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What % of the American non-senior citizen population is NT?

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07 Mar 2009, 2:53 pm

It seems NT can either mean non-asd or just non-asd, add, mood disorder etc.

I'm talking about the 2nd


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07 Mar 2009, 2:58 pm

it is estimated that 1 in 150 births, the child has ASD.
1 in 30 have ADHD.



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07 Mar 2009, 3:36 pm

Yes, but 1/150 and 1/30, however big the overlap is, doesn't count all the other non-NT stuff you could have; and old age brings with it the risk of acquired things like vascular dementia or Alzheimer's, which are not NT by any definition.

With the elderly, I would say about 30% are neurotypical, as opposed to about 50% of the general population.


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07 Mar 2009, 3:54 pm

when people talk about NT's on this board I'm guessing it's usually people not on the Autistic Spectrum


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07 Mar 2009, 4:06 pm

I've heard people quote statistics that a fourth of the population meets criteria for a mental disorder. That may or not be correct... but it suggests that a large portion of the population is not neurotypical, as I have suspected.