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Old May 07, 2014, 05:49 PM
Happy Camper Happy Camper is offline
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Non in this context=normal/neurotypical

Usually on any given forum a non is a person that doesn't have the disorder or condition the forum is about.

Autistic people tend to say neurotypical in place of non, but the term applies to people that are pretty much completely normal/average from a mental health standpoint.

I said non instead of normal because I wasn't sure if I'd upset someone by suggesting they're not normal. I'm a non here now that my bipolar 1 was lifted to mood disorder nos.

Clinical depression makes sense, and I wasn't at all talking about the other meanings of depression.

How were the people claiming they were manic behaving? I know maniac is derived from mania, but I'm talking specifically about people claiming to be manic/in a mania.