To want someone to tell me what "NT" stands for?

[magicmummy1]

I see it on lots of threads here, and I assume from the context that it refers to children who are not disabled/don't have special needs. But I can't figure out for the life of me what it stands for.

I'm sure I'm being thick, but would someone please rescue me from my ignorance?

I have the acronym page open in a sepatrate tab so I can look them up.

It does get confusing if someone has a large family and mentions them all in a long post. DD/DC/DS/DB/DU and so on.

One thing that puzzles me is when people put D in front of FIL/SIL etc Isn't the FIL enough without the D? And I do have a silent giggle when someone is having a good ole proper rant about someone and prefix it with D - I imagine it being said dripping with sarcasm.

Definitely more of a continuum than a simple two camps set up. It's just difficult to explain when the differences aren't visible or identifiable by scan or X-ray.

Meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee goblin ??

Lots of research being done too.
Simon Baron-Cohen at Cambridge is running a major research project.

Vanguard, Apocolypse.
You know, the pointy front end of the army who get a kicking first because they are heading into unfamiliar and possibly hostile territory.

Yes, yes. I'm well versed in the art of vanguarding thingy me bobs, and I will continue to lead the way, I will not be defeated !!

Ugh, the bloody Baron-Cohens. What have they ever contributed to society?

tbh I have bit of a problem with the use expression of the expression NT to denote the others on the Special Needs boards. It seems to assume that the Special Needs boards are only for people whose special needs are caused by their neurological state. So where does that leave children whose disabilities have nothing to do with neurological atypicality? Are they not properly disabled? Don't they count? Are the boards

Yes, I do use the phrase, but at the same time I wonder if I have a right to it: nobody really knows if my dcs' disability is neurologically linked or not. Quite likely my children are NT, but they are also disabled and have special needs. So using NT as a contrast to special needs seems to reinforce the old idea that all people with special needs are the same.

I had wondered about that cory - someone can surely be 'NT' and also disabled?

it's pretty impossible to have a term which expresses all 'differently abled' people (that was a term I was taught to use at a work training session.... it of course has its own problems)

But couldn't "special needs" be also considered offensive, as it implies these people are "needy"? I bet in another year we will have another replacement word (or acronym, or very long phrase) to define them. I do find it highly annoying, and always wonder why some people CHOOSE to be offended with any of the terminology. FGS, they are just words! If someone wants to be offensive, surely they can use any term and make it sound so.

Oh, it also means 'nuchal translucency' in relation to antenatal scans.

I always prefer my children to be referred to as either 'mainstream' or 'non-mainstream'

As I have 2 of each, it's easier for me. No 'normals' or 'disableds' thank you :)

Aurynne how often do you need to refer to people as NT that you find it so irritating?

Words say a great deal about how we view others and their place in the world. Quite rightly language changes as we become more aware - that's cause for celebration in my book.

Me too Riven

Although I don't mind 'the norm' so much, as this has a different meaning IMO. 'Normal' is just gross.

It's political correctness gone mad - what's wrong with "normal" and "cripple"? Seems to cover it all.

You might like the acronym UTGSN if you are going to post in AIBU.

^AIBU to think... blah blah blah.... children doing something.... blah blah blah.... shouldn't do it... blah blah blah.... parents should teach them/keep them under control.... blah blah blah

Unless They've Got Special Needs.^

Seriously, you'll need it. Otherwise the responses will be full of 'you'd think my DS was being naughty but actually he has ' and you'll want to scream that you didn't mean in special cases, you meant "normal" children, but you know that you can't use the word "normal" and it all gets very stressful.

I can't actually understand why people don't get why calling my child "not normal" is offensive.

Seeker that's disgusting.

i don't think seeker was being entirely serious.

Well, I hope not anyway.