Meaning of neurotypicity | Babel Free

Definitions

The property of being neurotypical.

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“The Australian sociologist Judy Singer used the word neurodiversity for the first time at the end⟳ of the 1990s. A new social identity began to have⟳ a voice. Such a voice claims that neurodiversity is part of what is called biodiversity. Many autistic people are involved in this attempt⟳ to explain⟳ neurodiversity and they claim⟳ that neurodiversity is an interesting phenomenon even for neurotypical people. For example, some neurodiverse people might have⟳ telepathic abilities that can be misunderstood, by neurotypical people, as a deficit […]. In its more radical stance, the neurodiversity movement has compiled a set⟳ of criteria for diagnosing neurotypicity as a disease of the so-called “normal people” in Western society.”

“For each subject, a single score⟳ was calculated to quantify the neurotypicity of attention maps obtained in patients (N = 22) and control⟳ subjects (N = 22).”

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