How do you feel about the term "Aspie"?

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For some reason it bothers me. I don't think it's offensive it just hits my ear wrong. Seems a lot of people have no problem with it.

Hmm, I guess the -ie comes off as a bit cutesy. Not really bothered though but I never pronounce it aspie by mouth, I'll just say aspergers or autisms.

It depends on whom is using it and in what context. Unfortunately, most people I encounter use negative connotations or confuse aspie with MR/ID and it really does bother me. I become embarrassed and shutdown on talking to others about it.

I hate it. people make fun of it and call me ass pie. I hate the name Asperger's syndrome. It needs to be called something else. Why can't it just be called Autism or High Functioning Autism ?

Compared to what?

"Person with aspergers"?

"aspergian"?

Both longwinded, clumsy, and generally, yucky.

Compared to those two options "aspie" is great.

You may still object to any term derived from "aspergers" because you dont even like "aspergers" itself.
Thats another, and more thorny issue.

It would have been nice if the guy who discovered the condition were named "Albert Anastasia"(the notorious mobster who got gunned down in a barber shop in the Fifties), or "Leonardo DiCaprio". But unfortunately he was an Austrian with a clunky German language name.

It would be cool to be a "Anastasian", or "DiCaprian". But Dr. Asperger is the guy we are stuck with.

Parents like the term "aspergers" because its an autism spectrum diagnosis that doesnt have the word "autism" in the label. But apparently some children with the condition become adults who dont like it because of bad memories of the kids in the playground make all of those "ass burger", and "ass pie" taunts, and actually prefer "high functioning autism".

I am boomer who never heard of the condition until late in life, and was only dx a few years ago. So to me the label is like a suit of clothes that I can put on, and take off at will. So I can put it on for the positive aspects, and ignore the negative. That maybe part of why it has no bad associations for me, and only neutral-to-positive associations.

I don't like NT. Makes me think of that movie "ET".

Well I never use it. I never use Asperger with normal people either. However I use it a lot when talking to doctors.
Whenever I use Aspergers in public the person I'm talking to will always yell at me and say "You don't have aspergers, my fifth cousin's son back in country X's wife's daughter's son's uncle's nephew has it and they are completely disabled! How could you say that!?" Then they get more aggressive. I don't want to get beyond this point.

I have a hard time knowing what to write when describing autism or someone with autism here , when I joined I used ASD as thats what most of the literature I read described it as. Then someone here told me they didn't like that term because of the disorder tag so most of the time I usually use whatever term is used the post before me or the term in the title. No matter what term is used someone will find a jokey way of using it , no term really bothers me but if I have a preference it's "being on the spectrum". But if we are voting on a new term DiCaprian gets my vote

I'm an autie. When everybody says aspie here, I feel left out

not really

I dont mind it at all however peoples false perceptions about it do bother me!

I think it's an okay term.

I'm not "really" an Aspie, though LOL

I am, technically, a classically autistic person.

I actually prefer the term "aspie." It does have a bit of a cutesy sound to it, which may be why I prefer it more. Hehe
But that's just me.