I agree with rosea – I think Clare would have picked a name reminding him of the stones, but feel he might chose "WarmingStones" as his username, rather than CollectedStones because of the symbolic sugnificance of the stones' warmth. Clare's process of collecting the stones seems to me secondary to holding and warming the stones in his pockets. The "stones in [his] heart" were significant because Clare felt he couldn't warm them – but he continued to try. 

I also agree that Clare would not call himself SuperCrip in this type of space. While people can attribute Supercripdom to him, meaning well, I doubt that Clare, in a space of self expression, would choose to use this sort of opportunity to focus on how other people view him, rather than how he sees himself.

While I agree with khinchey's choice of icon for Eli Clare, I'm not sure if I can agree with the choice of username in both the previous post and the root post. In the same passages that you both cite, there is a to+ne of resentment and too much negativity attached on 

"At 13 my most sustaining relations were not in the human world. I collected stones - red, green, gray, rust, white speckled with black, black streaked with silver - and kept them in my pockets, their hard surfaces warming slowly to my body heat. . . . Wandered in the hills thick with moss, fern, liverwort, bramble, tree. Only here did I have a sense of body. Those stones warm in my pockets, I knew them to be the steadiest, only untouched parts of myself" (145). 

"... I lay myself

in the riffle where stream

meets river, water warmed all day

and still cold, current pulls, finger bones

tremble. I hang onto rocky bottom

long as I can, then give way,

body rushing downstream

to steadier water"

-from "Angels"

I have always heard that cats were more faithful than dogs, that they like the house and not the owner. I was never a cat person until I met Peanut, my adopted cat. From the start, I realized we had the same personality. She liked to play, she fought for her spot not mattering with what animal she had to, but one thing about her, she did not like to be petted, unless the day was extremely cold.

Personally, I don't think Clare would define himself as Supercrip in a public setting. He does say that he has supercripdom within himself, but that is not him. He does want supercrip to be dead, as you stated -- as he stated -- and it is not really a slur or identity to reclaim. Instead, it is a falsehood, a societal creation that does nothing but harm and erase disabled people. It is not a term that has been used against anyone as a negative term, like, say, crip, that can be flipped on its head and held up instead of being a tool to put down.

I also believe that Eli Clare would chose to identify himself in this group as "supercrip". The word comes up many times when Eli speaks about dealing with people who are nondisabled. I have never experienced 'crip-theory' in school before and I believe this is the experience of many of the 360 students. Because we are reading Exile and Pride as the first text in two of our three courses, we are giving serious value to Clare's work and assigning him the supercrip label by default (subconciously).