Aspies tend to love fried chicken

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Mmmm... fried chicken with hot sauce sounds really good right now.

I think whether it's the N word, or the "R" word (meaning the opposite of "advanced"), or any other word, the part that most matters is the attitude behind it. If you called somebody any word out of meanness, or referred to any group by any word disparagingly, it's rude and/or unacceptable. But if two people on a level playing field call eachother any word, it might be in bad taste, but it's not necessarily hateful.

Case in point: If someone refers to me as a bastard, but they don't know that my parents weren't married, it's not the same as if it were someone who said that to use it as a toll to hurt because they know I'm a son of a single woman.

If Black people use the N word in fun when referring to each other, although I don't like that word due to it's historic usage. it's not as bad as if a non-Black person uses it to insult or convey nastiness.

Charles, Official, genuine Aspie Bastard who is also a Mick.

I think the difference between a word like 'aspie' and a word like 'n-----' or 'r-----' is its origin. The two later words (the N one especially) were created by others with the purpose of being derogatory... they are fighting words. I don't think 'aspie' was created with that sort of intent behind it, it is more of a shorthand that was created just to shorten a longer term. 'Aspie' doesn't really have the negative/derogatory connotation to it that N and R do. There is always the risk that 'aspie' could become a derogatory term though.

I get VERY offended if an NT calls me "aspie" but it dosen't bother me if another autistic person does.

I don't mind being called Aspie. It's just a quick way of saying ''someone with AS''. I'd rather be called Aspie than be called ''not a human'' or ''alien''. Personally, I find that more offensive, since I consider myself as ''a person with a disability''. That's what all the doctors, teachers and my parents considered it as when I was growing up, so I've adapted to it like that.

I think it's offensive if blonde people get called ''blondies'' and ginger-haired people get called ''ginger-minger''. I mean, what is all that in aid of? Some other stupid immature social rule that everybody's got to follow otherwise they're ''wierd''? Everybody's got to have black or brown hair, or dye their hair even if it doesn't suit them? That is offensive against nature.

Sorry, nothing to do with what anyone's mentioned here. Just had to spit that out.

I love fried chicken. It's so bad for you, but it tastes so damn good.

I think the comparison to a racial slur was irrelevant.

I don't like to call myself an "Aspie" although I seem to be called one on occasion. I don't really even identify with this whole idea of "Asperger's" as an identity, however.

When I read this thread, I was in fact eating fried chicken.

I don't like fried chicken.

Well, labels are just labels. 'Aspie' is just a convenient short way of saying 'person with Aspergers Syndrome' which is horribly clunky and unwieldy. 'Aspie' could be used as an insult, but it's not *usually* used in a derogatory way, and it's better than having no word at all. But now you've made me hungry dammit