I probably shouldn’t be making this post. I hate getting involved struggle session highschool drama shit and I won’t even point to specific evidence because frankly this shit depresses me. But here goes:
This might be a “wtf are you ranting about, Owl?” moment but there are some serious reactionary vibes in this place sometimes. Maybe it’s a holdover from the dirtbag leftist era, I don’t know, but it’s gross. I see it trying to worm its way in here and it’s a bad sign
If you ever catch yourself using the kind of shitty othering and ableism you’d see on stupidpol or a 2016 cringe compilation, go do some self crit or fuck right off
Yes, I see your point. We might need a better word. “Neurotypical” has the work “neuro” in it, but in the way I tried to use it, it’s not about what’s going on in your brain at all. Or it might, but only indirectly. Or rather, some people use it in that way (like I did), others in a more biological way. I think we need a word for that “acculturation to mainstream society in a mental health adjacent way” and I definitely know, that some people actively use “neurotypical” for that. But I totally see the problem with the conflict with how others use it and also the potential for confusion.
I think the conventional phrasing for that is “well-adjusted,” which as a poorly-adjusted person I have no problem with using, but you might not feel the same way.
Yes, I get how it fits, but it’s so positively connotated and the opposite so negatively, that I would still hesitate to use it for me or somebody else. I guess, “poorly-adjusted” could be reclaimed in a positive way maybe. Like many other words. I mean being well-adjusted to a capitalist society is kind of suspicious anyway. Chomsky is well adjusted, Parenti wasn’t (in a way, since he struggled to find employment).
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