Did anyone ever have an aversion to certain words?

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My mom loves that word too. I think that's how I ended up hearing it enough to start hating it.

I also hate those words and in the same context, as well.

I used to not be able to say words that started with the letter "B" and/or contained a lot of "B's" just because I hated the sound (e.g. "turbo boost") and spent hours making lists of words that I loved or hated. The sound of the word was all that mattered, not the meaning at all. Later, the word "Percocet" was painful- literally- to hear or say. My latest group of words I just can't get enough of are all iam compounds. Toothpaste, schoolbag, kickstand, and a fantastic neologism- "hangdown." As in, "I'm parked underneath the hangdown." They just feel good to say. So I guess this is a positive thing, to focus on words that I love rather than ones I hate.

And I wanted to add, that Susanne Antoinetta in her book A Mind Apart: Travels in a Neurodiverse World has a great section on her own word aversions. She is bipolar.

Phenylelenine- that fake sugar stuff- that word gets me so stressed out. Once I was stuck with it in my head for a few days over and over and over. I think my head was trying to calm itself down.

I hate it when people say Liberry instead of library. It is the equivalent of fingernails on a chalkboard.

AutisticDiva,

I hate that too, especially from people who work in a library and work the phones. It is irritatating.

Well, I guess I'm just being old-fashioned. It will remain strictly forbidden in my own private dictionary.
"Ginormous"? I enjoyed that word when I was 7. At this point, while it doesn't cause a physical reaction, it should be used sparingly and accurately.



I hate that word too. I try not to look at it whenever possible because I will think about it repeatedly for the rest of the day.

One word in particular that I still loathe so much that I don't even type it. Unfortunately it is a rather common word.

I don't have any word aversions that I know of, but I hate it when people say 'You know what I mean?' after nearly every sentence.

I make lists, too.

I can't stand the words "rubric" and "signage" among others.

I really love the sound of other words. I also have echolalia. Or I spell the last word in a sentence that someone says to me (under my breath, of course! )

I have a few word aversions, mostly around bodily outputs. Funnily, many of the words have synonyms that do not bother me.

Words that make me grind my teeth are: community (as in, the [fill in the blank] community), glocal (local reactions to global economic/cultural forces), queering (the queering of...), gendered or gendering, speech (gendered speech, queered speech, postcolonial speech, etc.), and so on.

Maybe it's because I'm an academic in the social sciences/liberal arts. But words like that seem contrived and usually imply that the person throwing those terms around like it's second nature is not that much fun to bull**** with at the bar after work.

Come on cuz is a great word. How can you hate the "Z"?

I hate any word that has "pant" in it. I think it is the ugliest sound on the planet.

Co-morbid, with its association with death. The term is useful with some physical problems (obesity linked with heart disease and diabetes, for example), but with AS and related difficulties, co-existing conditions is a better term.