What a heartfelt and helpful piece. Thanks for expressing this so personally. I am one who, for no reason I feel I can take any credit for, has never really struggled with doubt, but I find myself surrounded by those who do. It's not that I always believed, I didn't come to faith until adulthood. But my unbelief came from lack of knowledge. When I heard the Gospel, I responded. I still had little knowledge, but rather than "doubt" I felt "uniformed." If anything, I doubted myself. While I'm grateful for my lack of doubt (because I don't know if I could handle it personally), I'm also grateful for the doubters in my life. They spur me on. They also keep my humble for all the times I just don't have adequate answers. I am guilty of at times feeling like it's "their fault" for "holding-on" to doubt, and perhaps even "cherishing it." So thank you for helping me see that. 
Yet I do feel that there are subcultures in the the church where doubt it to some degree given honor it doesn't deserve, where those of us who don't struggle with it almost feel like we're being less than honest. To express doubt can sometimes be a used as a way of inflating ones own intellectualism. I also don't feel that's helpful, and at that point it's probably not even honest. I don't feel doubt is anything to be proud of. I ALSO don't think FAITH is anything to be proud of though.  Both are part of the experience of seeking and knowing God. In fact, I think a healthy community has both.