Asperger's, Asperger Syndrome not...

Asberger, Asperges, Aspergees, Assburgers, Aspegees, Asbeegees etc. (Those were just a few I found in less than a minute of looking, there are probably many more)

Ok, so this has been bothering me for a while, if we have a condition, we're supposed to have some form of medical diagnosis and know what it is called. It's not a burger made of donkey, it's not an autistic version of the Bee Gees, it's either Asperger's, Asperger Syndrome or Higher Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorder. 

I accept that some people seem to get their/there/they're consistently wrong, some people write in text speak, get confused between weather and whether, was, were and what messed up. But there is no homophone or variation of Asperger's, there is no Ass Burger to get it confused with, there is no As Bee Gees, there is no Ass Pee Gees, it's hardly rocket science!

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  • Hey spotty,we need to catch up sometime, miss you and missy so much,maybe a happy random thread? I will dust off the chopper bike and fly by yours and missy and Ellie and we can fly off to autopia.Lol

    Or sail our ship across the oceans.

    take care lots of hugs and kisses,x()x()x()x that is reserved for the four of us btw,

  • Thank you for your company tonight, it's been really nice to chat. Hope you manage a good restful sleep. I'll probably have to go soon too if I'm to be of any use at all tomorrow  ()  See you again soon hopefully!  

  • Gŕrrr to the keyboard, you make lots of sense Lone. ()()()() xxxx

  • just to add a lot of the fun threads were started as a rest place for us to go. We get to be childlike and inventive,go on travels to imaginary places, islands like autopia ,

    We would work so hard to help so many on here seeking help but getting none, it can be very draining as we cannot keep helping all the time, it is sad to admit at times I cannot cope, I need to take time out, for my own mind,

    many others do the same, we try so hard to help, it never stops, so little support out there, mums at their wits end, struggling to understand the young child they love so much but can not connect with.to the adult who hits the bottom of the pit i to have been to, I have been helped so many times by my friends on here, 

    x()x

  • She is lovely, I've 'met' her a few times on here and she always posts really interesting replies - especially really useful links which I'm still learning how to do. In fact, everyone I've met on here has been nice and all have been so helpful with us 'newbies' despite the fact that it must get annoying being asked the same questions time after time every time someone new joins. I can never remember everyone's names but it's nice to see familiar people on here every time I visit. Everyone's so different but I think that's what makes it feel like a 'real' community.  

  • in the early days it was frowned upon,off topic talk wasvreported, I was reported once for straying off topic?

    I started writing an anything goes thread, others started threads like, a place for the miswired tangle minded to talk random stuff,

    life is to short for etiquette like that, this is a community, each subject throws up a variation of thoughts and often stray as we are now, aspie socialising.

    we all share our thoughts, we have seldom been heard elsewhere, this is our place to express ourselves without fear of ridicule or being judged, 

    x()x.

    i really ought to get some dreaded sleep, must be up by six,whoops.

    nite nite all,

  • i have never hugged,in reality I hated aunties hugging me as a child,I have started trying to hug if I truly feel like I want to, even mates at work, I do it in a fun way, really I just want to show my appreciation for them helping me that day,or just for being nice about something.

    virtual hugs started here with me feeling able to as I allowed myself to express my inner emotions to come out unhindered.

    i quite often bump into Disallowed Cynosure late at night,great person, ssshhh don’t tell her I said that, but she is very nice.

    x()x

  • Pssst! (whisper) I think we've hijacked this thread   : /   Is that even allowed?

  • why thank you, I actually identify with an awful lot of what I have seen you write lately!

    just don’t move my tea spoon or take my cup or give me a plate that isn’t my usual one. Lol.

    Take care and keep talking. I do enjoy reading all the newish folks on here,I may not contribute as much these days but I do have a high empathy setting, After fifty odd years I express my emotions freely in here, my true self.

    Not bad for an aspie Male Er hum.

    x()x

  • Thank you, normally I don't do hugs but I think virtual ones might be good  ()  That was probably the least painful hug I've ever given anyone!

    (When i first told my partner about my Asperger's he actually thought I'd said Ass Burger  :(  shows you how much we knew about ASD until a month ago!)

  • please can I at least offer you an aspie hug to calm your mind? ().

    a true aspergian offer of friendship from one asperian to another ass burger. Lol.x()x 

  • I don't think you're Mr Angry at all. Far from it! I've seen you around here since I joined and have only ever seen you be kind, considerate, patient and understanding with everyone. Much more so than I am sometimes I'm afraid.

