When I returned to my family's home in 1983 and told my parents I had left the ashram and the cult after 10 years, my mother produced a stack of letters I had written to her and my Dad from circa 1973 and after.  To say it was embarrassing to read them is an understatement. 

The main reason I felt embarrassed was that I saw how arrogant I was.  How I was "in your face" to them about how devoted I was, how I had surrendered to the lotus feet of Maharaji and how wonderful it was.  So, while acting humble and devoted, I was displaying rank arrogance and spiritual ego.  I still see that in premies now.  It is the most repulsive thing I find in some premies, who still have the spiritual ego of having "it" and having something almost nobody else does.  It's incredible delusion, but they think they are just so fucking special.  Makes me want to vomit.

I do agree with John that coming out as an ex-premie wouldn't be half as difficult if it didn't also mean you have to come out as having been in a really stupid cult, in which you kissed the chubby feet of Prem Rawat.  Now, all that seems so obviously nuts, that it is embarrassing to have other people know about it.

Having said that, I find that most people are just kind of curious about it, and not all that judgmental.  Lots of people did really stupid things in their youth.  We were not the only ones, let me tell you.  However, I live in California, so the sample might be biased.