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5:26pm June 6, 2013

➸ Trying to find the right words: Stop saying "neurotypical"

goldenheartedrose:

eyehaightewe:

What the hell is “typical”, anyway? When you call certain people “typical”, you are holding people up to a standard and implying that those who do not meet that standard are “atypical” or “abnormal”.

Say “allistics” instead of “neurotypicals”, please.

And I’m never, ever going to say allistic in my life. Ever. And that’s besides the fact it doesn’t even mean the same thing as neurotypical. Besides the fact that my brain just won’t use allistic in ordinary sentences, there is the fact that I remember who coined it and why (way back before most people even heard of it, it was just one person trying hard to popularize it) and I hate the implications of allistic, they’re even more insulting to autistic people than the word neurotypical is to anyone. Not that I care, you can use words without caring about their origins, and I’m not saying other ppl shouldn’t use allistic, but I remember that one and I reject the word as totally as my brain rejects me using it.

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  1. sidneyia reblogged this from withasmoothroundstone and added:
    I made a looooong post about this way back before my first hiatus and it generated enough hate to power a small city. I,...
  2. raposadanoite reblogged this from madeofpatterns
  3. auti-stim reblogged this from deducecanoe and added:
    1. I feel like I know and understand and can easily use words like neurotypical, neuroatypical, allistic, neurodiverse,...
  4. jaegerdelta reblogged this from deducecanoe and added:
    Bolded for emphasis. I was really glad to discover ‘allistic’ as a word to use because I am exactly that someone and I...
  5. deducecanoe reblogged this from acting-captain-irrayditation and added:
    Words are tough. I don’t have good ones sometimes. I know I say “nuts” and “crazy” a lot when I mean “JFC WHAT THE FUCK...
  6. acting-captain-irrayditation reblogged this from a-spoon-is-born
  7. withasmoothroundstone reblogged this from a-spoon-is-born and added:
    By idea, I meant the idea to use that word to mean nonautistic. Apologies if I gave the impression people shouldn’t use...
  8. a-spoon-is-born reblogged this from withasmoothroundstone and added:
    I think it’s not so much that her idea was accepted, so much as the word itself was accepted because it filled a very...
  9. clatterbane reblogged this from withasmoothroundstone and added:
    I don’t like to use the term for some of the same reasons, without knowing how it originated. It does strike me as...
  10. freakingdork-oldblog reblogged this from justjasper
  11. ifonlynotnever reblogged this from bonehandledknife
  12. phineasfrogg reblogged this from withasmoothroundstone and added:
    I have a really hard time with the word ‘allistic’. +1.
  13. connaissais reblogged this from bonehandledknife and added:
    Any characteristic has an average measure within a species. Particular demographics influence this average more than...
  14. bonehandledknife reblogged this from sordidcrayons
  15. lemonschwayschway reblogged this from sordidcrayons and added:
    As someone who isn’t autistic, but is non-neurotypical, I like this word. Typical isn’t ‘normal,’ it’s not degrading or...
  16. super-rainbows reblogged this from socialjusticecephalopod
  17. twocentsormore reblogged this from withasmoothroundstone and added:
    My brain rejects it too. Not saying I condemn people for using it either. It’s just that my brain can’t handle it. Also,...