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Thank God other people understand that sounds matter. I drive my family bananas when trying to avoid words that I don't care for. And there is an upside to having people put stock in the Rainman stereotype - they don't irritate me by trying to carry on a conversation because they're scared I'll start chanting and rocking back and forth in a fetal position.

And there is little more annoying than people trying to talk to me when I don't want them to.

I pronounce it "Azverger's" when I'm speaking to somebody not familiar with the topic.
Prevents, I hope, the usual word association.

Glad to know I'm not the only one who tries to avoid certain words, at least in certain contexts.

Particularly two words which are abused to the point of meaningless politically.
Which unfortunately means that I abuse the the libertarian terminology to describe such.
Still, since must people don't know what I mean it makes my platitudes sound somewhat less idiotic.

While I don't do this myself, I've only seen this in people with AS, one girl with some other neurological syndrome, and one girl who I'm certain has AS but hasn't been diagnosed.

Anybody know anything about this?

As if I could look people in the eye....

I mostly keep it to myself and just cringe on the inside when I hear one I don't like. In most cases, I don't think it's the actual sound that bothers me as much as my perception that they're saying it wrong, although that perception could be biased by my dislike of certain sounds. I take the whole "to-may-to" vs. "to-mah-to" debate FAR too seriously. It used to drive me crazy that my mother didn't know there were only two different pronounciations for "project" ("praject" for scheduled work and "project" for illumination). She used to ask me if I had my "project" done and I'd want to scream "There's no such word as project, but my praject is coming along fine." I complained about that when I was young but she never changed. I *really* got upset when she started talking about autism and pronouncing it "owe-tism". ARGH!

it's pronounced the same in both german, english and norwegian i think. wasn't there another thread about the subject of names?
I think HFA type I and Type II sounds much much better, i think i'll start using that instead..