Preceding unsigned comment added by AspieNo1 ( talk We are willing to accept that some people used it in commercially available print copies afterwards, as long as they accept it had already been in use years before when Damon Matthew Wise first used it at the start of Ireland and International Self-Advocacy Networks which sprung up around AUTINET - the first world-wide group, which originally started with hosted at Trinity College Dublin. Although mostly in closed and private groups (because of the problems with Neurotypicals or Mundanes as often jokingly referred to by us Aspies), it proliferated before 1999. It became a self-identification of the label of the Asperger's self advocacy and Independent living communities, after Damon Matthew Wise used it in the first 2 or 3 years and became reasonably common use worldwide well before the claim of first print appeared in private and underground use within the Aspie Communities. A search engine of the term Aspies will show some verbal and documentary recorded use on Radio before 1995 and in print, leaflet an support groups in 19, but appeared on AUTINET.ORG, where some of the between 8 members in the first 2 years used it and from there proliferated through and Worldnet. In 1993 Damon Matthew Wise first used it when talking to Autism and public bodies and used it on air on Radio, to distinguish people with Aspergr's, Tourettes, High Functional Autism and PDD-NOS from classic type of Autstic Spectrum Disorder.
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