Talk:aspie

Citation - http://www.aspie.com/ Beobach972 16:51, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

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Sense 2: "Name given to people who have another autistic spectrum disorder such as high-functioning autism" — i.e. those who do not have Asperger's. I think this would be (deprecated template usage) autie. Equinox ◑ 23:44, 11 September 2009 (UTC)

Well, the word was used in the October 2009 issue of Wired magazine to indicate someone with autism or Aspergers. Wired has several articles that use the word, although I haven't checked the word meanings for those. Does that qualify as verification? EvanKroske 18:52, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

RFV failed, sense removed. As far as I can discern from various Google searches (especially Google News Archive searches, which I found the most helpful), aspie (or Aspie: it is frequently capitalized) always denotes a person with Asperger's syndrome, though many writers consider Asperger's to be a form of autism. So, a sense such as "Name given to people who have Asperger's syndrome, a form of high-functioning autism" would be possible; but, of course, it would be completely redundant to the first sense. —Ruakh_TALK 15:32, 26 December 2009 (UTC)

Endearing

It's certainly not always endearing—Google "(fucking|damn|stupid) aspie". I think it's just informal/slang. - -sche (discuss) 23:17, 17 November 2012 (UTC)

In fact, I'm not sure it is particularly endearing in any case, except to the extent that most words can be used endearingly ("my reliable ol' car", etc). - -sche (discuss) 01:10, 18 November 2012 (UTC)

I'm taking the liberty of removing "endearing" from the thingy. I'm also certain that there's now a trend in Internet usage as a slur. However, autistic has been used as such for longer lacks the tag, and I also sadly don't use Usenet, so I don't have the luxury of quotemining from there. 8ty3hree (talk) 20:10, 30 October 2014 (UTC)

autie still has the endearing label today. i thought about removing it, but for a different reason ... that at least one adult i've known objected to it, as being too cute to describe an adult. But I decided that wasnt an argument against it being endearing, but simply that endearing terms arent always well-received. —Soap— 20:45, 10 October 2023 (UTC)