Starting to resent the label "Aspie?"

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21 May 2007, 9:48 pm

I wouldn't bother reading too much into the label, really. Sort of reminds me of Puff Daddy or Jennifer Lopez thinking anybody gives a crap about their nicknames or that they mean anything.

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21 May 2007, 9:58 pm

aspiebegood wrote:

Recently I have been getting more sensitive to the label "aspie," and prefer to now be called "a person living with asperger's."

I agree. And henceforth, I'd like to be known as "a person living with masculinity", and perhaps "a person living with medial chronal advancement".

I'm living with marriage to a person living with femininity, as well as a person living with African ancestry, and a person living with motherhood. There are also two people living with childhood in my house.

(Have I hit the point of reductio ad absurdum yet?)

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21 May 2007, 10:02 pm

DeaconBlues wrote:

aspiebegood wrote:

Recently I have been getting more sensitive to the label "aspie," and prefer to now be called "a person living with asperger's."

Not yet. You can go deeper.

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21 May 2007, 10:10 pm

9CatMom wrote:

I agree. The word sounds like a cute nickname for something that isn't cute to the people who have it. Even to those whose condition is relatively mild, it can be frustrating.

I agree, aspie sounds too cute like little puppies, I don't mind that though.

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21 May 2007, 10:12 pm

I want a pet Aspie.
I'd love it and play with it and take care of it.

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21 May 2007, 10:21 pm

That would be nice. where can I get one?

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21 May 2007, 10:39 pm

Aspies are cute, intelligent, and easily trained - so long as you explain the rules to them.

I am my own pet!

I am also a person living with exess tallth.

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21 May 2007, 10:43 pm

This reminds me of another peeve, pronouncing "asperger's" with "ger's" instead of "jer's" or going all lazy with the "p" sound. For my taste, I like the "asper" to sound more like one syllable than two. But then I am just an ordinary person living with OCD alongside other just ordinary persons living with various patience limitation conditions associated with enduring OCD issues arising from such ordinary persons as would be living with any such offending OCD issues.

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21 May 2007, 11:52 pm

I don't like "Aspie" just because it SOUNDS like an insult. I don't know why, but I hate the word.

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22 May 2007, 12:10 am

greenblue wrote:

That would be nice. where can I get one?

You can get one, here. :heart:

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22 May 2007, 1:05 am

Apsie sounds so.... Cutesie... Cutesie annoys me.. but I've accepted the terminology.

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22 May 2007, 1:10 am

As above.... don't think I'd use the word Aspie in day to day life

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22 May 2007, 1:22 am

aspiebegood wrote:

This reminds me of another peeve, pronouncing "asperger's" with "ger's" instead of "jer's"

"Asperger's" is pronounced with "ger's" and not with "jer's"...

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22 May 2007, 2:28 am

^Because it is a German word.

I first read the word "aspie" in one of Donna Williams' books.

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22 May 2007, 2:32 am

DoubleFeed wrote:

I love onion burgers and bacon cheeseburgers and garlic burgers. What could be so bad about an ass burger?

It would have 'ass' on it, like a buttocks-sandwich, propbably not a good thing. although your other burgers will also have at least some ass content. ye am thinking buttocks, could be a donkey burger i guess.

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22 May 2007, 2:33 am

People say that "aspie" isn't a real word as it isn't in the dictionary, but "asperger syndrome" isn't in the dictionary either. Hell, you're lucky if you can find a ten word defenition for autism, let alone asperger's or aspie.

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