Is there such a thing as a Neurotypical?

Just popping back in,

Hi,

Have been having a long think..... i find that people get upset and segregated by this term...Neurotypicals. But i was wondering is there such a thing as a neurotypical?

People i would deam as a neurotypical, i find tend to be irrational optimists, even irritating optimists and just have cognitive empathy, and persue  hobbies or being sociable to an obsession, and when they do socialise, they just play the game of public self and  asking how other people are, so they don't have to talk about themselves- so how are people i would have deemd an NT, an NT at all, if they display the above?

Other people without aspergers can be anorexic, be worriers, anxious, have mental health probs, be controlling, stuffy, grieving, stressed, the list is endless of the different problems, people without aspergers can have, so how is that Neurotypical?

I also get offended by people labling us as an Aspie. And get very offended by people obsessing about our lack of communication skills, when 3/4 of the world,whom don't have aspergers, have communication probs too.

Empathy- if people have personal problems/relationship problems/ housing and social problems-the last thing in the world they feel like doing, is being empathetic. And if somebody is causing problems, then the person on the recieving end isn't going to be feeling empathetic. So why are we being picked on for not being empathetic, when it may just depend on what problems we are in the middle of? Also, i've discovered that not everybody in the world, is actually a people person anyway, so why do we get picked on for not always being people people?

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  • Former Member
    Former Member

    There is a lot of diversity between human psychological types and all of those different types behave differently, with different moods, at different times according to what's happened to them and what they fancy doing at that point in time.

    ASD people have particular psychological traits that are distinct and problematic enough for us to be identified as a group and for us to warrant having a diagnosis and for us to get special treatment and to be protected by specific legal provisions. Yes other people have communication problems but our communication difficulties follow particular patterns and are profound enough for it to cause frequent friction and conflict and misunderstandings that are severe enough for them to require some sort of action.

    Not everything we do can be attributed or blamed on our autism, we also have different moods and not all of our behaviour is controlled by our autism - we have particular traits or behaviours but we have other traits and abilities that are nothing to do with autism.

    Does that help? I suspect that we all have to grapple with what the ASD means and what it is to be NT.

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  • Former Member
    Former Member

    There is a lot of diversity between human psychological types and all of those different types behave differently, with different moods, at different times according to what's happened to them and what they fancy doing at that point in time.

    ASD people have particular psychological traits that are distinct and problematic enough for us to be identified as a group and for us to warrant having a diagnosis and for us to get special treatment and to be protected by specific legal provisions. Yes other people have communication problems but our communication difficulties follow particular patterns and are profound enough for it to cause frequent friction and conflict and misunderstandings that are severe enough for them to require some sort of action.

    Not everything we do can be attributed or blamed on our autism, we also have different moods and not all of our behaviour is controlled by our autism - we have particular traits or behaviours but we have other traits and abilities that are nothing to do with autism.

    Does that help? I suspect that we all have to grapple with what the ASD means and what it is to be NT.

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