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Allism

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AutExplorer:

'''Allism''' is the antonym of [[Autism|autism]]. An '''allistic''' person is someone who is not autistic.

[[Neurotypical]] (or NT for short) is often used synonymously with allistic by many people. However, this is ''incorrect'': while an allistic person can, by definition, never be autistic they can still be [[Neurodivergence|neurodivergent]] in other ways. (For example: someone who isn't autistic but is ADHD is both allistic and neurodivergent)

[[Category:Autistic paradigms and terminology]]

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AutExplorer: /* About this wiki */

Welcome to the '''ActuallyAutistic Wiki'''! This is a community-driven guide to all aspects of autism, allism, and helping build bridges between neurotypes. It emerged recently from the #ActuallyAutistic community on Twitter.

== About this wiki ==

* '''Everyone is welcome to contribute to this wiki!'''
* You can '''edit any page''' without even having an account. Just hit the 'Edit' link on any page (including this one!). ''Important privacy note'': editing a page without having an account or without being logged in will show your IP address publicly in the changelog/history of a page.
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== Terminology ==

=== General ===

* [[Autism]]
* [[Neurodiversity]]
* [[Neurodivergence]]
* [[Neurotypical]]
* [[Allism]]

* [[Executive dysfunction]]
* [[Hyperfixation]]
* [[Hyperfocus]]

* [[Infodumping]]
* [[Stimming]]

* [[Neurokin]]
* [[Neuropeer]]
* [[Identity-first language]]
* [[Person-first language]]

* [[Spoon theory]]

=== Autism specific ===

* [[Monotropism]]
* [[Inertia]]

* [[Masking]]
* [[Mirroring]]
* [[Scripting]]

* [[Meltdown]]
* [[Shutdown]]
* [[Autistic burnout]]

* [[Special interest]]
* [[Autistic joy]]
* [[Echolalia]]
* [[Parallel play]]

* [[Ritual]]
* [[Routine]]
* [[Safe foods]]

=== Other ===

* [[Augmentative and alternative communication|AAC]]
* [[Applied Behavior Analysis|Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)]]
* [[Grok]]
* [[Overlapping neurotypes|AuDHD]]
* [[Highly Sensitive Person]]
* [[Justice sensitivity]]
* [[ADHD|Kinetism (ADHD)]]
* [[Late diagnosis]]
* [[Positive Behavior Support (PBS)]] (What's that?)
* [[Rejection sensitive dysphoria]]
* [[Savant]]
* [[Miscellaneous terms]] - for similar/confusing terms and definitions that probably better in one place rather than multiple short articles

=== Outmoded terminology ===

While many autists have moved away from these terms, some continue to use them to describe their experience. Please remember that people may have complex reasons for the words they choose, and that differences in vocabulary are okay. In short, while it's important to understand how these outdated terms play to most autists, it's also not helpful to police other people's word choices.

* [[Asperger syndrome]]
* [[Functioning labels|High- and low-functioning]]
* [[On the spectrum]]
* [[Autism spectrum disorder|Autism spectrum disorder (ASD)]]

== List of Autistic traits (incomplete) ==

Not every autistic person necessarily has many of the traits listed below, but these traits do tend to show up more often in autistic people than in non-autistic people.

=== Core autistic traits ===

* [[Autistic empathy]]
* [[Sensory sensitivity|Hyper-senses & hypo-senses]]
* [[Preference for certainty]]
* [[Routine]] / [[Ritual]]
* [[Special interest|Special interests]]
* [[Stimming]]

=== Autistic nonverbal communication ===

* [[Eye contact|Eye contact avoidance]]
* [[Flat affect]]
* [[Flat facing]]
* [[Being an "old soul"]]

=== Autistic verbal communication ===

* [[Accent mimicry]]
* [[Bluntness]]
* [[Selective mutism|Conditional Mutism]]
* [[Difficulty lying]]
* [[Monotone voice]]
* [[Reframing]]
* [[Verbal footnoting]]
* [[Nonspeaking]]
* [[Phone calls|Phone call avoidance]]
* [[Wordplay]]
* [[name? unconsciously getting word order wrong]]
* [[Auditory processing disorder|Auditory processing difficulties]]
* [[Infodumping|Preference for infodumping]]

