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I'm not 'ND' I'm 'NA'...

Original Prankster
over 4 years ago

I realise that a lot of people will say... "Who are you to try to change the language we use?" or "Well, NT & ND are embedded in society now so there's no point trying to change things..."

But I don't care.

I'm not 'Neurodiverse' vs. the general population who are 'Neurotypical'

I'm 'Neuroatypical' in a 'Neurodiverse' population, where the majority are 'Neurotypical'

typical
adjective - having the distinctive qualities of a particular type of person or thing.
atypical
adjective - not representative of a type, group, or class.
diverse
adjective - showing a great deal of variety; very different.
So, in the same way that people are self-identifying as having ASC (Autistic Spectrum Condition) on the basis that 'Disorder' is pejorative, I'm self-identifying as 'Neuroatypical'.
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  • over 4 years ago in reply to Original Prankster

    I couldn't agree with you more! It's just nice to see a description that I fit into, think I will definitely use it, I used to go with nt ish! 

  • over 4 years ago in reply to NAS39248

    You're welcome!

    I feel this fits with self-advocacy as well - I should be able to describe myself in a way that I feel fits me and I see this as analogous to the 'explosion' of diversity of gender/sexuality descriptors in recent years.

    As well as being a more semantically correct description.

    The human population is neuro-diverse, but there's also diversity within the neuro-typical AND neuro-atypical populations...

    Anyway, I doubt it'll catch on, but that's not the point - if I'm going to have a label I want it to be MY label!

  • over 4 years ago

    Wow you found a category that I can fit in! 

    I am not nt as have abi and parts of the brain don't work how they should (others are working to well apparently)  

    Was told nd doesn't fit as to normal 

    So where did that leave me? Thanks for this!

  • over 4 years ago in reply to qwerty

    I don’t use the term neurotypical, I use narrow minded ***.

  • over 4 years ago

    Yeah, I have the same English interpretation for typical, atypical, and diverse. I also think it make more sense to say "I'm 'Neuroatypical' in a 'Neurodiverse' population, where the majority are 'Neurotypical'"!

  • over 4 years ago in reply to Original Prankster

    I hate those people who just agree with the same person all the time, they don’t have an opinion of their own, they’re like sheep. 

    Or those people who just say someone is better at something than you just because they like them more.

    I just tend to talk to special people because they have their own opinions but are also open minded.

  • over 4 years ago in reply to Will Young

    Ugh! Yeah, the whole "this Friday vs. next Friday" debate...

    It's a very NT thing (in my view) to accept that the 'popular' view is 'correct'...

    I call it 'Emperor's new clothes thinking'... I'm always the kid saying "But... he's not wearing any clothes - I can see his winkle!"

  • over 4 years ago

    You actually have a great point there but that’s what happens in the English language.

    if you think of the next Friday people will say it’s the one after the one coming.

    its actually just the one that’s coming because that’s what next means, the one coming after the last one.