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I'd rather hear someone say ass burgers than just call me ret*d like most people tend to.

Actually I agree.
I've been hurt by people saying (sometimes behind my back, too) that I'm "not all there" and that "I would need alot of work".
That coming from one of my friend's parents, who then didn't want me in their daughter's life, because I wasn't normal.
My friend had also invited me to her birthday, but her parents would NOT have me "at their baby's birthday".
I had an emotional break-down over that.. it just hurt so much..

And I have been treated by the system (in regards to helping to try find some work) as completely ret*d, I've been played and given the run around, TWICE.
I have news for people like that: we AREN'T ret*d, in fact we're smarter than them!!
Just because we were born with a mental condition does not mean we're stupid.

It's like if they were comparing someone who was really short with someone who was really tall.
Both are not average height, but it doesn't mean that the really tall person is short, like the short person, or vice versa.

If you don't put emphasis on the difference "ass burgers" and "asperger's" do sound very much alike. I concur that it is annoying. I haven't had anyone say that to me yet though.

I always find it difficult to pelieve that beoble cannot tell the difference petween two letters that are bronounced quite clearly differently.

isn't it interesting where you are hurt because people discriminate against you, but you have no hesitation to join them in ganging up to disrespect ret*d and stupid people? Don't you think they have feelings, either?

Of course they have feelings, but I did not even discriminate against them anyway... I did not bring the discussion of them into this, only that alot of other "normal" people will wrongly make the assumption that just because people with a disorder have a disorder, they automatically believe we're stupid, instead of seeing that it varies greatly.
I don't disrespect or gang up on people who have those problems, because that would make me no different, and I loathe that kind of attitude.
I have a brother who is actually quite slow on the mark, gets confused easily, is very gullible, and can't even spell properly. But I have alot of respect for him, in fact, I confide in him almost all the time.
He's dim, but at the same time he's very capable and bright.
And I believe that although you might have ret*d and stupid people out there, they have a greater degree in an ability in some form which beats other's.

And accusing me of doing or saying something I did not even do or say really hurt.

well before you get too hurt, look at what I bolded in your post. You are going on and on about how you aren't ret*d or stupid as if you resent being compared to those that are.
You don't even realize you are doing it, do you?

I was saying that they had things I'm not, and that hurts.

Maybe coming here was a big mistake.

I have a problem with people calling it Asparagus.

I make fun of the name, and I have Asperger's. In fact, whenever I tell somebody that I have it, I make a joke about the name - I have only had one other person mention the name instead of me, and we both cracked up.

And somebody mentioned that South Park or some other show would probably latch onto it. To be honest, I would probably laugh.

I can see how it can get annoying, but most people who mention "ass burgers" aren't making fun of the syndrome itself, just the name.

Happened to me, too! but I know how to pronounce it now. Woe to an NT who pronounces it wrong!

I'd only seen Asperger's written and always pronounced the G as a J. When my mom approached me last night about the syndrome and she used a hard G, my stepfather followed close behind with "Ass burgers!" He's immature.

I tried to mention it today in school and then the only thing I could think about was how it sounded like ass burgers if I tried to say it. o__o I think I'll either just pronounce it wrong or use AS or something to avoid that. As if I need another thing to stumble over while speaking...

I've heard it thousands of times, but really the only thing that irks me about it is when I try to explain Aspergers to people, the ONLY thing they take from it is "you have ass burgers? ahahaha."

Haha then maybe you should offer them some of these burgers.. XD

i hate when american people say ass burgers i mean wtf? its ASPERGERS "AS-PER-JERS"

"Asperger's Syndrome" is not a very good name for this condition. It's almost like adding insult to injury. As if we're asperger's problem children ourselves. I think a better name would be "Social Dyslexia"

http://www.aspergersmichigan.org/files/ ... slexia.pdf