I feel so sick for hearing "Asperger"

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Because my extremely abusive mother used it to insult me.
And that name is so silly since you can't find meaningful definition by a doctor's name.Call it Autism spectrum is far more better.

So you suggesting to remove the word entirely because it offends you? I don't understand

i prefer autism because it doesnt sound like ass burger.
less potential for those intending to disparage us.

The word do not convey the meaning.

I prefer to say autistic or Autism Spectrum Disorder because when I've told people I have Asperger's, they expect me to be normal, or to try to act normal.

Asperger's Syndrome is no longer an official name of the condition in many countries, is it? I prefer autism, too, because it's better known (although some/many people think autism = an intellectual disability). I also cringe when I hear the word "aspie", which comes from "Asperger". It sounds somewhat embarrassing to me for some reason.

Agreed, I don't use "Aspergers." Even "aspie" that I recall, either. It's not an aesthetically pleasing word and as mentioned, some people don't understand what it is. Autistic is clearer, even with the variance in severity.

It may have been removed in DSM V but those who were diagnosed with it still carry the diagnosis, just no new ones are made under the DSM V.

Not to mention is still exists under the ICD 10.

The ICD 10 is international, the DSM V is more of a US thing.

At least to my knowledge anyway.

Asperger, besides being a doctor in the Nazi regime, (the Nazis murdered handicap people and aitistic people en masse, the same fate the jews had under the regime) it does sound like "Ass Burgers". :/ . I've seen whole webpages online repeating the phrase "ass burger" in order to belittle and bully aspie and ASD people. Which I couldn't believe. Bullying is second nature to NTs, it seems.
It's kinda what they do , survival of the most brutish and all that. I've found NTs are naturally brilliant at denying and cloaking their social violence upon you.
We should not use "aspergers" , it gives the NTs an easy "in" to bullying us.

I still don't believe in the fraudulent-industry of psychiatry (and it's true that it was a Nazi-invention) & this thread needs more "Psychiatry is a Pseudo-Science" street-march footage...

Specialty in psychiatry can be traced in Ancient India. The oldest texts on psychiatry include the ayurvedic text, "Charaka Samhita". Some of the first hospitals for curing mental illness were established during 3rd century B.C. (300 to 201 B.C.; or 9701 to 9800 H.E.).

The Nazi Party was founded as the pan-German nationalist and antisemitic German Workers' Party on 5 January 1919 (11919/01/05 H.E.), more that 2100 years after the invention of psychiatry.

Thus, it is impossible for psychiatry to be a "Nazi Invention".

I also prefer "ASD" (ay-ess-dee) to "Asperger's", although I occasionally use "Aspie", even though my condition is more PDD-NOS with a little PTSD.

What if it turns out you're NT?

The anti-psychiatry movement is mostly comprised of scientologists and people who believe in alternative medicine (like homeopathy and holistic medicine). It doesn't really surprise me.

You guys do realize that there are some parts of the Internet that use the word "autism" itself as a joke/insult, right? It may not be as widespread as "ass burgers", but there are those who will mock any form of autism no matter the severity.

In any case, I personally don't mind being called Asperger's. (Not a fan of the word "Aspie", though; I've only used it a couple of times in text and got a cringey feeling from it.) I've always referred to myself as having Asperger's and will still do so even after its removal from the DSM-V because I feel it's a more specific and accurate diagnosis.

Also, this is just my opinion, but anyone who believes psychology/psychiatry is a pseudoscience has not bothered to take a class or even do basic research on said fields.

Nothing is actually impossible (not even "time-travel" technology but phenomenon like this is beyond the understanding of a mere human-mortal). Semantics is also over-powered. The psychiatric-practices of today in its current-form can still be attributed to coming out of the Nazi-Era (and clueless are the blind who cannot see the existence of the Neo-Nazi culture[s] in America). This thread also needs more Origins-of-Psychiatry hyper-links rather than dubious claims about Indians being its inventors (considering that the vast majority if not even all of the Eastern-cultures are very spiritual in its world-views and phenomenon such as "reincarnation" within those cultures is also basically taken for granted as factual).

Let's get some "etimology" of "psychiatry" into "quotes" whilst we're having a go at the word & its semantics...

For "Wikipedia" to be regarded as some sort of "be-all/end-all" of so-called "factual" information is also quite the mistake when within the article itself (apparently conveniently left out) has "quality" of information issues...

Now let us look at the "Etymology" section of the Wikipedia-entry...

The very "word" itself didn't even exist until 1808, according to the Wikipedia-entry, but if we want to twist "context" around and make claims that its origins are from 3rd-Century BCE, then we may as well also make claims that "science" had its origins from "purveyors of woo" from way back when, too. Few inventions exist that aren't attributed to being of Chinese-origin (and anybody who knows anything about Chinese-culture also knows that they have "Chinese-medicine" which is considered "alternative-medicine" by "Western" standards and we could say that the Chinese invented medicine since the Chinese already invented a hell of a lot of things before Germany ever came into existence).

From observing the various changes in stories of the history books that have had different versions released depending on year I wouldn't be surprised to find that some of the so-called "origins" were simply made up or fabricated stories for the sake of "manufacturing history" for corporate-interests. Just how how Dr. Rupert Sheldrake found that text-book-information regarding the "Speed of Light" was published to be different values depending on what year that "science" books that make mention of the Speed of Light were published.

Poor is the soul who believes that their indoctrination-institutions are really education-centres.

I find it seriously disturbing that the "youths" coming out of "schools" these days never seem to bother to question their text-books just because it was published by some college or university. They believe everything that was written in it without personally bothering to field-test for themselves the validity of the claims within said text-books.

Well, not that I'm wasting any more money on these indoctrination-centres, but those who cannot figure this out, and continue to believe in these debt-traps without question, will simply continue to believe themselves to be special, and that they some-how have genuine, factual knowledge, whilst the rich cock-suckers who created those over-priced text-books will simply continue to laugh all the way to the bank whilst scamming all of these suckers, ahem, I mean, students, out of their money whilst simultaneously making these students believe that they're somehow smart & intelligent simply due to having read through these various pseudo-intellectual text-books (now for another word from "Anonymous" about the PES).