How do you know if someone's NT?

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I ask this because the more I get to know certain people in my life, the less they seem NT.

Yes, a lot of them are seen to be quite sociable but then I think are they just "following on" for fear of being "found out".

I must add that most of the people I know these days are under 25 years old, and I am by no means claiming that anyone is autistic but I find it interesting that there does seem to be an overlap with certain people.

If you get what I mean.

If they're anything like this guy, you know they're not.

NT is verry merry berry broad range of traits and behaviors.
Most people I know have some autistic traits and behaviors, but they are still within the big normal variation.

Maybe I'm just always on the lookout for someone to relate to.

It depends how one defines NT.

This community generally uses the term to refer to anybody that is not autistic. In that case, you have a vast pool of disorders/differences etc. with which many may have.

Scientifically the term doesn't really exist as anything but a variable to refer to the lacking of a difference that a specific condition/disorder has, which in the case of autism, would be stimming, sensory and social issues etc.

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Usually. NT behavior ranges greatly.

Yep....NT's run the gamut. From extremely shy to extremely outgoing. From extremely judgemental to extremely nonjudgemental. I find "NT" to be too broad a category for which to ascribe characteristics.

There are times when it's difficult to distinguish an autistic person from an NT unless one spends lots of time with a person who is being scrutinized that way.

There are autistic people who could "hide" their autism from the "greater world"--but, when they could let their guard down (such as when they are home)--then their autistic characteristics emerge.