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Glossary of Co-opted Patterns

This is not a dictionary. This is a firewall. The terms below were coined through lived experience and operate as semantically precise survival tools. Each one interrupts pattern theft, narrative laundering, and reworded harm.

đź§  Splaining

Power Dressed as Care

“Splaining” is not a typo. It’s a pattern. These terms expose tactics that reframe harm as help, control as care, and oppression as oversight.

When someone insists they’re helping—but their help strips you of autonomy, authorship, or agency.

🪞 Mindset Splaining

Toxic Positivity as Deflection

Blaming structural oppression on an individual’s “mindset,” as though positive thinking alone resolves systemic harm.

🧬 Neurocorrective Framing

Rewording Neurodivergence as Defect

Reframing neurodivergence as dysfunction that needs correcting, rather than validating it as a legitimate cognitive experience.

🗣️ Institutional Rewording

Erasure by Language Refinement

When a person in authority rewords your lived experience to suit the narrative of institutional control.

🌀 Cosmetic Reform

Policy Theatre Without Structural Change

When institutions talk about reform but change only language—not the structure that causes harm.

🛑 Safetysplaining

When "Safety" Becomes a Muzzle

Using “safety” to justify silencing, excluding, or overriding a person’s needs or voice.

SSA™ Glossary Index

A collection of protected semantic frameworks written by lived-experience authors. Each glossary holds the line against pattern theft, narrative laundering, and coercive rewording.

Glossary of Charity Infrastructure

Breaks down business registration terms into managable parts.

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Strategic Self-Advocacy™ Lexicon

The core terms that scaffold SSA™ and uphold protocol-layer authorship.

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Weaponised Access Terms

These terms unpack how institutions weaponise the language of inclusion while reinforcing control.

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