This morning when I logged into AspieWeb’s twitter account (http://www.twitter.com/AspieWeb – you should follow us) an interesting trend showed up. The term Assburgers is now a Top trend in the United States on twitter.com, and I decided to investigate why. So now, lets look at why Assburgers has become a hot topic on Twitter.
A screenshot of Twitter.com trends
The term Assburgers which is often used as a derogatory term for Aspergers Syndrome and there was even an offensive video made featuring the term Assburgers. After looking into the twitter use of Assburgers I discovered people are commonly misspelling Aspergers Syndrome as ‘Assburgers Syndrome’ on Google and it has now become a hot trend on Google, almost doubling overnight.
Many people believe that the reason Assburgers Syndrome has become a hot search on Google is because of a new show by the National Broadcasting Corporation called “Parenthood” which features a character that’s a child with Aspergers Syndrome. The show premiered Tuesday night and the trend with Google started Wednesday morning which leads many people to believe that the reason leads to the New Show.
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This is PU~KA,KA
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First of all I want to know what kind of intellect comes up with such a childish insult. I mean serisouly, is the level of intelligence so small that all they can come up with is Assburgers?! Really? I’m not insulted, how could I be by such stupidity! I almost feel sorry for such incompentants. How sad, to live such a life that all they can think to do is come up with insults online that requires the IQ of a 2 year old!
If this is the youth who are to be the future of this nation, we are all in very serious TROUBLE!!
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This is a real syndrome.
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Thats pretty offensive. Does it make you feel better making fun of people with a disability?
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Yep, and it reminds me of http://kobold.livejournal.com/667559.html
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I like to check the trends on google just because and was shocked to see this listed as high as it was and then found this blog.
Im shocked anyone could be silly enough to think it is spelled “assburgers.” It seems safe to assume that unless you have a very bad spelling problem, you are being cold-hearted.
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I am very offended by this! When I gave a speech on Asperger’s at my school to raise awareness, for the next few weeks I had people asking me why a brain disorder would make me, well, have hamburgers for feces. Only in cruder terms.
But then, things tick me off quite easily. If it’s just a simple misspelling, then I really don’t mind it, but if it’s being used as an insult, as it is at my school, then I absolutely hate it. I’m going to reply to as many tweets as I can, just to correct their spelling.
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