touch of the 'tism
English
editEtymology
editSee touch (“a little bit; a small amount”) and 'tism (“autism”). User-generated website Know Your Meme dates the first attested usage to 29 April 2007 on an online forum; popularised in 2022 on video-sharing social media service TikTok.
Noun
edit- (Internet slang, euphemistic, sometimes humorous) A mild form or manifestation of autism.
- 2021, Chad Prather, Am I Crazy?:
- Greta Thunberg […] has been declared Time Magazine's Person of the Year. That's right, the winner of 2019's illustrious POTY award goes to the temperamental teenager with a touch of the 'tism.
Related terms
edit- acoustic (“euphemistic form of autistic”)
References
edit- “touch of the 'tism”, in Know Your Meme, launched 2007