Terms to describe the others?

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Hi, I just registered here and learned the term "neurotypical" or NT. Up to now, I've always referred to NTs as "Others". It probably sounds derogatory, but that's how I've always thought about people with whom I cannot connect in any genuine way. Anyone else use this term or have their own terms? I feel like "Others" really emphasizes the disconnect that I feel around most NTs.

I call them "Hostiles".

Just kidding. I guess I always just called them "normal people".

"Humans", "Muggles", Wraiths", "Flutterers" (only applies to the most social).

I call them "neuros", short of neurotypical, I don't normally use this weird with people I am not familiar with as they get confused.

I sometimes call them "non-autistic people" or "people with out autism".

Before I realized I may have Asperger's I just called them sheep... all flocking together, needing to look alike, and sound alike and shun anything not like them. I never wanted to be like them. I prized my individuality and praised others for theirs. I considered anyone living outside of their 'normal' world by choice incredibly brave.

I'm not sure my suspicions of Asperger's have changed my opinion any.

What about Other People™?

@draelynn: 1 sheep, 2 sheep, 3 sheep...In college, we used to count normal people as sheep. I have often fantasized about a world devoid of sheep or "Others". Like a new planet with a fresh start? That displaces Earth from its orbit and is just like Earth in every other way? This is one of these statements that I would normally have to repress, but I will break that bad habit here.

We can be People Like Us(TM).

They can be Other People(TM).

I used to say that I had renounced my membership in the human race. So I just called them humans.

I just say "Most people" when I'm talking about NTs, now. My attitudes towards mianstream society has changed for the better somewhat, since I got myself back to where I should be. Nobody wants to be known as an Ente and they're people, not sheep. Sheep are grey animals with horns that you see on the farms along the countryside of England.

How about NA (not autistic). It can be a secret code word when they force us to use small talk.

"Wanna go to a party?"

Na.


"Havin a bad day?"

Na.

"Let's go down to the mosh pit"

Na.

"Shopping for shoes rocks, don't ya think?"

Na.

shallow?

although from now on i will certainly count neurotypicals whilst lying in bed an insomniac, and refer to them as muggles.

Be careful what you call the NTs, neurotypicals, normals or others. If you start to make nasty remarks here about the "NTs" then it can lead to trouble for the wrong planet community. The worst thing for the wrong planet and those with AS/autism/alphabet soup is the non-NT neurobigot on the loose here.

While different DXs such as HFA, TS, AS, LFA, XYZ or even NT might be for different states it is important to know that one state is not morally better than another state.

We have plenty of trouble with NT neurobigots, a home grown non-NT bigot here could incite lots of trouble by giving the NT neurobigots the excuses which they are looking for to further trouble our kind.

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Diagnosed under the DSM5 rules with autism spectrum disorder, under DSM4 psychologist said would have been AS (299.80) but I suspect that I am somewhere between 299.80 and 299.00 (Autism) under DSM4.

I like calling them muggles. Coz we're the wizards (and witches), we have the magic