Neologism, word playing, idiosyncratic humour

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I just heard somebody use the word "monumentous." This obviously a mix-up between "momentous" and "monumental," but I actully like it.

lexicogenesis is actually one of my internal hobbies

I just heard the word "de-influence." Context: "I de-influenced myself," i.e. got rid of the mental programming from watching too many online "influencers". I think that's a word which could have mere general uses, too.

Celibism (Polish: celibizm) - lack of being in romantic relationship and living in erotic continence and chastity, also without vow or promise.

Harcelism (Polish: harcelizm) - from "hard celibism" and "harsh celibism" - living in celibism despite discomfort or (and) sexual drive and desire. Chastity is good, of course!

Harcelosis (Polish: harceloza) - from "harcelism" and "psychosis" - severe discomfort or serious mental suffering due to prolonged harcelism, it can have positive symptoms (more intense or more problematic temptations, obsessions, fears, unwanted thoughts) and negative symptoms (low energy, motivation deficits, apathy, avolition, fatigue, slowness). Despite suffering from harcelosis, I know that chastity is definitely good

Marcel - protologism coined from three first letters of both of the words "marital" and "celibism". Living in sexual continence and chastity while being in marriage, especially when sexual desire and sexual drive are present. In Poland "Marcel" is a male name.

Monstrotheism (Polish: monstroteizm) - blend of monstrous, monster and monotheism. Belief in the existence of the one and only deity who is morally monstrous and malevolent (especially in hypocritical way).

Vihudonism - protologism associated with Polish words: wychudzony (emaciated), wygoda (comfort) and wychodzić (leave, look, exit, emerge, quit, go out, go off, get out) - non-classical kind of autism associated with and (or) caused by with significant emaciation (asymmetrical fetal growth restriction, low birth weight and being small for gestational age) at one's birth.

I love portmanteaus, malapropisms, and turning short phases into my own acronyms.

U - uninterested.
E - expansive.

NTH, N - normal, typical, healthy, not uninterested and not expansive.

A: U, E; AU, AE (core autism); vovels.
B: NTH, N (peripheral autism); consonants.

Core autism - developmental dysfunctional introversion.
Peripheral autism - typical introversion, typical ambiversion or even typical extroversion.

AU - classic autism.
AE - "Asperger's" autism.

Uninterested ("Kanner"):
- hypoverbal, verbal learning disablility
- hypohedonic
- "static"
- rather the same, low level of functioning during both childhood and adolescence

Expansive ("Asperger"):
- hyperverbal, nonverbal learning disability
- hyperhedonic
- "dynamic"
- relatively better functioning in childhood than in adulthood

Non-A:
- may have dominance of verbal or nonverbal or rather balanced skills
- less "bizarre and "original" than AU and AE
- more functional in adult life than AU and AE
- functioning rather worse in childhood than in adulthood

U - clautism (classic autism).
E - sautism (singulaphrenic autism).
N - nautism ("normal" autism).

What about Donald Triplett and Temple Grandin? Are they clautists or nautists?

Tegrism - kind of autism present in Temple Grandin's case. Synonym: katerism (blend of cat, Katja and kannerism), associated with this book about ASD in Polish written by gifted autistic woman who thinks in pictures.

Chat GPT: Would you like help crafting a new term — something that feels personally resonant for you, or that could have broader cultural potential?

My ideas about uniting ASD and ASD-like conditions which are not ASD under ONE term:

Aucorigia - from auto-contrast (which can be, for example: uneven skill distribution, such as high VIQ and poor social skills, high FSIQ, but poor visual memory and poor executive functioning) and originality (being different, atypical, often named "odd", "eccentric" and "weird"). It has the same first two letters as the word "autism", which letters form chemical symbol of gold (Au) in both cases.

It can have six-letter form "aucory" (like six-letter word "autism") and is much wider in meaning than ASD. All "socio-behavioral developmental atypicalities" (which may also cause problems in executive functioning, functional problems, adaptive issues, sensory issues) are kinds of "aucory". It can be not a disability, can be a mild disability, can be a moderate disability, can be a severe disability. Slang or colloquial terms like "geek", "nerd", "dork", "dweeb" partially describe the phenomenon of "aucory".

AuNVLD - autism comorbid with NVLD.
NVLDAu - NVLD with autistic "flavor" despite not meeting criteria for ASD or PDD.

My "opinion": "autistic drive" or "autistic mood", associated with, for example, special interests, systemizing thinking, routines or rituals and strange behaviors or customs, self-stimulatory behaviors, one-sided interaction pattern and "boring" by talking about one's own topics, "high-content thinking", a certain kind of "attention to detail" or "pedantry", can be described by the word "autithymia".