Best or funniest Euphemism for Aspergers/PDD-NOS?

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29 Jan 2010, 7:56 pm

I have been toying with my own preferred euphemism for my 'somewhere between aspergers and PDD-NOS' diagnosis for a while and have settled on 'exciting brain wiring'. So, who out there has a pet name or euphemism for their own or others' condition?

Rejected euphemisms:

Brain cloud
The mind-staggers
Acute Social Wonkiness Disorder
[Removed - M.]

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29 Jan 2010, 8:55 pm

Well, my dad once said, when I asked him what I was like when I was little, that I had "PITAS"...

...Pain In The A** Syndrome!

(Mum was not amused! I thought it was pretty funny, though.)

Oh, and we can't forget "Sheldon-y"!

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29 Jan 2010, 8:59 pm

The Vines said it best - "Dead in the brain".

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29 Jan 2010, 9:04 pm

pensieve wrote:

The Vines said it best - "Dead in the brain".

Nah, can't say I like that one much. We're not brain-dead by any means - in fact, sometimes I feel more mentally alive than some people I've met!

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29 Jan 2010, 9:07 pm

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Hey ShiwanKhan... my Mum was Northern Irish, my Dad is Southern, and for years I used the fact I was a foriegner in this country (I'm in England) to cover some of my differences as cultural rather than brainwiring.

My least favourite euphimism is "brainbox." At a previous job someone said to me, "I suppose you think you're cleverer than the rest of us," and I made the mistake of responding, "well, yes, obviously." I didn't mean it in a pejorative sense... I really was cleverer than the folks I was working with! But for the next year I had comments of "brainbox" when I did something "aspie"... Never mind. :roll:

By the way... when I hear about Seattle, I assume it's a haven for aspies. My favourite fictional aspie is from Seattle... Niles Crane.

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29 Jan 2010, 9:09 pm

pensieve wrote:

The Vines said it best - "Dead in the brain".

That's not an aspie trait, surely?

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29 Jan 2010, 9:18 pm

mgran wrote:

By the way... when I hear about Seattle, I assume it's a haven for aspies. My favourite fictional aspie is from Seattle... Niles Crane.

Ah, I've heard all about Silicon Valley... What is it, something like 40% of the population in some parts? Still a minority, but not by much...

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29 Jan 2010, 9:31 pm

I went to Oxford... I feel like that Jonie Michell song... I didn't know what I had till it was gone. I'd say maybe ten percent there.

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30 Jan 2010, 3:37 am

Aietra wrote:

mgran wrote:

By the way... when I hear about Seattle, I assume it's a haven for aspies. My favourite fictional aspie is from Seattle... Niles Crane.

Ah, I've heard all about Silicon Valley... What is it, something like 40% of the population in some parts? Still a minority, but not by much...

Silicon Valley is near San Francisco, California (I believe.) Washington state is the home for Microsoft, so I can see why one might think Silicon Valley is there. Is Redmond, Washington near Seattle? I don't know.

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30 Jan 2010, 3:43 am

pensieve wrote:

The Vines said it best - "Dead in the brain".

I don't know the song, but I know Craig Nicholls, (spell?) their lead singer, is DX'd AS. Maybe he was using self deprecating humor?

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30 Jan 2010, 3:48 am

How about Neuro-Atypical?

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30 Jan 2010, 8:56 am

Here are some of my personal favourites:
Engineers disease
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30 Jan 2010, 10:54 am

I always liked CAVU, an aeronautical term meaning Ceiling And Visibility Unlimited. Cloudless skys. Perfect flying weather.

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30 Jan 2010, 11:15 am

Erratic Life Volume Syndrome.

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31 Jan 2010, 8:07 am

ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disaster!

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31 Jan 2010, 2:24 pm

Well, I dunno about Aspies, but I generally think of the people around me who go about their daily lives never giving a thought to their actions and expecting everyone to act like they do as "the boring people".

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