"Aspergirl" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "Blend of Asperger + girl.",
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      "form": "Aspergirls",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "ref": "2004 August, Stephanie C. Fox, Elephant’s Kitchen – An Aspergirl’s Study in Difference, Bloomfield, Conn.: QueenBeeBooks, page 1",
          "text": "Elephant’s Kitchen – An Aspergirl’s Study in Difference",
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        {
          "ref": "2010, Rudy Simone, “Introduction”, in Aspergirls: Empowering Females with Asperger Syndrome, London, Philadelphia, Pa.: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, page 15",
          "text": "This book is needed because of the subtle difference between the genders on the spectrum, but also to address the differences between an Aspergirl and a non-spectrum female, otherwise known as an NT or neurotypical girl.",
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        {
          "ref": "2012, Jennifer Cook O’Toole, “All Aspies are from Missouri: Concrete Minds”, in Asperkids: An Insider’s Guide to Loving, Understanding and Teaching Children with Asperger Syndrome, London, Philadelphia, Pa.: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, page 77",
          "text": "Like many Aspergirls in particular, I was (and am) hyperlexic: that is, I read vastly more quickly than others, absorb what I am reading, and learned to read overnight without tutelage.",
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        {
          "ref": "2014, Simon Cambridge, “Asperger’s Syndrome or Higher Functioning Autism”, in Denied! Failing Cordelia: Parental Love and Parental-State Theft in Los Angeles Juvenile Dependency Court; Book One: The Cankered Rose and Esther’s Revenge, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, page 183",
          "text": "Girls are usually much more socially conscious than boys are, and, when in groups, an “Aspergirl” (as girls with Asperger’s are sometimes known) is much more likely to be protected or disguised by the other members of their group.",
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        {
          "ref": "2017, Martine Mussies, Emiel Maliepaard, “The Cyborg Mermaid (or: How Technè Can Help the Misfits Fit in)”, in Adrian David Cheok, Kate Devlin, David Levy, editors, Love and Sex with Robots: Second International Conference, LSR 2016, London, UK, December 19–20, 2016, Revised Selected Papers (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; 10237), Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing AG, page 87",
          "text": "My (Martine) personal experiences as a high-functioning Aspergirl, in teaching the piano to autistic children and in researching autism, have ignited in me a wish to critique current views of autism as a condition that renders the autistic as being more or less than human - the first in the case of extraordinary rational and musical abilities, the second in the case of a seemingly defective intelligence and supposedly impaired social abilities.",
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      "glosses": [
        "A girl with Asperger's syndrome."
      ],
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        "(informal) A girl with Asperger's syndrome."
      ],
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        "informal"
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  "word": "Aspergirl"
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "Blend of Asperger + girl.",
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      "form": "Aspergirls",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "ref": "2004 August, Stephanie C. Fox, Elephant’s Kitchen – An Aspergirl’s Study in Difference, Bloomfield, Conn.: QueenBeeBooks, page 1",
          "text": "Elephant’s Kitchen – An Aspergirl’s Study in Difference",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Rudy Simone, “Introduction”, in Aspergirls: Empowering Females with Asperger Syndrome, London, Philadelphia, Pa.: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, page 15",
          "text": "This book is needed because of the subtle difference between the genders on the spectrum, but also to address the differences between an Aspergirl and a non-spectrum female, otherwise known as an NT or neurotypical girl.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Jennifer Cook O’Toole, “All Aspies are from Missouri: Concrete Minds”, in Asperkids: An Insider’s Guide to Loving, Understanding and Teaching Children with Asperger Syndrome, London, Philadelphia, Pa.: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, page 77",
          "text": "Like many Aspergirls in particular, I was (and am) hyperlexic: that is, I read vastly more quickly than others, absorb what I am reading, and learned to read overnight without tutelage.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Simon Cambridge, “Asperger’s Syndrome or Higher Functioning Autism”, in Denied! Failing Cordelia: Parental Love and Parental-State Theft in Los Angeles Juvenile Dependency Court; Book One: The Cankered Rose and Esther’s Revenge, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, page 183",
          "text": "Girls are usually much more socially conscious than boys are, and, when in groups, an “Aspergirl” (as girls with Asperger’s are sometimes known) is much more likely to be protected or disguised by the other members of their group.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017, Martine Mussies, Emiel Maliepaard, “The Cyborg Mermaid (or: How Technè Can Help the Misfits Fit in)”, in Adrian David Cheok, Kate Devlin, David Levy, editors, Love and Sex with Robots: Second International Conference, LSR 2016, London, UK, December 19–20, 2016, Revised Selected Papers (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; 10237), Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing AG, page 87",
          "text": "My (Martine) personal experiences as a high-functioning Aspergirl, in teaching the piano to autistic children and in researching autism, have ignited in me a wish to critique current views of autism as a condition that renders the autistic as being more or less than human - the first in the case of extraordinary rational and musical abilities, the second in the case of a seemingly defective intelligence and supposedly impaired social abilities.",
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        }
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        "A girl with Asperger's syndrome."
      ],
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        "(informal) A girl with Asperger's syndrome."
      ],
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        "informal"
      ]
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  "word": "Aspergirl"
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