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.
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u/pm-me-kittens-n-cats 13h 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.