Talk:aspie

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

Request for verification
Sense 2: "Name given to people who have another autistic spectrum disorder such as high-functioning autism" &mdash; i.e. those who do not have Asperger's. I think this would be 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)
 * 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)