Sock is a stereotypical name for enbies, in the same way Chad is a stereotypical name for boys. Nonbinary people being autistic is A Thing. Autistic people tend to struggle with executive dysfunction, which makes doing chores hard. Allistic people are often naturally good at manipulating or guilt tripping autistic people.
Sock is an autistic enby who no wanna do dishes and blames their roommate’s neurotypical privilege for being able to guilt trip Sock into doing them.
Don’t forget “nb” is used to denote non-black, so out of respect and to avoid confusion, as well as for all the good reasons you’ve listed, “enby” is the preferred term.
Sock is a stereotypical name for enbies, in the same way Chad is a stereotypical name for boys. Nonbinary people being autistic is A Thing. Autistic people tend to struggle with executive dysfunction, which makes doing chores hard. Allistic people are often naturally good at manipulating or guilt tripping autistic people.
Sock is an autistic enby who no wanna do dishes and blames their roommate’s neurotypical privilege for being able to guilt trip Sock into doing them.
I don’t know anything about Portland.
Why would anyone write “enby” when nb is shorter and whose meaning can much more easily be guessed at by people like me wondering what it means…?
nb is already used to mean “non-black”. The phonetic spelling “enby” is used to prevent any confusion
I have a swype keyboard that types enby faster than
MNB (edit: and with less typos)Enby is a word instead of an initialism and flows more naturally in conversation
Enby is a term in use by the enby community, and using it shows I know what I’m talking about
Enby is a more “cuddly” word that makes us sound more relatable than an initialism
People in the enby community say enby more often in casual conversation, and I wished to convey a casual tone
Don’t forget “nb” is used to denote non-black, so out of respect and to avoid confusion, as well as for all the good reasons you’ve listed, “enby” is the preferred term.