English
Proper noun
special snowflake syndrome
- (derogatory) The conviction that one (or often, one's child) is, in some way, special and should therefore be treated differently than others.
- 2014, Douglas O. Linder, Nancy Levit, The Good Lawyer: Seeking Quality in the Practice of Law (page 181)
- Although we all like to think we are unique and experience the world in our own way—we all have a touch of the Special Snowflake Syndrome—people are in fact more alike than different.
- 2015, Jacob D. Myers, Making Love with Scripture
- America is plagued by the disease of Special Snowflake Syndrome. This is a contracted condition that afflicts the ego; it's where we believe ourselves to be utterly unique and better than everyone else.
- 2015, "Mattew Henry", Special Snowflake Syndrome is ruining the progressive LGBTQ movement (on newsgroup alt.fan.rush-limbaugh)
- Ah, the Tumblrfication of queer spaces... Maybe we'll finally get the courage to start speaking up against and calling this out without fear of Internet lynch mobs...