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Well I have aspergers and people call me an aspie. What do you call people who have more serious problems on the spectrum? Aussies? People will think I'm talking about Australians.

Most here, including myself, call them "auties".

Oh okay thanks

I've also heard the term "Autist", not exactly sure what it refers to.

Everyone just calls me an as*hole.

I don't think it refers to anything different from Autie, but Autist brings a picture to my mind of a slight difference between the two. I think of Auties as just "having" Autism, and Autists as "practicing" Autism, kind of the way Artists practice art.

That's just in my own mind, but it kind of fits. An "Autie" might be someone who just plain "has" Autism, but an "Autist" might be someone who has it, is proud of it, doesn't plan to change at all, wears the label with pride, and may even promote Autism as a better existence than being non-Autistic. Or they might just be comfortable with Autism, and live with it as if it were normal, but have a kind of "to each his own" attitude about it.

Don't know if anyone else thinks of it like that though.

Call me anything you want except late for supper.

My pet peeve, again. Sorry. I would be called "PDD-NOS"-y. Ugly as it is.

(and unfair)


I think "Autie" is just right, "Aussie" is someone from Australia.

In Hungary "Autist" (autista) is simply referring to a person who has classic autism.

I hereby give you permission to refer to yourself as an aspie.

All right, thanks then!

I used to call myself an Aspie but this presents complications. I have never been officially diagnosed as having "Asperger's Syndrome," and fifteen years ago I was diagnosed as having low functioning autism. So I'm rather confused, as the low functioning autism diagnosis is now almost completely invalid. If people ask, I say I have High Functioning Autism, but I like "Autist" or "Autie" as a pet name.

People call me sweetie and darling.

I actually like the term "Aspie" although no-body calls me it because very few know I have AS

I was lurking on a childfree forum and came across two terms, autard and awtard and they both mean someone who is diagnosed with autism and doesn't even have it. I honestly found those terms funny but I know lot of people here would fine those offensive because of the tard part.

I call myself an aspie. I have also heard of the term autie meaning someone who is diagnosed with autism than AS.

I find them bothersome because people tend to assume they can tell whether someone is not on the spectrum, and like to claim that parents just use diagnoses as an excuse for not controlling their children.

... I'm not a fan of the more militant childfree fora. Which is why I avoid them. Even though I am sort of childfree myself.

That is exactly what they said but I do think some parents use the diagnoses as an excuse so they do their kids a disservice. I did read one post on facebook they linked there from their forum and it was about an 18 year old who has a brother with a "very mild form" of autism and he wanted him to stay in his room so he follow him around their house and break stuff and do other s**t and from the sounds of it, his parents let that happen and they say it's the autism. If I did that in my teens, my parents would kick my ass for it by not letting me treat my brothers that way. I also wanted them to stay upstairs and I wouldn't go back in my own area until they went back to their own area and yeah my parents would yell at me for it and they sure didn't let me do crap to my brothers like these parents let their mild aspie do to his brother. It just made me so mad and that was one of the few times I actually agreed with them. My parents would tell me it's my brothers house too and they have a right to their lives and to their friends and freedom and they didn't give crap about my anxiety and AS. I am glad they didn't because it taught me autism isn't a free pass to getting your way and you need to learn to adapt and deal with things. I call that tough love they gave me.