Autistic Opinions Wanted!

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My issues with Aspie, as cute as it is, is it isn't meant for the whole spectrum, and is a name for a condition that is no longer really diagnosed to begin with.

It should be what a person wants to be called. Not a global state of rule. I prefer my name because it's not for everybody to know.

Oddly enough, that's exactly why "Aspie" is my least favourite term. I don't mind folks using it if it's what they're comfortable with - but I just can't get over it sounding like the way one would talk to a toddler, or as if I might somehow be compared to a snake!

Personally, if I do need to identify my condition (I prefer not to), I simply describe myself as autistic, or as an autistic person. As I was diagnosed by the DSM-V criteria, I don't know if I would have been diagnosed with AS under the old system, but the autism/Aspergers split has never made much sense to me anyway - a product of the confusing history of early research into autism rather than a particularly meaningful diagnostic category.

Person-first language just seems like very clumsy use of the English language to me, the word "with" just doesn't seem correct semantically. My impression is that person-first is most often used by people who are not actually part of the minority group that they're talking about, based purely on political or linguistic dogma. I think that this has left me with the sense that person-first can sound rather patronising, just by association with the people who most use it.

Mine too, but it can be a "softer" approach to the identity, I think, than autistic. Less connotations attached. But its "cuteness" for me, as a 27 year old, is a problem to me

I'd Rather Be Called Autistic.
Though, that is just, Because I think it sounds better.
Though Again, Same to me to.
I think people like it because it sounds better to than though I do by choice use Identity First Langauge.