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In the modern world, language evolves quickly to accommodate new concepts and trends, which frequently explode on social media. Over time, this changes the way we refer to things, phenomena, and even diagnoses. Recently, the word neurospicy emerged as a more fun and creative approach to describe the neurodiverse community so it wouldn’t sound as intimidating to other people.
To get ourselves acquainted with neurodivergency and further demystify it, Bored Panda collected a list of memes from the Neurodivergent Geek Girl Facebook page that tell it how it is with a humorous twist. Scroll down to find the best posts that perfectly reflect life with a spicy brain and don’t forget to upvote the ones you enjoyed the most!
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Lady Lestrange 11 months ago
I just can't upvote this enough. Cheers to those who have found their 'person'.
🇫🇮 Goth Nurse 🇫🇮 11 months ago
I hate my ADHD. I was diagnosed afew years ago. I'm 48 now. But all my past troubles makes sense SO MUCH now!
BannedFromABoatShow 11 months ago
And the next person who asks if my daughter will outgrow it I’m gonna punch in the face.
Sarah Léon 11 months ago
Between ADHD and Autism, I have some OCDs, and one of them is I can't touch something dirty if I don't have water near me to wash my hand and the possibility to change my clothes. I tried different methods. I force. I repeat "it's nothing, it's ok" and I KNOW it's ok but I CAN'T. So I can't do the dishes (dirty water... not possible), specially if it's not mine. If one of my cats peed on my clothes, I can't put them in the washing machine, etc. One of my friends comes to help me clean the house, and lately another one came to help, but she started to tell me "oh please you CAN do it it's not so bad !". No. No I can't. She only realised it when she saw me put the dirty clothes in the machine as far as possible from me and immediately go wash my hands for 1 long minute. She told me "you really can't ?" No. No I can't !
8wsw2kz49b 11 months ago
I don’t know if this will work for you, but I often use a dedicated set of long kitchen tongs to grab things. I wash the tongs in the dishwasher. Take good care of you!
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CherylTunt 11 months ago
Unpopular opinion - There is a fine line between using your disability for as excuse for laziness - I understand depression, ADHD, autism. My niece uses these as an excuse for not holding a job and quitting after 3 days and her parent coddled it at 21 years old she needs to learn to be independent. As someone who is officially diagnosed with adhd as an adult you can do things your choosing not to .
Wondering Alice 11 months ago
I hear you. However, for many the 'laziness' is a result of - as the OP said - a massive amount of being surrounded by people thinking if you are positive and work hard you can overcome it, when experience shows that all that exhausting work sometimes gets you no where. If I told you the only reason you can't fly is because you don't flap your arms fast enough, would you be lazy to not even try? That said, it is worth encouraging ND children that if they can't do something one way, can you help them find an alternative. Unfortunately, many kids have quit trying before they get to a point where they are old enough to communicate what might work for them. Please understand that not only are there huge variations in severity but also experience plays a massive part. I see many parents 'coddle' children, and while it looks counterproductive, if the outside world is a cruel place, I can get trying to ease that at home.
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DC 11 months ago
I have thought for years ... decades, actually ... that EVERYBODY has that. Everybody has thoughts that interrupt each other, everybody's mind focusses on something else all the time, brings up stuff, even solutions, to things you really don't need at the moment. I thought everybody else was just better in supressing that. Nobody listened, but a few people who I hated, but considered knowing in such regards, reinforced that belief. Teachers, these are called. After getting to know what ADHD is, I never got officially diagnosed, because I told my then-Doctor to only sign it if it helps me any. It didn't - "You're an adult, there's no medication for you, and as you have Abitur, the highest education to be received from school, and are a student at Uni now, we consider you have that managed sufficiently...". Yeah, fück that, I don't really need a piece of paper that shoves me in a drawer, but otherwise is useless.
BossyCloud 11 months ago (edited)
If you're currently in uni, you can get supports if you have a diagnosis. Like extra time on exams/assignments, funding for various supports (laptop, tutoring, etc). It's not at all useless. And you can take medication as an adult.
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Karina 11 months ago
sometimes ADHD means you are litteraly walking in spradic steps in every direction for several minutes, because you can to anything else, because that involves a choise that is impossible to reach when every eqation results in the same "pings" in the brain, and the calculation has to strart over, but you are also litterally "on the fly", SOO incredibly readdy to come to a conclution and get done with something, FOR ONCE. So Im litterally in the step between every conclution, walking in cirkles in my kitchen. Then I turn it into a dance, go pee, drink some water and try again.
