Is "autie" offensive?

My mum, an avid Scrabble player, was telling me earlier today that for the first time ever, a huge bunch of words have been removed from the official "allowable" list for Scrabble because they're deemed offensive.  (Turns out this happened nearly a year ago - so apologies if it has already been discussed; I did a search for the topic and didn't find anything.)

I searched and found the list for her: https://www.reddit.com/r/scrabble/comments/my5tie/the_419_words_erased_from_csw/

And was surprised to see ASPIE on the list.  Do people see that as offensive?  I've been considering using autie or aspie to describe myself - I happen to think they sound more friendly than the formal terms!  Will I be inadvertently offending people if I do??