Do you find 'NTwit' offensive?

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01 Apr 2019, 4:01 pm

[Editor's note: This is the formal definition in a controlled language. it as well known fact that controlled languages appear non fluent to those that don't know it. Please take it's definition at face value.]

NTwit is used my members of the autistic community to point out the fact that there is no one "The neurotypical thinking" but many "a neurotypical thinkings" With allegations that typical thinking on normal[sic] people is rash and therefore idiotic and that if you think otherwise it's because you are a NTwit.

NTwit (noun)

A rashinal being. "NTwits will forgive you for being wrong, but they will never forgive you for being right—especially if events prove you right while proving them wrong."
(joshing) A quality of Neurotypicalness.

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01 Apr 2019, 4:23 pm

You made it up, didn't you?

There is no such word appearing in any of my network searches, except on this website.

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01 Apr 2019, 4:46 pm

I noticed you use it before in another thread.

In the many years Ive been on WP I have seen tons of "NT bashing", but I have never before seen that turn of phrase.

I thought it was ...rather witty!

So hats off to you for being... an autism spectrum wit.

I have mixed feelings about neurotypical bashing, but I think that we can give you pass for using that phrase!

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01 Apr 2019, 5:05 pm

I saw it as a pejorative because it looks like: "nitwit"...

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01 Apr 2019, 5:16 pm

Yep....the OP meant it that way....

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01 Apr 2019, 5:38 pm

It is a pejorative Mirriam Webster definition twit

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twit noun "a silly annoying person"
twit verb ":
1. subject to light ridicule or reproach
2 : to make fun of as a fault

Examples of twit in a Sentence - "Only a complete twit would insult his hosts".

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01 Apr 2019, 5:50 pm

A "nit" is the egg of lice. They are virtually invisible to the naked eye.

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01 Apr 2019, 6:05 pm

Fnord wrote:

You made it up, didn't you?

What's your point? All words are made up by someone and you don't seem to a etymology fanatic.

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There is no such word appearing in any of my network searches, except on this website.

Google gives me the definition of NTwit on The Order of Her Noodly Appendage wiki as the first result. this is the only other use of it as a word in the first 5 pages

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01 Apr 2019, 6:36 pm

Hsingai wrote:

Fnord wrote:

You made it up, didn't you?

What's your point? ...

I'm asking if you've made up another "fact" to support your prejudice against NTs.

Hsingai wrote:

Google gives me the definition of NTwit on The Order of Her Noodly Appendage wiki as the first result. this is the only other use of it as a word in the first 5 pages

That link is BOGUS. It leads to a page that yields only the following:

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Oops! We ran into some problems.
The requested thread could not be found.

C'mon! We're not as stupid as you seem to want us to be, so stop with the put-ons and get real!

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01 Apr 2019, 6:50 pm

Fnord wrote:

Hsingai wrote:

Fnord wrote:

You made it up, didn't you?

What's your point? ...

I'm asking if you've made up another "fact" to support your prejudice against NTs.

Hsingai wrote:

Google gives me the definition of NTwit on The Order of Her Noodly Appendage wiki as the first result. this is the only other use of it as a word in the first 5 pages

That link is BOGUS. It leads to a page that yields only the following:

Quote:

Oops! We ran into some problems.
The requested thread could not be found.

C'mon! We're not as stupid as you seem to want us to be, so stop with the put-ons and get real!

It's appears the tread has been deleted but it's still in googles index Do a little work for yourself.

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01 Apr 2019, 6:54 pm

It is very ambiguous, so far. If bigots take it up, I might be offended, but as Steve Hughes points out, so what?

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01 Apr 2019, 6:55 pm

NT bashing isn't allowed on WP.

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