The word “ascared” is a perfectly good American word. It needed no damnably slanderous parenthetic “(sic)”. See http://www.grammarist.com/usage/ascared/
Hehhehheh. I always thought it was spelt “askeered” or maybe “ascairt”, thus the need for the (sic).
“;^)
Writing ‘ascared’ is a ginormous grammatical error.