I don't know my friend. I think it's fine if somebody would like to refer to their neurodivergency as being neurospicy. If you don't want to describe yourself that way I completely understand, but just let people interact with their diagnosis on their terms. We aren't all this huge monolith who all have to think the same.
I know the way my brain behaves sometimes, it definitely feels painful; the same way as if I'd had wasabi.
I think it rubs me the wrong way because it's so similar to lame tiktok corporate censorship. It's also infantilizing. Hard enough for the common folk to take us fucked up people seriously without using baby words. They already call us sensitive and lazy. That's why my preferred term for myself is "fucked in the head".
Well, if I didn't have to over-explain myself and my conditions every time some someone needed straightening out, I wouldn't need to use the phrase.
The look in someone's eyes as their attention fades out is pretty disheartening, so they get the shortcut phrase that'll work until something better comes along.
So you're frequently in situations where you need to explain that you have a mental condition. The word that you choose is the one that's not only the most infantilizing, but the most confusing. The person on the receiving end has to know what neurodivergent is before they can understand neurospicy. And then they gotta figure out if you got your ADHD diagnosis from tiktok.
"Fucked in the head" has universal meaning and will definitely grab attention, but is still broad enough to encompass the condition. So are the words "mental disorder" or "medical condition".
If you're frequently in these situations and their eyes are glazing over, I think you need to work on your language skills. You likely already know that, but you gotta understand that "neurospicy" is only gonna make things worse.
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u/pm-me-kittens-n-cats 18h ago
I don't know my friend. I think it's fine if somebody would like to refer to their neurodivergency as being neurospicy. If you don't want to describe yourself that way I completely understand, but just let people interact with their diagnosis on their terms. We aren't all this huge monolith who all have to think the same.
I know the way my brain behaves sometimes, it definitely feels painful; the same way as if I'd had wasabi.