NA instead of NT?

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You have not offended me.
There is no current convention requiring anyone to use either of these.

I have no problem with you doing your thing, but I am not going to use NA because (as I stated) I do not like it as a label that refers to people, for various and sundry reasons. As to non-Autistic, I use it often, and mostly only employ NT when I am having trouble typing.

Um... that is almost exactly what I said?
Except NT and not NT are specific enough, in my opinion.
Any more narrow than that and it gets down to labels, and labels aren't always accurate enough.

...wikipedia quote...

Neurological disorders are disorders that can affect the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord), the peripheral nervous system, or the autonomic nervous system.

Conditions can include but are not limited to:

* Altered mental status, encephalopathy, stupor and coma
* Behavioral/cognitive syndromes
* Brain injury, spinal cord and peripheral nerves
* Cerebral palsy
* Cerebrovascular disease, such as transient ischemic attack and stroke.
* Demyelinating diseases of the central nervous system, such as multiple sclerosis, and of the peripheral nervous system, such as Guillain-Barré syndrome and chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP)
* Epilepsy
* Functional symptoms, having no apparent physiological cause
* Headache disorders such as migraine, cluster headache and tension headache
* Infections of the brain (encephalitis), brain meninges (meningitis), spinal cord (myelitis)
* Infections of the peripheral nervous system
* Movement disorders such as Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, hemiballismus, tic disorder, and Gilles de la Tourette syndrome
* Neoplasms – tumors of the brain and its meninges (brain tumors), spinal cord tumors, tumors of the peripheral nerves (neuroma)
* Neurodegenerative disorders, including Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, and Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's disease).
* Paraneoplastic neurological syndromes
* disorders of peripheral nerves, muscle (myopathy) and neuromuscular junctions
* Sleep disorders
* Speech and language disorders
* Spinal cord disorders – tumors, infections, trauma, malformations (e.g., myelocele, meningomyelocele, tethered cord)
* traumatic brain injur

Autism mainly falls under "Behavioral/cognitive syndromes"

Me too! I call them ignorant.

Sorry about that blackjack89...you essentially did say the same thing!