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Should the name of this website be changed?
Poll ended at 24 May 2019, 12:14 pm
Yes 5%  5%  [ 3 ]
No 95%  95%  [ 53 ]
Total votes : 56

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14 May 2019, 7:38 pm

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I don't like the name of this site. I am a human just like the next person, having ASD doesn't make me any less human. In my opinion, calling Aspies/autistics "aliens" is like calling deformed people "freaks". And in this over-the-top politically correct world we live in today, you'd have thought more people would be offended by the name of this site.

It should be named something like, I don't know, like "autism village" or something. That was just the first thing that came into my head when writing this post.

I like "Autism Village" better than the names I came up with.

The irony has not escaped me that I am often the one arguing in PPR against political correctness and here I am starting a thread because I'm offended, I feel so SJW (LOL).


How about, "Land of perfection"?
Or "Argangia"?


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14 May 2019, 7:40 pm

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I like "Autism Village" better than the names I came up with...

Welcome to The Village...

... Number Six!


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14 May 2019, 7:44 pm

I don't like "autism village" because it seems exclusionary to me. We'd be doing the same things the NT's are doing----separating ourselves from NT's while the NT's are separating themselves from the autistic people.



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14 May 2019, 7:50 pm

ASPartOfMe wrote:
The main argument for changing the name is that the alien analogy is dehumanizing. The main argument for keeping the name "wrong planet" is that it is a great analogy for the autistic experience in the neurotypical world.

5 years ago I started a thread proposing the name be changed. At the time my idea was overwhelmingly and passionately rejected. Except for a brief mention or two I have mostly stayed away from the topic since. Membership has turned over and I have had it in the back of my mind to pose this question again out of curiosity to see if the consensus has changed. The ongoing thread about looking at Autism optimisticly inspired me to finally act.

While not a poll question feel free to propose an alternate name.


The polls aren't looking good for you. :mrgreen:

I luv the name, and if you manage to get support to change it, you will make me cry.

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I don’t think that the alien analogy makes us seem inferior, just different.

<snip>

There may be undiscovered, superior life forms out there.


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In the words of Sheldon Lee Cooper: We are an evolutionary advancement, "Homo Novus" if you will. :mrgreen:



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14 May 2019, 8:17 pm

Joe90 wrote:
It should be named something like, I don't know, like "autism village" or something.


How about: "Village of the damned"? 8O

""These, beautiful youngsters behind whose firey and hypnotic eyes lurked the demon forces of another world. They are not human, they ought to be destroyed!" <EEK!>


https://youtu.be/-AUBlW5EWnI



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14 May 2019, 8:27 pm

I too love the name. I was aware I was different than those around me when I was a child and to the point that I literally constructed an alternative history for myself. I was convinced that I WAS an alien from a different planet. It was the only logical explanation as a child: "I must be from a different planet." I named the planet, my creator and an alien name for myself and insisted I be called that name to which my classmates agreed to; and for years they thought nothing of calling me that. I created a rudimentary alien language.

Now, the closest analogy I have is feeling like a non-native person living in a foreign land and learning the language as a second language. I know that I will feel this way in varying degrees as long as I live. I've made peace with it long ago.



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14 May 2019, 8:50 pm

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I too love the name. I was aware I was different than those around me when I was a child and to the point that I literally constructed an alternative history for myself. I was convinced that I WAS an alien from a different planet. It was the only logical explanation as a child: "I must be from a different planet." I named the planet, my creator and an alien name for myself and insisted I be called that name to which my classmates agreed to; and for years they thought nothing of calling me that. I created a rudimentary alien language.

Now, the closest analogy I have is feeling like a non-native person living in a foreign land and learning the language as a second language. I know that I will feel this way in varying degrees as long as I live. I've made peace with it long ago.


By any chance was it "Planet dino" filled with dinosaurs and weird plants like the one that grew meat, and you came to earth on a meteorite space ship to experience life as different creatures before getting to claim the thrown, meanwhile a noble family is plotting to kill your real dinosaur entire family?

Because I was convinced of this until like 6th or 7th grade from before preschool.

