have you ever got a strange nickname because of your AS?

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I have, at high school my thumb was almost allways in my mouth, even when talking to people!
one time in class i tryed to say "angry" but wile sucking my thumb it came out as "angy" from that moment on people started calling me ang or sometimes angus.
In my last job i had a tendancy to talk over people with useless trivia, witch earned me the nickname bob, after spongebob squarepants, because they said i was like a sponge of information soaking in some very wierd information.
Has anyone else earned a nickname like this?

Only one I can think of is assburgler.

Tippy-toes?

The Walking Encyclopedia

'Noisy'
Because I was super quiet

I had nicknames, but as far as I know, none of them were related to AS. "Fro" (because I have big curly hair), and later "Screech."

Can't say that I have.

Casper was my nickname in late-primary and high school, but that was due to my lack of melanin. There was another one too, for the same reason, after another fictional character who was very pale in a movie. I got it, "Powder".

I think these were all meant to be derisive to begin with, but they were used often enough that they stuck.

I have had a few, most of them were not nice. I would rather not say what they were.

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Diagnosed under the DSM5 rules with autism spectrum disorder, under DSM4 psychologist said would have been AS (299.80) but I suspect that I am somewhere between 299.80 and 299.00 (Autism) under DSM4.

I was known as "Horsey" in middle school, during my decade long obsession with horses. I even signed all my school paperwork Horsey, rather than with my given name.

beaver I spoke really slow and my front two teeth ere fairly large I hated it

No, I'm the boring one that gets called by a shortened version of my actual name. From strangers I always got weirdo, freak, wannabe, many unprintable epithets- but sadly nothing memorable or witty.

One friend nicknamed me Bat for like 5 seconds. (She used it a grand total of once.) Since I'm nocturnal and 'batty' as a corollary of AS does that count at all? She isn't aware of my AS.

My dad used to call me a human calculator. I've also had a guy I know say that he was using me as a human dictionary. Despite my reputation as a human encyclopedia, I've never been called that.

There is a guy who works at Job Corps who calls me "No Touch." ...He's not very creative.

I have had many. In high school, I was called professor, Q-tip (I had a big afro), freak, spaz, clone, WIld Bill, etc. In the working world, I've been called Rain Man, serial killer, etc.

I got the nickname 'Aspiechu'. The name came about because Pikachu is my favorite pokemon and, well, I'm an aspie. So my friend, Felix, combined them into one word and now calls me by it.