StrikerBe yourself and be true to who you are. Don't let neurotypical conditioning define your identity.
m_r_buttsHow alone am I in disliking the word "allistic"? To me it feels like an outgrowth of a persecution fetish, literally defining an outgroup. Especially since it has zero mainstream adoption, where "non-autistic" is immediately clear to anyone.
🐑🇸 🇭 🇪 🇪 🇵 🇱 🇪🐑“Neurotypical” is the more appropriate word anyway
Yeah I agree with that. I will, however, point out that it means basically the same thing as the word normal. Context does matter as much as being understood as meaning non-autistic.
LillyPipThe whole of human experience is a spectrum, anyhow. Neurotypical just means this small peak of the bell curve society deems ‘normal’, but even then, lots of people in that group wouldn’t be considered ‘normal’ if they were honest with themselves.
Those terms do help people outside that definition, though, because they help identify and contextualise the friction they feel in society, and defining is a crucial first step towards understanding, acceptance, and learning how to overcome obstacles.
These words aren’t really for the benefit of neurotypical people, so they can seem unnecessary. They’re not, though.
(I’d never heard the word in the OP, and I agree it’s superfluous. We already have several words for it.)