Profound autism, is it real, or is it just intellectual disability with certain autistic features? People with intellectual disability, who are also talkative and extrovert and keen on social interaction are not called 'profoundly neurotypical'.
This sort of thing, like assignment of species in human evolution, tends to switch between 'lumpers' and 'splitters'. The 'spectrum' saw lumpers in the ascendant, perhaps the pendulum is swinging the other way?
I agree it is an interesting take, but I think it obvious that not everyone with autism is the same and maybe it would be better to acknowlege the differences? I've wondered before why some people are not labled as very NT, do other NT's find them difficult and exhausting to around?
Possibly, using allistic rather than neurotypical, the opposite of an autist would be a sociopath who was socially adept, a good communicator, but an empathy-free manipulator of others.
If you take all the things that make someone ND and think of the opposites of them, then you have a normal NT, if you then amplify those things then you have someone very NT. Oddly they often seem to be the people who are supposed to help the ND and create a totally headscratching situation, by coming out with catch phares and words for things, like disregulated, a term I loathe as it seems to mean feeling strongly about anything whilst being autistic. They seem to exist in this strange world filled with jargon and self fulfilling prophesies never seeming to conest with anyone other than those of thier own kind.