=== Gender and sexuality ===

* [[Gender]]
* [[Autigender]]
* [[Demisexuality]]
* [[Autism and LGBTQ+]]
* [[Peritiosexual]]
* [[Neuroqueer]]
* [[Xenogender]]

=== Imperatives and neurological ===

* [[Resistance to bias]]
* [[Dissociation]]
* [[Irrational fears, neurological]]
* [[Divergent stress triggers]]
* [[Divergent touch needs]]
* [[Ethical fearlessness]]
* [[Experiential recreation]]
* [[Gullibility]]
* [[Inability to intuit the "point of diminishing returns"]]
* [[Intense world theory]]
* [[Median (plurality)]]
* [[Nonlinear contradiction response]]
* [[Pattern recognition]]
* [[Preference for certainty]]
* [[Prosopagnosia]]
* [[Plurality]]
* [[Susceptibility to trauma]]
* [[Sympathetic animism]]
* [[name? Willful Sensorium Override]]

=== Familial ===

* [[Autistic relatives]]
* [[Multigenerational disability]]

=== Memory ===

* [[Atypical autobiographical and episodic memory]]
* [[Emotion memory imprinting]]
* [[Childhood amnesia]]

=== Psychological ===

* [[Cat empathy]]
* [[Empathy#Hyper-empathy|Hyper-empathy]]
* [[Empathy#Hypo-empathy|Hypo-empathy]]
* [[Preference for animation]]
* [[Preference for autistically coded characters]]
* [[Gravitate towards other neurodivergents]]

=== Physical ===

* [[Arthritis]]
* [[Autistic baby face]]
* [[Hypermobility]]
* [[Toe walking]]

=== Traumagenic Autistic traits ===

* [[Over-apologizing]]
* [[People pleasing]]
* [[High mortality rate]]
* [[Irrational fears, logical]]
{{Comment|(Contradiction...?) --[[User:Fochti|Fochti]] ([[User talk:Fochti|talk]]) 18:56, 26 August 2022 (UTC)}}
{{Comment|No, they are logical fears that are irrational out of context of ND.}}
{{Comment|I think the page could be titled differently then, it sounds very ambiguous/unclear to me? --[[User:Fochti|Fochti]] ([[User talk:Fochti|talk]]) 18:56, 26 August 2022 (UTC)}}
* [[Social anxiety]]
* [[Pathological demand avoidance/pervasive drive for autonomy]]

=== Additional Autistic traits ===

* [[Comorbid interference traits]]
* [[Overlapping Autistic traits]]

=== Comorbidities ===

* [[Bipolar disorder]]
* [[Borderline personality disorder|Borderline/EUPD]]
* [[Complex post-traumatic stress disorder|CPTSD]]
* [[Dyscalculia]]
* [[Dyslexia]]
* [[Ehlers-Danlos syndrome|EDS]]
* [[Hypermobility]]
* [[Hyperlexia]]
* [[ADHD]]
* [[Obsessive-compulsive disorder|OCD]]
* [[Plurality]]
* [[Depression]]
* [[Anxiety]]

== Information and sensory processing ==

=== Information processing differences ===

* [[Aphasia]]
* [[Auditory processing disorder]]
* [[Dyslexia]]
* [[Dyspraxia]]
* [[Dyscalculia]]
* [[Dysgraphia]]
* [[Hyperlexia]]
* [[Misophonia]]
* [[Prosopagnosia]]
* [[Synesthesia]]

=== Senses ===

Many autistics have differences in their senses, such as maybe hypersensitive to sound but hyposensitive to smell. These articles should try to document examples of both types as well as potential ways to compensate.

* [[Auditory perception|Hearing]]
* [[Gastro-intestinal problems]]
* [[Interoception]]
* [[Pain]]
* [[Proprioception]]
* [[Sensory overload]]
* [[Sensory sensitivity]]
* [[Synthesthesia|Synesthesia]]
* [[Olfactory perception|Smell]]
* [[Gustatory perception|Taste]]
* [[Tactile perception|Touch]] (texture, temperature)
* [[Vestibular perception]]
* [[Visual perception|Vision]]
* [[Aural sensitivity to electronics]]

== Autistic survival guide ==

=== Allistic sociology 101 ===

* [[Ableism]]
* [[Gender]]
* [[Gossip]]
* [[Group dynamics]]
* [[Peer group]]
* [[Phatic expression]]
* [[Saving face]]
* [[Small talk]]
* [[Social power]]
* [[Social contract]]
* [[Social status]]

