• AnarchistArtificer@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    I feel like it can be over used, but generally I like it, it fills a lexical niche for me. I could use non autistic, but that feels clunky. Sometimes it’s useful to talk about non autistic people’s experiences in relation to autistic people, and sometimes I want to talk about autistic experiences in relation to allistic experiences, so I may prefer a term like allistic.

    A thing that feels similar to me is the word allosexual, which means not asexual. I guess I would identify as being on the ace spectrum, but not ace (I’m demisexual), so allosexual is often a useful word

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      11 months ago

      Neurotypical is the word most people use instead of non-autistic.

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          11 months ago

          Although true, neurotypical more means close to average. Don’t think of typical as a single thing, but more an average of collective experiences.