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7:26pm
June 6, 2013
➸ Trying to find the right words: Stop saying "neurotypical"
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”…
Yeah. I’ve always used nonautistic and wondered why the hell there had to be another word for it. Because not many people understand allistic and it was like making up a word for the sake of it. Which felt like exactly what the person who made it up was doing. And she seemed to honestly believe the aut- and all- prefixes actually meant something real, which I found irritating then and now.
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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