Proud of my son's Autism.

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I am really proud that my son has Autism and I think it is great just like everything else about him. I love helping him in every way i can to feel proud of who he is.

My family however think he needs to be cured. Little do they know i am an Aspie and I know that there is nothing wrong with him, so he is never going to be cured. I will also not make his Autism something shameful that he has to hide away from the world. I will however help him to become the best person he can be.

Is anyone else proud that their child has AS/AD?

It sounds a bit strange saying you are proud of his autism, instead of saying you are proud of your son. But this is how i see it.
I think a person = his autism, without it they would not be who they are today. Autism influences everything in your life and therefore the personality you develop. So by saying you are proud of autism you are also proud of the person.


Having an aspie parent must be a real blessing for him
My parents try hard but i dont think they will ever really understand me,
even my father who is an undiagnosed aspie himself seems so unaware.

I think it's great that you're proud of your son's autism and that there should be more parents like you. Nobody should be cured against their will. You should tell your family exactly what you think of their opinion on this issue, because they need to know where you stand.

You are not alone. I'm an aspie mom with an aspie son. Keep up the positive attitude.

why? This makes ZERO sense to me.

Be proud of their accomplishments in the face of adversity, not the condition itself. It's not like one aspires to have aspergers.

I am proud of who my son is, all aspects, which includes his AS. He wouldn't be "him" without it, so I have no desire to take it away, in that way I could say I'm proud of his AS. But. There are times the AS frustrates him, a LOT, and because of that neither him nor I can simply see it as a gift - it is both a gift and a burden for him. To see it otherwise would be dishonest. Still, overall, I prefer having this child exactly as he is; he is so amazing to me.

I agree that I'm proud of my son, and his accomplishments. I do think it's going to be pretty cool for him how advanced he is in certain areas, and I look forward to helping him build on those strengths and hopefully use them for something great one day.

Funny... if a parent had posted saying "I am proud of my son's giftedness" in a forum for parents of gifted kids, I don't think anyone would have said it makes ZERO sense.

To me, when a parent says they are proud of their child's autism, or an autistic person says they are proud to BE autistic, it is the same thing as a gifted child having proud parents or being proud of themselves for what makes them special and unique.

I think there is still a lot of negativity toward the autistic label, even among those who think they embrace it, and that's why most people would struggle to say they are "proud of their child's autism".

I am proud of my son, and I am also proud that he is autistic.

I am definitely proud of my son for all he has faced and accomplished. Having a positive attitude and being poud of him has done wonders for his self esteem.

I am proud of my sons and I love exactly who they are. They are so like me, how could I not? I love their traits that would be considered part of their autism, and the traits that would not be.

I can trace the autistic genetics in my family, and while I am not going to pretend for a second that I couldn't do without some of the more negative aspects (example right now my son really wants to learn to draw better and the limits of his poor fine motor skills are causing him no end of grief and frustration), I am fiercely proud of our rare and wonderful perspective on the world.

You or your parents may not have said it... but my point was that it wouldn't be such a loaded and controversial statement in that context, so I question why it is for Autism. Giftedness, like autism, also brings its own challenges, so I think it's a pretty close analogy.

I guess it depends on your experience with giftedness. My son's giftedness and his AS share many, many challenging characteristics, and some of the worlds most gifted individuals are also the ones who have suffered the most, many ending their own lives out of a sense of profound isolation and depression. We hear lots of great things about giftedness, but in reality, it's as much a curse as a blessing - much like AS. Hightly gifted people are so conspicuously different from their peers, their problems often mimic those of kids with AS.

This article sums up most of the significant social/emotional challenges that kids with AS have - but it's about kids who are gifted: http://giftedkids.about.com/od/socialem ... oblems.htm

Not proud because my son is Autistic, but just proud of him regardless. I fell not a skerrick of shame when I am out with him and he flaps his hands and giggles and carries on, I just think thats the way he is and I'm fine with it.
And have got over the regret that he has Autism almost totally, he just is the way he is. Like Popeye said he yam what he yam.

It's nice you support your son, but why be proud of it? Unless you're proud of the autistic qualities in him, how they present and how he acts because of them. I'm not proud of a label. I'd be proud if I could manage a day without people realising there's something off about me i.e. rid of Aspieness.