I think Blues Brother hit it on the head as far as the response you could expect to receive if you took the question to a Kingdom Hall.
To DA oneself is basically to "choose the world" in their eyes, and it is the quickest way to inherit the apostate tag, despite the fact that scripturally speaking very few people even know what that word means or can be applied to. Probably one of the most overused words in the religion.
I remember a meeting where we had a visiting speaker. He was probably the hot shot elder in his hall. I introduced myself to his wife after the meeting. They came from a city where I knew a couple people so we made small talk. I asked about one younger kid, adn they mentioned that "his brother went apostate". I was a servant at the time, but I couldn't take the use of this word in regards to a young kid I had never met. I asked her if she knew God's spirit had left him and that jesus sacrifice no longer applied to him. She just looked at me. I also asked her if she could be sure he had taken a stance against Goid, had alligned himself with Satan, and was beating his former brothers. She just looked at me. I told her (kindly), that she has to be careful with such a word. Wether she realizes it or not, it is the worst thing you can call a person. You have to know someones heart to really make that distinction, so it isn't ours to make.
She got it. She apologized, and then her husband noticed his wife responding in the conversation, and he came up.
"Hows it going" he said.
"Fine this is ____, we were talking about so and so"
"Oh yea the apostate kid?"
His wife and I laughed. He excused them both. Warned the brothers about me on the way out. Could not be more hilarious, and this is when i was doing backstrokes in the kool-aid!