notion of what "aspergers" is. And because they dont know WTF aspergers even is they dont have any kind of attitude about it (good, or bad).

So there is nothing there to either hide, or to reveal. Its not on the radar screen for others to look for in you.

Aspergers is an invisible disability. I cant hide it because theres nothing to hide.

If you mean social problems i try to follow social rules best i can, but being awkward and maybe hard to read is unaviodable and cannot be hidden. Most people who have a conversation with me can tell im a tad different or strange but they just categorize it as "artsy" or "easily distracted" "in her own little world" which is out of my control.

If you mean telling people my diagnoses, i only tell people my diagnoses if they ask, or if its relevant.

But other than that i cant hide things i cant control and i theres nothing phisically to hide.

Naturalplastic are you seriously 116 years old?! Dude your like a century old, do you remember the titanic sinking? Do you remember the first sound film? Holy s**t man your awesome. You could win a record or something. You were alive through world war 1 and 2

AS is not gift, although some people who are very gifted usually have AS, but they are not known because of AS, they are known because of their talents.

I'm open about Aspergers to family and friends (as it is pretty obvious I'm a bit "weird" and it explains my eccentricities) but hide it from casual acquaintances.