What's an NT?

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Sorry to ask a dumb question but I am very new to this and I have seen several posts referring to NTs.

What's an NT please?

Thanks

Jok

A person who has a typical brain structure.

Neurotypical. For the purposes of this forum it means someone without autism.

Neurotypical. (Someone who doesn't have autism)

A word that is used to fit in socially and absorb social and ideological beliefs when in context to the concept. As a terminology it is used for political reasons including advocacy, a focus on differences one has compared to the rest of the world and derived initially from pathological reasoning and is in response to it. All in all N.T as a conceptology is quite so vague of a concept that it's usage in context to projected facts of others as a whole is false even atypically most of the time.

Neurology for everyone including autism is very diverse and even among people with autism. Autism itself is not proven to be a neurological difference all of the time that merits exclusion from a functional normalcy in result. The labeling of autism was not an identity construct but for the reason of helping others. So as a concept it is simply the result primary from others being labeled and a need of some kind to label others to categorize people.

You would have to get into the study of it within the scope of sociology when it is often consider in use more then a word of mutual general differences.

A Pervasive Non -Verbal Developmental order.

The type of person that Jenny McCarthy wants us all on WrongPlanet to aspire to be.

That's a bit complicated. In the context of this forum, and other ASD communities, it generally refers to someone who does not have an ASD (autism spectrum disorder)
However, in the opinion of some, myself included, that's an overly narrow definition. An alternate, and IMO more accurate definition is that an NT is someone who does not fit the diagnostic criteria for any neurological difference or disorder. I don't think it's really accurate to define the following people as neurotypical:
-individuals with learning disabilities
-individuals with any subtype of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD),
-individuals with Sensory Processing Disorder that's not comorbid with ASD,

The same goes for individuals with any other neurological variations that results in a way of processing and utilizing information that does not fall within the range of typical human differences, particularly those that cause a clinically significant level of impairment.

Okay, I spent a long time working on this, trying to organize my thoughts and ideas into a more readable format, and I suspect that it still doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Neurological differences/ disorders and their impact on learning and functioning are something of an on again/ off again obsession of mine, and that obsession is very much on these days. Thus, I couldn't resist this opportunity to share my thoughts on the matter, welcome or otherwise.
Anyway, in this forum, the term NT is generally used to describe anyone who's not on the autism spectrum. That's all you really need to know to understand the term as typically used in posts here.

And there's me thinking it stood for "normal thinker" ! !! !

It comes down to belief even in what is normal and what is abnormal. The absolute fact is we are all human.