weatherglow/stanley

╰┈➤ vocephilia

— vocephilia | "voce" [latin; voice]

• the paraphilic attraction to voices

╰┈➤ androvocephilia

— androvocephilia | "andro- (anḗr)" [greek; male]

• the vocephilic attraction to males / masculine people

╰┈➤ gynevocephilia

— gynevocephilia | "gyne- (gynḗ)" [greek; female]

• the vocephilic attraction to females / feminine people

╰┈➤ autovocephilia

— autovocephilia | "auto- (autós)" [greek; self]

• the vocephilic attraction to oneself

— example(s):

• the way one sounds when they express different emotions

• liking dirty talk specifically because it is vocal

Xenotypes & Xenotemps

A xenotype is a nontraditional neurotype - one that exists outside of medically recognized neurotypes. They can be coined with a variety of prefixes/suffixes, but the most common will be the prefix "neuro-" or "neur-".

Examples might be neurocat, neurodoll, neurohope, neurotwispark (Twilight Sparkle from MLP), neurosub, neurevoluntionary, neurinertia, and so on. They can also be related to recognized neurotypes, such as dragautism (dragon autism) or Narcissusism (Narcissus narcissism). They can also be related to other identities - such as lesborderline or plurADHD or mexicantisocial, though these should be handled with care and coined/used by people of those identities.

Your xenotype can have any relationship to the object/concept/being it's named for. It can be entirely literal (having the neurology of a cat), entirely metaphorical (having a neurotype that is cat-like), or anywhere in between.

Anything can be a xenotype, the only specific thing is that a xenotype is intended to refer to permanent neurological phenomena - much like autism or ADHD in traditional neurotypes.

Which brings us to xenotemps!

Xenotemps are like xenotypes, except they are temporary. They can be anything a xenotype can be, but much like depression or even psychosis, they are transient. They may, like depression or psychosis, be reoccuring though.

It is entirely up to individuals to determine whether their experience falls under a xenotype or a xenotemp. There can definitely be terms that are both! The main point of this is to create community-based self-IDs, as atypical neurotypes are so deeply medicalized by a massively ableist psych system.

For this reason, we ask that no one excludes any good faith term coined under this label, and that good faith is assumed of coined terms until conclusively proven otherwise. We also ask that if bad faith terms are coined, that no one harasses anyone and simply blocks the coiner if they find a bad faith label.

The point is just to have fun and take back self-determination of a highly medicalized set of identities. But these also coexist alongside the medical identities, for those that find them useful.

Xenotypes and xenotemps can be considered a form of neurodivergence, but they are open to people who are considered neurotypical by more standard rules.

Xenokintypes, if such a thing exists, are welcome to be a related label or sublabel! I am otherkin but just haven't seen xenokintypes so I'm not sure how that would work.

I will make a bulletpoint breakdown as well for accessibility purposes.