Bremusa4u 11 months ago (edited)
This is such a great way to paraphrase ADHD. But you forgot to mention that before you try again, you must first remember what is it you wanted to choose.
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Celtic Pirate Queen 11 months ago
Having fibromyalgia is kind of the same way. When I say I have no energy or that everything hurts/aches, stop trying to suggest "solutions". You know what? I've been dealing with this sh*t for almost 30 years and I think I know a little more about it than you do.
Kathryn Burnett 11 months ago
The paralysis is the worst, when you look at all that has to be done and you just don't know where to even start and you just have to not deal with it until someone comes and tells you where to start. The number of strategies I have to deal with my ADHD and be a mom of 2 is astronomical.
This panda says ur worth it 11 months ago
Amen! I had a lot of trouble in school because I would start crying and I knew it was stupid reason but literally couldn't stop crying and people would laugh at me and it made me cry harder
Shelley Dawson 11 months ago
I have ADHD, it is not is a disability. It is a disadvantage in some areas and a massive advantage in others. I wasn't diagnosed until I was 70. I achieved my masters though I didn't start officially start studying until my late 40s. I am unable to do some things, I use my ingenuity to find ways round it. Try that, it's rarely a straight line that is the most efficient way to a destination.
Thalia Lovering 11 months ago
Why does it matter if a condition is or isn't a disability? If a person says they can't do something, then they probably can't. If we think that they can't and they just lack of knowledge or means, we can offer them once. If they still say they can't, let's just respect it.
HurlWurk 11 months ago
I'm sorry we have an entire generation that think "being on the spectrum" is a badge of honor, and make people distrustful of everyone, including those that actually need help. I grew up at a time where it was treated like I was just r******d because I didn't pay attention. ADD/ADHD didn't come until years later, I can understand your feelings of being mistreated/mislabeled.
sandrabmorison 11 months ago
I know and work with people with various disabilities including ADHD and most of them can do more than they think with support, adaptive equipment and encouragement. It can depend on the individual and also if they brought up to believe they can do most things trying
The term neurospicy is a playful addition to the already existing lexicon of neurodiversity, which also includes words like neuroqueer, neurodivergent, and neurodistinct.
The word neurodiversity emerged in the mid-1990s to describe individuals who diverged from the neurotypical society and was mostly used to refer to autistic people. Australian sociologist Judy Singer was the first to use this word in academia in 1998. The same year it made its way to the mainstream and continues to evolve and expand.
Neurospicy people have different thinking patterns compared to neurotypical people—those who don’t have differences in thinking or processing information. Neurodiversity is a catch-all term that includes all individuals who experience the world unlike others and covers a wide range of conditions like autism, ADHD, dyslexia, dyspraxia, and others.
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Beak Hookage 11 months ago
For more than thirty years I thought I just had a nasty explosive temper. Now I know it was me getting overwhelmed and expressing it with anger. Which would explain why being stuck in a crowded supermarket trying to do my Christmas shopping makes me start contemplating murder two minutes in.
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Steve Robert 11 months ago
Knowing today's current events does indeed take away that vague will to live.
The newly coined term neurospicy reimagines the brain as a culinary concoction with sensations, thoughts, and emotions blending together to create a symphony of flavors, explains Dani Rodwell, LCSW from Neuro Spark. “Neurospicy represents the spicy, tangy, and savory aspects of the brain. Being neurospicy is about depth and complexity. In essence, neurospicy captures the extraordinary, intense, (and sometimes fierce!) aspects of neurodivergent personalities.”
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Mary Beth Miller 11 months ago
When my psych symptoms get bad I develop a lot of body pain that decreases/goes away when my mental health improves.
She further explains that the term emerged as a rebellion against the “mild” autism stereotype, which perpetuates the wrong idea that people can be less or more autistic. “Thinking in terms of food, spicy is the antonym of mild. Sometimes, people reclaim language that was originally meant as an insult to actually begin using it as a celebration of their identity,” she said.
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Data1001 11 months ago
I do this with movies and TV shows some times -- then catch myself and realize I was just looking at the pictures and letting the noises sort of wash over me, but had no idea what just transpired in the previous minute or two. Thank goodness I can rewind. (Might need that capability for life, actually.)
