A harmful practice imposed by the neuroarchy (the societal system where neurotypicals hold social dominance and expect autistic people to conform to their norms). Whereas LGBTQ+ conversion therapy is an official program run by organizations or religious groups, neuroconversion therapy is enforced systemically through everyday social pressure, without being formally named. Parents, teachers, therapists, doctors, employers, and society at large pressure autistic people to suppress their natural behaviors and adopt neurotypical social norms. This includes forced masking, discouraging stimming (engaging in repetitive movements or sounds that help with self-regulation), and requiring eye contact and small talk, even when very uncomfortable. Despite these differences in structure, both forms of conversion therapy serve the same purpose: changing a person’s identity and forcing them to conform to societal expectations. While often framed as "helpful training" or "professionalism," this process benefits neurotypical people by making interactions easier for them, while causing autistic people stress, burnout, and loss of identity.
From childhood, autistic people are informally subjected to neuroconversion therapy - parents scold them for stimming, teachers push them into social skills training, and employers expect them to mask fully successfully or be fired.
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Get the Neuroconversion Therapy mug.Any brain-related disability at all. Epilepsy, autism, OCD, ADHD, FASD, cluster B disorders, PTSD, and much more. It places a heavy emphasis on the importance of one's identity as a medically disabled person, rather than the identity politics of the neurodiversity movement. Any person diagnosed with a brain-related disorder is considered disabled in this community.
Disabilities can be minor, moderate, or severe. It does not matter how little or how much your disability impacts you; you do not get a special title deeming you as a non-disabled person. If you meet enough requirements for a professional diagnosis of a disability, you are, therefore, impacted enough to be considered disabled.
Disabilities can be minor, moderate, or severe. It does not matter how little or how much your disability impacts you; you do not get a special title deeming you as a non-disabled person. If you meet enough requirements for a professional diagnosis of a disability, you are, therefore, impacted enough to be considered disabled.
Person 1: "Do you see that person over there? I think they're neurodivergent."
Person 2: "That person identifies as neurodisabled. They prefer their disorders to be purely seen as medical disabilities, rather than social or simply diverging from the norm."
Person 2: "That person identifies as neurodisabled. They prefer their disorders to be purely seen as medical disabilities, rather than social or simply diverging from the norm."
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Get the Neuro-Sama mug.(Adj.) Characterized by someone who Shows Prejudice, Discrimination, or Antagonism against a person or people on the basis of having a Neurodivergency (such as Autism Spectrum Disorder).
A politicians recent comments on Autism Spectrum Disorder were seen as Neurocist by the Autism Spectrum Community.
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Get the Neurocysticerosis mug.The native, internal language that an AI or large language model uses to think. It's the inscrutable "machine code" of a neural network, consisting of complex vectors, weights, and data relationships that are completely alien to humans.
When an AI's output is weird, nonsensical, or a "hallucination," it's often because a bit of its raw Neurolese leaked out instead of being properly translated into human language. The term was notably used by podcaster Dwarkesh Patel and Sholto Douglas & Trenton Bricken when discussing future AI scenarios.
When an AI's output is weird, nonsensical, or a "hallucination," it's often because a bit of its raw Neurolese leaked out instead of being properly translated into human language. The term was notably used by podcaster Dwarkesh Patel and Sholto Douglas & Trenton Bricken when discussing future AI scenarios.
My custom chatbot was supposed to write a recipe for lasagna, but instead it just gave me a wall of random symbols and half-finished words. It must have gotten stuck thinking in Neurolese again.
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Get the Neurolese mug.People who fulfill and internalised the societal norms so much because of their predispositions and other factors that they don't notice that they did. That's one reason why they call everything they don't understand "deviant", "other", "weird", "bad" and themselves "normal".
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