Neurotypical vs Neurotypicality - What's the difference?
neurotypical | neurotypicality |
Having a normal way of processing sensory, linguistic, and social information; used especially to contrast with autistic.
* 2001 , Brenda Smith Myles, Diane Adreon, Jennifer Stella, Asperger Syndrome and Adolescence (page 17)
* 2006 , Alan Griswold, Autistic Symphony
One who is neurotypical; one who is not autistic, dyslexic, schizophrenic etc.
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As nouns the difference between neurotypical and neurotypicality
is that neurotypical is one who is neurotypical; one who is not autistic, dyslexic, schizophrenic etc while neurotypicality is the quality of being neurotypical.As an adjective neurotypical
is having a normal way of processing sensory, linguistic, and social information; used especially to contrast with autistic.neurotypical
English
(wikipedia neurotypical)Adjective
(en adjective)- Nancy, a high school student, saw herself as being helpful when she told Maureen, a neurotypical peer, that the horizontal lines on her shirt made her look fat.
- If our definition of empathy were to require we take the human cognitive norm (overwhelmingly influenced by neurotypical cognition) as the absolute standard by which to measure empathy, then indeed we would have to conclude autistics do not instinctively possess a good sense of empathy.