# Do you find the term 'Aspie' offensive?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [March 17, 2014, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-the-term-aspie-offensive/683881 "2014-03-17T00:05:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mithras](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mithras](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mithras)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2014, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-the-term-aspie-offensive/683881/36 "2014-03-20T15:38:27Z")

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The word aspie on its own is not offensive. There are people who have Aspergers who use the term to describe themselves. The way you use it, however, is unquestionably offensive. Here’s a post you made in the sushi thread:

> [@Inconsiderate or acceptable?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inconsiderate-or-acceptable/683397/216):
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> I’m amused this thread has dragged on for so long.
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> There’s a prevailing attitude that if somebody is picky, nobody should give them grief for it. Nice in theory, but Aspielike people can’t seem to understand that if you are as picky as the OP, there may be social consequences. For mature people, they use this awareness to either try to be less picky or avoid imposing their pickiness on others. Either learn to like something at a sushi place or concoct a lie about being allergic to seafood. But then again, people this immature and picky tend to lack the tact and subtlety required toward downplaying their pickiness.

In this case, you’re not referring to someone who has Aspergers. You’re using it as a put-down against people who are, as far as you know, neurotypical. There’s no credible way to interpret its use here as anything but an insult aimed at people you find to be immature. And in using aspie as an insult, you’re implying that people with Aspergers are as worthy of derision as the people you’re attempting to insult.

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