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1:16pm April 13, 2014

clatterbane:

tenderball:

I kind of strongly dislike the word allistic for some reason—am I wrong for that

I don’t like it much, either, and haven’t been using it. Mostly because it really doesn’t work well with my synaesthesia, but also I don’t like some assumptions built into the word pairing. Maybe if a certain level of snark were more obvious, but yeah.

(In no way suggesting that nobody else should use the term, if it works for them. It just doesn’t for me personally.)

I can’t stand the word.  Never have been able to stand it.  Wish it hadn’t taken off as much as it has, honestly.  (I’m still a little baffled by how for years it was just a couple people using it and suddenly everyone used it.)

That still isn’t saying other people shouldn’t use it.  It just irritates me.  Especially because I know its origins and I know that the person who created it honestly believes in the aut/all self/other thing built into the meaning.  Other people can say it if they want, I just find the whole thing really irritating.

And it’s not like nonautistic didn’t exist, so it’s not like there was a gap there that needed to be filled in the first place.

Again, I’m not trying to tell other people how to feel about it.  And even though it irritates me, I’m not saying that my irritation means that other people shouldn’t use it.  It just does irritate me, that’s all.

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  1. gingerautie reblogged this from madeofpatterns and added:
    That’s very true actually, but I do have trouble with context sometimes. And I have seen someone insist that it applied...
  2. psychicdaydreams reblogged this from ndsenseandsex and added:
    I like the fact that “allistic” isn’t “nonautistic,” which seems really gross and othering to me as a term (benign...
  3. reesa-chan reblogged this from ndsenseandsex and added:
    I don’t like the feel of the word “allistic” in my mouth or visually or even through my hands, so I prefer to opt for...
  4. ndsenseandsex reblogged this from mulder-are-you-suggesting and added:
    In all the years I was part of the neurodiversity movement, I never once heard the term allistic until I came onto...
  5. mulder-are-you-suggesting reblogged this from withasmoothroundstone and added:
    I can’t stand “allistic” because I keep misreading it as “autistic” (they look too similar to me). I don’t know if this...
  6. flutterflyinvasion reblogged this from withasmoothroundstone and added:
    As a nonautistic/allistic person I like the word purely because I think something was needed to jolt people out of the...
  7. something-i-dunno reblogged this from withasmoothroundstone
  8. tropylium reblogged this from madeofpatterns and added:
    That’s an interesting claim. Would you mind elaborating on that bit? Do you mean just the etymological self/other...
  9. zombiekittensandmadscientists reblogged this from witchlockmonsterfox and added:
    Well, the origin is allo- meaning “other”, in opposition to auto- meaning “self”. Which, as blood-and-vitriol above...
  10. withasmoothroundstone reblogged this from clatterbane and added:
    I can’t stand the word. Never have been able to stand it. Wish it hadn’t taken off as much as it has, honestly. (I’m...
  11. fourloves said: how can something that feels so good ever be wrong
  12. witchlockmonsterfox reblogged this from happyjadewithflowers and added:
    This was kind of what I was thinking. Using “all” there has a lot of bad connotations for me, that’s implying...
  13. plures reblogged this from clatterbane and added:
    It’s never fitted well in any of our word-sets either. ~K.
  14. happyjadewithflowers reblogged this from clatterbane and added:
    Likewise – “autistic” implies a self-obsession, an obliviousness to others that just doesn’t click with so many folks I...
  15. clatterbane reblogged this from tenderball and added:
    I don’t like it much, either, and haven’t been using it. Mostly because it really doesn’t work well with my...
  16. tenderball posted this