Published on 12, July, 2020
Are there books about NTs in the same way there's books about autists?
i've read a lot about autists written by autists, clinicians, health professionls and journalists. Some of it's been really helpful. I've had how my mind works laid out to me (in relation to NTs). So has someone laid out how the NT mind works, to help NTs understand their everyday thinking and stifes? Like the weird things they do, say, act, feel and how they could get round this? I'd be curious to read a summary of what goes on for them. What's impirtant to them, like how they operate in groups, 1-1, etc. I know all of psychology, philosophy, art, religion, etc is mostly about NTs, but is there a book that's similar to the autism books?
Like, could someone point me in the direction of finding out about the NT mind? Priorities? and life? particularly in relation to the autistic brain and how they're different?
If there were a book specifically from that viewpoint, that could be really interesting.
In terms of what I know of, decent self-help books on a whole variety of subjects seem to chart this territory.
I credit self-help books for how I was able to present as reasonably neurotypical (NT) for much of my adult life. I read self-help books on whichever topic I was struggling in and therefore learnt how to present as reasonably NT.
[Note that I didn't know I was likely autistic at the time, I just knew I needed loads of self-help books to cope with all sorts of different areas of life. To know and understand the various unwritten rules of life and communication that many others seemed to just 'get'.]
Oh, doh, that's why i've read every self help book going. I hadn't twigged.
but now i want a self help book that explains NTs.