I like this approach. “funny meme” aside, I think it is a good way of showing how much a certain language can affect how other people think and feel about a subject. Just read it THAT way and “being neurotypical” suddenly sounds like a disorder that isn’t fully compatible with the public, doesn’t it?
We live in a world that isn’t exactly kind to people on the spectrum. It is loud, flashy, hectic, overwhelming, unrewarding but you’re still expected to work like a cog in a machine, despite having fewer and fewer places where you’d actually “fit in” without grinding gears, and whenever there is some sort of public talk about that topic, it always, always sounds like the affected person is the problem and personally responsible for fixing themselves, when a no small part of “not fitting in” is due to society itself. Maybe a change in language is due to remove that stigma.
I’m beginning to get the impression that people with autism reaaaally don’t like people witbout autism.
Hey, I love neurotypicals, they’re great, hell one of my freinds younger brother has neurotypicalism and he’s such a quirky lil goofball but he can actually behave himself most of the time too, we get along really well.
There may be a sore spot after centuries of dehumanizing abuse.