Adjectives used by NTs to describe aspies.

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17 Aug 2007, 4:41 pm

Abrupt

Differerent

Intellectual

Unsocial

An individual

A square peg

Volatile

"The wall walker" (don't ask!)

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I've gotten weird, boring, b***h, quiet, ret*d, shy.

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17 Aug 2007, 4:57 pm

Eccentric

Different

Shy

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17 Aug 2007, 5:03 pm

My 7 year old son has been called the following by his classmates: crazy, strange, weird, smart and dinosaur boy. Other parents say their kids come home and talk about how incredibly smart he is.

My 9 year old son has been called LOUD, smart and weird.

My husband has been called loner, aloof, pedantic, doughy and intelligent.

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06 Jan 2008, 11:32 pm

I've been called:

ret*d (because I was in Special Ed and that was the "ret*d room"
Dork
Nerd
Geek
Walking Encyclopedia
Tattle-Tale
Psycho
High-Strung
Short-Fused
Anti-Social
Hermit
Spaced-Out

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06 Jan 2008, 11:47 pm

Slow -- my monotonous and paced voice; my slow and sloth-like movements
Shifty -- my lack of eye contact
Strong -- my inability to care for external pain
Stupid -- I had the lowest marks in high school out of the hundreds there

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06 Jan 2008, 11:50 pm

Sped (I changed it to SPED: Special Person Every Day)
ret*d
Idiot
Wierd

My NT brother calls me an idiot all the time.

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07 Jan 2008, 12:22 am

Dork*
Snob*
b***h*
Autistic b***h*
Clumsy b***h*
Stupid little b***h*
Stalker
Talented
Arrogant
Smart
Loyal
Unique
Eccentric
Crazy (most common of all)
Tease (because I am pretty yet dislike touching)
Otherworldly
Idiot savant*
Nun (see tease)
Self-aware
Weird*
Innocent

* All starred terms were used by the same boy over a period of three months

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07 Jan 2008, 12:32 am

dosh wrote:

What adjectives (negative, positive, or neutral) have been used by NTs when commenting on your behaviour (presuming you're an aspie!)? To start the ball rolling, I have been called in the past:

gormless !

I want to get a feel for how NTs perceive aspies.

Gormless! Now there's a word you don't hear much anymore.

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07 Jan 2008, 12:40 am

MissPickwickian wrote:

He sounds like a nut.

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07 Jan 2008, 12:45 am

merr wrote:

He sounds like a nut.

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07 Jan 2008, 12:53 am

Ah, but instead of just plain ol' "freak," I got "nervous freak".

Geek

Nerd

b***h

Dyke

Weirdo

Klutz

Hypervigilant

Obsessed

Smart

Intelligent

Wimp

Teacher's pet

Tattler

Special

Dumb

Idiot

ret*d (usually qualified with the F-word)

Sh!t

Outcast

Loner

Anti-social

Wacko

Zany

Creative

Thinking outside the box

Unique

Ingenious

Detailed

Observant

Wordy

Long-winded

Oppositional (mostly to stupid teachers)

Strange

Kind

Musical

Brave

Valorous

Patient

Calm

Odd

Annoying

Difficult

Standalone

Separate

Loving

Loyal

Thorough

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07 Jan 2008, 12:55 am

No one really called me names in school, Other than been in the geeks group, & bullys under estimating me when starting a fight & me ending up outside the head teachers office, with me been blamed as the one starting it, I had Gf's in school, no one really new about me going to special reading lessons or spelling either:-

Can tell you how my tutor describes me,

polite,
Intellegent,
shy,
Keeps to himself,
quiet.

Worse person really was my German Teacher...

What people say now is

your weird

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07 Jan 2008, 12:56 am

I have autism. I'm usually called:
a loser
shy
slow
stupid
dull
boring

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07 Jan 2008, 1:08 am

zendell wrote:

I have autism. I'm usually called:
a loser
shy
slow
stupid
dull
boring

Argh, forgot loser and boring . . .

My mother has a theory about the world (or so she says). She thinks the world is divided up into two types: Burts and Ernies. She says I'm a Burt because my interests are about as boring as his paper clip collection.

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12 Jan 2008, 5:16 pm

In school:
*weird
*ugly
*smart
*strange
*crazy
*dork
*tomboy
*freak
*sensitive

More recently:
*aloof
*shy
*quiet
*snob
*cranky
*distracted

Yeah, I realize most of those were in fact nouns rather than adjectives, but that's what I've been called.

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