Excuse my French, but this is serious

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I haven't told anyone about it except my family. I pronounce it Uh-Spur-Jerz, rather than Ah-Spur-Jerz. So if they made jokes it would be Us burgers, not as funny. See.

If I were to tell anyone else I'd probably go with high functioning autistic or mildly autistic.

I avoid the "ass burger" similarity by changing the stress of the word. Instead of pronouncing it "ASS-per-ger's", I pronounce it "ass-PER-ger's". This way, the P is more clearly enunciated, and the similarity to "ass burger" isn't as clearly heard.

I was explaining to a friend the other day b4 we started drinking that i had aspergers, she brought up the subject because "i don't look at peoples face's when im speaking to them, why is that?" and i was explaining it to her and she didn't understand what it meant, so i told her its a form of autism.

She then took that as me having a disease and was then thinking i was either slow or ret*d... In the 2 years i have know this lady i was never mistaken for a slow or ret*d person, i found this amusing but on the other hand i was distressed that the general public is not aware of autism.

The thing that gets me laughing about this, the lady has known me for awhile and the only characteristic that she notices is my inability to look at someones face when talking to them, (i can only maintain eye contact for a short while otherwise i feel awkward, unless i am drunk) however, i revealed something about me and she acted as if it was a huge impact on who i was as a person. This cracks me up cause, i am the same person i was before i shared with her that tidbit of info.

Sorry for typing this long mundane post, only to add this remedial statement.

here in the Neths, and asperGE is an asparagus. nobody ever says asperger, always asperge -.-

I don't have this problem, I'm living in Germany so people naturally have no association with English mispronunciations.
I'd set up a mp3 file as to how to say it in German, but my equipment in beyond repair, so that's not going to work.

Those people are just making fun of you. Here's some suggestions that may or may not help. You could just not bring up that you even have AS ever again. You could quit and find a new job, just not here in Michigan. There are no jobs. You could go to a supervisor and tell him/her the problem you're having, but stare blankly at a wall and shake a little as you're saying it. Then the supervisor might do something just to keep you from spazzing out. Is that how you spell spazzing. Another thing you could do is just stop acknowledging the existence of those particular people. I guess that's called ignoring. One last thing I thought of is give a full detailed desription of Asperger's every time they say it so that they'll pay with having to listen to you ramble on and on. You know us Aspies are good at that. You could go into the whole history of Dr. Asperger, autism, autism spectrum, possible causes of autism and how Aspies like to talk on and on about their particular interests. Then you could go into your own particular interests and go on and on about that. They might have to listen to you for almost an hour each time. I'll tell you, they'll leave you alone just to keep you from talking ever again. You'll wear 'em down.

Sound's like a good idea BattleCreekDavid, I yust to ignore them back in school anyway, & simple left me alone, but I just explain it in a different way like...

When they talk they look at you, & when they listen they normally look away. I just say I do it the other way round.. I watch when listening & look away when talking.

Just like explaining why someone like's to listen to music & relax & another gets energized by it..

Easy for them to understand in that way of explaining.

since i have some autistic relatives on my dads side everyone already knows how to say aspergers fluently. i was quiet teh suprised when my cousin and me were talking and she was like "yah we all know about your aspergers" i was like ok well dont tell anyone else around me

Alternative Names

Pervasive developmental disorder

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency ... 001549.htm

I did not know this.....

People who do not meet Autism or other labels get called PDD-NOS. Pervasive developmental disorder - not otherwise specified


http://www.med.yale.edu/chldstdy/autism/pddnos.html

Tmad40blue, it’s up to you & you alone if you want to say what you have, the teacher, the summer camp counsellor has no Wright to force you, or make you, or tell anyone else about it without your permission. If you only want the teacher or the counsellor to know then that is where it stops... Sure it is breaking basic practice too.. Etc

Few people try the "ass burgers" stunt around me.

In answer to that, I allude to the medical history of
AS: How Hans Asperger, working in Nazi-occupied
Vienna during the Second World War, published a
paper about a milder type of autism in a German-
language publication at about the same time that
Leo Kanner in the UK was doing his work on "classic"
autism. The paper in question was finally brought to
light in the 1990's, and the condition described in it
was named Asperger's Syndrome after the author.

So there, NT's.