CyclopsSummers wrote:
You know, the funny thing is... nothing 'makes' someone neurotypical. There are no well-defined 'neurotypical' traits.
It's kind of what you get when you take everybody in the world, lift everyone with autism from the group, then proceed to remove everyone with other mental disorders if you're using the 'broad' definition of NT, and then who is left, you call neurotypical. It's very much an 'everybody else' category.
If you define a mental disorder (not necessarily a neurological disorder; there is an overlap, but the term gets misused surprisingly often on this forum) as a condition where a certain function is either exaggerated or dampened or absent, then a neurotypical person would be someone who has most -if not all- of those functions set to 'default'.
ok that kind of makes sense, its hard to know at which point you would labal someone as being NT, i thought my self that it was just someone with out an autistic spectrum disorder, but if its someone with the absent of any neurologicak abnormalities then you could argue there is no such thing as an NT. i do find some people are insulting and generalising NTs, which is unfair.