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SaveFerris
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22 Aug 2017, 6:01 pm

This is how I would pronounce it



This just sounds really weird to me like Asper John


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22 Aug 2017, 7:17 pm

Yeah. "Asper John" can not be right.

with a hard G: Asper GEE-an .

With a soft G:

Asper- Jee-an .

Or..possibly... like "Georgian"- it would be "asper-jen"



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22 Aug 2017, 7:40 pm

The NT population probably believes what they see and hear in the media - newspapers, television, charity press releases that sensationalise the "disaster" of autism. If this is a correct surmise, then change can only occur if ASD people take control of the narrative.



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22 Aug 2017, 8:45 pm

naturalplastic wrote:
Someone above said "aloof, loners". Add "sometimes wierdos" and that's pretty much it.

But I doubt that even today many NT's "would recognize that you are an aspie" because very few NTs have any notion of what Aspergers, or what the autism spectrum is.

And back in the 20th Century, when I grew up, aspergers and the concept of an "autism spectrum" didn't even exist in the medical profession. So back then even a shrink who was working on you would never class an aspie as an aspie, much less a lay person NT who was a classmate, or coworker. An aspie or HFA person would be recognized as different, and or weird, but no one would "out" you (even in the privacy of their mind) as being aspie, or HFA. Because the category didn't exist.

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when i was 22, a 50 year old cisgender (presumably NT), skinny, academically smart, handsome civil engineer had the nerve to tell me "you don't care about anyone except yourself!". that was before i disclosed to him. after i disclosed to him, he did not bother amending his statement.

my precious lil "mom" had the nerve to tell me that "autism means selfish".

maybe it takes more energy for an AS to consider an NT's perspective, than for an NT to consider an NT's perspective. maybe when an AS considers an NT's perspective, the AS gets it wrong more often than when NTs consider other NT's perspective. maybe when AS gets it wrong, the punishment is sometimes disproportionate to the perceived offense. maybe the rewards of when AS correctly consider NTs perspective are minimal and sometimes nothing.

maybe not many NTs know about autism. they have misconceptions.

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when i was 21, a 61 year old classmate in Structural Engineering had the nerve to tell me that he read an article about AS and diagnosed himself with it. then he saw me and diagnosed me with it. six months prior to that a psychologist diagnosed me.

thus far nobody has ever asked if i was AS or used :roll: autistic :mrgreen: as an insult. they do not know enough about AS to use it as an insult.

at least two separate precious lil "people" had the nerve to tell me "you're not autistic." it's like :skull: wtf? :nerdy:

i went to all that trouble to get diagnosed.

and they act like they expected to be able to abolish/eliminate/delete the diagnosis, with the magical words "you're not autistic"?

ok if that ain't arrogant, then i don't know what is arrogant.


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