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Sat, Feb 05, 2005

Do you or someone you know suffer from Neurotypical syndrome?

The Institute for the Study of the Neurologically Typical is a small site devoted to an under-recognized and remarkably widespread mental illness:

Neurotypical syndrome is a neurobiological 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 behaviorally rigid, and frequently insist upon the performance of dysfunctional, destructive, and even impossible rituals as a way of maintaining group identity....

Tragically, as many as 9625 out of every 10,000 individuals may be neurotypical.

Okay, so it's not actually a medical site. ISNT is a brilliantly dry and bitter work of satire by "Muskie," a high-functioning autistic writer fed-up with the arrogance of medical professionals who want to "cure" him.

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