What would you Rename Asperger's?

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Yeah, I like the term Autism Light. Mild Autism I think works just as well.

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Idaho Aspie

Wouldn't Hans Asperger's surname in its original German pronunciation go something like Oss-pair-guhrs? If that's the case, why not pronounce it like that? It would stop people from saying the ever annoying "Ass burgers" and it has a precedent since Wagner is pronounced Vog-ner in the English speaking world.

I think for the same reason we don't use the same pronounciation for Hamburgers and Hitler as the German's. English has a different sound to most words as German.

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Idaho Aspie
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I already mostly call it something like, autism with a faster rate and and more typical manner of speech development. I don't call it mild or high-functioning because too little is known about autism to even know what "mild" autism would look like, and from what I've seen of high and low functioning autism the terms just are not accurate.

And what I call it seems to be what the word is used to mean right now. And Asperger is not a historically accurate thing to call that. Just as Kanner is not a historically accurate thing to call what many people call it now. (Some of Kanner's patients would almost undoubtedly be called "Asperger's" today, all but one of them could speak, many spoke early and memorized large amounts of spoken information, and the only one who couldn't speak still had a measured IQ of 94 on nonverbal tests and could understand instructions, just didn't look like she was paying attention by non-autistic standards of "looking like you're paying attention".)

Sometimes I think of my AS as "off-kilter with a side of seriousness".

Usually when i tell people Im an artist they just go "OOOOhhh".And slip me into "artist " label.
I used to just think of myself as eccentric.

Personally Id perfer ANY term that doesnt sound my my bottom and a Big Mac.

The autism thing. This is why I hate hollywood sterotypes. Rainman.

But keep in mind thats how most NTs learn about things. They dont have this allconsuming "nerdism" quest for knowledge and more understanding.

Those who are in the know are saying it might be called this in the next DSM.

But we do pronounce Bach like "Bock," Mozart like "Moat-sart," and Goethe like "Ger-tuh," to name a few along with the other example I already mentioned. And when was the last time we heard Freud pronounced like "Frude" or Einstein like "Ein-steen" (like the word Holstein)? What I propose is consistent with past pronunciational conventions of German names in English. It is common in English to try to approximate the original pronunciation of foreign names in general as closely as possible, like Juan as "Hwawn" or Dubois as "Doo-Bwah."

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Neuro-diverse?

I think it covers everyone on the spectrum.
Though, It would confuse NTs, mind you they are confused anyway.

...you could call us Utopians.

We tend to act as if we lived in Utopia... where equality and fairness are real, people treat each other decently, they say what they really mean, they don't lie....

...which bugs the hell out of the people who live here on Earth.


As it is, you could just call us Weirdos. Like Gonzo the Muppet. We should be given our own bathroom...

MEN WOMEN WEIRDOS

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It also covers lots of people who aren't.

Yeah but thats kind of nice in a way because it can sort of bridge the gap between AS and NT people and include anyone with neurological diffferences...

Dyslexia is far more commonly accepted and dealt with now, I think it would be nice to see other neurological differences to go also in this direction.

Uni-lobal

I just call it eccentric.

smelly boy and girl disease, obviously im joking. i think i'd name it autism lite with the word lite always leaning like that