2019, Thea Høiland, "Incels and the stories they tell: A narrative analysis of Incels’ shared stories on Reddit", thesis submitted to the University of Oslo, page 90:
Joey, on the other hand, claims he is a mentalcel: involuntary celibate due to his mental challenges.
2019, Sylvia Jaki, Tom De Smedt, Maja Gwóźdź, Rudresh Panchal, Alexander Rossa, & Guy De Pauw, "Online Hatred of Women in the Incels.me Forum: Linguistic Analysis and Automatic Detection", Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict, Volume 7, Issue 2, November 2019:
Some users argue that mental disorders like autism can also render a person an incel. This opinion is in line with the forum’s rules section, where mentalcels are implicitly included as a “[t]ype of incel whose reason for failure in relationships/sex is related to mental illness or major insecurities”.
2019, "Dr. Castle", The Blackpill Theory: Why Incels Are Right & You Are Wrong, page 143:
We even have research confirming that 'mentalcels' struggle in the same way high-functioning autistic adolescents struggle when it comes to relationships.
2020, Małgorzata Waśniewska, "The Red Pill, Unicorns and White Knights: Cultural Symbolism and Conceptual Metaphor in the Slang of Online Incel Communities", in Cultural Conceptualizations in Language and Communication (Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk), page 67:
Here, two terms for self-description stand out, mainly braincels and mentalcels, denoting people who think they are lonely due to being either highly intelligent or mentally ill, respectively.
2020, anonymous, quoted in Melinda Karlsson & Terese Wisberg, "'Live to be mogged. The truecel tale': En kritisk diskursanalys av forumen incels.co och looksmax.me", thesis submitted to the University of Gävle, page 38:
If u think of urself as a ”mentalcel” ur most likely a truecel in denial
2020, Joshua A. Segalewitz, "'You Don’t Understand... It’s Not About Virginity': Sexual Markets, Identity Construction, and Violent Masculinity on an Incel Forum Board", thesis submitted to the University of Dayton, page 31:
Some suspect that gay men are using this site and attempt to ostracize them from it. Others insist that mental illness is not an excuse for someone to be an incel. Jewsel does both in the same comment: “Well, you are severe gaycel, or an extreme mentalcel. Just go to therapy and stop being this loli creepy guy and you would escape inceldom easily.”
