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Should we drop calling ourselves Aspies and switch to Autie?
Poll ended at 11 May 2013, 5:52 am
Stay with Aspie. 61%  61%  [ 28 ]
Switch to Autie. 13%  13%  [ 6 ]
I don't like either one of those terms. 26%  26%  [ 12 ]
Total votes : 46

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06 May 2013, 1:16 pm

I kind of like Aspie, really, but whatever. If it's Autie then I'll run with that. (Sounds like Gene Autry, doesn't it?)


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06 May 2013, 2:44 pm

briankelley wrote:
I personally feel in the particular situation of communicating here on WP, labels help us understand our difficulties better. There are many here, who like me, have difficulties in other areas than socialization.


In my experence on WP, Labels get in the way. Every other day (it seems) there's the ever popular "HFA vs. AS" debate.


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06 May 2013, 3:33 pm

AgentPalpatine wrote:
briankelley wrote:
I personally feel in the particular situation of communicating here on WP, labels help us understand our difficulties better. There are many here, who like me, have difficulties in other areas than socialization.


In my experence on WP, Labels get in the way. Every other day (it seems) there's the ever popular "HFA vs. AS" debate.

Not to mention PDD-NOS vs. everything else on the spectrum. Technically speaking, I'm not an Aspie so I don't mind what will happen with it. Maybe it would have been a better choice to keep Asperger's as an umbrella term for the higher-functioning, verbally more-abled folks, in accordance with the public-meaning of the term.

I believe "Autie" stands for the more autistic, less-abled folks.



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06 May 2013, 3:39 pm

People can use whatever they want to use.

I will continue to use "autistic."



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06 May 2013, 3:59 pm

It's just a change of jargon in medical literature. People will still continue to use the term "Aspergers" and related phrases. Personally, I prefer the word "autistic" to "aspie", but it really doesn't matter in the large scale so long as common definitions are agreed upon.