Why don't disorders have COOL names?

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Aspie sounds better than Asperger, but come on. We already come off like a$$holes, so why should we label ourselves "Ass-burgers", as it's been so delightfully put forth to me. It almost sounds like we were setup for a joke.

We need a real name for ourselves. Obviously "aspie" was an easy way to avoid saying "aspergers" but let's just come up with something stylish maybe. No amount of success comes from people with stupid names. Except maybe Englebert Humperdink.

Do you think people would treat someone better who claimed to have "ass-burgers" or a person who said they were, say, "Vulcan"?

What names would YOU rather use than "Aspie" or "Aspergian"?

Lou gerighs disease sounds good on paper...not so much fun when you have it......

The UK version sounds cool to me - "Asp-perjers" with a soft g. You need to persuade people to change the US pronounciation.
I have a fondness for whoever got away with deciding Engelbert Humperdink is a good name, its so nice to say. Heres Eddie Izzard on that name...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckGmMO0zbJo

With my accent, there's no way that Aspergers could sound anything like 'ass-burgers'. The 'p' is distinctly a 'p' sound and the 'e', could never sound like a 'u'. Many English people sound their 'e' like a 'u', (to a Scot's ear) but we never do, unless we are really posh.

I think the term "aspie" sounds really stupid, and the fact that people on WP constantly say it like it sounds normal shows they don't deserve a cool sounding term for AS in the first place.

Well I slowed it down a bit with a buddy who always wants to ask/joke around about it when I see him, so it's asp-burgers, and if we are talking in code (mixed company) or just being silly then it's "snake sandwiches"...egyptian bbq...or however far we want to go with that one.

I think the name ''Asperger's''. Where I come from, people pronounce the ''G'' with a ''J'', which sounds even worse. I don't mind just say ''Aspie''. My mum never heard of that name before, and when I first said it she smiled and said, ''where did you get that name from?'' and I said, ''the internet'', and she likes that name.

It sounds stupid, but constantly typing out 'someone with Asperger Syndrom' isn't much better. Maybe we should come up with something... How about the Aspinators? In Dutch the autism spectrum's called ASS (Autisme Spectrum Stoornissen), so we could call ourselves high functioning ASSes too.

I'll stick with Aspie, I guess...

I usually say "person with AS" or something similar. I've been on WP for years, and the only time I say "aspie" is when I'm making fun of the term and/or people that say it.

Well Asperger's was named after the doctor who "discovered" it in the 1940's, so it is really too bad he didn't have a better sounding name. Anyway up here in Canada I think pronouncing it asp-ejrers is more acceptable than it is in the States. Go figure.

Im my accent, it's "as-sper-gurs", so it's okay for me .

I hate the way I sound when I say it. Ass Burgers. It sounds horrible. I bet many North Americans think that Aspies all soil themselves on purpose just because of the pronunciation that we use.

I agree, the J sound makes it sound like a the job title of someone who administers enemas.

Yuck

We all need to start aspirating the "p".

I was in a ten-session social skills training for autistics some two years ago, and it was called "Verder met je ASS" ('moving on with your ASD', for those here who's Dutch is a little rusty). The first time I read that title on the little ring binder we were given to make our homework in, I just couldn't stop laughing. I was used to the English term, hadn't seen the Dutch translation autisme-spectrumstoornis before.

I should probably note that, here in the Netherlands, the way we pronounce Asperger is very close to the Dutch word for 'asparagus' (asperge, pronounced 'us-PAIR-zyuh'). There are people here who joke that we have 'the asparagus syndrome'.

That's probably a bit more mature. Maybe I'm just lazy. English isn't my first language and I'm struggling enough as it is, so having to come up with variations of 'someone with AS' takes too much effort. Aspie is fine for me.