Also the location of the planet was directly up from earth. I could probably still point out it's star.


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14 May 2019, 8:58 pm

Arganger wrote:
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I too love the name. I was aware I was different than those around me when I was a child and to the point that I literally constructed an alternative history for myself. I was convinced that I WAS an alien from a different planet. It was the only logical explanation as a child: "I must be from a different planet." I named the planet, my creator and an alien name for myself and insisted I be called that name to which my classmates agreed to; and for years they thought nothing of calling me that. I created a rudimentary alien language.

Now, the closest analogy I have is feeling like a non-native person living in a foreign land and learning the language as a second language. I know that I will feel this way in varying degrees as long as I live. I've made peace with it long ago.


By any chance was it "Planet dino" filled with dinosaurs and weird plants like the one that grew meat, and you came to earth on a meteorite space ship to experience life as different creatures before getting to claim the thrown, meanwhile a noble family is plotting to kill your real dinosaur entire family?

Because I was convinced of this until like 6th or 7th grade from before preschool.

Also the location of the planet was directly up from earth. I could probably still point out it's star.


No. It was in a different galaxy. My creator was the leader of the planet. I wasn't born, I was formed from his vomit. My biological parents weren't my real parents, they were surrogates.

Your planet sounds cool.



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14 May 2019, 9:11 pm

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All I feel needs to be changed is a lot of the mentions of aspergers because that is so outdated now.

I would prefer that the term Aspergers remain alive because when you say "So-and-so has autism", that could mean that they fall anywhere on the spectrum, and I would prefer people not be given the perception that I am low-functioning. "So-and-so has Aspergers" makes it very clear approximately where the individual falls on the spectrum.



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14 May 2019, 9:14 pm

Magna wrote:
Arganger wrote:
Magna wrote:
I too love the name. I was aware I was different than those around me when I was a child and to the point that I literally constructed an alternative history for myself. I was convinced that I WAS an alien from a different planet. It was the only logical explanation as a child: "I must be from a different planet." I named the planet, my creator and an alien name for myself and insisted I be called that name to which my classmates agreed to; and for years they thought nothing of calling me that. I created a rudimentary alien language.

Now, the closest analogy I have is feeling like a non-native person living in a foreign land and learning the language as a second language. I know that I will feel this way in varying degrees as long as I live. I've made peace with it long ago.


By any chance was it "Planet dino" filled with dinosaurs and weird plants like the one that grew meat, and you came to earth on a meteorite space ship to experience life as different creatures before getting to claim the thrown, meanwhile a noble family is plotting to kill your real dinosaur entire family?

Because I was convinced of this until like 6th or 7th grade from before preschool.

Also the location of the planet was directly up from earth. I could probably still point out it's star.


No. It was in a different galaxy. My creator was the leader of the planet. I wasn't born, I was formed from his vomit. My biological parents weren't my real parents, they were surrogates.

Your planet sounds cool.


Yours too, maybe they will form an alliance sometime


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14 May 2019, 9:15 pm

mebbe it should be changed to "right planet" [i.e., the outer planet is the wrong planet but our cool little club is akin to the "right" planet]. or mebbe "left planet" ?



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14 May 2019, 9:16 pm

i also like the term "aspie" as it is smiley and happy-sounding to me. :flower:



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14 May 2019, 9:18 pm

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i also like the term "aspie" as it is smiley and happy-sounding to me. :flower:


When I first heard the word aspergers as a kid, my first thought was ass burgers


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14 May 2019, 9:37 pm

Arganger wrote:
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i also like the term "aspie" as it is smiley and happy-sounding to me. :flower:


When I first heard the word aspergers as a kid, my first thought was ass burgers

due to the american accented english, i imagine in england this was not as common.



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14 May 2019, 9:40 pm

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i also like the term "aspie" as it is smiley and happy-sounding to me. :flower:


When I first heard the word aspergers as a kid, my first thought was ass burgers

Too true.

And I vote present.



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14 May 2019, 9:49 pm

I don't mind WP's current name, and I think changing it to something else would just cause confusion.


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