==== Culture-specific differences ====

* [[Ask and guess cultures]]
* [[High and low context cultures]]
* [[Peach and coconut cultures]]

=== Psychology 101 ===

* [[Alexithymia]]
* [[Anger]]
* [[Anxiety]]
* [[Defence mechanism]]
* [[Depression]]
* [[Empathy]]
* [[Imposter syndrome]]
* [[Learned helplessness]]
* [[Overthinking]]
* [[People pleasing]]
* [[Rumination]]
* [[Social anxiety]]
* [[Theory of mind]]
* [[Trauma]]
* [[Trauma bonding]]
* [[Trauma response]]

=== Neurology 101 ===

* [[Overlapping neurotypes]]

=== Communication and miscommunication ===

* [[Body language]]
* [[Common sense]]
* [[Double empathy problem]]
* [[Eye contact]]
* [[Facial expression|Facial expressions]]
* [[Getting coffee]]
* [[Literal interpretation]]
* [[Multi-channel communication]]
* [[Responding to "How are you?"]]
* [[Social cue|Social cues]]
* [[Tone of voice]]
* [[Idioms]]
* [[Implication]]

=== Office and work dynamics ===

* [[Corporate buzzwords]]
* [[HR interviews]]
* [[Job interviews]]
* [[Meetings]]
* [[Networking]]
* [[Team building / work socials]]
* [[Water cooler]]

=== Dating and relationships ===

* [[Autistic love languages]]
* [[Online dating]]
* [[Neurodivergent relationship|Neurodivergent relationships]]
* [[Neurodivergent sexuality]]

=== Accommodations and support ===

* [[Augmentative and alternative communication|AAC]]
* [[Autism passport]]
* [[Clear instructions]]
* [[Hidden disabilities sunflower]]
* [[Noise-cancelling headphones]]
* [[Support networks and organisations]]

=== Diagnostic journey ===

* [[Formal diagnosis]]
* [[Overlapping neurotypes|Multiple diagnoses]]
* [[Questioning]]
* [[Research]]
* [[Screening tools]]
* [[Self-diagnosis]]

=== Mental health ===

* [[Difficulties with mental health services]]
* [[Depression]]

== Autism "research" and "therapy" ==

Mainstream research on autism is often problematic in various ways.

* [[Autism Speaks]]
* [[Autism stereotypes]]
* [[Bias]]
* [[Deficit model]]
* [[Functioning labels]]
* [[Ethics of autism research]]
* [[History of autism]]
* [[The pathology paradigm|Pathology paradigm]]
* [[Stigma]]
* [[Applied_Behavior_Analysis|Applied behavior analysis]]
* [[Violence against Autistic people]]

== Resources ==

=== Media ===

* [[Books by Autistic authors]]
* [[Podcasts by Autistic creators]]
* [[Autistic representation in fiction]]
* [[Symbols of Autism]]

=== Social media ===

* [[Instagram]]
* [[TikTok]]
* [[Twitter]]
* [[YouTube]]

=== Autistic culture ===

* [[Autistic public figures]]
* [[Autistic artists]]
* [[Jokes about Autism]]

=== Articles and threads ===

* [[Articles]]
* [["Am I Autistic?" Guide]]
* [[Autism without trauma]]
* [[Non-derogatory DSM-5 diagnosis criteria for Autism]]
* [[Signs you might be autistic]]
* [[Accidentally open secrets regarding Autism]]

== Unsure about where to put something? Just put it here! ==

* [[Things we need good names for]]

Talk:Meta

2022-08-29T17:02:00Z

AutExplorer: /* Allistic vs. Non-autistic */

{{Emphasis|This talk page is intended for discussions about ActuallyAutistic Wiki itself, general questions, feedback, and suggestions.}}
{{Talk}}


== Allistic vs. Non-autistic ==

They mean the same thing, but "non-autistic" is less jargon-y and more people would understand it. In the interest of making our content accessible to autistic newcomers and to non-autistic people, should we have a preference for writing "non-autistic" over "allistic"? --[[User:AutExplorer|AutExplorer]] ([[User talk:AutExplorer|talk]]) 17:36, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

