Aspie As The New Cool Term

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I think outside of New York the term Aspie might be used more often. I have heard Tony Attwood use it numerous times. I have also seen people from the UK on Youtube use it a lot as well some other Americans.

I only see the word aspie being used within the autism community. I seldom see it being used outside of it. John Robison uses the word Aspergarian instead of aspie and he used the term at his book tour here at Powells Books in 2008. I also see the word autist get used by some folks on the spectrum in the autism community.

If I go in the transgender community, I will see the term cis being thrown around to mean people who are not transgender. In every community people have their own nicknames for themselves and terms for people without it. I won't see the term NT being used outside the autism community.

The New York Times Best seller list has nothing to do with how many people read the New York Times. It is a listing of the best selling books in the USA.

Who are these people, and how do you know that they don't have Asperger's?

I know that LOL.

Unfortunately, many people I know don't go to Barnes and Nobles to look at the NY Times Bestsellers.

It's no reflection on their intelligence. It's more a reflection of what they are interested in.

I have rarely heard the word "aspie" ever uttered in real life. The only time I can recall hearing someone say the word even in the local aspergers/autistic support group was when Ive said it a couple times.

But online its common. There was a rival social website to this called "the Aspie Hangout" years ago.

it is a generational thing also. Most boomers unless they have a family member involved probably do not know of the term. It is widely used online which is a primary method millennials use to communicate. FYI today it was announced that for the first time millennials are number one generation in America as far as population is concerned barely edging out boomers.

As a gay man, I despised the name of the 1980s political-action group known as Queer Nation because it wasn't a word which I wanted "reclaimed." But, I respect what others choose to describe themselves. The only thing I expect in return is my right to call myself what I choose, and have it used with respect, as well.

To tell others what they may (or should) call themselves is one of the worst acts in which humans can engage one another. It is the act that spawns such things as the Holocaust and slavery.

Sooo, let others call themselves Aspies. Apart from those who desire ways to control those whom they fear, who would it harm? This topic is close to leaving the rails.

For the most part, I've only heard the term Aspie among the online autism community. Even on other forums when there has been a thread about autism in general, people who admit to having a diagnosis just say they're on the autism spectrum.

Where are people getting the idea that people are self-diagnosing with autism and going around calling themselves "aspies"?

I have never heard anyone in real life refer to him/herself as an aspie. Nor have I ever met anyone who used the term. The only person I ever met who used the term "Asperger's syndrome" was using it to refer to someone that was really annoying and that the person suspected had it. The guy probably did have it, but he seemed not to know.

I've never seen a single aspie t-shirt, or any other piece of clothing advertising that a person had ASD.

Nobody that I've met thinks it's cool to have autism. It's something to be ashamed of, and something that other people make fun of.

They're probably mostly worn by misguided neurotypicals trying to be 'supportive' of a family member or something.

Even so that doesn't mean people with the condition walk around calling themselves 'aspies'...that is the author referring to us as that regardless of if any of us would actually introduce ourselves to most people like 'hi my name is (insert name) and I'm an aspie. I've used the term here because people here know what it is and its shorter than autism spectrum or aspergers syndrome but I cant say I've referred to myself as that IRL.

I frequently wear my WrongPlanet.net T-shirt. Should I burn it to purify my autism?

I sometimes refer to myself as an Aspie; oops, there's that user name again!

This topic has succeeded in its mission, to get us arguing about wooords.

I was essentially 'self diagnosed' before I got my diagnoses, because my sister had me look into autism/aspergers...and beings I am not entirely aloof I was able to recognize a lot of the symptoms and behaviors in myself and continue looking further into it. I was already looking at personality disorders because It was apparent to me that there was something a little off and it wasn't going away with my aging into adulthood.

Either way I was pretty certain I was on the autism spectrum before I actually was able to get an official diagnoses.
If I didn't think I had it, what would have been the point in bothering to seek a diagnoses. Not everyone has money to blow on going to doctor after doctor on every whim that they might have this or that condition. But I didn't go around telling everyone 'hey I have aspergers'...'hey look at me', didn't really talk about it with anyone outside family the psychologist I was going to counseling with and the neurologist who made the diagnoses. I was somewhat relieved that maybe something explained some of the struggles I had which others didn't seem to have and I wasn't just some weird worthless freak. Perhaps that is how some of these other pre-diagnoses self diagnosers feel as well.

Nothing wrong with a wrongplanet.net t-shirt if you want one, most people probably wouldn't even get it, it would just be a shirt of some website, maybe they would check it out and learn something. However I certainly wouldn't want one that has I HAVE AUTISM! plastered on the front of it, also shirts of bands are more to my taste than shirts that reference websites.