I really don't like the word NT because I don't think it really exists. Everyone has their own problems and I wonder how many people are out there who actually don't have any disabilities or cancer, or other sicknesses and don't need medication?
But I will use the word NT to separate from aspie when I am talking but I usually say "normal people" when I am talking about people without that condition. I go to another aspie forum where it's mixed with AS and NTs. People there call themselves NT and they go my AS husband, my AS wife but they don't refer them that in real life, only at that forum so people would know which one is the aspie. To me that labeling did seem silly. I don't refer my husband as the brain damaged hubby or bad feet hubby or learning disabled hubby. I call him my husband or hubby. Even the NTs there don't really like labeling their partners that way either but they do it so everyone knows what position they are. There is no feature like in relationship with aspie or in relationship with NT. Instead we have to put it in our sigs. I have mine in my sig about me being a 24 year old woman with AS with a aspie like man. My husband has traits but he won't do any forums because of his poor spelling.
NT doesn't mean anything, it doesn't define behavior. Whatever people do has nothing to do with being NT such as being a jerk, being ignorant, not accepting someone. Those are just human characteristics and they are just jerks and no good people. I see them as personality traits and it's not part of anything. But I will agree there is such thing as NT traits and they be like not expecting people to know your thoughts, reading between the lines, the obvious stuff lot of people have that we have difficulty with. But I don't think there is such thing as 100 percent aspie and one hundred percent NT because they also have their moments like communicating problems, why do you think misunderstandings occur? Why do you think people fail to understand how someone is feeling?
To be 100 percent NT would be never lacking theory of mind, never lack empathy, always flexible, always reads body language right never wrong, never ever takes things literal, never needs to be alone, no sensory issues, etc. and for all these to work, they have to be perfect and never make a mistake, never have any aspie moments and have never had any before by failing at these at times. Also they would also have to have no mental conditions.
Being 100 percent aspie, things be a mess if someone was, having every single sensory issue, taking every single thing literal and never ever understand sarcasm or use it, etc.