: Personally, I'd like to keep "allistic". It should be basic terminology and treated as such in my opinion. However, linking "allistic" to [[Allism]] here and there throughout the wiki would be a good idea, then people can immediately click on it if they hear it for the first time! --[[User:Fochti|Fochti]] ([[User talk:Fochti|talk]]) 19:14, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

:: I agree. The very first instance of "allistic" could also have "(non-autistic)" next to it, in addition to being linked to [[Allism]] --[[User:Fire Eider|Fire Eider]] ([[User talk:Fire Eider|talk]]) 21:02, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

::: I'm convinced! --[[User:AutExplorer|AutExplorer]] ([[User talk:AutExplorer|talk]]) 17:02, 29 August 2022 (UTC)

== Citing community consensus ==

How should we assert "distilled wisdom" such as ABA being harmful? (It seems important to do so, see e.g. this thread: https://twitter.com/WIRblog/status/1563002859246956544)

We could use phrases like "Many people within the autistic community agree that...", but we want to avoid "false controversies" (thanks @fochti for this phrase!) where it seems like there's disagreement on a topic when really there's broad agreement.

Much of what the #ActuallyAutistic community has done is share our experiences until we collectively distill certain things that seem broadly true to us. This is like What We Do, and it would be really valuable to share this knowledge with with new #ActuallyAutistic people and with the world at large.

We're talking about knowledge about knowledge: not just "ABA is harmful", but "There's #ActuallyAutistic consensus that ABA is harmful"

=== Special citations for asserting community consensus ===

One possibility would be to have have certain special citations:

* [community-consensus]: means there's rough community consensus within the #ActuallyAutistic community
* [community-controversy]: means there's meaningful controversy within the #ActuallyAutistic community; sizeable groups on more than one side
* [experimental-theory]: experimental theory, not yet tested and accepted or rejected by the #ActuallyAutistic community at large

Examples:
* ABA is harmful [community-consensus] [1] [2] [3]
* Most people within the #ActuallyAutistic community prefer identity-first language [community-consensus]
* Masking isn't worth it [community-controversy]
* Monotropism explains everything about autism [experimental-theory]

Tags like "[community-consensus]" could link to an explanation of what community consensus means, how knowledge is distilled within the #ActuallyAutistic community, etc.

Very open to suggestions about what the actual tags should be. For example maybe instead of [community-consensus] it should be [actuallyautistic-consensus] or [autistic-consensus] or [aa-consensus] or [our-consensus] or [consensus] or [consensus-view] or...

: I really like the idea of special citation tags --[[User:Fochti|Fochti]] ([[User talk:Fochti|talk]]) 15:20, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

: I also like the idea of special citation tags. I'm not sure if "[actuallyautistic-consensus]" would be the best tag without some kind of clear definition of what the "actually autistic" community really is. I personally don't feel like I'm part of the community, even though I actually am autistic. Perhaps that's due to the autism, and I'm just waiting for an official initiation ritual or a proper checklist or something, but it would help me to have some definition of what the Actually Autistic community actually is, to make me feel part of it? --[[User:Anna|Anna]] ([[User talk:Anna|talk]]) 05:02, 28 August 2022 (UTC)

=== Special language for asserting community consensus ===

Alternatively we could write out certain key phrases:
* There's consensus within the #ActuallyAutistic community that ABA is harmful.
* There's consensus within the #ActuallyAutistic community that most autists within the #ActuallyAutistic community prefer identity-first language
* There's controversy within the community about whether masking is worth it
* There's an experimental theory that monotropism explains everything

Writing out the phrases feels a bit wordy, and also shoves the content of the sentence to the end. Could also be written the other way around:

* ABA is harmful, according to rough consensus within the community.
* Most people within the #ActuallyAutistic prefer identity-first language, according to rough consensus within the community.

But this still feels wordy. I think I like the special citation form.

=== Citation storms ===

Another possibility (which we could do in addition to using tags like [community-consensus]) would be to have "citation storms", where we maybe cite like 50 or 100 Twitter threads of lived experience of #ActuallyAutistic people.

But a citation storm can't stand in for something like [community-consensus] tags, because a citation storm on its own doesn't assert that there ''aren't'' other popular views within the community.

