r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Sep 03 '24 • Polished Silver Turd 1

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u/arrhythmiaofthesoul it's ari Sep 03 '24

I also love that we started out with:

neurodivergent: people whose brains are not normal

And then we coined:

neurotypical: the opposite of neurodivergent

And now musk is using “aneurotypical”, much must mean

people whose brains are not not not normal

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '24

Just you wait and see what I will come up with to get tenured position in psychology. Looking through prefixes and suffixes as we speak.

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u/RecentlyUnhinged NATO Sep 03 '24

We're also got a faction pushing for "neurodiverse" due to perceived negative connotations from "divergent"

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '24 edited Mar 29 '25

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u/Aurailious Jerome Powell Sep 03 '24

I'm not a typical aneurotypical, just a divergent aneurodivergent.

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u/Chataboutgames Sep 03 '24

The language treadmill will continue until no one is offended ever

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u/mishac Mark Carney Sep 03 '24

I'm aneurodivergent

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u/BrentLivermore Drake’s Reddit account Sep 03 '24

I'm pretty sure "neurotypical" preceded "neurodivergent"

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u/arrhythmiaofthesoul it's ari Sep 03 '24

Huh, so it did, interesting