Is Being Neurotypical all it's Cracked Up to Be?
What would you say are the real tangible benefits?
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PicturesOfABetterTomorrow · 41-45, M
Impossible to say. Everyone's "normal" baseline is different.
To someone who is neurotypical and someone who is on the spectrum I am pretty sure both feel like their default state is "normal" even though their experience of the world around them is very different.
I also think the very concept is flawed because it assumes there is a baseline called typical.
That is not really supported by much of anything.
I prefer to see everyone as a collection of traits that we inherited from our ancestors that facilitated survival at some point in the last 10 000ish years.
What combo is optimal for survival in the current dumpster fire is not particularly special to me.
To someone who is neurotypical and someone who is on the spectrum I am pretty sure both feel like their default state is "normal" even though their experience of the world around them is very different.
I also think the very concept is flawed because it assumes there is a baseline called typical.
That is not really supported by much of anything.
I prefer to see everyone as a collection of traits that we inherited from our ancestors that facilitated survival at some point in the last 10 000ish years.
What combo is optimal for survival in the current dumpster fire is not particularly special to me.
Ferise1 · 46-50, M
@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow I think most people are very normal, they think fast and answer fast to questions and criticism. They have something that I lack. I’ma bit slow. Well, not all the time.