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Pencil 11 months ago
We need to stop acting like everyone has a "passion" and they just need to discover it. Even the ones that do probably won't be able to monetize it. We're setting young people up to believe that even having a regular job that they like makes them a failure at life. No wonder they feel hopeless.
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WindySwede 11 months ago
And the dopamine levels went way down after Premium, and snatched DarkMode, was introduced.. 😛
However, some people have doubts about such linguistic creativity that addresses medical conditions that, in some cases, require treatment or a lot of daily support. They think that such vocabulary downplays the severity of conditions that fall under the neurodiversity umbrella. Others also believe that it’s a cute and quirky way to avoid saying that a person is disabled.
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Luke Branwen 11 months ago
"That's just the way it is ¯\_(ツ)_/¯" aka. the most infuriating answer you can give to a defiant neurodivergent person
Meanwhile, the happiness coach and founder of self-care stationery based on real therapy techniques, Sugar and Sloth, Anita, who is neurodivergent herself, encourages those in the community to embrace the term neurospicy if they like the sound of it. "When I hear the word neurospicy, I think of a cute little chilli pepper and it makes me smile. Also, extra bonus, neurospicy is way easier to spell than then neurodivergent, which is great for those of us with dyslexia.”
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According to Rodwell, whether or not to use the term neurospicy to describe neurodivergent individuals depends on personal preference. “The best way to find out a person’s individual language preferences is to ask them and respect their wishes,” she said.
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A̷͇̘̓͜l̷̼͇̣͒̌ͅȩ̷͍͙͗̅̀͊̏̾͘x̶̋̍ 11 months ago
Unfortunately, introverted doesn't mean antisocial..😑
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OneWithRatsAndKefir 11 months ago
Looking back, I probably gave off -quite- a few signs that I was autistic. Seriously, the amount of times I near enough pray to just run into my old primary and secondary school teachers in public just to tell them, “Oh, hey, I got diagnosed with Autism since you last saw me, did you -at all- expect that that little girl had ASD? Yes, no, please explain reasoning.”
However, she still believes that it’s more than just a word. The term celebrates neurodivergent individuals and advocates for acceptance and inclusion. “Whether you resonate with the term neurospicy or not, or can identify with the neurospicy meaning, we can agree that the many different ways of expressing our identities are just as diverse as we are.”
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Helena 11 months ago
Every year I get to sit through my annual review at work, "great work, efficient, you do the things. Now here are 3 pages of coworker feedback telling you exactly how bad your personality is and how awkward you are. Sure you've been like that your entire life and you've been trying to fit in since you were 5, but we're going to need you to fix that this year". I recover from it about a month later.
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Luke Branwen 11 months ago
If a neurodivergent girl passionately infodumped to me about her special interest, there's a solid chance I'd hopelessly fall in love within minutes
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Kaisa Satjus 11 months ago
Once when i was waking up from stomach surgery the nurse ask me about my pain level. My answer: "if my stomach was a 12 toast toaster, 8 of those would be on fire"" I did get more painkillers
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January Tempis 11 months ago
Moving something from one pile to another and back and forth and back and forth again. Something that should take 20 minutes takes days. And then of course there's the reverse when you think something should take 20 minutes but that is humanly impossible.
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January Tempis 11 months ago
I think it's more fun to know a a little bit about a bunch of things!
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JudyfromAccounts 11 months ago
If I'm as hot as they say, why do they ghost me? Oh yeah, my s**t personality.
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CK 11 months ago
When people say "everyone's a little bit autistic," they mean it to invalidate autistic struggles. The technicality of whether it's true on any level isn't even relevant. If tall people were talking about having to live in a world of things that aren't designed for their height, "everyone's a little bit tall" would be a technically true response on some level (because even short people have height) but it wouldn't be appropriate.
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Beak Hookage 11 months ago
In Rocko's Modern Life, they dealt with it by introducing the Triangle to Trafalgar Square and they fell in love and went off together to get married. ...In hindsight, that show was even weirder than I thought.
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Sobri Kate 11 months ago
My cousin and I but only when watching KDramas. Sometimes it appears as if they have a small pool of actors to draw from and other times we're wondering how the heck they gathered almost a full cast of actors we haven't seen.
