Jan 10, 2020
5 min read
The Damage Done By ‘Normal’ and ‘Natural’
Two simple words but they cast a lot of pain
I have an adult son with autism. I spent a lot of his childhood trying to find ways to describe non-autistic people without using the word ‘normal’.
The phrase that was generally settled on was neurotypical. Someone whose neural makeup is typical of…the norm! There it is again, buried deep in the description.
