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[–] [email protected] 120 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Wait is this supposed to be a trans sub? TIL

[–] [email protected] 102 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Not trans exclusive, just a lot of trans people here (including me)

[–] [email protected] 26 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Huh, I didn't realize exclusive is an auto-antonym

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

This phenomenon is called enantiosemy, enantionymy (enantio- means "opposite"), antilogy or autantonymy.

Apparently it has more names than a great old one...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I learned when I went back to college that autistic gay and trans people are just the people I get along best with

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Trans people tend to often be neurodivergent in my experience.