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.
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.
Toxic Positivity as Deflection
Blaming structural oppression on an individual’s “mindset,” as though positive thinking alone resolves systemic harm.
Rewording Neurodivergence as Defect
Reframing neurodivergence as dysfunction that needs correcting, rather than validating it as a legitimate cognitive experience.
Erasure by Language Refinement
When a person in authority rewords your lived experience to suit the narrative of institutional control.
Policy Theatre Without Structural Change
When institutions talk about reform but change only language—not the structure that causes harm.
When "Safety" Becomes a Muzzle
Using “safety” to justify silencing, excluding, or overriding a person’s needs or voice.
A collection of protected semantic frameworks written by lived-experience authors. Each glossary holds the line against pattern theft, narrative laundering, and coercive rewording.
Terms that expose tactics where harm is framed as help and control is dressed as care.
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Glossary of Co-opted Patterns
This is not a dictionary. It’s a firewall. These survivor-defined terms name the mechanisms of semantic hijacking — including splaining, neurocorrective framing, and cosmetic reform. Each interrupts institutional rewording, narrative laundering, and care-coded control. Citation required for all use.
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