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04 Sep 2008, 10:43 am

Loborojo wrote:
NA would still include schizofrenic, cerbral palsy, imbeciles, bipolar which are also not 'normal'


Yes of course, if they're non-autistic.


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04 Sep 2008, 12:30 pm

Sora wrote:
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"NT" is a medical term, no? "Neurologically Typical"...?


No.

Neurologically typical is non-existent in the medical language because really, who'd be 'NT' in reality?

Nobody would be.


It's actually used in some formal papers that I've seen.

But it originated in the autistic community. (And it's not clear whether it originated specifically with those referred to as "aspies", or not.) Ages and ages ago, before lots and lots of webforums even existed.


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04 Sep 2008, 3:12 pm

anbuend wrote:
Sora wrote:
-JR wrote:
"NT" is a medical term, no? "Neurologically Typical"...?


No.

Neurologically typical is non-existent in the medical language because really, who'd be 'NT' in reality?

Nobody would be.


It's actually used in some formal papers that I've seen.

But it originated in the autistic community. (And it's not clear whether it originated specifically with those referred to as "aspies", or not.) Ages and ages ago, before lots and lots of webforums even existed.


That's it's in a few papers already is interesting to know!

I'm personally a bit frightened that it went so far beyond the autistic community. But maybe that new use actually shifts the view on this word a bit and away from the generalisation or wary.

Especially if it's read by people who're not autistic.


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04 Sep 2008, 3:24 pm

My daughter is not autistic but she has ADHD and has mild dyslexia, and she is far from "NT".. thats why whenever I write out "NT" in general.. I quote it! No such thing are truly "NT".


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04 Sep 2008, 3:43 pm

Do a search on pubmed for the word "neurotypical". It turns up 16 results, not even all autism-related. (One contrasts "ADHD" with "neurotypical" for instance.)


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