What are you most proud of yourself for?

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Have you ever done something big or small and though, that was pretty cool, I'm proud of that.

Mine will seem small to most but I have an autistic 4 year old daughter whose difficulties are in communication and understanding. She can talk a tiny bit now but it's very limited and her understanding is somewhere around 18 months, every professional I spoke to told me not to worry about trying to potty train her before school as it would probably not happen. But I decided to try and I did it, in a month. She's now at school in pants and dry everyday and I am silently very very proud of myself for that. It was soooo hard

Well done! Potty training is very, very hard sometimes. One of mine had terrible trouble, the other was a breeze! You can pat yourself on the back most definitely!

The thing I’m most proud of was passing my driving test and driving still now. I was a late learner and I’m not very coordinated, it takes me a long time to learn physical actions for some reason. So very proud I persevered and got there in the end.

Well done, you should definitely be proud of yourself for that.

Mine was quitting smoking/vaping. I gave up the cigarettes a few years ago by vaping but then was totally addicted to the stupid vapes. I eventually quit completely 4 months ago. I feel so much better after being addicted to nicotine for all of my adult (and teenage) life!

Good for you, @Cardiganwearer — I’m about to start driving lessons and am similarly uncoordinated.

Well done you, OP.

Travelling for 8 months on my own.

Retraining for a career I enjoy.

Picking up learning to drive later in life.

Getting down to 7 and a half stone as an adult

Becoming and staying sober.

I became extremely unwell as a child and for a while it looked like my life might be severely limited. I still don’t have brilliant health due to this condition, but I fought back and built a life for myself, got a degree and a full time job. Life has been hard for me and I have dealt with things that other people haven’t had to, but I am a tougher person for it.
A girl my age who I got to know who had the same condition I did has been housebound ever since. We stay in touch, are both 40 now, and I realise just how well I have done and how much I’ve achieved.

Picking myself up after a terrible time in the worlds worst job; I took a look at myself and decided on what I felt I was missing in my life, and have picked up some hobbies since that are really enriching me.

Also being DD's person - she has been diagnosed with Autism in her teens and the first year was rough <understatement> but I work really hard to stay close to her, and try to just let her be herself, and I feel like I've brought her back.

Well done OP that's amazing.
All these stories are inspirational 😍

You should all be dead proud of yourselves! I'm 30 and learning to drive too! Can't wait to pass and be on the road

Woohoo so proud of us late learners 🚗

Becoming a homeowner.

I saved for most of my adult life while renting in an expensive city and finally bought in my 30s.

Getting a great new job in a different industry at the age of 60.

I'm proud that I cope with a complex life /family. It's so draining mentally and emotionally. But I get through it.

Also no matter how nasty or judgemental people are to me I never ever feel the need to do it back I just take it and take it. Because I never want them to feel how they have made me feel .

Getting my autistic daughter through mainstream secondary, through GCSEs and now on to a college course she is absolutely loving. She was written off and managed out of primary by SLT who wouldn’t listen to Ed psych or parents. It’s been an emotional roller coaster and incredibly stressful but we have a happy, sociable teen who is now following her dreams. Mainstream can work with some ND individuals who want it when a school has the will and agrees to work with the experts (the parents!).

That is an enormous accomplishment for you and your DD! Be proud, out loud, and in stereo. Not silently proud! Kick that thinking to the kerb.😆What you've accomplished together is huge. You make sure and walk tall with ALL your peacock feathers out, every day!

Something I neither started nor finished but I was the lynchpin that held it together and kept it going

Our local council, like many in the country had no homeless facilities at all. It took years, a lot stress, and not backing down with a whole variety of people but now we have homeless facilities locally for these in need.

No one now remembers my involvement but I do and that's fine.

Losing over 100Ibs.
I feel like I have my life back and am so much happier and healthy (which is a fantastic way to slide into my 50s!!LOL).😄

I'm proud of myself for raising a happy teenager and being 10 years happily married and having sustained friendships for 15+ years, after being diagnosed with BPD aged 20 and feeling like- and being told that- I'd never have meaningful relationships because BPD is the worst disorder ever.

After a lifetime of being treated horrifically by everyone(Mother/siblings/husbands/friends)
At the age of 48 I finally stood up for myself and went NC with my family and several friends. It's been 4 years now and I would never allow myself to be treated that way again.

I'm also the cycle breaker for generational abuse in my family. My kids are adults now, but they had a happy childhood and carry none of the trauma I do. We are very close and laugh together all the time.

My life has been exceptionally hard and on many occasions I had to fight each day to stay alive. I'm still here and still fighting. I'm proud of that.

In 2014 when I was 42 and my Daughter was 2 I decided I needed to lose weight and get fitter, I’d get out of breath walking up the stairs and my belly was hanging over my size 16 jeans.

i started running doing the couch to 5k and went from 10 stone to 7 and a half (short at 4ft 11).

ten years on I still run regularly the highlight was doing a marathon and I’ve not put the weight back on.

i’m proud of myself for sticking to it and more importantly I can run around and do more with my daughter.

Quitting smoking 16 years ago. So glad I did that. DH quit the following year.
I’m also proud that I faced my parents at my brothers funeral last Christmas. We were NC and it was incredibly difficult, the hardest thing I’ve ever done. I nearly didn’t go but I’m so glad I did. Not sure proud is the right word actually.

Achieving a successful professional career and being acknowledged as a leader in my field despite being neurodiverse

Learning to swim in middle age, passing GCSE Maths aged 62 (I failed O level 3 times), living a full life with a chronic and debilitating condition since my 30s.

For me it is breaking a family cycle of abuse and teaching my children boundaries.

Two of them have had to use their boundary knowledge a few times recently, very appropriately and I couldn’t be more proud of them.

We have very tricky characters in both sides of our family including cluster B personality disordered people on both sides and my children understand that enabling abuse is never the answer to anything in spite of that having been the families answers to abuse on both sides.