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'Excluded' surely?
Discluded is an uncommonly used word, but it is a word. Could indicate the OP in image is from a UK-English country and an academic - they like the top shelf rare words.
https://www.oed.com/dictionary/disclude_v (Oxford English Dictionary. Sorry, they have a dumb paywall now. I used a search engine cached-copy from the definition page).
Only tangentially related:
Bonus vs Malus.
In the context of like uh, a stat boost vs a stat detriment.
I don't even care if that is a valid, currently recognized definition of malus... it makes sense, and its simple and easy to say.
Also I'm American and regularly use 'disclude'.
But also, I'm kinda weird.
I appreciate the weirdness you bring to the world, and the knowledge of 'malus' which is new to me.
Let me put it this way:
I've put a significant amount of thought into trying to figure out why I have the opinions and stances on certain parts of linguistics that I do.
... I ultimately failed at coming up with a model of this that was both wholly coherent and comprehendable to myself.
So at this point I'm just going with 'i am strange in a way that kind of makes sense to me, kind of doesn't, and i guess that is what you call a personality, or something like that.'
I concluded the same.
She may have miscluded.
Oh no, this is going to make me unsociate and have another internal grammar crisis...