User blog comment:I am that guy/Question to the Community/@comment-4612798-20140508122835/@comment-1789156-20140508191120

Yan Hoek, the concept of wearing an ASB tag with pride really only applies when said timeline accepts it, and wishes for it. If a timeline sets out to be ASB and works with the potentially implausible beginning, then that is fine. On the other hand writers who strive to make a non ASB timeline often are crushed by the negative sounding tag which is forced upon them. Whether or not any sort of negative connotation is intended or not is another story. The fact of the matter is that to some being called ASB can be very negative.