"Autistic" or "Aspergery" used as insults?

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Just heard it used as an insult three times in less than an hour while playing online. When I called them out the response was "It's not an insult, they're literally acting autistic".

I hate this world.

I've seen "Sperg" used as well.

It's usually used if someone's getting upset over something that's perceived as not a big deal, or if someone writes a great big paragraph about, again, something inconsequential.

For some reason, people who play video games online seem to be a little nasty. I don't know if it's the anonymity of it all.

I'm glad I'm not young now!

Back when I was a kid, we used to get nasty with each other over a pinball machine.

I personally don't care if someone tries to insult me in that way. It doesn't even make any sense. How is it an insult? What exactly is acting "autistic"? Socially awkward, nerdy, obsessive? They can kiss my autistic ass, because I don't care what they think.

Exactly!

You know what? I've never heard autistic or 'Sperg or whatever used as an insult. In fact, I only learned of 'Sperg through this website.

Truthfully, I'd rather be called "autistic" than "ret*d."

The biggest issues I have with this is that these uses of the terms often occur over traits that aren't even autistic or create unrealistically negative images (or stereotypical generalisations) of the autistic population. It only serves to fuel the bad image created by ableists and organisations like Autism Speaks (if it wasn't such a disgusting habit, I'd spit after saying that name).

When more people do what the hippies did and made "freak" a badge of honor for them instead of a pejorative.Now it has gone beyond the hippies and people say "letting my freak flag fly"

Reappropriation

ASPartofMe: Ever play pinball?

Now those were the days!

A liitle bit. Too klutzy

I sucked at it, too.

But I used to spend my whole allowance on it---too much of a habit.

Best example of the bunch...

Pinball was not my thing. But I loved the early arcade games. They did not bother me. But, I could never follow the ball properly.

Arcades bothered me for the smells, lights and noise.

Autism has been used as an insult against me a few times.

"OMG, are you like, Autistic or something?"

Or

"Sheesh, that's just the kind of thing an Autistic would say."

I am just in your face enough to look at someone and say, "Yeah, I am, did you think that was funny?" I would probably do that anyway just to throw it back at someone.

I really hate that sort of thing. What's worse is it's part of that social hazing that men and women will do in one form or another and I just can't make sense of any of it. I can't decide if men or women are worse. They are very different, but can't figure the worse of the two.

That whole "40 year old virgin" in the car scene..."You know how I know you're gay?" running insults and stuff. Really bugs the crap outta me.

Ahh the ableist (I hate that word but don't know of another to describe what I want to say) slurs of my childhood! haha

I was called a "f*****g ret*d" more times than I would like to count.
My family calls me "so autistic" in a bad way, while simultaneously saying "there's nothing wrong with you god damn it just f*****g stop doing -> that!" in reference to whatever I may be doing at the time that is particularly un-NT-like.
Along with "moron" "idiot" "f*****g stupid" and the like. They share a preference for insults against mentally disabled people from the early 1900's

I would never be brave enough to throw an insult back at the person.

I always got professor, snob, stuckup.