What the hell is an 'NT'?

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I'm rather new to the site and I here talk of 'NT's'
Is it people who can communicate and make friends easily but they choose not to?
Feedback please
Thanks.

It stands for Nerd typical

Oh thanks, there was no real point opening this topic then haha.
I'm definately not one of those

Neurotypical. It means people who don't have any mental disorders like Autism.

NT means neurotypical, but some people call them normal thinkers.

No thats not what it stands for......

"Neurotypical. It means people who don't have any mental disorders like Autism" That is the correct answer for your question....

I would say, it's not just not having a mental disorder. It's having a brain that thinks in normal ways... normal as in like most folks. There are those who are different enough to not be neurotypical, and yet don't qualify for a disorder.

Yeah if you have ASD your brain functions differently than those with neurotypical brain. Cause most people are NT they call it neurotypical.

Who on earth have you people been listening to?

Having a "mental disorder" is nothing to do with it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurotypical

Having non-typical neurological development just implies that our brain function is not quite the same as the majority of people. It doesn't imply "mental disorder". My mind is perfectly ordered - in fact, more ordered than most people's - hence I'm not typical.

Would you agree that most people dont have mental disorders......

Erm. Yes?

To quote from a Harvard Uni article I just quickly googled:

So, at least in the States, at any given time, 75% of people don't have mental disorders. That's "most people".

Last edited by lau on 26 Nov 2008, 9:27 am, edited 1 time in total.

neuro typical is to have a typical neuronal environment in the brain.

there are few people who are not neurotypical. even schizophrenics are NT's. bipolar people are NT.
antisocial personality people are NT.

autism is an "organic" situation rather than a "functional" one.

functional illnesses are illness like schizophrenia where a person is predisposed, and an environmental trigger is the catalyst.

organic ones are where there is actual structural changes in the brain that account for the condition.

alzheimers disease is organic, paresis is organic.
autism is organic.
it is not functional which means it is not dependent on environment or nurture.

so NT's have otherwise normal brains and they can have a range of psycopathy's and psychoses.

autistic brains are (i am sorry to say) mildy damaged and so autistics are not typical in "normal neuronal discourse".

so that is my small thought.

That bit I have to disagree with. "Autistic", as you had already stated, does not mean "damaged", just different. Also, even those people with "damaged" brains can certainly still be "neurotypical".

I have chosen to surrender to the impossibility of achieving normalcy.



Ever heard of the phrase, "Why be normal?"

i knew i would be challenged on this and i expect more to follow.

you do not perceive what the true meaning of "neurotypical" is. it is undamaged and normally operating brains (as fallible and absurd as they are)
i think there is a myelin sheath strippage in my neurons but i am not too worried because i can prevail and be content.
but i am certainly damaged in a way that i have no "mirror" capacity.
yawning is something that is infectious for NT's. if one yawns, then most of them will also yawn.

i used to sit in rooms where people were playing music and smoking bongs (a studio).
when someone had a full breath of smoke and another person asked them a question and the smoker tried to answer, they sometimes snorted out in an instinctive cough response, but the group all heard it as a "laugh" and they all started laughing too.

i just thought to myself "what a false start that was".

i have no capacity for affectation or empathy of identification with any other person, but i manage to remain cognizant, and i know my brain is damaged in a way that does not affect my intelligence.

But being overly ordered is not the order of how most peoples brains work.

If you don't think the same way as the majority, you're not NT.
If you do, you are NT.