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What do you think?
Sure, NA sounds kewel. I might use it! 16%  16%  [ 6 ]
Sure, NA sounds kewel. I might use it! 16%  16%  [ 6 ]
Nah, I think I'll stick with NT. I fear change... 21%  21%  [ 8 ]
Nah, I think I'll stick with NT. I fear change... 21%  21%  [ 8 ]
I don't care either way but thanks for letting me know 13%  13%  [ 5 ]
I don't care either way but thanks for letting me know 13%  13%  [ 5 ]
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09 Aug 2005, 2:02 pm

I am hereby no longer going to use the term NT because I don't really feel it's accurate and will henceforth us NA which shall stand for Non Aspie. This I feel is undebatable. NeuroTypical leaves too much room open for interpretation and opinion and also other negative associations.

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09 Aug 2005, 2:25 pm

Sophist wrote:
I am hereby no longer going to use the term NT because I don't really feel it's accurate and will henceforth us NA which shall stand for Non Aspie. This I feel is undebatable. NeuroTypical leaves too much room open for interpretation and opinion and also other negative associations.

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Yes that sounds reasonable. Though NA = Non-Autistic would cover Non-Aspies and Non-Auties too. :)



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09 Aug 2005, 2:32 pm

MishLuvsHer2Boys wrote:
Sophist wrote:
I am hereby no longer going to use the term NT because I don't really feel it's accurate and will henceforth us NA which shall stand for Non Aspie. This I feel is undebatable. NeuroTypical leaves too much room open for interpretation and opinion and also other negative associations.

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Yes that sounds reasonable. Though NA = Non-Autistic would cover Non-Aspies and Non-Auties too. :)


How true. I didn't think of that. Nice addition. :D


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09 Aug 2005, 2:37 pm

Sounds reasonable to me. NA also brings to mind "not applicable", to which a lot of information here is to NAs out there.


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09 Aug 2005, 2:46 pm

NA could create divisions between members with ASDs and non AS members who fit in here because of comorbid disorders.



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09 Aug 2005, 2:52 pm

It's just that we are tending to use NT for anyone who doesn't have an ASD, which isn't accurate because most of the world has some non-neurotypical disorder or other (90% of the world is crazy and the other 10% are abnormal, LOL) and thus are not neuro-typical in essence. So, I thought using NA to simply refer to someone without an ASD might be a slight improvement on NT. :)


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09 Aug 2005, 8:32 pm

Any label can potentially be damaging and while 'neurotypical' might seem to be inappropriate (I never use the term anyway, since I don't have a dx - formal or self anyway), I could easily be what is called 'NT' but with Emotional Deprivation Disorder which has some but by no means all, similarities to people with AS/ASD.

... no, scrub that, I'll start up a separate thread when I've done some more research, as I don't want to hijack (sp?) this one ...



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10 Aug 2005, 12:52 am

It makes me think of "Non Applicable". Hence NT's become N/A's. :lol:



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10 Aug 2005, 1:14 am

That isnt inclusive of people with PDD-NOS or Dyspraxia (Apraxia). How about calling ND's ASP's (Autistic Spectrum Person) and NT's NASPS (Non Autistic Spectrum Person).



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12 Aug 2005, 1:31 pm

I think both terms have a place. NT refers to those people who are pretty typically (not necessarily admirable, just typical) in the workings of their brains. Non-aspie (I prefer to spell it out because NA already stands for several other things) can include the NTs as well as those who are dealing with some kind of different wiring which is not exactly Asperger's.



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13 Aug 2005, 7:26 pm

Any sort of "different wiring" is not neuro-typical though. Which is my initial point.

Plus NA can stand for non-autistic like Mish noted, therefore referring to the entire spectrum.


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13 Aug 2005, 8:10 pm

I wish NA was what was used to ebing with beacause NT implies that autism is the only possibly way the brain could be wired different from the "norm." Utterly innacurate.



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13 Aug 2005, 8:23 pm

Serissa wrote:
I wish NA was what was used to ebing with beacause NT implies that autism is the only possibly way the brain could be wired different from the "norm." Utterly innacurate.


Even amongst autties, our brains are wired differently. Look at the variance of things, individually, we can and cannot do.


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13 Aug 2005, 9:34 pm

I think that is reasonable.



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13 Aug 2005, 10:33 pm

computerwidow wrote:
I think both terms have a place. NT refers to those people who are pretty typically (not necessarily admirable, just typical) in the workings of their brains. Non-aspie (I prefer to spell it out because NA already stands for several other things) can include the NTs as well as those who are dealing with some kind of different wiring which is not exactly Asperger's.


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Any sort of "different wiring" is not neuro-typical though. Which is my initial point.


I understood your point, Sophist. And I prefer using two different terms which each have their own meanings, that's my point.

But you did say you were making an announcement, not that you were inviting discussion on the issue. Perhaps that's where I made my mistake.



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13 Aug 2005, 11:49 pm

I don't fear change, but saying Non-Aspie is way too broad. NTs are people with nothing on the autistic spectrum, not just Aspergers.


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