Aspie? yes or no?

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'n****r' was meant to be offensive when it was first made up. That's the difference. It was made up by a bunch of bigots who didn't like blacks so they make up a name for them to put them down. That's what my father told me when I was a kid.
'Aspie' was never made up to offend us or to put us down.


Is n****r also a term for Nigarians? Is it meant to be offensive to call them that?


(sarcasm)Why not take all the unoffensive terms and make them offensive too.(sarcasm)

Actually, i dont know the roots of the word n****r. I did wonder after i made my post.
It was just an example, to show that your allegory was not meaningful.

I don't really know what to make of your sarcasm point.
Maybe we agree that the offensiveness does not lie in the word itself.

Of course the word 'Aspie', is not meant to be generally offensive.
But to quote Prisoner6, "I am not a number, i am a person"

What he said.

I don't mind the term "Aspie".

It's just an abbreviation isn't it?

the word n****r comes from the Latin niger, which means "black". But don't let that fool you, to call someone "black" was an insult, as Europeans who started using that word to describe people of African descent viewed them as inferior.

Other origins for the word:

alteration of earlier neger, from Middle French negre, from Spanish or Portuguese negro

To be honest, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't mind - my epilepsy is a part of who I am, like my AS (and my fits are that vigorous that people need to know what to do if one should occur). I do find the term "throw an eppy" - when used to describe somebody having a temper tantrum - quite annoying, though, as it's always used by people who I'm pretty sure have never had an epileptic fit in their life, and thus don't know that it really shouldn't be used that way.

As regards the term "Aspie", however... I like it, and use it quite frequently to describe myself.