Is "Aspergers" Said with a Hard G or a Soft G?

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I prefer to say Asperger's when describing myself rather than autism. I feel that mainstream preconceptions about what it means to have Asperger's are closer to accurate in describing me than the preconceptions associated with autism. I don't think I'm "better" than non-Aspie spectrumites, but I'd prefer to deal with as few inaccurate preconceptions as possible, and since autism as a diagnosis has a lot of variety in how it affects people, and how pervasive it is in their lives, I feel that telling people I have Asperger's hones in more on what I deal with, and to some extent negates or minimises the need to further question how autism affects me.

I believe many of us with Asperger's, even the ones with asp urges would support ass purges.
imma scruffy faced nerfherder and I've gotta sh***y hand from ass burgers.

An "asp urge"?

The urge to....emulate Cleopatra, and to stuff an asp down your jockstrap (if you're a guy)?

Or an "asp urge" could be the urge to leave a staid Episcopalian church congregation, and to join a mountain Pentecostal church, so you can participate in "snake handling".

To be honest, church snake handling never crossed my mind, which was more In the dumpster, or the snake pit.

It's obviously pronounced ass-per-girls. <just kidding>

I don't have that kind of problem because my mother language has mostly the same pronunciation as German. I don't think we even have anything like "soft g". And we don't generally mistake p for b so no burgers come out of the ass.

We don't have any common words that sound like Aspergers either and ones that do are pretty rare. For example "aspergiloza" - a rare disease similar to pneumonia. "Zespół Aspergera" is more confusing because Zespół could mean both "Syndrome" and "a Band".

Aspergiloza is Aspergillosis, a disease caused by fungi genus Aspergillus (kropidlak in Polish), named after holy water sprinkler.

So, almost everything leads back to sprinkling holy water.

Ah, that's something quite different then.

But it conjures up an idea that the viruses are in the holy water... Like cholera in dirty water!

The microbe looked like the holy sprinkling vessel to the guy who discovered the fungus when he (the 18th Century priest) first saw it under the microscope.

The expression "to cast aspersions" (to say bad, and slanderous things about someone) also comes from the same Latin root of "aspere" as the soft G "Asperger" (one who sprinkles holy water).