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Brains change and adapt, and dementia shows that even being neurotypical is only ever temporary. We need to think of neurotypes not just as constructs but also as temporal segments.
This might seem obvious but I meet a lot of resistance to the idea that you can change neurotype. I think the resistance comes from unwanted pressure to "treat" or "cure" neurominorities. That's totally understandable. But it must also be acknowledged that neurotype is fluid.
Its perfectly conceivable that someone's brain could function in one stage of their life in an autistic way but then in a neurotypical way in another. This shouldn't be thought of in medical term ("cure", etc.) but rather one way a mind can develop in response to its environment.
It's also perfectly understandable that many people (whether neurotypical or neurodivergent) experience neurotype dysphoria. One reason I coined that term is that I think we all experience this at some point but don't have a non neuro-normative way of conceptualising it yet.
