Aspies, are you proud?

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He realizes what's wrong with him, he's accepted it. No one does that anymore, I never thought I'd find something so beautiful here...Now if only he or she would post again.

He says what's wrong with him, yes, but that is all he sees. I can only speak for myself, yeah, I've got problems, but I've got gifts too, and I wouldn't get rid of them for anything in the world.

You have to get rid of what's wrong with you before you can focus on the good in you, that's how I always saw it. I don't really consider obsessions with useless things a gift, sorry.

You have to get rid of what's wrong with you before you can focus on the good in you, that's how I always saw it. I don't really consider obsessions with useless things a gift, sorry.[/quote

who decides if an obsession, or passion (mean the same thing) is useless or not? I tend to think of AS as potential, because your right, often "obsessions" can go to waste, but usually due to other issues, usually caused by AS.

I wasn't referring to obsessions. I said I have gifts, and I'm speaking only for myself.

You can't get rid of AS, so why dwell on the thought of what it would be like to not have it? Yes, you should try to fix your problems, but if it ain't broke, don't fix it, and if a problem can't be removed work around it with what you got, focus on your strenghths so you can use them.

I'm not really proud of being aspie. You guys do not wish how many times in the past few years that I wish that I was NT "like everyone else". I believe that my main problem is that I am not very proud of who I am as a person in general, and that it doesn't really help that many people think that AS is a "problem" (to be honest, I sometimes think of it like that when I am upset). It's just that the pros in my experience are pretty limited (just because I can memorize bits and pieces of my school newspaper's style sheet doesn't mean that all of my social and emotional struggles are nil).

Granted, this may change for me when I get older and much less self-conscious, but still...

You do have a good point. Pride isn't always a very well defined term, but since having AS isn't our achievement, or even our choice it doesn't really make sense to take pride in it. Pride has never really made much sense to me, but I am glad I have AS.

I'm proud because some say that some of the greatest minds had as eg Einstein or Vincent Van Gogh and the fact that commercial thinking (Nt's way of thinking) seems mundane to me and the supposed historical heritage is what keeps me going when I'm down.

Ps They may take our freedom and rights but there's one thing an Aspie keeps. THEIR PRIDE!

Here's the problem. I am happy with myself having AS, because there are no problems that I have with it until I meet the outside world. It's getting along with NTs that's the problem for me.

But for me, pride means sharing it with other people. I am very careful with whom I come out as an aspie, because people's perceptions of social disabilities are often wrong. Anyone who is not educated on it thinks I'm like Rain Man or Sheldon, but nothing in between. They think I am incapable of functioning in many ways.

Though I've only known for a short period... Yeah! =) I wish it was a bit more apparent! =P 'cos' non of the teachers know and one of them keeps yelling at me because I'm highly clumsy and I wish she'd back off... She works with the autistics TOO!! ! =/

I'm proud of being an aspie. I know that I will have difficulties in the adult world, but the thing is that I have as much support that I'll ever need. When I found out that I had Asperger's my mom tried to get all of the support that she could to help me flourish. Because of the fact that I'm not afraid to hide my autism at school and in public, I am generally proud to be an aspie.

We can be amazing people at times, right?

I am proud. Though I have it mild...

My best friend has dyslexia. I have aspergers. She always says:
Friend: "Everyone with something wrong with them like aspergers or dyslexia or something. Well, they always seem better in the long run! Jamie oliver can't spell his own name because he's so badly dyslexic!"

Which is true.

Whatever we lack be it english or social skills. We exel in another subject. Mine being, Geography and History, My best friends being mathematics.

I used to not be, but now I am, sort of.

No, not at all. I feel like I'm ret*d.

Definitely feels better knowing that I have AS, makes me feel like I'm a different kind of person rather than a failure of a person.

*If* they were aspies it's no reason for you to be proud. They're other people. There's no such thing as vicarious pride, except perhaps in your children, and that's not truly vicarious (because you have a hand in bringing them up). That's why I don't get nationalism either. Why be proud of what other people did? Even if you're a member of the same group, those achievements aren't yours.