Is there an NT spectrum?

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So
if your depressed there is severity levels...
if your psychotic there is severity levels...
if you are autistic there are severity levels...
if you are add/adhd there are severity levels...
if you are bipolar....hmmm probably severity levels? I don't know a lot about that.

Is there anyways to quantify and/or measure NT'ness?

If by ruling out your NT'ness does that mean you are on the spectrum?
Or atleast on some kind of spectrum...might not be on the autistic spectrum....

The less severe autism you have the more you are like N.T's and share qualities with so called normality (normalcy). The structure of the social programming of autism philosophy said as culture tries to ignore shared qualities and see's people as strickly a label and seperate from most other people on earth. Cults do this kind of thing but this is a bit different. That's why I am so interest in the social psychological of autism culture.

Well there's certainly spectrums to describe NTs, for example the introvert-extrovert spectrum. I don't know if you could describe degrees of NT-ness, though.

I've read an analogy between the four humors of Greek medicine and four fundamental character traits in most people. The setup being a square, with each corner representing a 'humor', these are:
Sanguine (optimistic), choleric (ease to anger), melancholic (ease to depression) & phlegmatic (apathetic)
Thus most people fall somewhere closer to a particular corner but generally occupy a central area of the square. In addition introvert/extrovert could be added in to this

Depending on context and applied method many things can be added to many others just the same as N.T and aspie and so on.

kind of similar to that aspie test that gives you a kind of shaped diagram on one side or the other? (looks like a sea shell)

i get no special skills, but i suck at all things social. jeez, where was i when things kicked off?

does this make me like 50/50, and more to the point, still welcome here?

Every Mental Trait can probably be plotted on an n dimensional graph. All mental conditions are interconnected in one way or another

Life is a spectrum

I believe in a "human spectrum"; NTs are at one end, and autism may be at the other, but we are all human, all examples of the variety possible in humankind. We are all good at some things and bad at others. Every single person has at least one - really, many more than one - "disorder". The difference is that some things aren't defined as disorders. If most people could sing well, then an inability to sing might be labeled a disorder. And so on. But we are all human, and we are all on that spectrum of what makes us human, somewhere.

interesting

Yeah, something like that. If you look at the word---neurotypical it seems to just represent a sort of baseline or, for lack of a better word, ideal. Kind of like a mental BMI or something.

i'll put these together for my answer..

to study the levels or kinds of NT'ness, it could be quite like this; you could study the personality &/or the psychology behind it.. there's also freud's type a and type b personality, and a lot more which are all grounded or rooted in sociability and psychology.. and you could choose from many proposed personality scales as your medium and put them all together to create a good insight about an NT individual..

* i was actually thinking about making a post about this way back from reading some threads before, about how to understand NT's and if NT'ness has a diagnosis. i was thinking to set the personality types and temperaments as diagnosis or spectrum for NT's. and have that as a guide or manual for the NT mind so you could study us too.. but dunno how to simplify and shorten everything yet and i kinda don't have much time to do it..

The ones who display empathy are on one end of the spectrum, and the sarcastic ones who are relentlessly normal are on the other end of the spectum.

I think there is. I know NTs who are more "autistic" than others.

Source

It's a theoretical construct of a statistical average.

The neurotypical compared to humans is as real as the Easter Bunny compared to rabbits - there is overlapse, but never 100%.
It would be strange if anyone would be really, deviation is the norm from a biological point of view.