    I like hearing from you and you've never upset or annoyed me - I certainly haven't set out to upset or annoy you either. I think we're both just very different people but I think that's a very good thing indeed! Life would be boring if we were all the same. 

    You actually sound quite like my partner in some ways and with him, I think our Yin and Yang balance each other perfectly. With you and I, I just think you're a more spiritual person than me and that's obviously a good thing because (much as I wish it could) cold, hard science cannot answer all of our questions. 

    Sorry you can't sleep either, it can get pretty annoying sometimes to be the only on awake at this time of night / morning.  

  • my memory is so bad I jot everything down,bits of paper every where. I have written a lot about my dyslexia and being young. Mind numbingly  boring to some but a lot on here seem to associate to Them!

    my key board is playing upnon my iPad,touchscreen.

    forvexample I type with one finger hutvthevwords keep joining upbwith v in the middle,This is an unedited typed line of text, can you see that some words or all becomevone long line of text.maybe my space bar is faulty?

    x()x

    firgitvtibadd, forgot to add thisvin itself winds me up,grrr,

    see even that is sooo wrong.

  • Hey Endymion can I just say I am sorry I seem to be banging my head against yours, I really am a nice person. I get a bit annoyed at times as what I see as  non important things that I cannot do or understand, I like your posts think highly of you.

    sorry to come across as being mr angry, 

    i give free hugs to all, its my thing, virtual of coarse Lol.

    take care and ,,,,oh just saw your reply, well we seem to share an awful lot of things, I get so wound up if my wife moves the tins around,even if the lids are changed so the handles are skew Wiff.

    look forward to more relaxed exchanges between us, 

    i ramble on a lot and seldom crash out to sleep until the small hours.

    x()x.

    by the way the ( ) is an aspie hug, or Aspergers hug Lol.

  • Hi, it's nice to see that I'm not wandering around here alone at this time of night. (I always have trouble sleeping.) 

    I think we were all just having a rant, it wasn't meant to upset anyone and I'm sorry if it came across as insensitive. Reading it back now it does sound a bit insensitive but it was meant tongue-in-cheek and is just an example of how we all react to our own little annoyances. 

    There are plenty of things I do that are annoying, trust me! Every one of those jokes you've ever heard about 'women drivers'? Guilty as charged! Pedantic? I'm afraid so, my partner takes great pleasure in changing the order of the 'Tea, Coffee, Sugar' tins in the house because he thinks it's hilarious that I can't leave them out of line  :(  I don't even know why I can't leave them like that!

    My children have a running joke about my list-making too, I just need to have lists for everything otherwise I can't process the information properly. The weird thing is that once I've added something to my lists I might never have to check it again, I just need to know it's there for me to be able to think about it for some reason (?). I can't explain myself properly with this one because I don't really understand it myself, it's just another of my many odd quirks I guess. We all have them and they make us unique, mine keep me sane(ish).  

     

  • Ok then I am guilty of all of those things,

    “Yeah” “it’s “or yes It is something I have heard before these words crop up so many times,usually aimed towards me, although not this time 

    sorry if anyone finds it impossible to read my writing. I am also not very good at being a human being apparently so no big surprise,

    so dyslexia is to be denounced as lazy and a crime against punctuation. Thank you. By the way I do my best.

    pedant is a strange word I have come across many times in my life.

    overscrupulous, scrupulous, precise, exact, over-exacting, perfectionist, precisionist, punctilious, meticulous, fussy, fastidious, finical, finick.

    pick the bones out of that Lol.,,,,,!?!?’”; he he, 

    hey just saying,not trying to upset, we are all individuals with our own separate likes and dislikes, love  you all x()x

    peace and harmony to all. My tribe,

  • Yeah, it's a bit irritating but I see it as similar to my reaction towards any grammar-crimes. I'm probably guilty of a few myself when I'm tired! The only thing I cannot shrug and move on from are punctuation-crimes (again, not to say that I never commit any but ...). I just can't help it when I see abused commas, neglected full-stops, over-worked exclamation marks, or capital letters that have been completely abandoned. Abuse of these small defenceless marks is endemic and must stop!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Oops.)    

  • I prefer to think of myself as a neurotypical ASS - purger!

  • According the Oxford Dictionaries, Asperger's syndrome is also acceptable.

    Oxford Dictionaries also gives the pronunciation of Asperger with a hard and a soft g.