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WE should keep it as aspie as I would be pooed if we changed it Aspie is guut I likes it and it is easier to say then asper and it sounds finished asper sound kind of half said word but aspie sounds like I finished the word off nice
Are we in a big group club i neffer been in a club befur except wood craft folk which was like a Native american indian Cult thingy with camping and no touching living trees I liked it.
My input:
I would prefer be to change "aspies" to "aspers";
"aspie" suggests a nickname for some little kid whom
no-one would take seriously, "asper" @ least sounds
more grown-up. What they call an "image" thing, y'know.
It'll never happen, of course.
kullervo
I say what I mean and I mean what I say. (Ayn Rand)
Enough said.
Aspies has become the default term, though Aspergian still has it's adherants. On a wider scale, Autie is quite popular, but I prefer Autist because I don't like the way Autie sounds.
Since diagnosis, I now have some ownership of the club; refreshing and inclusive (albeit in a typically loner collective). Coming into a pre-existing community, I immediately noticed the word Aspies. Does anyone know who first coined it and whether that person was an AS person?
I'm amused by the parallel to the old Star Trek (how aspie of me) argument of whether fans should be called Trekkies or Trekkers. The first is passive and the second is active and the "real" fans redefined themselves as -ers. Hippie is another outside imposed term for a community that never called themselves that..they preferred the word "Freaks".
I thought about the term "Aspers" even before making this link. Also the word Asper fits Dr Asperger's name netter as the R is part of it.
Lastly Asper is much like ESPer. Before diagnosis as AS, I already knew I was Myers-Briggs INTP, as many of us correlate between INTP and AS.
In my INTPness, I'm almost pure intution, and trust my subconscious problem solving abilities implicitly. People outside my head don't understand the synthesis of information that can occur this way and I haven't read alot about AS and intuition.
Anyone else have this type of intuitive thought process going? It actually lets me read NT people's motives very clearly, so I'm curious about the notion that we aren't able to do that. In reality I am very able to read others, I just don't have the same sympathy if there are rules in place that substantiate my behaviour to these peoples motives or their behaviours. I just don't like to cow-tow to the manipulations of NTs.
Anyway, I aspgress (I borrowed that from someone here). What I'm saying is ESP and this deep intuition are similar so, for me, a link between Asper and ESPer is nicely poetic. So all in all, here is a radical rally-cry to change our identity from the cute Aspies (sounds like a flower or a club) to the proactive and empowered Aspers. I'm surprised no Aspie Trekker has raised this already. Any takers?
april 2010
I note this is an old thread--
BUT, I like the name asper!
wish I would have heard it earlier -
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Be grateful for all you have and all you are.
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Do right and fear no man.
the root asper- appears in a lot of unpleasant Latin words. Asper, -a, -um means harsh, rude, violent, wild, etc.
I don't like it.
Brett Erlich Wrote:
Chris Christie is so fat, his lap-band is a symphony orchestra.
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
I don't mind "Aspergian," but in actual usage it sounds a bit odd. People with Bipolar disorder wouldn't call themselves Bipolarians. It makes you sound like you're from another planet, though perhaps that is the point. Hmm. Now that I think about it, maybe that aspect conveys the message well - we're still human, but we're a different sort of human.
Rudy Simone uses the term "Aspergirl" for girls on the spectrum. I like it because we are often so young for our age. We see ourselves as girls. It works.
Warning: Aspie may spontaneously morph into a raging pterodactyl.
From all my reading so far, it appears so. A big sense of WE. Maybe it's a really good support system. Being a comics geek (Is this my 'special interest'?) I see strong parallels between the X-men and Aspies. Feared and hated by those they are trying to protect (well we aren't trying to protect anyone, but I'm a dramatist). But loose membership in a club is something I've always liked..a safe way to socially interact. I do now feel an affinity for other Aspies and wider autistics.
Acrually, we are trying to protect. And save. Why not, no others are stepping up. We are of this earth, and human at that. We (that collective term again) have our own personal rights, and it seems they are familiar and/or similar to others named "Aspie (or Asper, if you prefer)". So, collectively, "we" want to be heard, and are amazingly awesome "in action" also. And that demonstrates the accuracy of your first comment - feared and hated. Sucks to be "right" all the time.
Respectfully,
]Mike Silva
With now a means of leaving this world, we take strength in the bonds we have forged with our friends. My name is Mike Silva, and I send this message. Though we did not choose to leave the Earth, it would seem that we are not to stay. If you approach this solar system with hostile intent, know this: We will defend ourselves. We will defend all species. We will defend... our galactic traversing home."
Hello windy,
This is indeed a fairly old but not yet ancient thread which seems
to have revived; hopefully it will continue this time, since it does
address a "brand recognition" issue. Maybe its time has come.
We need every bit of (favorable) publicity we can get given the
high-powered groups that would do us in.
regards,
kullervo
I say what I mean and I mean what I say. (Ayn Rand)
Enough said.
And for ConLang:
I would not worry about cross-language homonyms too much:
most people don't even take Latin these days so that L. "asper"
as in "aspersion" etc. should not be a major factor.
regards,
k—
I say what I mean and I mean what I say. (Ayn Rand)
Enough said.
It makes you sound like you're from another planet, though perhaps that is the point. Hmm. Now that I think about it, maybe that aspect conveys the message well - we're still human, but we're a different sort of human.
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