touch of the 'tism

See touch (“a little bit; a small amount”) and 'tism (“autism”). Attested as early as March 10, 2010 (see quotations); popularized in 2022 on the video-sharing social media service TikTok.

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touch of the 'tism

1. (Internet slang, euphemistic, sometimes humorous) A mild form or manifestation of autism.
   • 2010 March 18, @Simply_Satin, Twitter‎^[1]:

     EVERYONE has a touch of the 'tism. Denying it doesn't make it any less true

   • 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.

• acoustic (offensive form of autistic used on social media)

• “touch of the 'tism”, in Know Your Meme, website launched 2007