Neurospicy

[Bearinthesmallmessyflat]

I’ll preface this by saying I’m neurodivergent myself (adhd)
I’ve notice more and more people using the phrase neurospicy instead of neurodivergent. It started off online but now I know people who use it in person and I absolutely bloody hate it.
I don’t know if I’m being unreasonable because I can’t really articulate why I dislike it so much? It’s a bit like the ‘oh I’m just so weird and crazy people’ I feel

I actually rolled my eyes when I saw your thread title, before opening and reading the post! I agree.

For me, it kind of is like, if you have a dish and then get the spices out.. the dish is better, different and not everyone will understand the complexity of flavour.
So I don't actually mind it.
I am ND and so is my hsband and kids and grandparents on both sides, even though they won't agree, rhey definitely are!
We struggle with lot's of things but life is so much more flavoursome because of our ND.
That's how I see it.
However, I don't actually go around using the phrase myself, i will leave that to the influencers.

See also

we are all on the spectrum

and

a little bit OCD

I’ve seen it used by people who self-diagnose to explain their differences.

I’ve found the opposite to be fair. It’s mostly people in their teens and twenties I’ve heard using it. Actually I think when I first heard it used it was from alternative influencery types and veeery online folk and that has probably influenced my feeling about it too

But I think people have knocked it on the head saying it tends to be people that make their nd their whole personality. I get why people do it, so I try to make a conscious effort not to be annoyed by it but dear god their is a middle ground and you can be confident and open about your differences without making them your entire personality

You'd be amazed how many people amongst the superpower groups who all appear suspiciously high functioning self id as asd, and go around lecturing everyone else, using it as an excuse for their poor behaviour (I'm not talking about asd behaviour but outrageous behaviour) and making outrageous demands of those around them.
It's 1 thing to say you suspect that you have asd and a whole different thing to claim a diagnosis that you don't have

It's infantilising and patronising. I have ADHD but would never describe myself as neurospicy, wtf does that even mean?

I have 2 different types of cancer too, pray god I don't see 'tumourspicy' proliferating the English language

Can’t stand it either. Almost as bad as people suddenly saying they’ve “caught feelings” for someone. Horrible.

I have an ASD diagnosis and all the neurospicy/neurosparkly/superpower crap really pisses me off. It’s usually people who have self-diagnosed 🙄 and/or make being autistic the ONLY thing about themselves. It’s ridiculous.

I don’t really mind it. I’m AuDHD and do not think I would use it myself but at the same time I can’t get worked up about it. I don’t feel like it’s belittling… but I am the sort of person who would tell you about my most traumatic experience like it was a stand up routine. I am known to be flippant about things so I know that’s not the experience of everyone.

I think that people can use what they are comfortable with to describe their own experience

I do hate it when people make it their whole personality though

”Girlie” is much worse IMO!

Exactly !! People with neurodivergences are entitled to describe their experiences any way they like !!!!!!
I’ve met so many people with ND with crushed low self esteem due to a lifetime of prejudice/ misunderstandings/ feeling that they don’t fit in - let’s not police the language people choose to use !

I hate it too. And I too can't put my finger on why not. It just makes my teeth itch.

You know the overlap between the people I know who use neurospicy and the people I know who used to make a big deal of their mbti profile is massive actually now you mention it

“Neurosparkly”???

I haven’t heard that before and hope it doesn’t become mainstream

100%. Like straight people calling themselves queer because it makes them sound more spicy.

The first person I heard using this word was a woman in her 40s who appeared to be perfectly serious in telling me that I was neurospicy and so was she, right!?!!! I was a bit nonplussed to be honest.

Excellently put. Im not keen on it either and to me it seems to have sexual connotations even though i know it doesn't if that makes sense

Me too.

We struggle with lot's of things but life is so much more flavoursome because of our ND.

How can you know that if you have nothing to compare it to? More “flavoursome” than what?

Yes. It pisses me off almost as much as ‘autism is my superpower’

ND and also hate it. IMO it comes across as trivialising and making it into some quirky personality trait when in reality it has a massive impact on some peoples lives.

What about “a touch of the ‘tism”? I’ve heard that loads lately.

The only people I’ve seen mention their MBTI are K-Pop idols (I know it’s a very big thing in Korea), I didn’t know people did it here too!!!

Yeuch.

You surely have to know that loads of people do this.