Aspie Vs Autie

Post Reply New Topic

So something has been on my mind. Why do people with Aspergers identify as Aspies rather than Auties?

tradition

I thought the post would say something about a steel cage...

Tbh, I'd rather identify as autie. It seems more straightforward and perhaps packs a bit more punch. I think a lot of people associate it with retardation and therein lies the rub, but hey, I feel ret*d.

Supposedly Auties have a cognitive delay and Aspies do not, even if an Autie is High Functioning. Aspies usually learn to speak at the same time, or sometimes at an earlier age than NT's, while Autie's will have a delay here as well.

Because thats what they are- aspies.

More people have heard of autism than aspergers so on the rare occasions of told people about it I do say " i have a mild form of autism".

I'm also liking the phrase "on the spectrum."

A wee bit off-topic, but I should mention that - even though I was not diagnosed with Asperger syndrome, but with autistic disorder - whenever a topic comes up that says 'Aspies this' or 'Aspies that', I tend to reply to those threads anyway, because I identify with folk with Asperger's enough to feel as though most of the things 'they' deal with also apply to me.

This is probably true for many WP users who weren't diagnosed with Asperger's, but with autistic disorder, PDD-NOS, etc.

Because it is more specific. To someone who actually knows what autism is and has at least some knowledge of the subject, it tells them that you have a milder form of autism and won't always respond in a "normal" manner to certain social situations and cues. To those who have no clue what you are talking about, it means you will have to tell them you have a mild form of high functioning autism and will then proceed to bore them to death with a data dump of information about the autistic spectrum.

I hate the word 'aspie' because I don't identify with Asperger's.
'Autie' sounds too cutesy.

I just say 'autistic.'

I'm not convinced Aspergers is even related to Autism.

I guess it's more specific and some like that. It's like telling people you've got cronh's instead of digestive trouble, Parkinson's instead of degenerative disorder. Many people probably don't know the difference, but hopefully if they look it up they'll know what these terms mean.

Becouse what goes under autistic syndrome are not exactly the same thing that goes under aspergers syndrome and I think questions like this one is a classic example of difficulty understanding that other people have different thoughts than thy self and taking the criteria too literaly.

Because I am diagnosed with AS, not autism. So I call myself an aspie.