Wednesday, February 11, 2009

What's your greatest daily challenge?


The greatest consistent challenge I face most days is having to deal with neurotypicals.

What is a neurotypical? Hey, that not fair! Only one question per post, you! But go on, just this once . . .

Okay, the odds are that you are a neurotypical person. You're in the majority, as opposed to the rest of us who have some degree of autistic or Asperger syndrome make-up. At least that is what I think is most likely to be the case. The following is something I've snipped from a book or the Internet:

Neurotypical syndrome is a neurological disorder characterized by preoccupation with social concerns, delusions of superiority, and obsession with conformity. Neurotypical individuals often assume that their experience of the world is either the only one, or the only correct one. NTs find it difficult to be alone. NTs are often intolerant of seemingly minor differences in others. When in groups NTs are socially and behaviouraly rigid, and frequently insist upon the performance of dysfunctional, destructive, and even impossible rituals as a way of maintaining group identity. NTs find it difficult to communicate directly, and have a much higher incidence of lying as compared to persons on the autistic spectrum. (Institute for the Study of the Neurologically Typical, http//isnt.autistics.org, accessed 11 February 2008.)
But be clear here. The above doesn't apply to me; it (probably) applies to you. These are the people I need to put up with. And that is my challenge.

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