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Honestly, I have my doubts about the word Neurotypical. This world consists of many people with different beliefs and thought processes. NT seems to be understood to mean non-ASD which is vague.

Well, can you blame them?

I'm sure a lot people here have been harassed their entire lives by NTs.

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Harassed my entire life by jerks.
What does being 'NT' have to do with it?

Nothing, we probaly just assume that those jerks are NTs.

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One of the reasons people here might think they are superiour is because they have gone their entire lives being told that they are inferior by NTs just becasue they are different. It makes sense that they may feel a bit of resentment.



Who gives a crap about being cool?

Give me Napoleon Dynamite, Forrest Gump, Spielburg and Gates over rock stars and rappers any day.

liking those things in itself is seen as 'cool' these days.
it's cool to be uncool.

Yes but they were never meant to be well maybe Napoleon Dynamite was. My point sill stands. Most people who are considered cool usually suck.

Yeah, I think that happens within all minorities, although of course not every single person in the minority feels that way. It's just that when some other kind of person has more power overall than another kind of person, it breeds resentment from those who are "underneath" them. And some people express that resentment by acting like they're superior.

So I understand how it happens. I don't have to like it, however. I don't think it's as damaging as when some NTs hate us, because they have a lot more power to damage our lives than we have to damage theirs. So when we do become resentful, it's a sort of impotent resentment that usually can't go very far to actual destructiveness.

That said, I really don't like it when people act like NTs are inferior. I mean, it's one thing when it's satire, to sort of kick people out of their complacency. But it's another thing when it's true hatred. I think I'm the person who actually coined the word "autistic supremacist" to describe that kind of behavior, and I coined it because I really don't like it. I don't think it helps anyone. I believe nonautistic people and autistic people -- frankly, all kinds of people -- are equal in value.

I also don't like it when people act like the word NT has to be pejorative. It doesn't. It's never pejorative when I use it, and that's probably because I picked the word up at a time when it was never pejorative, over ten years ago. I don't actually prefer using the word, but sometimes it slips out. And it's very difficult for me to correct and rearrange my language to make it square with however other people seem to think it has to be used. So it's very hard for me to not use it when it does pop up. So I hate when people act like just because I use the word then I must hate them. That's not what the word was intended for and I refuse to let it be defined by autistic supremacists.

When I think of NT I don't just think of an ordinary person. Most ordinary, everyday people have a mix of loner/aspie and social traits imo. The term NT for me conjures up an extreme image of a super, good social skills, manipulative, face-wiggling seductive expert people-player. I think most people in the world find people like that arrogant too, as they have movies mocking/critisising those types of people. For example I saw tom cruise on tv the other day and his face looked all sincere, and did all the right expressions. I think he is an ultimate NT. not that i dont like him, just noticed he is very social.

Weird. When I think NT, I simply think of someone without any obvious neurological atypicalities (or in some contexts a nonautistic person, although that's sloppy, but words are sloppy in general so meh). It doesn't have any such specific meanings to me.

i guess it is silly to think of NT as a super minority when the acronym stands for "typical". Must be the bad press they get.

Your way of using it is the way I use it to refer to myself here. I think it's best to keep it simple and not start piling on any diagnostic features like "very social extrovert". You have written about how aggravating and misleading it is when autism researchers/clinicians bundle diagnostic features and assume that certain things will always go together rather than taking the time to get to know the person. I appreciate that you don't do that exact same thing to NTs.

Einstein is cool, as is Isaac Newton - ask any physicist. And remember that physics is the science that allows all modern technology to progress.