On: My Life as an Autistic Wikipedian

[guard-of-terra]

I don't think there's such thing as neurotypical.

"Neurotypical" means "person who haven't got enough attention to be examined nor a name for their specific neural features". Because everyone got some.

[AndrewDucker → guard-of-terra]

Neurotypical seems to mean a mixture of "Near the centre of the bell curve, for all attributes" and "Is able to mentally cope with the world without unusually large quantities of external support".

[pbhjpbhj → AndrewDucker]

It strikes me - anecdotally - that often those who are most well-adjusted have the most support [friendship groups, family] already and those that are least well-adjusted lack these things.

I'm sure there's a feedback loop (or two) and that causality is bi-directional.

[guard-of-terra → AndrewDucker]

Not many people are neat the centre of the bell curve for ALL attributes (statistically, since attributes are aplenty) and those who are become a small and interesting subset on their own.

[badpenny → AndrewDucker]

Or, in short, somebody who doesn't have Asperger's.

[AndrewDucker → badpenny]

Or Schizophrenia. Or ADHD. Or any one of a massive host of things that can affect the brain and make it harder to cope.

[badpenny → AndrewDucker]

I thought this was a discussion about Asperger's, not every single mental disorder under the sun.

[badpenny → guard-of-terra]

Is that really what it means or did you just decide that's what it means?