What's so different!?

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NT was originally just a way to say "normal" without using such a loaded word as "normal". (And it didn't just mean "nonautistic", it meant the literal meaning of "neurologically typical".) I don't know how or when people started to give it a negative meaning, but on the occasions where I use it (where, like many other words, I use it simply because it's the word that comes out of my fingers at the time) I can say definitively that I don't see it as "the opposite of autism", nor "has nothing in common with autism", nor do I use it to mean something insulting.

It's really irritating to me that some people have come to use it for such things, because now if I happen to accidentally use the word, people will possibly see me as using it for such things.

So?! !! Where abouts on WP does it say a rule where you can't post anything after X months?

Anyway - I didn't reply to any of the posts what were already on the thread. I was referring to what I first wrote, which is this:


The only word used to describe this is ''BS''. That's all I can think of. It really annoys me when Aspies think that NTs excel at every single thing in life and have no problems whatsoever. Almost everybody I know has split up from whoever they were currently going out with, and also have friendship issues.

Willard,

To MANY today the Autism THEY have is minor. That doesn't mean we don't feel it.

Yes, sorry for the profanity, but it annoys me that somehow Aspies on WP have the idea that life is really easy for an NT. It isn't! My cousin is the most "typical" NT I know, and she still has problems. It's like we think that life would be perfect if we were NT, and that we wouldn't know the meaning of the word ''split up'', ''divorced'', ''depressed'' and ect.

Haven't you been making it a point to tell people here not to make generalizations?

Anyway, it's true. Everyone has problems. Obviously being NT is not a golden ticket to happiness. There are more than two categories for people to fall into as well, and they intersect in so many ways that can cause or mitigate problems for people.

I've found out the only difference there is between me and NTs. It's the way I approach every-day things.

That's it.

It may sound just a minor difference, but it is and it isn't. Here's what lies beneath that little description: It's the way I approach noise, change, interests, interaction, pressure, emotions, intelligence, and the fact that I have Autism. And then all of these branch out, affecting normal every-day tasks and facts. But this still doesn't make me feel separated from the NT world. In fact, I feel that part of me is NT and part of me isn't, and I'm standing right on the line between neurological and neurotypical. Since I've learnt that every person is different, and all NTs have Aspie traits too, (what doesn't make them Aspies), I really don't see the point of adding more strange problems to the spectrum, like all this threatening crap I have been hearing about on WP, like ''Autistic people have more chance of getting cancer'', and ''Autistic people go through puberty differently'', or, ''Autistic people have big blue eyes'' and all of that. Then I heard on threads things like ''there's no difference at all between severely Autistic people and mildy-affected Aspies'', and, ''if you meet one NT you've met them all'', and ''all NTs succeed in life'', and ect. I know some people on here are really against these vicious-circle arguments, but in the real world, all of these quotes aren't true. There I said it.