Neurotypicals

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are wonderful people aren't they?

Hmm, I don't know, people who usually want to get rid of what they call "political correctness" usually want to do so, so that they can be as racist/homophobic/etc as they like without consequences.

It is what it is. NTs have problems too, it isn't like Aspies are the only outcasts on the planet. I can understand where you're coming from, but they are 99% of the population. I don't really understand the complaints I see here, I mean I feel the same way sometimes but I just keep my mouth shut, it's basically what I would do anyway. If someone was harrasisng me it'd be another story, luckily I blend in well as long as I'm quiet.

lol.

There are etiquette books.. I've read them when I was 8 or 9 when it became evident that I needed some help.. Now they say I'm too formal. You can't win don't bother asking for their rule book; the expectations will change shortly and your manners and social carriage will become outdated.
Maybe they are hourly emails?

The are Aspies making rules as well. Usually it's more of a socio-economic thing, not a neurostatus thing. Aspies who are good at their jobs can be in positions of authority and end up making rules.

I think it's best if the rule makers are people who are concerned about others and open to a wide variety of people, and sometimes that happens...but not always. I don't think there is a particular neurostatus that makes one a good or bad rule maker.

you make it sound like we're somehow oppressed by neurotypicals because we don't understand their social rules.

I don't buy that we are helpless like it sounds like everyone is saying. I dealt with being "oppressed" for years. I then began to sink morally and have come to the point where "I won't be the victim but the first to cast a stone".

I don't see it as oppression either. At least not deliberate. Neurotypicals are wired to pick up on social conventions and follow them. Aspies are too, just not to the same degree. If there were no rules or social conventions the world would be chaos.

Good, empathetic, NT individuals will tend to be on "our" side. NT institutions and culture can be "against" us in a lot of ways but that doesn't make all individuals involved "bad" or "oppressive". I just think modern society is very impersonal and doesn't take individual needs/differences into account. Unfortunately things don't change until individuals start making a lot of noise.

what is this mythical "NT" everyone talks about? i think a lot of people actually mean non-asd when they say nt.

statistics show in the US in any given year about 26% of adults suffer from a diagnosable mental disorder. that means 1 out of every 4 people you run across are not nt. that doesnt even touch the geeks, nerds, and little-bit-freaky people that arent diagnosable because they dont meet all the criteria.

i think the vast majority of people have something freaky going on. maybe not diagnosable, maybe it only touches one aspect of their life or personality. but can they truly be called nt? i see nt as referring to society as a whole, rather than to individual people. typical simply means within the range of an accepted norm. so while the majority of people may think neurotypically about various things, it doesnt mean the majority of people are neurotypical.

for instance, take 4 people who by majority think dogs bark, cows moo, grass is green, and the sky is blue. one of them, lets call him bob, thinks the sky is red while the rest think its blue. bill on the other hand thinks cows quack. fred is sure that dogs meow. and martha is boring and has no original thought. the sky is blue by neurotypical standards as thats how most perceive it, dogs bark, cows moo, and grass is green. so while we can say those are neurotypical thinking patterns because thats how the majority perceive things, the majority of people, 3 out of the 4, were not neurotypical individually.

at least thats how my accusedly nt, self diagnosed ocpd, socially dysfunctional but not asd brain sees things.

History repeats itself...

I have nothing against NTs. Maybe it's because I've been friends with NTs who accept me, the way that I am, today. Just me. Shelby Anne Munro aka Mick Avory.