'Neurospicy' author / story recommendations?

[Actingup]

I used the tag 'neurospicy' in my most recent story and a reader has (after a very nice comment) noted that following the tag doesn't produce any other similar stories. I'd like to reply with some recommendations. I have a couple of suggestions that of course reflect my own friends and biases, but would really love to give a more considered answer. Any thoughts?

 

[anthrodisiac]

I used the tag 'neurospicy' in my most recent story and a reader has (after a very nice comment) noted that following the tag doesn't produce any other similar stories. I'd like to reply with some recommendations. I have a couple of suggestions that of course reflect my own friends and biases, but would really love to give a more considered answer. Any thoughts?

Given I'm not allowed to use it without owing @PennyThompson royalties, I don't use the tag. Are you looking for stories that feature neurospicy (damn, there's royalties... Here, Penny ) characters? Better tags?

 

[THBGato]

I used the tag 'neurospicy' in my most recent story and a reader has (after a very nice comment) noted that following the tag doesn't produce any other similar stories. I'd like to reply with some recommendations. I have a couple of suggestions that of course reflect my own friends and biases, but would really love to give a more considered answer. Any thoughts?

I have a list- the joys of neurodivergency - https://www.literotica.com/authors/THBGato/lists?listid=20789706

All lesbian, naturally.

 

[anthrodisiac]

I really shouldn't post after having a thirty-minute metal-music-and-cat-cuddle sesh when I'm half-nodded off and don't read the title

I know @FrancesScott's story Abby's Saphhic Deliberations features a neurospicy MC. "Autism" as a tag tends to produce the most results. "Neurodiverse" produces weirdly none.

I massively regret not adding autism or neurodiverse as tags to one of my valentine entries. I can't remember why I didn't.

Damn, @THBGato beat me to FS's story...

Well, only thing I can add is my own, I guess. A Tongue-Tied Valentine. FMC space nerd/metalhead. Also, because it's, you know, me... she's an anthro tamandua. Almost certainly not one of those stories most people pass on when someone asks them for recommendations on neurospicy stories Sorry I don't have anything more useful besides a story that's probably not what the person is going to be into. (Or most people, apparently, given it's firmly my story with the lowest view/vote ratio at over 250:1).

The story touches on masking, both on masking her more animal traits and her autistic ones in order to be presentable to her human boyfriend. Heavy focus on her anxiety around him seeing her for how she truly is, what her perceptions of how a "proper human girlfriend" should be like are, and how she tries to present the way she thinks he wants her out of fear that she's too weird — the fact she likes to eat ants, is incredibly fussy about food, has incredibly niche interests, etc. I used the ant-eating anthro aspect as a metaphor to amplify and highlight the fears and anxieties a lot of us on the spctrum feel. She feels weird about her body and she wishes she were more normal because she feels like a freak who, if she revealed her true nature, would scare away partners.

 

[EmilyMiller]

I used the tag 'neurospicy' in my most recent story and a reader has (after a very nice comment) noted that following the tag doesn't produce any other similar stories. I'd like to reply with some recommendations. I have a couple of suggestions that of course reflect my own friends and biases, but would really love to give a more considered answer. Any thoughts?

In the grand tradition of AH, a self-recommendation:

Yet another of my almost-comp-placing stories, Through the Watching Glass. Scarily it’s almost two years old now. And you did comment on it .

Eden Baker in her eponymous series has ASD and it’s a minor plot point how she interacts with another ND character. My banished angel, Lily, in my Angels & Demons stories is heavily autistic-coded. But I didn’t make ND central to a work until TTWG.

 

[AwkwardMD]

@Bramblethorn has two, off the top of my head. Anjali's Red Scarf is very explicitly neurodiverse, while Loss Function is much more ND-coded.

Loss Function really is one of the best stories on this entire site.

 

[Bramblethorn]

Anjali's Red Scarf (me): autistic woman gets into a sugar-baby relationship with another autistic woman https://www.literotica.com/series/se/80626447
My GF; Fucking and How We Met (LesbianChickLit): allistic woman in relationship with autistic woman https://www.literotica.com/series/se/121952
Lafayette Hills (@AwkwardMD): young autistic-coded woman is manipulated by older woman. This isn't a feel-good story but it's well written. Ping AMD for her other neurodivergent-ish stories. https://www.literotica.com/s/lafayette-hills
IIRC @Kumquatqueen's character Richie, appearing across a bunch of her stories, is autistic.

 

[Bramblethorn]

@Bramblethorn has two, off the top of my head. Anjali's Red Scarf is very explicitly neurodiverse, while Loss Function is much more ND-coded.

