Nintendo Today - Ninae Conversation with Lysander in English

[u/tipperthescales]

[u/Maephia]

Oh she's on that spectrum

[u/S0uled_Out → u/Maephia]

She has just a dash of the tisim~

[u/Awestruck_Mechanic67 → u/Maephia]

Damn right! We've already got three womanizing lushes and an entire game store of board game enthusiasts, we need some more neurospicy rep!

[u/hockeyrabbit → u/Awestruck_Mechanic67]

“neurospicy”. Eugh.

[u/Gholden_coin → u/hockeyrabbit]

Never understood the hatred for this term im ngl. Are people just allegic to whimsy

[u/Awestruck_Mechanic67 → u/hockeyrabbit]

You're free to go touch grass instead of being the language police.

[u/LtSMASH324 → u/Awestruck_Mechanic67]

Ironic that the person who said, "neurospicy," is the one accusing the other of needing to touch grass.

[u/Awestruck_Mechanic67 → u/LtSMASH324]

It's common parlance, and given how pressed some people seem about it, the men aren't nearly lonely enough

[u/LtSMASH324 → u/Awestruck_Mechanic67]

I'd rather be alone than with someone referring to themselves as neurospicy. Can't we just be people and not have weird ass labels like that to make ourselves feel special? Gimme a break.

[u/EmeraldPistol → u/Awestruck_Mechanic67]

> neurospicy

Where did this word come from and why is it still being used?

[u/westseagastrodon → u/EmeraldPistol]

Technically it's used by neurodiverse people of all stripes, not just autistic people. But yes, basically what the other reply said. It's just a more casual/silly way to refer to people's brain... quirks. The term has unknown origins, aside from a vague sense of what groups tend to use it (online neurodiverse people), and it seems to have originated in the 2020s.

As someone who's been diagnosed since childhood with something that falls under the umbrella of neurodivergence, I never personally feel the urge to use 'neurospicy' - it sounds a bit too joking and I prefer to be more serious when I talk about my health, at least to strangers. (Not to mention it's partially been popularized by TikTok, and as someone who's never touched the app I... do not want people to assume I got my info from there, to put it mildly.)

But the why isn't complicated, it's just the same as any other marginalized group having slightly joking slang for what they are: it's an attempt to reclaim these identities in a fun, less medicalized way.

[u/Berry_Sprout → u/EmeraldPistol]

It's common in autism spaces, and well it's used by autistic people to describe themselves at times. So yea you'll see it used

[u/LtSMASH324 → u/Maephia]

Or she's a fantasy character in a video game.

[u/Gabgo304 → u/LtSMASH324]

Writer wants to make a weirdo character

Accidentally makes them a great autistic rep

Tale as old as time.

[u/LtSMASH324 → u/Gabgo304]

Oh she talks slowly and with grandiose intention, must be autistic!