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06 Nov 2012, 8:16 pm

Can someone lose being NT if they get dementia or a brain injury? Are they no longer neurotypical if one of these things happens?



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06 Nov 2012, 8:27 pm

Yup. Dementia and brain injuries are both examples of neurodiversity.

Occasionally somebody, usually a baby or young child, will get a brain injury and recover so completely as to be neurotypical afterwards. Kids' brains are very flexible. But, mostly, a brain injury means you are no longer neurotypical. Quite a few things take a human brain out of the typical range; brains vary significantly from person to person.

In fact, it's likely that neurodiverse people make up a rather large chunk of the population. Maybe not a majority, but certainly quite common.


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