Stuck with the label

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For a long time now, I have hated the abbreviation "Aspie". It sounds all cute and childish, and makes me feel sick and angry when people say it to me. Also, I find more and more people refering to my aspergers as "Aspie". Surely if I don't like that terminology, people should acknowledge this and NOT say it, in the same way as people will (out of common courtesy) spell my name the same way as I do?
I just get kind of sick of being caught under a mass-label that I don't like!

Does anyone else share this sentiment?

i agree. aspie sounds dumb. you'd think they wouldn't try to name it something that would make someone get teased even more.

Aspies just easy to remember and short, we asper wouldnt be much better :-/.

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Heh, yeah, I'd never thought of it that way. I've never been teased for it much, but thats only because I was only diagnosed a few years ago... I can imagine the term "aspie" must draw yet more unwanted attention.

TBH, when I'm talking about it to someone who knows I've been diagnosed, I tend to refer to it as "Arse Purges" or "Arse Burgers". I know these are usually used as insults, but I find that by using them in good humor in reference to myself means I don't really care when people say them malisciously.

I don't particularly care for it either, but people (like my sisters) when they hear "Asperger" they think ass-burger or something similar and start to giggle. It really depends on who I'm talking to with how I refer to it (my parents and other more mature people don't have the aforementioned problem), and when talking about someone with Asperger's, it's a lot easier sometimes to say Aspie than it is to say "person with Asperger's."

I dont like it either.

You are first and foremost a person - with AS, not AS and also a person..

I've never had anyone directly call me an "Aspie". I use it to refer to myself though. And I don't mind it. But I use it on this forum more than IRL. IRL I generally say "I have Aspergers Syndrome, which is a form of high-functioning Autism..."

I just say I have a mild form of Autism, and send a link about Aspregers online because it's a funny word that I myself try not to laugh at. Aspie is revoltingly childish.

Its better than Aspergers. Aspergers is to long. And asper sounds like a tree.

Nobody I know outside the internet knows the term except this one lady I was talking to. They have no idea what aspergers is. So I just tell people I'm mildy autistic, they get that.

I usually say 'I'm slightly autistic' - people usually get that, or if they know what they are on about, I might say, 'I'm Aspergian,' but that is rare.

I like the term Aspie. It's something that has come from us and not the medical world or NTs.
I see it as being short for Aspergian which also comes from us and not NTs.

From the source I found, I learnt that people with AS chose Aspergian and Aspie because they said If you are talented at art you are not said to have Picasso syndrome but are called an Artist. If you are are talented at writing or playing music, you are not labled as having Mozart syndrome but are called a Musician.
So if you have the skills of AS then you are an Aspergian or Aspie.

I can see how if the NT kids have, or do, catch on to the Aspie word, then they might turn it from a positive to a negative as it has that type of ring to it.

By all means speak up against its use if you don't like it, but don't let its use by us on here let it offend you and don't let the NT bullies win by letting them hijack the terms chosen by us.
You can't stop them using it but you can choose the way you show reaction to its use. Letting them see you are upset would be letting them hijack our terms.