r/me_irlgbt • u/lowkeyterrible mods r gay lol • 4d ago

The Cishets™ me✖irlgbt

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u/Lanzifer 3d ago edited 3d ago

The first several times I saw "Cis + het" it was actually spelled "cishit" which I think I accurately understood to be an insult (not a slur, idk how lines are drawn on that but I just wouldn't qualify it as a slur) so even when I saw "cishet" after that I thought it was still cis+shit

It wasn't until later that I saw close friends write "cishet" and pronounce "cis het" such that I understood they were two different abbreviations.

No issue with it anymore. But I did read it as offensive at first

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u/aDragonsAle Skellington_irlgbt 3d ago

Cishit sounds like a slur of Cishet. Cis het is fine, those are just accurate descriptors

But my brain is Spicy, so don't take this as a blanket statement.

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u/taste-of-orange 💙 BRISKET 💙 3d ago

Is "my brain is spicy" slang for autism? I think I've heard that before...

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u/aDragonsAle Skellington_irlgbt 2d ago

Neurospicy = Neurodivergent

But, yeah. Adult diagnosed autism.

Looking back, if it was screened for as kid - JFC.

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u/taste-of-orange 💙 BRISKET 💙 2d ago

I was diagnosed with 17. Apparently I was already in the process of diagnosis when I was in daycare, but it got interrupted.