It did make determined to never treat anyone like that... ever.
It did make me determine to become the best version of me that was possible. It made me determined to become as intelligent as humanly possible and become something they couldn't dream of becoming.
That is absolute poetry!
My mother, though. When she gets upset with me she accuses me of having gotten "more autistic" on purpose since the diagnosis. "That is not what it was for!" she told me. I have cut all contact with my stepmother and most of the contact with my father, so they don't really have a chance to smugly inform me that they think I'm faking every little thing I do anymore.
Sadly, the right thing to do.