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01 Dec 2008, 6:14 pm

Honestly, who cares about that terminology. Mostly what comes to mind for me is the Encyclopedia Dramatica entry on AS which exemplifies this. Unfortunately a lot of people with AS post a lot of stupid things on the internet and there is a natural backlash against it. A lot of it is simply malicious, but when it comes down to it its not really a name that I think is meant to be derogatory to everybody with AS, just what we refer to as the internet 'whiners' or whatnot. It mostly appeared when certain people frequent forums and make fools of themselves and then try to excuse it as 'oh, I have AS, please forgive me'. I find this hard to believe because here we have a forum for people with AS and other people interested in it and I don't see any of this idiotic behavior. So really I think 'ass-burgers syndrome' is something any real Aspie shouldn't care about, its just a stupid name. Also, I always thought it was 'as-per-jers' as well.



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03 Dec 2008, 12:04 pm

Perhaps this is why I pronounce it as "Asperjers" Syndrome, as oppose to Aspergers, which immature people can use as an insult such as Ass burgers.


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03 Dec 2008, 2:42 pm

GOING TO ASPLODE IF THAT IS EVER USED AGAIN!! !! ! :evil:


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03 Dec 2008, 2:56 pm

The problem is English ... When a word has a "P" or a "B" in it, they can be mis-pronounced. If English followed the same rules as other languages, there wouldn't be this problem...

Why do you think Kids can't talk properly? They go by ear only, it's all they know. As my mother from London, she would kill the "H" sound in any word. So, you can guess how I became confused with a new word . "hoax" - remember the "H" was eliminated. Then there was another word I heard from my dad "Vandal" I asked him what it meant, and he told me to look it up in the dictionary. Now, don't get me wrong, but isn't that a catch 22 scenario? To find the word in the dictionary, you need to know how it's spelt or what it begins. So with the English language being what it is. I was unsure which to start to look at first "V" or "F"

I hate people who kill English, then there are people who are not native to the language who can not adjust the word to fit what they have learnt.

English is a hard language to learn, because all people that speak the basic language MAKE it hard.

Now try to differentiate the "P" and "B" in Aspergers ;) Not easy is it, yet other languages do this all the time, and there are probably not many words that are mixed such as "LIVE"

We use sentences in a way where one word changes it to an opposite.
Do you understand?
Do you not understand?
Both having different answers...
The one I had problems explaining was the term ...
Would you mind../Do you mind...
These two wanting opposite answers because of the word "mind"

Time to stop - lol :lol:



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03 Dec 2008, 9:49 pm

I live in the south so I see the English language brutalized almost every day...



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05 Dec 2008, 12:54 am

Loreic wrote:
I live in the south so I see the English language brutalized almost every day...



Where is the south? Australia? Anartica?

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05 Dec 2008, 5:06 pm

Southeast of the United Sates, more specifically Georgia.



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05 Dec 2008, 5:08 pm

Loreic wrote:
I live in the south so I see the English language brutalized almost every day...


LOL i can agree with that...


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06 Dec 2008, 6:28 am

I've started just using 'spectrum' to avoid it all. Besides, it's a classy word.

As in:
spectrum folk
spectrum people
spectrum kids

Me? I'm an upper-spectrum kitty. Meow.



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08 Dec 2008, 8:07 pm

it's an old joke, heard it so many times it doesnt even bother me anymore.


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09 Dec 2008, 8:10 pm

Relicanth7 wrote:
Loreic wrote:
I live in the south so I see the English language brutalized almost every day...


LOL i can agree with that...


I live in the north and I see it brutalized every day too. I guess that's just one similarity all over the US. :)

and if 1 more person says Ass Burgers to me I'm gonna kill them. A couple of my "friends" said that all the time when I first told them that I have AS, even after I explained to them that it is asperger's. needless to say we are no longer friends.


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10 Dec 2008, 10:11 pm

Anyone who calls someone with Aspergers, Ass Burgers, needs to grow up. :roll:



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11 Dec 2008, 4:39 am

In my internet experience, people think of Asperger's and "Ass Burgers" to be two different things. One is a diagnoseable condition, the other is being a jerk and trying to convince people they have some sort of disorder so as to avoid blame. It doesn't work because there's so many real Aspies out there willing to point out the reality, but people still do it.

"Ass Burgers" is also known as "Internet Asperger's".



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11 Dec 2008, 6:34 pm

That's very immature.

I would just ignore something like that, because a person who makes a comment like that against a neurological disorder is obviously very ignorant and not someone you would want to talk to anyway.

If they persist, then they are obviously childish and seeking to annoy you as well as being bigoted, so I would compliment them on their "sense of humor" and encourage them to come up with more "hilarious" jokes. (The quotes indicate sarcasm.)

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14 Dec 2008, 5:21 am

Hopefully it will get old like most jokes.

Anyone that say a person they never met before is an idiot due to something different about this person, is obviously and idiot themselves.

Most teenagers these days are immature and don't really understand what they are doing and even if they do they will probably regret the stupid things they've done when they are older.

I think in really most people just say nasty things because they are trying to be funny and most immature people think rudeness is silly but when they realize that these insults have serious affects on people they will probably stop unless they are truly heartless people.



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15 Dec 2008, 8:18 pm

Ass Burgers aren't that tasty. In fact, they need to be cooked first. Then they are edible. Ass Burgers Ass Burgers Ass Burgers
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