September 5, 2006

  • Neurotypical

    I so seldom read my guestbook, and looking at my Footprints, someone from South Korea was looking at it, so I took a peek to make sure no one had uploaded trade secrets from Samsung or whatever.

    Hellnohateyou asks: Where does the stat for NT come from? He's referring to the top of my Xanga page, where it says:

    Tragically, as many as 9625 out of every 10,000 individuals may be neurotypical.

    Since I've got a few new subscribers, I thought I'd talk about this *again,* mostly because it's one of my favorite things.

    And also because there's this great Metafilter article about it, so I don't have to explain as much. Start here (the link to this page from Metafilter is broken).

    One of the many misconceptions about people who are autistic and who have Asperger's Syndrome diagnoses is that they lack a sense of humor. The above shows: The joke's on you.

Comments (3)

  • These are great links. Americans (especially) put such great emphasis on conformity. It is insane. Why the f*** would I want to be like all the "mormal" a-holes who surround me, unseeing, unempathetic, and uninteresting.

  • The word you're looking for is 'fuck.'

  • Neither of those links explains where the stat came from. I think, though it's been awhile, that my point was that if you count lefties and people with MS and dyslexics and people with neurological conditions other than autism related ones, you'd find that at least a tenth of the population is not neurotypical.

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