benepla:

ok y’all it’s time to stop using the word “neurotypical” to mean “someone who told me to do yoga when i said i was sad”. that was not it’s original context (it was, in fact, coined by autistic people and yoinked by mentally ill allistics lmao), and the idea that “non-mentally ill people” is a coherent class of people is BONKERS. ANYONE can be susceptible to mental illness, you do NOT know everyone’s history with mental illness, and even though people who are vocally against mental healthcare are obviously shitheads and dangers to themselves/their loved ones, to claim that their views are because they have a squeaky clean bill of sanity is just fuckin……wild.

anyway op isn’t autistic, and while neurotypical did originally mean not autistic, the definition has since expanded to include anyone without a mental illness or disability, basically because there are more mental and developmental disorders than just autism. this change happened about a decade ago more or less. the current word for non-autistic is allistic. neurotypical really does mean someone without a history of mental illness or disability. whether or not that’s a “coherent class”, whatever that means?

and if this is implying ableism somehow doesn’t affect mentally ill people then. idk that’s pretty fucking wild