NT originally entered the language through a satirical article posted on
autistics.org and was intended as a parody on medical diagnosis.
Neurodiversity as a concept has led a separate life linguistically though the
two have become somewhat confused into a binary.
NT has unfortunately become somewhat reified into an actual condition, and the
acronym has entered into the academic world of autism through countless articles
in the peer reviewed literature whilst simultaneousy being adopted by such less
informed groups as AFF, almost as a "football chant"
Neurodiversity so far as is known entered the literature and language through
the academic route, through the genre of disability studies not less, but sadly
DANDA and others have missed the point as has been pointed out, again by
adopting it as a rigid category.
Before all this came along I categorised myself as a divergent thinker, that is
to say one who is not subject to the memes of society what in days gone by would
have been known as a free thinker or dissenter.
I am not a sheep I am a wolf :)*1
Anyway to get back to the point, if one studies the history of these words one
can see the relativity and the flexibility of language and ultimately the
unreliability of it, which I leave for Wittgenstein not to say :)
Larry
Footnote *1
Baa Baa Black sheep have you any wool (define the social significance of the
utterance "Baa" the cultural connotation of Black including its paradoxical
origins within the English language as a derivative of the French Blanc. When
you have done that never mind speciesism and anthropomorphisation, define the
sheepness of ovines and after that translate the whole into Eco's ideal Aymara
or Derridian French notwithstanding the absence of ovines in Aymara (which I am
sure Voltaire was quite aware of when he allowed himself to be a conduit for the
entextation of Candide)
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Colin REvell
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> Subject: Re: NT OR NOT NT
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> Alan et al....
>
> I only came informed of this article yesterday myself, and
> read it today,
> from Russell Stronach, North East Neuro-Diverse Adults(NENDA):-
> http://www.neurodiversity-northeast.org.uk
>
> I am very surprised that Larry Arnold has informed all of us
> about this
> article in the past on this forum. I be very interested to
> hear Larry's
> esteemed comments and others too.
>
> I myself agree with most of what the 'author' has said within
> the article,
> but I still need a bit more time to reflect and take-in what
> they have said.
>
> The source for this NT, Or Not NTarticle:-
> http://autisticbfh.tripod.com/nt.html
> http://autisticbfh.blogspot.com/2006/02/nt-or-not-nt.html
>
> Yours
>
> Colin R
>
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