What makes you proud to be an aspie?

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I wish Jefferson didn't want to defer the slavery question to another generation.

Otherwise, I'm pretty cool with Jefferson, for the most part.

I felt exactly like OP, but I´m not proud, nor the oposite. I´m just enormously relieved

A relieved blonde lady is a most delightful lady, indeed.

Thanks -eh, how do I answer to that one?

I'm proud of my high tendency to forgive others. Also, I enjoy having some forms of synesthesia.

I am proud to be autistic because I know autism is not a bad thing.
In my lifetime I have been abused, misunderstood, taken advantage of, made fun of, picked on, ridiculed, and excluded.
I was never able to defend myself or understand why.
Now I know I am not less than human.
It is just that other people don't understand autism.

I'm not proud of it. It is not something I accomplished or achieved.

I'm not proud of it. In fact, I'm deeply ashamed of it. It's something that I invest vast amounts of energy in concealing, compensating for, and controlling. My proudest Aspie achievements are managing not to act like an Aspie, at least on the outside.

I am, however, sometimes grateful for it. When I sit on the toilet reading about social life as captured in Playboy magazine, I am very thankful to be an Aspie. When the parents of my kids' friends start carrying on about who said what to who and/or unfriended who on Facebook, I am very thankful to be an Aspie. When I watch commercials on television, I am very thankful to be an Aspie.

Times like that make me think that, as much as this damn "difference" has cost me and as much trouble as it has caused, it has spared me from more, greater, and worse.

LOL...You don't have to answer I'm just happy that you seem happy.

I definitely don't believe it's "shameful" to be autistic.

Having Asperger's has given me a unique, creative mind. I know NTs can have unique, creative minds as well, but I think having Asperger's makes spend more time in my mind, allowing me to come up with stories and ideas. I view it as part of who I am.