What are the most pleasant ASD labels to you?

[Full Steam]

I'm pretty sure I've missed one or two, so let me know and I'll add other choices.

I quite like Aspie, but it seems less than serious.

I also like autistic because it's correct and unifies all spectrum people, but comes with societal baggage, and I often use the terms ASD or spectrum as they seem to say the same thing without the baggage.

 

[Crossbreed]

I'm pretty sure I've missed one or two, so let me know and I'll add other choices.

Homo sapiens superior...!

 

[Chance]

Neurodiverse ND (maybe) : )

 

[Crossbreed]

Neurodiverse ND (maybe) : )

How about Neur-D for short...? (I'll be here all week. Try the veal!)

 

[Chance]

How about Neur-D for short...? (I'll be here all week. Try the veal!)

Total confession... I am staring at this and I cant make it make sense to save my life. I'm starting to feel really stupid, because I know I am missing something probably very simple...
Dunce hat award is not an option thank God.

 

[the_tortoise]

"Autistic", "autie" and "aspie" are the ones I like -- I like autie and aspie because they are non-clinical....much less chance of negative connotations. I wish that "autistic" was more widely seen as meaning everyone on the autism spectrum.

 

[the_tortoise]

Total confession... I am staring at this and I cant make it make sense to save my life. I'm starting to feel really stupid, because I know I am missing something probably very simple...
Dunce hat award is not an option thank God.

We would need two dunce hats awards if it was because I didn't even notice it was odd, and then didn't notice it was humor (no criticism of your joke, Crossbreed, I like it, I think it's clever), until you posted this....

It's probably got a name (is it a pun? I just know it's wordplay, I'm not good with remembering stuff like that) but basically "Neur-D" sounds like "nerdy"

 

[Full Steam]

How about Neur-D for short...? (I'll be here all week. Try the veal!)

Very good.

 

[Chance]

My favorite label... no label, no weird words, no awkward explanations : )

 

[SusanLR]

I prefer a label only in clinical setting such as with doctors for medical purposes. I preferred Aspergers because I feel it helps in those situations to distinguish while we are all on the spectrum, the part of the spectrum you are on and know the traits/personality of it.

 

[Fridgemagnetman]

My favorite label... no label, no weird words, no awkward explanations : )

Separate category - 'chance'

 

[Gracey]

I think it's Aspie for me.
I'm pretty new to all of this. When reading personal accounts or blogs online, alot of different terms were used. If someone described themselves as an Aspie in what they wrote I had a picture in my mind of someone who requires little assistance with their day to day functioning albeit accompanied by anxieties but with some pretty amazing abilities to adapt (intelligence)

When reading accounts of Autism, (over the past 12 months or thereabouts) more formal language and medical terms were used (mostly by parents) and mainly concerning a younger group of individuals.

Almost as if autism described the children and Asperger's described the adults?

 

[xudo]

Total confession... I am staring at this and I cant make it make sense to save my life. I'm starting to feel really stupid, because I know I am missing something probably very simple...
Dunce hat award is not an option thank God.

I assumed it was funny because it sounds like 'nerdy'. I could be wrong though

 

[Gracey]

I assumed it was funny because it sounds like 'nerdy'. I could be wrong though

I initially thought that too;
Nerd
NeurD

I kept quiet, just in case I'd misunderstood

 

[Butterfly88]

I have PDD-NOS. I like the terms PDD-NOS or "atypical autism" as some people call it.

 

[Crossbreed]

I assumed it was funny because it sounds like 'nerdy'. I could be wrong though

I initially thought that too;
Nerd
NeurD

I kept quiet, just in case I'd misunderstood

Yes, I was alluding to "nerdy."

 

[xudo]

I was alluding to "nerdy."

Yass I was right

 

[WereBear]

I like GENIUS

 

[Gracey]

I like GENIUS

I love that

 

[Crossbreed]

I like GENIUS

Do you mean like the lead in this commercial...?

Sprite: Turbo Sport 7 (1996)