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i'm sorry, can someone explain what NT means? I tried to google it, and i didn't really understand what came up...i'm probably a pest, but i'm just curious.

Neurotypical.

It means someone who is not on the autistic spectrum, or as most people see it "normal" people.

oooh. ok a website I went to made it sound like neurotypical was a disorder, i don't know if that's the right word, but it defintiely didn't seem that it was someone who wasn't autistic.

Yeah, I saw that too.

It's a parody site. ("In a world overrun by Aspies...") Great reading imho.

http://isnt.autistics.org/humor.html will explain the idea behind it.

Heck for all we could know nobody could be normal or without some form of disorder in their lives. And honestly I just prefer to use NA (Non-autistic).

Quite right.

I've read several lists of "symptoms" for NTs, including the ISNT site, and based on that (which is stereotypical and humorous), I've met VERY few NTs... hehe

GA

Indeed, not all NTs are Popular Kids who can't be alone. I prefer that we be referred to as the "Neurotypcial Spectrum" or, if you have to use a negative term, "Focused Perception Disorder," as it is deficiencies in focus and in perception that seem to characterize the neurotypical spectrum best, not deficiencies in being able to handle time alone or do your own thing. That's just the classic form of neurotypicality.

when I first saw the term NT I thought it had something to do with poor anger management LOL

I would define neurotypical as someone who is considered normal without having a disorder or being in the autistic spectrum.

I think I know the website you mean! I have a link to it from my website on my AS page from my bookworms page. I'll just go there to get the lin and post it in for other to read.

I'm back with the link

http://home.att.net/%7Eascaris1/neurotypicality.html

if this was not the site you saw then it has the same way of looking at NTs. I think it is really cool.
of course they have reversed it so that NTs are ones with the problems not aspies!

What you say makes sense even if not accessible to lots of people on the NT spectrum!

Neurotypicals inhabit that vast expanse of the Spectrum between Asperger's syndrome and psychopathy/narcissism.

Ha...you know, I've often made nonscientific relatives roll their eyes with my technical talk. I can have trouble communicating with some of the more classic cases of NT sometimes.

I just read the link that you posted, and I don't think it pegs me quite as well as the ISNT criteria, because my primary NT-spectrum issues are with perception, not with logic and sociality (although I do seem to be pretty hypersocial online). But even then, the ISNT criteria required two Section A elements and one each from B and C, when it was mostly stuff from Sections B and C that I related to unambiguously, with the Section A stuff being subthreshold. Hence my claim. It's sort of like how some Aspies protest that they're not autistic.

"Xenism" (excessive focus on strangers/others) was the first term I came up with for what NTs might be called if they weren't necessarily typical. Perhaps Classical Xenism could be used to describe the most severe and stereotypical forms of Focused Perception Disorder, and then you could have other categories like high-functioning xenism, Hyposensitive Nerd Syndrome, and FPD-NOS for the milder conditions with some similar core symptoms.