Is "Aspie" a weird word for you?

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I'm still not used to the way the word "Aspie" sounds as it does not roll off the tongue very easily and it just sounds very weird in my head.

Assuming it didn't already have a meaning and I didn't know the word if someone said the word "aspie" I would think they were talking about something to do with snakes or snake venom. Assuming someone used it in the right context I think I'd get it right away (which is actually what happened in a way), but otherwise I'd be thinking of snakes. It also sounds a bit "cutesy" to me. Despite that it's a likable enough word and I guess I'll get used to it but I'm just wondering if anyone else finds it to be a weird word or if maybe there is a word they like better.

Actually I kind of take issue with "aspie" because it has this popular slang "asspie" derived from it. And yea even without that, it sounds kind of weird.
I have this habit of calling it "v2" instead when talking to my friend. That's because I once referred to asperger's as being a sort of alternate version of the mind rather than a disorder, and so he began to talk about it as v1 minds and v2 minds lol.

I don't like the sound of the word either. I always just say "person with AS" or something along those lines.

I prefer to refer to non-autistic people as "normals", and everyone else as just people.

Wow...I once heard someone accidentally mispronounce it as that. I had no idea people did it on purpose.

The joke I HAVE heard a lot is "Ass Burger." Strangely enough that never occurred to me when I was a kid...my first thought at hearing the word was that it sounded like "asparagus" so that was the joke I always made.

Version 2 of the mind! lol I like it.



I do that sometimes but it can sound awkward, which is maybe part of the motivation in asking.



I prefer not to see aspergers as something alien so if I say people I usually mean everyone and include aspergers and autism with it (for brevitys sake sometimes).

The definition of "Ass Burger" to me is completely ridiculous, like someone would lie or want the symptoms of aspergers.

Sorry for the tangent / going off topic, just had to say that

It's certainly a word I wouldn't want to have to say out loud very much. It's certainly easier to say than a$$ burgers, but still.

For me it does, a little because of the 'cutesie' thing like you said. And because it rhymes with 'raspy', and that is a harsh, hard edgy word that is like a saw blade or metal file in my mind.

I don't mind the word. I prefer to say Aspie or Aspergers over AS because AS is more commonly referred to Ankylosing spondylitis in the medical field and I don't have Ankylosing spondylitis.

Yes, I wondered when I first saw someone say "AS"

Well , abbreviations are useful but since the DSM has now changed it to Autism Spectrum Disorder I like to say ASDer. I didn't like the sound of Asperger's when I was first diagnosed with it because it sounded far too much like ass burgers to my 13 year old brain but I got used to it in time.

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I don't particularly mind the word in principle, but it does sound kinda weird to me. There is something almost childish sounding about the word, like one of those silly things that young kids say in the playground. Personally I don't use the word because I feel daft using it, I either say I have Aspergers, or just say I'm autistic.

That's similar to the pronounciation of a supermarket chain here called ASDA (owned by the american walmart).

Once somebody told me the "Ass Burger" joke and I took it literally and thought maybe it was a tasting issue in people with the disorder. I did not put the two together until like..... an hour or 2 later LOL Oh gosh I can not believe I did that.

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The word doesn't bother me (Though I don't really use it except on the internet) but reminds me of asprin lol