Published on 12, July, 2020
I've always had a lesion in my brain and I've had epilepsy for as long as I can remember, so I was pretty neuro atypical long before I got this autism diagnosis as an adult just one or two years ago. I don't think you can say that someone you never met and know nothing about is "neurotypical" It's just a complete assumption and it's rude.
OK, I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree. I think it is a rude comment, others don't.
In reply to Tom's comment that anyone who is called "neurotypical" is not autistic, please read my first comment again. An epileptic brain with a lesion cannot be said to be typical.
I don’t think anyone has to agree to disagree. What’s wrong with just having different views and each person using the words that make the most sense to them? Tom didn’t say nt refers to anyone who isn’t autistic, he said autistic or in any other way neurodiverse. It’s just a term that has come into popular use to replace the term normal as anyone who was not normal or typical was thought of as abnormal, which some people took offence to. It wouldn’t bother me to be called abnormal but many people objected to it and so far, neurotypical is the best they have come up with so far. I prefer weirdo, but a lot of people don’t like that term either. I also like the term retard but a lot of people don’t like that either. So I guess we all have our preferences.
Doesn't agree to disagree just mean each person has their own view?
No, it implies that there is a need to either agree or disagree, when in reality, there is no need. It sounds like it’s saying everyone has their own view but it’s not. Because if that were the case, why would anybody say, we’ll have to agree to disagree? Why does there have to be any agreement? If people have different views, it’s a given that not everybody will agree so it’s pretty pointless to say we will have to agree to disagree. We have already, in a sense, agreed to disagree when we accepted that we all have our own views which could be different from each other’s. When people say that phrase, what they usually mean, is they don’t agree with the other person and they not only don’t like that but they can’t give any evidence or say anything to the contrary but because they want to say something, they will often use that phrase.