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As someone who was diagnosed with Aspergers Syndrome in my teens, please shut up. It's not offensive to anyone if it's not being used as a derogatory term.

Please stop advocating for less-descriptive language.

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You are confused. It has nothing to do with offensive. It has precisely to do with less-descriptive. Aspergers was misused by therapists for over 40 years while others in other parts of the world used it correctly. The terms I mentioned were introduced in the last 10 years to clean the mess up.

First off, do you have any idea how insulting it is to tell someone with a disorder that they're "confused" about it? Kindly go fuck yourself.

Secondly, you're an idiot.

Aspergers is a specific form of HFA/Autism, not the other way around. Not all people suffering from Autism have Aspergers, but all people suffering from Aspergers have Autism.

It'd be like saying "thumb" is less specific than "finger", which is plainly stupid.

So again, shut the fuck up. Stop speaking for a group of people you have ZERO RIGHT to speak for.

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