Are you proud to be an Aspie? (NT's don't need to respond)

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Not really, I had not choice or say in that....that would be like being proud of my hair color, just does not make sense to me.

Glad that you can be happy within your own shoes maybe you had a better life than me. I suffered a lot I think primarily due to my autism but that's debatable..

at first i was kind of in denial, then when i finally came to accept that this was so i was disgusted with myself because of the stigma that autism brings. now i've moved on to not really caring that i have autism. the main reason that i tend not to tell people about my diagnosis is because i don't want to be looked at as anything less than a normal person, which if they knew this they would attribute everything to some kind of mental inadequacy. but within my own head i don't have any problem with knowing i'm autistic, is what i'm trying to say.

Hey! Someone who hates having A.S. even more than I do.

Pleased to make your acquaintance

nah i don't enjoy or parade it around but i'd rather take Aspergers over other disabilities like CP Downs or low functioning autism even if it does get on my nerves and depresses me sometimes..

i wish the man who discovered AS at least had the decency to come up with a less embarrassing name.
Aspergers sounds really f*****g stupid like assburgers stupid. he should've named it Han's Syndrome or hell at least f*****g Han Solo Syndrome would've been a better name.

That's exactly how I feel about the name (but is not the only reason why I hate having it). I hate people knowing I have it, because they just say it casually and there's me cringing when hearing it mentioned. Ugh!!

Just say you're on the autistic spectrum instead. Since DSM-V, I think you're technically entitled to the name change. And in the UK people don't use the word "ass" like they use it in the US. Always seemed to me like a silly name for the said body part anyway.

Wouldn't say proud but I like every aspect of myself, the phobias, quirks and obsessions. It all makes me an individual.

The man in question was Austrian. The correct pronunciation of his name does not begin sounding like "Ass" nor end sounding like "hamburgers". It is the Americans that keep mispronouncing his name in a juvenile way and using the mispronunciation to bully Autistics. He did not come up with the name "Aspergers Syndrome". He called it "Autistic psychopathy". Other people later came up with the "Aspergers Syndrome" most notably British Psychologist Lorna Wing, but she named it correctly and had no idea Americans would mispronounce the name. As for Hans Asperger he had the decency to be saving Autistics from the Nazi eugenics campaign.

If hypothetically, the correct pronunciation of his name was "sh***y Assburgers" the case for naming a syndrome after him would still be much much much much much more stronger then the case for dissing him based on the embarrassing name.

...Yeah . I guess .

I am just glad my eccentricities have a name, now, and it's Asperger syndrome. Glad I;ve gotten through..

...Yeah , but how is that British-ism of " arse " pronounced in the U.K. ? Could you somehow phoenetically spell it out , please ?







te="ToughDiamond"]Just say you're on the autistic spectrum instead. Since DSM-V, I think you're technically entitled to the name change. And in the UK people don't use the word "ass" like they use it in the US. Always seemed to me like a silly name for the said body part anyway.[/quote]

I'm not sure that a North American would find it easy to pronounce. The "a" part of the word is pronounced like the same vowel in the word "car" would be pronounced in England, but Americans typically also pronounce the "r" in that word, and in pretty much every instance of a word that has that long "a" vowel, while the English don't. If you can imagine pronouncing the long "a" of "car" as you normally do, but without following it with the "r," and then proceeding straight to the "s," (which is pronounced as in "miss") that would be it I think. The "e" is silent. I've no idea how it would be spelled in phonetic language, as I've never fathomed such a system.

There's an audio pronunciation of it here:
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/arse
but it's not the proper UK one, it sounds like the American pronunciation would be, but of course Americans don't normally use the word.

And not everyone in the UK would say "arse". I say "ass", and say "grass" not "grarse". It's a regional thing.

I'd rather say I'm proud of my "ability to view things in an unconventional manner".
Having Asperger's itself isn't something I would brag about.
But I guess if you ignore the downsides, it's pretty damn nice to have.