Are you 100% okay with it?

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Are you 100% proud and accepting to your diagnoses of Autism/Aspergers/PDD?
Are you not embarrassed to say you have it?
Do you ever talk about it with others?

I was just wondering everyone's thoughts.

Hope you are all doing well.

- Catherine

Yes, I accept myself for who I am.
No, I am not embarrassed to say I'm autistic, because it's a part of who I am.
Yes, I do talk about it with my family and friends.

Thank you for the questions. Hope you have a nice day.

Last edited by AtomicKaiju on 18 Jun 2010, 5:19 pm, edited 1 time in total.

I can talk about it for hours, but very few people care to hear about it or have any interest in understanding what it is.

After spending decades being frequently asked "WHAT THE F**K IS WRONG WITH YOU!?!"

I'm frankly happy that I now have a definitive answer.

No.

I'm 100% okay with my AS, and I'm not embarrassed to tell other people about it.

It is very embarrassing IRL, especially when people who want to "help" talk about you in front of you as if you can't even hear them. The name doesn't even have to be mentioned for it to be embarrassing.

I wouldn't say that I'm "proud" of it, but don't hate myself for it; AS/Autism brings both strengths and weaknesses, and it is usually best to capitalize on the strengths.

I'm am not at all embarrassed of my diagnosis, especially since it is turning out to be far more common than was originally thought.

I am quite open about my diagnosis. In fact, nowadays most people around me wouldn't have even guessed that I was Autistic to begin with. Only close friends and family of mine can tell the difference.

I'm definitely accepting of it. Proud, I am not entirely sure. I had never thought about it. I am glad that I know what I have, for the majority of my life I just thought I was weird/eccentric.

After some introspection I am most definitely proud of the strengths that AS brings to the table, but wouldn't mind if some of the drawbacks went away.



Not embarrassed no, but I don't go around telling everyone. That is just due to the fact that I don't want them treating me differently, not due to any embarrassment.



I talk about it with my fiancee frequently, and her sister who also has AS on occasion. I have tried talking with my family about it, but usually get little to no response.



Interesting topic, hope you are doing well too.

Proud? No.
Accepting? Yes.
Embarrassed? No.
Talk? Yes.

+1

On one hand, I am very relieved and thankful that I got a diagnosis so that there is an explanation for the way I think, feel and behave. On the other hand, I have difficulty accepting the fact that I can't function highly enough to do NT things such as drive a car, have a job and live independently. I feel ashamed that I have to rely on other people to take care of me.

I feel very embarrassed when people outside of the family find out that I'm on the spectrum, because when they do, they tend to talk down to me like I'm intellectually challenged. It seems that in Idaho, the commonly-held belief is still autism = MR.

I don't think I'm 100% proud of it, sometimes I still hope I was a NT so I wouldn't have so many psychological complications due to AS, but I am not embarrased about it, I feel comfortable talking about it to other people. All the people in my course knows about my AS, but I'm not sure if that's a good thing or bad thing, maybe a bit of both.

basically, the same as this one! lol

I'm as close to 100% as I'm likely to be. I always think about what might have been. What if I were taller? What if I were more athletic? What if I'd gotten a letter from Hogwarts when I turned eleven? What if I'd stayed friends with that one girl? And what if I were NT?

So I accept it about as much as I accept anything else.

I'm not embarrassed about having it. I'm embarrassed to explain that I have special needs because I don't want people thinking I want them to go easy on me, and I especially hate it when people do go easy on me. I take a philosophical preference for falling into bed at 3 am, having just finished the assignment due the next day, over having things be easy for me because I'm getting special treatment. So in a case where I'm just talking to a friend, or even talking to a teacher in a class where I don't have special difficulties, I let my decision to disclose be guided by relevance. A teacher whose husband has Asperger's is someone I should tell; a teacher who's never said anything even vaguely related to the subject and to whose class it's irrelevant does not get told. I don't really have to make that choice with friends, because a lot of them I've met through services of one sort or another, so they kind of knew to begin with. (And the subject came up the first time I met the only close friend I can think of off the top of my head who didn't fit that pattern.)

Proud? no, I didn't chose it
Accepting? I really don't know anything else, so yes I accept it
Embarassed? no, (however someone did tell me she knew I must be'embarassed' about it so she wouldn't tell anyone. I laughed in her face.)
Talk about it? To anyone that expresses an interest. However I have come to appreciate we are weirder than other people can imagine, actually, so that hampers communication somewhat.

I am not proud persay, I believe that I am what I am not merely a single syndrome and that while my behaviors may be normal among AS I still have my individuality which encompasses much more.

Not embarrassed to say that I have been diagnosed with it but I wouldn't say I'm a firm believer in concrete diagnosis of a complex pattern of behaviors. After all there is at least one school counselor I have seen that believes that I am not socially handicapped enough or lacking in empathy enough to be considered as such.

I prefer that I not talk about it with people who don't understand it. Mainly because I do not like to be pitied.