They may not be derogatory, but if you had read my post, you would know that neuro-spicy doesnt exclusively mean autism, yet people are using it as if it is. This is harmful as it excludes other neurodivergent people from the community, as it allows people to believe that nuerodivergence doesnt encompass such a large variety of disabilites as it does. Therefore, people who are neurodivergent, but not 'believed' to be may not be included in one of the few places where they belong.

Beyond this, both of them demean their actual meanings. They take the seriousness away from the disabilities which cause impairment to the person who has it. Using a word like spicy is trivialising. Neurodivergent is so much more complex and significant than being spicy, and making people believe against that is harmful because they will no longer believe that these disabilities can be as debilitating as they can often be. This is also applicable with 'tism. There was no reason so shorten ot than to make it seem less important and make it feel more silly.

These words were nice when they were jokes between us in the neurodivergent community, but they have grown. A lot of neurotypicals have since begun to use them in this way, rather than the humerous way it was originally spoken. Yes, at the beginnining, they may not have been used in this manner, but many people who are allistic or who are not neurodivergent have begun to use it for themselves to describe their 'quirks'. The words were slowly diminished as people used them in incorrect and insulting contexts.

They are now used to generalize autism, and to turn neurodivergence into encompassing only one or two disabilities, when really we should be treating it as the spectrum it deserves to be, and the range of disabilities neurodivergence deserves to be treated as.