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OneWithRatsAndKefir 11 months ago
That’s probably one of the more fun ways to think of it, especially since Batman, in one comic, is hinted at possibly being autistic with diagnosed OCD and PTSD. Are there any comic book heroes that are canonically neurodivergent (and not in the stereotypical ‘House’ or ‘Sheldon’ way)?
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Atom Bohr 11 months ago
I love talking to people, and I'm objectively pretty good at it! But I'm terrible at making friends. Between forgetting to message people back for months if we only message occasionally, texting hundreds of times a day and driving people crazy, not conforming to societal norms for someone my age, and being broke all the time, I just can't figure it out. I feel like an alien watching humans live their lives, and a few of them are fond of me, but we're not alike
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Beak Hookage 11 months ago
What is an autistic person supposed to look like? I think they forgot to tell me during orientation. Or I got distracted by an interesting bird.
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Mary Beth Miller 11 months ago
Yup. That's me. And then I forget the original point I was trying to communicate.
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Cosmos in your eyes 11 months ago
100%. I get mad at my husband when he gets mad at the kids. I have to remind him they are not trying to p**s them off, they are trying to figure things out.
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Beak Hookage 11 months ago
Once a thirsty crow came across a jug of water, but the water was too low for him to reach. He tried many times to tip the jug over, but was not strong enough. Then he spied a pile of small stones nearby, and he dropped them one by one into the jug until the water rose. As he drank of the cool liquid, the crow thought "PATIENCE OFTEN SUCCEEDS WHERE FORCE FAILS".
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Data1001 11 months ago
The look on his face reminds me of the recurring SNL character Brian Fellow ("Brian Fellow's Safari Planet"), played by Tracy Morgan. He'd have a guest on his show who would start talking about the animal they brought along and then you'd hear that person's voice fade out and suddenly Brian would just drift off and start imagining animals talking to him.
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Beak Hookage 11 months ago
I saw a UFO and nobody believes me! I was sixteen miles from home with nobody in sight. And what's it gonna take to be back home tonight?
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Beak Hookage 11 months ago
I have a lot of piercings but not to the point where my hat has them. o_0
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Nora12 11 months ago
I need someone to explain to me why this thread which is suppose to be about neurodiversity has so many random cheese posts 🧀
OneWithRatsAndKefir 11 months ago
It’s a good snack when you want to eat but have no energy to cook or heat up leftovers. That’s my reasoning for it at least. Anyway, this is everbody’s daily reminder to drink water and look away from your screen for twenty seconds for the sake of your eye health.
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Nils Skirnir 11 months ago
Very few, if any, of these are neurodivergent. Virtually all are about little quirks, not neurodivergence. No, your absolutely normal little human quirks don’t make you autistic
Atom Bohr 11 months ago
People seem to miss that a lot of these are about the degree to which an individual experiences them. A lot of neurodivergent people don't experience anything a neurotypical person doesn't, they simply experience the same things more/less frequently or strongly. Everyone forgets things, but some people do it so much it affects their ability to do their jobs, or get through the day without difficulty. Most people like learning interesting things, but if it becomes an obsession or "your personality" that's neurodivergence. Everyone struggles to understand social norms or non-verbal cues from time to time, but if it's all day every day, that's neurodivergence. It's all about the degree to which someone experiences something
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M McBride 11 months ago
I’m a psychologist, and although I agree that at one point ADHD and autism were under-diagnosed, I feel now that they are over-diagnosed. I think a lot of people are using these disorders to justify their bad behaviors, and as an excuse to keep doing them (or, you know, to get tasty stimulant medications). These disorders are real and have real implications for peoples’ lives, which is why it’s important for healthcare professionals to accurately diagnose (and not just automatically assign an ADHD or autism diagnosis to people who are simply messy, late, forgetful, shy, etc.).
The Darkest Timeline 11 months ago
I fear you are correct. Same with anxiety; there is a difference between being anxious and having anxiety. And now that we’ve started to accept it (among other things), people are self-diagnosing in order to excuse themselves from being functional, responsible, accountable, pro-social, etc.
Load More Replies... CK 11 months ago
Can we talk about how evil acrylic sweaters are? It's not a neurodivergent thing but I've noticed that most neurotypicals have a higher tolerance for acrylic.
