When a person begins a personal internet fad to which only they contribute. This internet fad may, but probably won't, catch on with the rest of the internet community as people start imitating it. Credited to internet personality Sean Rahill who dedicates 30% of his efforts to maintain his strange internet fads at all cost!
"I tag Tina Fey in everything I post on fb now. It's a thing."
The belief that all living and non-living things are simply representations of one central being called STAN and that love and freedom can unite all representations. Believers often call themselves 'stanites' or 'stanists'.
Stanism keeps me from getting my homework finished. I just can't seethe point in becoming anything else when we're all the same thing anyway!
The social, legal, or institutional discrimination against individuals who are mentally ill/neurodivergent, or who may be considered "not sane" by society's standards. This can often cross over into ableism.
The term sanism was originally coined by Morton Birnbaum.
Some oppressive terms that reinforce sanist stereotypes: crazy, insane, psycho, retarded, dumb, mad house, mental case; misuse of medical terms such as OCD, bipolar, schizophrenic, autistic, etc.
Jesse: I can't attend college in person due to my social anxiety and depression, so I take my courses online.
May: That's ridiculous. Everyone dislikes going to school. Just suck it up.
Jesse: That's sanism.