Loss Function really is one of the best stories on this entire site.

ha, posted mine as you were posting this! I think I'd agree that LF is ND-coded, and in hindsight the protag of A Stringed Instrument is probably autistic, but as you say Red Scarf is the one where I get most in-depth about neurodivergence.

 

[AwkwardMD]

 

[FrancesScott]

I know @FrancesScott's story Abby's Saphhic Deliberations features a neurospicy MC.

Thank you for mentioning my story. I should also mention that Riley, who is a supporting character in that story, is also autistic. She’s appears in some of my other anthology series stories, and is one of three main characters in The Soldier’s Widow.

 

[PennyThompson]

If I could be allowed to indulge in some pedantry...

"Neurodiverse," and "Neurodiversity," refers to the overall observation of humanity naturally having a diverse spectrum of brain types and ways of thinking and processing information.

An individual can't be neurodiverse, in the same way that you wouldn't call an individual "diverse," because they're Black

An individual is "Neurodivergent" if their brain or experience falls outside the narrow band of the spectrum that our culture considers "Neurotypical."

(Cue Lovecraft whinging about people wanting to identify themselves in some way )

 

[EmilyMiller]

An individual is "Neurodivergent" if their brain or experience falls outside the narrow band of the spectrum that our culture considers "Neurotypical."

The term spectrum is often used in ways that don’t reflect its actual technical meaning in ASD. But what I feel is a helpful image is of multiple Gaussians overlaid on each other.

Virtually no one will be at the precise midpoint of all of these. Most will be a little away from the distribution expectation on a handful of the axes. The term neurodivergent implies that you have more axes on which you are not near the mean than others. And yes it’s primarily as measured against some non-existent culturally defined ‘norm.’

 

[old_prof]

Give that I was just talking about how much of me is in so many of the characters in my stories, a lot of them are, at the very least, on an edge of the spectrum. I was never diagnosed, smart kids weren't evaluated when I was a kid, and I'd guess I'm not quite diagnosable as on the spectrum. My son is clearly on the spectrum and was diagnosed as such early in elementary school. I just mentioned intuit other thread that Jason, the MC from The Important Days, is one of the closest characters to me at his age. Does it count as a diagnosis that I got comment that Jason is clearly on the spectrum?

To me characters like that are the normal people, so I would never have thought to tag it as such. My wife is also undiagnosed, but at least borderline. Which is why our son got it in flying colors.

 

[KittyOfSteele]

All of you reminding me I should edit my novel where I accidentally made a cam girl with ADHD.

 

[AwkwardMD]

All of you reminding me I should edit my novel where I accidentally made a cam girl with ADHD.

Yes. You should.

 

[Kumquatqueen]

IIRC @Kumquatqueen's character Richie, appearing across a bunch of her stories, is autistic.

Richie is of the generation where only the lowest-functioning kids were diagnosed with autism. He was only informed he had 'an attitude problem' as a teenager.

But yes, eventually he'll have a kid diagnosed as autistic, and be informed it's clearly inherited from both parents. It's very common for people my age to only realise they're on the spectrum after their children are identified. Given my characters include a bunch of academic over-achieving scientists, chances are most of them would get a ASD diagnosis nowadays - it would explain Adrian's drug use, Rachel's constant tension, sensory seeking and gender issues, Laura being a kinky goth, Emily's isolation from her perfectly pleasant family, for example.

My story A Tale of Two Christmases has Richie explicitly having a meltdown and you see how his whole family work around each other, all with their own autistic traits but only the youngest of 3 siblings potentially being diagnosed. I've never put tags about autism on any stories as I didn't want it to be explicit, just characters being characters, until they get aware of it themselves.

 

[stickygirl]

I checked my tags and have only used autism once, although two of my series feature a L1 autistic trans woman called Hannah. I'm reluctant to use autism or trans as a badge, but I suppose I'm doing a disservice to other auties or trans folk who'd enjoy seeing a representation. All the same I'd prefer "Wow, you are so hot. Are you really trans/autistic?" to "Hey guys, come and look at the weird kid"
So there's Under the Knife and Under the Skin

 

[stickygirl]

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Why does the right hand spiderman have a large pubic louse on his back?

 

[PennyThompson]

All of you reminding me I should edit my novel where I accidentally made a cam girl with ADHD.

None of her toys are ever properly charged

 

[KittyOfSteele]

None of her toys are ever properly charged

Funny that you say this because my waifu, the muse, my Russian girl whose streams motivated me to give it a shot once got distracted and chat called her saying to stop playing League and check the tips.

Then there was this Colombian girl who's toys ran out... then again, she was streaming for twelve hours already, so...

 

[Bramblethorn]

Why does the right hand spiderman have a large pubic louse on his back?

He's been shacking up with The Tick.