Is it a bad thing that I hate being called an aspie?

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10 Sep 2017, 10:55 am

Magpie_01 wrote:

I don't like the term "aspie" either... I prefer autistic.

Good thing there are others who don't like it.

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10 Sep 2017, 11:56 am

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It seems as though "Aspie," as a nickname, sounds almost too cute. Most nicknames for people with various disabilities were truly ugly: spaz, ret*d, mongoloid, and the like. "Aspie" diminishes the feelings of high functioning people who still feel like outcasts because it sounds so benign. I'm not a fan of the name. We have swung from one end of the pendulum to the other in terms of describing and labeling people.

Mogolioid was the medical term for what we now call Down Syndrome.

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10 Sep 2017, 1:04 pm

IstominFan wrote:

So...

You object to it because...it's not derogatory enough???????

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10 Sep 2017, 1:07 pm

BirdInFlight wrote:

I like the Aspen thing, lol! "People who like or are from Aspen." :lol:

There is a food additive called "aspartame".

So you could call folks with aspergers "the asper UNtamed"! :lol:

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10 Sep 2017, 3:25 pm

naturalplastic wrote:

IstominFan wrote:

So...

You object to it because...it's not derogatory enough???????

I actually came up with a more derogatory word for an Aspie, but being the internet and all it could catch on (and we don't need or want that).

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10 Sep 2017, 6:20 pm

naturalplastic wrote:

BirdInFlight wrote:

I like the Aspen thing, lol! "People who like or are from Aspen." :lol:

There is a food additive called "aspartame".

So you could call folks with aspergers "the asper UNtamed"! :lol:

Hmm, an untamed Asper -- an Asper Wild! Grrowwwlll! :cat:

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10 Sep 2017, 6:45 pm

BirdInFlight wrote:

naturalplastic wrote:

BirdInFlight wrote:

I like the Aspen thing, lol! "People who like or are from Aspen." :lol:

There is a food additive called "aspartame".

So you could call folks with aspergers "the asper UNtamed"! :lol:

Hmm, an untamed Asper -- an Asper Wild! Grrowwwlll! :cat:

I'm going to start calling myself an Asper Wild! I can't wait to see what the reactions are

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10 Sep 2017, 6:56 pm

I'm going to try it the other way: a Wild Asper, lol!! :lol:

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10 Sep 2017, 7:22 pm

BirdInFlight wrote:

I'm going to try it the other way: a Wild Asper, lol!! :lol:

So you might not be aware but Wild Asper is a real condition. It's an Aspie with rabies.

I'm only here on weekends folks.

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10 Sep 2017, 7:46 pm

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BirdInFlight wrote:

I'm going to try it the other way: a Wild Asper, lol!! :lol:

So you might not be aware but Wild Asper is a real condition. It's an Aspie with rabies.

I'm only here on weekends folks.

LOL! Depending on my mood, that could be fitting! :lol:

I thought for a minute there you were going to tell me Wild Asper is a roadside weed or something!

It actually does sound like that. One of those deadly weeds they tell you never to pick! "There is no known treatment for Wild Asper toxins; death occurs within fifteen minutes of contact with the flowering parts." :lol:

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10 Sep 2017, 9:44 pm

BirdInFlight wrote:

AspieSingleDad wrote:

BirdInFlight wrote:

I'm going to try it the other way: a Wild Asper, lol!! :lol:

So you might not be aware but Wild Asper is a real condition. It's an Aspie with rabies.

I'm only here on weekends folks.

LOL! Depending on my mood, that could be fitting! :lol:

I just looked it up on on Center for Disease Control. The Wild Asper weed, when ingested, causes the victim to display excessive logic, a love for order, and they suddenly take a keen interest in botany. Apparently, in one such case, while a victim was lying on the ground dying, they stated the following before they passed way: "Those blades of grass are uneven."

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11 Sep 2017, 12:57 am

I'd say the term tends to separate the aspies from the rest of us with autism. It's like a lot of thread titles here almost don't apply to the rest of us or exclude us because we are not aspies.

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11 Sep 2017, 1:34 am

I've never liked the term Aspie.
It's never used in my country.
The first time I heard it was on this forum.
Also, I'm not diagnosed with Asperger's but with Autism Spectrum Disorder, so calling myself Aspie would feel incorrect.
Anal?
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What can I say?
I'm autistic.

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11 Sep 2017, 2:36 am

naturalplastic wrote:

BirdInFlight wrote:

There is a food additive called "aspartame".

That makes it difficult for me to look google my old posts.

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11 Sep 2017, 1:44 pm

I think of "Aspie" as sort of a "term of convenience"--like "NT" is a "term of convenience."

I have many "Aspie" characteristics, but I don't fit the Asperger's criteria because of my speech delay.

I like the term "Spectrumite."

I think people on the Internet sometimes refer to Aspies as "Spergs" or something like that.

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11 Sep 2017, 2:45 pm

Kraftie is correct -- the term "Aspie" is actually just a term of convenience, similar to NT. Or even "fridge" instead of saying "refrigerator."

I honestly use it in the same spirit in which I call a refrigerator a fridge. It's nothing more than just a faster, easier way to refer to a person with Asperger's.

Strictly speaking the condition of Asperger's has now been folded into the autism spectrum in general, under ASD.

Similar to "austistic person", who sometimes use "autists", there's no easy way to make ASD into a similar type of thing --

"I'm an ASD-er?" "The autists and ASD-ies here welcome our NT members"?

I mostly post about having ASD but I will casually call myself an aspie just to speed up typing what I'm wanting to post, if I need to use a term.

Personally, for myself, I find it no more offensive than the shortened term of convenience "fridge."

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