What percentage of WP posters are NT?

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Ok so the only neurological abnormality/disorder is autism........got it.

And are you seriously calling me names? I'm not a depressed 'emo'.....I have some pretty valid reasons for how I feel actually. And part of it is being treated like garbage by my supposed peers.

Bumble, you use the same kind of insinuations as I do. Therefore, you're NT. You now feel all better about yourself, right?

Strangely I don't feel any different to how I normally feel. Which is like myself!

Check out wikipedia on the term Neurotypical:







Where did I call you a name? If you're truly autistic, you would take what I said at face value.

Ok then lets just say that the term NT is used in the autistic community to differentiate between those who have autism and those whose neurological make up and behaviour are typical. Just because someone is not autistic that does not mean their neurological make up is typical even amongst NTs so the term 'Not neurotypical' could still, technically, apply to them.'

Or perhaps you would prefer not typically neurotypical.

Yes, and you are more than welcome here - it is wonderful that you come here to help care for your son, your presence is much appreciated.

Yeah, "typically neurotypical" or "neurologically typical" would probably be clearer to most people.

Im convinced that theres a lot of people on here who are undiagnosed who think there aspie. Whether there really aspie is in question.

I really don't think this matters. I am unimpressed with the descent into name calling on this thread (yes, calling someone a "weirdo" is name calling swbluto).

People should come here to explore and learn about themselves, to learn about autism, to meet other people in an autism-friendly environment, and to better understand their family members and friends who have autism.

As I said before, IF there are any genuine pretenders I think they would be very few (I mean, why bother. I think that there are a large portion of people on here who are uncertain - and lets get this straight - these guys are NOT pretenders and people should STOP stigmatizing them).

I think even if there were any deliberate pretenders on the site I highly doubt they'd be harming anybody as if someone said something misleading accidentally (or on purpose) about autism, they would quickly be corrected/educated by the majority of more knowledgeable members anyway.


We should be welcoming all people to this site who have an interest in Autism, irrespective of their diagnostic status. It upsets me to see some of the discriminatory comments tossed about.

Yes I cannot quite figure out how the fact that I see a flaw in which the way many people with an ASD use the word Neurotypical, to me neurotypical means neurotypical so if I do in fact have an ASD then I am one person with an ASD that does not use NT to differenciate people without an ASD from myself.

wikopedia is not an accurate source, that is why its not recommended to use it as a source in college papers.....not to mention lots of people coin terms and then terms take on more meanings then they originally had. But that aside its a word how I use it does not prove wether I have AS or am an NT.


Also, if you were me you would take offence to that as well......I come from a world where the struggles i had were always ignored, in their ignorance people called me lazy because I sucked at P.E class and never really had as much energy as most people, people called me selfish because I would complain when suffering from sensory overload..sometimes really minor things so they did not understand how such minor things could bother me so much. People called me ret*d, because I am sometimes a bit slow at processing information and because they could tell there was something off about me. I've had the term emo, psychopath, commie b*tch(because I am not too fond of capitalism in its current state), freak, weirdo ect thrown my way as well. So I am a little bit defensive after all that.......so if you were not directly referring to me I apologize for taking it that way.

However I do not think my reaction proves wether I have an ASD or not.

Neurotypical is one of those words which has multiple meanings.

It was originally used in the autistic community to mean not autistic.

When the neurodiversity movement started going and including other groups of people, then neurotypical began being used to mean 'neurologically typical'.


I'm guilty of using both definitions in different situations. I'd assume from the topic that the question was 'not autistic' not 'not neurologically different somehow', though I'd find both statistics interesting.

As for people faking, all I've been sure of seeing is people putting on their profile "Have Asperger's - Diagnosed" and then talking in posts about not being diagnosed. It bugs me.

I think just a few.

And think about the "NT" parents of Aspie children here. I'd venture to hazard guess that they are at least BAP. Some have stated they have "some" of it.

There are some ADHD people here, and obviously I'd say they are neuro-a-typical. Are they autistic in a sense as in accurately gauging and engaging in ToM ? Partly.... there is some trouble that circumscribes it out of all other neurological conditions.

A safe bet: There are *no* depressed souls here based solely on clinical depression. My hunch is that there is a significant neurological anomaly associated with all Wrong Planeters. I do not see Bi-Polar, schizophrenia as a "neurological anomaly." Why? Simply due to the fact that these ones develop this, and move from a neuro typical zone, into a diseased/ malfunctioning neurotransmitter state -- there is a pathology here.

I don't find boring pedantic discussions over the exact meaning of invented words interesting enough to get into a heated and inflammatory debate over. Therefore I must be NT. I am now officially undiagnosed.

I agree with this. I tend to see my bipolar as an "illness" which needs to be cured with medication, whereas I see my aspergers as a neurological difference.

There are BP people who are almost exactly like autistic people in the sense that they say that BP is part of who they are and always has been. They would not be who they are if bipolar wasn't in the picture. I'd say many BP people separate themselves from the disease, but there are still a significant amount that take it on as part of their identity.