Proud aspie or not?

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You seem like you are very active on these forums. For someone who has posted so many times and inspired others so many times, I would have thought you would definatly have overcome your shame by now. Unfortunatly, for whatever reason, you have not. I wish you better luck in the future.

I'm proud that I've managed to do as well as I have, and that I haven't lost the will to keep trying to do better. I'm also thankful for the benefits of AS that I seem to have. I feel I'd rather be as I am than 'normal,' and that's what counts.

I voted yes, since I am kind of a proud aspie, in a humble way. It's not like I want to start an aspie gang and beat up NT's. I don't want to put down NT's too much (eventhough I'd rather be an aspie than an NT) because my family are all NT's. In a way I think that us aspies have more to be proud of than we have to be sad about; we have lots of positive traits about our Asperger's. It's a mixed blessing, yet at times I think it to be a curse because of the social difficulties, sensory problems, motor skill problems and more. And at some hardtimes in my life I don't know what to think about Asperger's, because it almost becomes a neutrality, meaning that there are many blessings, yet have many curses. But one thing for sure: most of the time I feel happy and proud to be an aspie.

I appreciate your honesty and well thought response aspiegirl.

AS doesn't really bother me much anyway. I know I have problems, but everyone else in this world has problems too, and I am gratful for what I have.