Why do yall refer to others with nuero problems as NT?

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Why do a lot of you refer to everyone who isn't an aspie as being NT? I've seen many posts refering to others with bi-polar disorder, adhd, social anxiety, ocd, Dyslexia as nuero typicals. One post I remember said "well maybe your just a NeuroTypical with ADHD". How are people with ADHD neuro typicals? How can you be a nuero typical when you have conditions like bi-polar disorder, borderline personality disorder or tourettes.? Those are not things neurotypicals develop.

In my opinion, many of these are not NT (dyslexia, ADHD, schizophrenia) but some problems do not represent neurodiversity so much, I think.

Other people have different definitions. Some want only autistics to be neuroatypical, but I think that it's not very diverse to have two categories of brains.

NT originally just means, that someone is NOT on the autistic spectrum.

But some use it in the way, that they have no disorder at all.

So, it differs a bit on how you use and understand the term.

There is something of a movement to use the term 'allistic' to refer to those without an ASD and 'Neurotypical' to refer to those without any Neurological differences.

Which does make sense. I think most people mean NT as, not autistic. But I don't know for sure. *shrugs*

Also, there's the fact that a person who does not have an ASD will probably exhibit the things you mentioned differently to a person who does - because of the whole pervasive part of PDD. So a distinction should be made.

It did originally mean that, but outside of Wrong Planet, people with ADHD, dyslexia, and other conditions do refer to themselves as neuroatypical and people without such conditions (as well as autism) as NT. Knowing how these other disorders work, I think it is a stretch to refer to them as "neurotypical."

I thought NT meant anyone who didn't have a neurological based disorder. Dictionary definition wise it seems wrong to exclude other neurological based disorders.

My uncle with Epilepsy is not neurologically typical by a long shot.

People with bipolar are certainly not NT. I like the definition of NT as someone without a neurological disorder. I kind of see it as having an typically developed brain. There are differences in brain development in autism, ADHD, dylsexia, bipolar and I even think schizophrenia. I sometimes refer to NT as TDP (typically developing persons).

I don't know about epilepsy, although I've had some major personality changes from seizures and the fact I have seizures at all means I have overactive neurotransmitters.

I think some people see NT as the socially outgoing person, and some people without autism but with a neurological disorder can be outgoing too. That was my old definition at least.

People with synaesthesia must also be non-NT.

Just grouping of similar people.

NT is generally people who aren't born with "autistic thinking". It's an ASD groupie thingy.

Which is kinda silly though, as I don't see many people with an ASD thinking like me; most I see think like everyone else.

People with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Schizophrenia (there's no way that they are neurotypical), Bipolar Disorder, Personality Disorders, Multiple Personality Disorder, Oppositianal Defiant Disorder, Intellectual Disabilities, Down's Syndrome, Cerebral Palsy (this can be a physical or a mental disability), learning disabilities, Short Term Memory Loss, Blindness, Deafness, Tourette's Syndrome, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder or any other kind of disability are in no way 'neurotypical'. People with Autism or with Asperger's Syndrome just prefer to refer to non-Autistic people as 'neurotypical'. I have Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, and I am in no way neurotypical. It often can mean (depending on the person) a person who just isn't on the Autistic spectrum.

I've never called someone in particular "neurotypical".
When I say "neurotypical" I think of someone who's considered "normal" by society.
To be accurate, NT=person that in considered "normal" by society's standards, not a cathegory of people whose brains are identical, even because everyone's brain is supposed to work differently, everyone have their quirks and issues, may they be social, behavioural, emotional, etc. But they will always be seen as "normal" according to society standards, and one can't say that "only autistics are not NTs, people with ADHD, bipolarism, etc. are", because neither them will be seen as "normal" by society.
Adding to this that there are even "neurotypical" people that can't conform to society because of any reason, and they're not seen as "normal" by society's standards. But why they are considered NTs? Because they don't have the severe issues that are "typical" of neurodifferent people, like impaired social skills for autism, abnormal hyperactivity for ADHD, extreme mood swings from depression to mania for bipolarism, etc.
And then, "neurodiversity" is just a concept that depends from points of views. For me, is normal being myself, and is not normal being like other people are, so I could say that, from my point of view at last, I am the "typical" one and other people are the different ones.