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NeurotypicalNeurotypical (or NT) is a term used by autistics and people with Asperger Syndrometo describe a person whose neurologicaldevelopment and state are typical, conforming to what most people would perceive as normal. The opposite, atypical neurology, is referred to as "neurodivergent". The term originated in the autistic community, as a way to refer to non-autisticpeople. It sometimes therefore includes people with other types of atypical neurology such as dyslexia, epilepsyand ADHD, (Some experts consider ADHD a form of autism). However, it strictly refers specifically to typical neurology. The neurodiversitymovement uses the strict sense exclusively. The term was coined by members of an early, private list composed of mostly autistic adults and a few parents of autism spectrum children. Autistics.orgpopularized it years later with the ISNT website. As people from the original list joined other lists the term was used by more autistic spectrumindividuals, those who study them, and parents. The use of the word "typical" in place of "normal" hints at an underlying issue faced by neurology: does common (or most common) define normal, apart from a statistical normal distribution? The term is deliberately constructed to avoid prejudging this issue. In the United Kingdomthe National Autistic Societyrecommends the use of the term in its advice to journalists [1]. The term has also started to be used in the scientific literature. The term is used with varying degrees of seriousness. This ranges from a straightforward factual way to refer to non-autistic spectrumpeople to a more playfully tongue-in-cheekuse in contexts which often strongly imply that the "merely typical" are to be pitied for wasting so much of their braincapacity keeping track of uninteresting and irrelevant information such as illogical 'social rules'. Some might see this term as the early stages of a new branch of identity politics. See also
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