People aren't Aspergers! They HAVE Asperger's!

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I don’t know what it is about these mental disorders that makes otherwise-normal people butcher the grammar so badly.

You think John might be Asperger’s what?

His what? His fuck buddy?

Michael is clearly nuts if he thinks he’s a long-dead German pediatrician.

Oh god, run for your lives, it’s autism!

He has bipolar what? Magnets?
You think John might have Asperger’s Syndrome. Sarah has Asperger’s. Michael said he has Asperger’s. She has autism, or she is autistic. He is bipolar, or he has bipolar disorder. It’s not that hard. Get it right.

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Ass Burgers?

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He might be an Aspergers Elemental. Literally made of Aspergers. In that case, you’ll need to find out how to banish him back to the Plane of Autism Spectrum Disorders.

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At least until the DSM V comes out, the way things were looking last I heard.

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The problem is that they are immune to most banishing spells because they simply don’t notice them.

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Dr. Hans’ whole family are Aspergers!

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I also often hear/read people saying/posting “he’s ADD.”

I agree, the usage doesn’t make logical sense.

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It is just shorthand language usage. It doesn’t have to make logical sense.

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At my disability office, we actually send letters of denial to claimants and list bipolar disorder as “bipolar” on their list of allegations. This is in spite of countless attempts to get the adjudicators to include disorder.

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That rankles me, too – both grammatically and as a disrespectful way of talking about human beings. You wouldn’t want to be identified as “a short-sighted,” or “a psoriasis,” or whatever disabilities/conditions you have.

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What about assholes. People have assholes, but the can be assholes, too.

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People do this with Celiac’s disease too – “I’m Celiac’s” or “I’m Celiac”. It’s very odd. You don’t say “I’m diabetes” or “I’m breast cancer”, do you?

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I have HIV Positive.

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I am short-sighted. I am far-sighted. I am diabetic. Common usage.

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slight hijack - my in-laws all seem to use peculiar structure when discussing illnesses. They use “the” to describe symptoms but remove it when describing an illness.

My MIL will say, “I knew I had flu when I got the diarrhea.”

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I am Sparticusbergers.

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It’s the ‘she’s an Aspie’ thing that grates on me. Sounds like a breed of dog.

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It’s grating and I don’t like it because it certainly sounds like a suggestion that the condition defines the person. That said, I’m pretty sure you can find examples of people saying this about themselves, which probably turns it into a pride thing. And yes, “Aspie” sounds like a dog breed.

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No, that’s it – all those things you mentioned are adjectives. You are short-sighted, not “A Short-sighted”, or worse “A myopia” or whatever. You have diabetes or you are diabetic, but you are not a diabetes. WTF does that even mean?

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Reminds me of when I was a teen, a friend tried to indicate that neighbor was boinking his sister, and he said “they’re incest”. Or perhaps he was saying “they’re in cest”.