Atom Bohr 11 months ago
I can still remember a coat from when I was 2½/3 years old: it had this awful fake fur that drove me crazy and I got in so much trouble for having tantrums over wearing it. I'm in my late 30s but I still remember it, more than all the other itchy jumpers and scarves that also led to me getting in trouble for fidgeting or complaining or crying. I work with kids now and I'm always so happy to see how far textile technology has come: some of their coats and scarves are insanely soft and I'm so glad they don't generally have to suffer the way I did back then
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Beak Hookage 11 months ago
I'm starting to wonder if I might be ADHD as well as autistic OMG LOOK A SHINY THING
_-DungeonKeeper-_ 11 months ago
Hi, undiagnosed person here who I am 99% sure has OCD and maybe ADD which is a fun combination because not only must this box be i n t h e c e n t e r I have the odd urge to touch it with the opposite elbow I accidentally hit it with but it's not the same so I panic inside. Also probably not anxiety but I stress easy and cannot beat boss rushes in games or the Coloseum of Fools because my hair tie is... heavier on one side? Also every inch of my body itches. And the gazes of random classmates are greater on my left, also WHY DOES IT ALL ITCH
Nora12 11 months ago
I need someone to explain to me why this thread which is suppose to be about neurodiversity has so many random cheese posts 🧀
OneWithRatsAndKefir 11 months ago
It’s a good snack when you want to eat but have no energy to cook or heat up leftovers. That’s my reasoning for it at least. Anyway, this is everbody’s daily reminder to drink water and look away from your screen for twenty seconds for the sake of your eye health.
Load More Replies... Nils Skirnir 11 months ago
Very few, if any, of these are neurodivergent. Virtually all are about little quirks, not neurodivergence. No, your absolutely normal little human quirks don’t make you autistic
Atom Bohr 11 months ago
People seem to miss that a lot of these are about the degree to which an individual experiences them. A lot of neurodivergent people don't experience anything a neurotypical person doesn't, they simply experience the same things more/less frequently or strongly. Everyone forgets things, but some people do it so much it affects their ability to do their jobs, or get through the day without difficulty. Most people like learning interesting things, but if it becomes an obsession or "your personality" that's neurodivergence. Everyone struggles to understand social norms or non-verbal cues from time to time, but if it's all day every day, that's neurodivergence. It's all about the degree to which someone experiences something
Load More Replies... M McBride 11 months ago
I’m a psychologist, and although I agree that at one point ADHD and autism were under-diagnosed, I feel now that they are over-diagnosed. I think a lot of people are using these disorders to justify their bad behaviors, and as an excuse to keep doing them (or, you know, to get tasty stimulant medications). These disorders are real and have real implications for peoples’ lives, which is why it’s important for healthcare professionals to accurately diagnose (and not just automatically assign an ADHD or autism diagnosis to people who are simply messy, late, forgetful, shy, etc.).
The Darkest Timeline 11 months ago
I fear you are correct. Same with anxiety; there is a difference between being anxious and having anxiety. And now that we’ve started to accept it (among other things), people are self-diagnosing in order to excuse themselves from being functional, responsible, accountable, pro-social, etc.
Load More Replies... CK 11 months ago
Can we talk about how evil acrylic sweaters are? It's not a neurodivergent thing but I've noticed that most neurotypicals have a higher tolerance for acrylic.
Atom Bohr 11 months ago
I can still remember a coat from when I was 2½/3 years old: it had this awful fake fur that drove me crazy and I got in so much trouble for having tantrums over wearing it. I'm in my late 30s but I still remember it, more than all the other itchy jumpers and scarves that also led to me getting in trouble for fidgeting or complaining or crying. I work with kids now and I'm always so happy to see how far textile technology has come: some of their coats and scarves are insanely soft and I'm so glad they don't generally have to suffer the way I did back then
Load More Replies... Beak Hookage 11 months ago
I'm starting to wonder if I might be ADHD as well as autistic OMG LOOK A SHINY THING
_-DungeonKeeper-_ 11 months ago
Hi, undiagnosed person here who I am 99% sure has OCD and maybe ADD which is a fun combination because not only must this box be i n t h e c e n t e r I have the odd urge to touch it with the opposite elbow I accidentally hit it with but it's not the same so I panic inside. Also probably not anxiety but I stress easy and cannot beat boss rushes in games or the Coloseum of Fools because my hair tie is... heavier on one side? Also every inch of my body itches. And the gazes of random classmates are greater on my left, also WHY DOES IT ALL ITCH
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