Why don't disorders have COOL names?

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aspergers was his biggest research and people still mock him

Disorders do have cool names, can you think of a word cooler than Schizophrenia?

Fortunately, the "Asperger's" name will most likely be thrown out by the APA. IMO, Autism Spectrum Disorder is much better.

I don't like being named after a person I never met.

APA?

Naming conditions after those who helped discover/describe them is the respectable thing to do. I see you're a sociology professor. If you were the first to describe a new sociology phenomenon, wouldn't you want it to be called "the Foster hypothesis" or something of the sort? I certainly would want to be credited for my work. Calling Asperger's "Autism Spectrum Disorder" is like calling the Krebs Cycle the "citric acid cycle." Overgeneralized terms without giving scientists/researchers recognition.

To quote A Beautiful Mind, recognition, accomplishment- "is there a difference?"

The name does sound a bit awkward; it was set up as the butt of a joke in a South Park episode that addressed Asperger's by having a kid misunderstand the term and try to claim that he had it by shoving hamburgers down his pants. Needless to say, I am not a fan of South Park. I prefer the sound of the name Kanner's Syndrome, even if Leo Kanner discovered classic autism, not Asperger's. Unfortunate Dr. Hans couldn't have had a cooler name when he discovered our disorder. Not gonna lie though; I found the Dutch ASS thing very funny

It's almost as if the condition was named out of spite for us. Every variation sounds worse than the next. I thought the American version was the worst, but the British take the cake with their laxative product version.

"When you really need to get it all out, use Ass-Purgers Laxative."

Imagine how people would feel about HIV/AIDS if it was actually called Bumfugger's disease?

Any of these sound better?

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I like Rasp Serge.

Disorders don't have cool names because it isn't really "cool" to have something that makes life more difficult than others'.