The Five Neurodivergent Love Languages

Ryan Boren

I love this fun tweet on the five neurodivergent love languages from the always insightful Myth.

The five neurodivergent love languages: infodumping, parallel play, support swapping, Please Crush My Soul Back Into My Body, and "I found this cool rock/button/leaf/etc and thought you would like it"

— Amythest (@neurowonderful) May 27, 2021

I’ll expand on each with selected quotes.

Infodumping

Cause some have been asking:

Infodumping: talking about an interest or passion of yours and thus sharing information, usually in detail and at length

— Amythest (@neurowonderful) May 28, 2021

SpIns and Infodumps

I don’t know who invented the phrase “special interest.” Probably some researcher. Autistic people don’t really love the term because the term “special” has become tied so closely with terms like “special needs,”which we resent.

Nevertheless, somewhere down the line “special interest,” commonly shortened to SpIn (“spin”), became the term for the characteristically-autistic tendency to develop…

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