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even though it is in some ways useful to have a pedigreed scientific designation like "Asperger's Syndrome"--i just don't like the sound of it.

the sounds of words are important to me. i would prefer to substitute the words opsablepsia & opsablepsian (or opsablepsiast). (By synecdoche.)

it's a lot of syllables, i know, but they are beautiful syllables.

m.

I don't care for the sound of ASS BURGERS, either, and I cannot understand the insistence on adding a superfluous S to the end of a word that already ends with an S, it seems stupid and unwieldy and only adds to the ASS BURGERS sound, so I never use it. Of course, if you're saying it correctly, it should sound as Ahz-pair-gur Syndrome anyway, but few ever pronounce it properly.

That said, I don't really find your proposed syllables any better. I'm glad they sound nice to you, but they sound liquid and gurgly to me, like something made up by a preschooler. Even if they have some scientific meaning (and I don't see it if they do), I think you'll have a hard time getting the entirety of Scientific Academia and the Autistic Community to switch at this point. If they merge AS and HFA in the DSM, it'll become a moot point anyway, but I doubt the term Asperger Syndrome is likely to fall completely out of use in any case.

But good luck with that.

My partner affectionatelly coined the term "Asparagus". I can make good wordplay with that and I like the way it sounds

Call it whatever you like dear one.......whatever sounds good to you.

Mics

the Vulcan word is "saktra" & its opposite is "nirsh-saktra".

Around my house, we are still joking about 'autistic psychopath'...what fun. Glad that name didn't stick.