“Neurotypical” is an oxymoron. A psychiatrist once told me that what we idealize as “normal” may be 10% of the population, everyone else has some issue(s), just undiagnosed.
I suppose that stands to reason. If you overlap all known spectra of neurodivergence, the reference ranges of each wouldn’t be expected to align perfectly over a population. A narrow slice near the center of the bell curve might be 100% NT for all known spectra, but that cohort could be vanishingly small. So “NT” is really only useful in a context of specified criteria/spectra, because few if any individuals are typical for all of them.
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“Neurotypical” is an oxymoron. A psychiatrist once told me that what we idealize as “normal” may be 10% of the population, everyone else has some issue(s), just undiagnosed.
I suppose that stands to reason. If you overlap all known spectra of neurodivergence, the reference ranges of each wouldn’t be expected to align perfectly over a population. A narrow slice near the center of the bell curve might be 100% NT for all known spectra, but that cohort could be vanishingly small. So “NT” is really only useful in a context of specified criteria/spectra, because few if any individuals are typical for all of them.