Category:Neurogender

Contributions by: Rust&Stardust, Maddoxofthestars

Definitions and Usage
Neurogender is an umbrella term for any gender influenced by one’s mental illness, disability, and/or neurodivergency. They are rarely defined as "disability is one's gender", it merely changes how one experiences their gender. This may present in multiple ways, like a disconnect to the binary or the concept of gender, genderhoarding because of a constant discontent with current labels, etc. Importantly, not all neurodivergent or disabled people have neurogenders, it is simply a possible symptom or a manifestation of existing symptoms.

History
This term was coined by Tumblr user aflutteringlaney via MOGAI-archive around July 30, 2014.

Suffixes

 * -tix may be used for neurogenders or descriptors of genders affected by or described best by being affected or related form of neurodivergency
 * -fascic / -spinny / -spinnic may be used for special interest-related neurogenders
 * -stimmic / -stimmian may be used for neurogenders connected to stimming, stim toys, etc
 * -hypic may be used for hyperfixation-related neurogenders
 * -obsic may be used for neurogenders related to one’s obsession, exclusive to those with OCD
 * -delusic may be used for neurogenders related to delusions

Related Terms
There are thousands of different neurogenders, because of how diverse neurotypes and gender can be. Neurogenders are a subtype of xenogender, as they are defined in terms not often used to describe genders. Neurogenders can often be combined with other categories or have any alignment.

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The color meanings are as follows: Red, green, blue and purple represent the spectrum of different neurotypes and gender identities that neurodivergent individuals have. Black represents the aromantic and asexual spectrums. The infinity symbol represents the infinite ways neurodiversity can present.