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What about asspies?

Anyway, lol I remember in another flamewar with another autistic guy who was against Autistic Rights/Pride/etc calling him an 'ass burger'. The other forum members were little b*****s, I responded as saying 'I don't care; this is flamewar'

I saw a T-shirt with an "Assburger" character drawn on it. The business person selling it was himself someone with Asperger's Syndrome so I don't see it as very much of a big deal.

Charles and John Wesley developed a system of worship, and those detracting and disparaging them called them the Methodists. they embraced the name. The Religious Society of Friends were called 'Quakers' because they "quaked at the name of the Lord' and they embraced it in all humbleness. in 100 years they might call us The Majority, we don't know!

Merle

(who hopes she is not here in 100 years, thank you very much!)

I guess Lorna Wing was British. I don't think she thought about what it might sound like in American. So no, it was not because she thought it was funny (she herself had an autistic daughter). She chose the name in honour of Hans Asperger's work that she discovered (it wasn't herself who was the first to describe the condition, therefore not Wing's Syndrome).

I'm becoming more and more grateful to live in a country where the term Asperger doesn't come out as something bad like in the US...

After all, would it be preferable if Lorna Wing had chosen to keep on calling it Autistic Psychopathy, like Hans Asperger did?! (Psychopathy isn't what it has been, you know...) That would sound bad in every language....... I'm glad she didn't.
(But people might not bully us, but get scared and run away screaming!)