--[[User:AutExplorer|AutExplorer]] ([[User talk:AutExplorer|talk]]) 15:07, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

== Signing lived experiences ==

When writing their lived experience, should the person sign their (user)name? I understand some might not want to have their experience linked to them, so maybe the guidelines could mention that you can put your username if you wish to? I also understand that that might make the articles a bit clunky/harder to navigate --[[User:Fire Eider|Fire Eider]] ([[User talk:Fire Eider|talk]]) 16:37, 23 August 2022 (UTC)

: We were thinking about adding "Lived experience" sections where it might apply. This alone would make it clear that whatever people put there is 100% subjective. If people want to sign what they put there they can, but no pressure. Once we know how to handle this consistently and elegantly we will update the guidelines. --[[User:Fochti|Fochti]] ([[User talk:Fochti|talk]]) 15:24, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

:: Does it make sense to define a macro for lived experiences, such that they are visually different from the rest of the text? In an article with multiple sections, it would make it a bit easier to add a lived experience in the relevant section, instead of separating it and putting it in a separate section with just lived experiences? --[[User:Anna|Anna]] ([[User talk:Anna|talk]]) 02:38, 29 August 2022 (UTC)

== Handling citations (answered) ==

How do we do citations? I tried to fix [[Overlapping neurotypes]] but I don't know if that looks right. I want some more info before I fix other pages, please

: It looks good to me --[[User:Fire Eider|Fire Eider]] ([[User talk:Fire Eider|talk]])

: For now we have this: [[Help:Style guidelines#References]] --[[User:Fochti|Fochti]] ([[User talk:Fochti|talk]]) 15:19, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

== English (US) vs English (UK) ==

I think we need some consensus on whether people should use American English spelling or British English spelling. Whatever we're gonna use, it should be put into the style guidelines. (Yes, I always focus on the most important topics! :D) --[[User:Fochti|Fochti]] ([[User talk:Fochti|talk]]) 22:47, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

== autistic vs Autistic ==

We need some consensus on whether we capitalise "Autistic", like "Deaf", or not; prefarably sooner than later :D What do you think? --[[User:Fochti|Fochti]] ([[User talk:Fochti|talk]]) 22:47, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

: Personally I'm accustomed to using lowercase. If others prefer uppercase, my suggestion would be: (1) use uppercase 'A' to refer to the Autistic community as a distinct subculture, but (2) use lowercase 'a' to refer to autistic people when talking about our neurotype itself. Thus a person could be 'autistic' (the neurotype) without necessarily also being "Autistic" (participating in the Autistic community). [[User:Mona Pereth|Mona Pereth]] ([[User talk:Mona Pereth|talk]]) 15:11, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

:: That's a great suggestion! We will put some thought into that and update our style guidelines accordingly as soon as we agreed on something. Might take a while though :D --[[User:Fochti|Fochti]] ([[User talk:Fochti|talk]]) 16:01, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

== REQUEST: make external links open in new window ==

I think the usual thing is for external links (to other sites) to open in another window/tab. I think maybe that's how it worked yesterday and it got changed. Here's the docs on how to adjust the setting: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgExternalLinkTarget
--[[User:Severian|Severian]] ([[User talk:Severian|talk]]) 01:57, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

: hmm, strange, no specifically-related settings were changed! (The default theme did change; perhaps that explains why the behavior shifted?) I checked wikipedia, and it seems that their external links *don't* open in a new window. And also looks like mediawiki by doesn't open links in a new window by default either. --[[User:AutExplorer|AutExplorer]] ([[User talk:AutExplorer|talk]]) 16:41, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

== Adding images (answered) ==

Is there a way to add images to a page? The help says to upload an image, but I don't know where to upload it to

: Yep! Here's the upload link:
[[File:Upload file link documentation.png|x150px]]
--[[User:AutExplorer|AutExplorer]] ([[User talk:AutExplorer|talk]]) 15:38, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

: Link for the lazy: [https://actuallyautistic.wiki/wiki/Special:Upload click me to upload a file] :P --[[User:Fochti|Fochti]] ([[User talk:Fochti|talk]]) 17:39, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

== Where to get autism-related stuff ==

Should we have a page saying where to get autism-related stuff? On the one hand, this could be a useful resource. On the other, it could very easily turn into a spam page, w/ nothing but free advertising

: What do you mean by "autism related stuff"? --[[User:Fochti|Fochti]] ([[User talk:Fochti|talk]]) 18:39, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

:: Good question. That may be too difficult to judge. Anything from noise-cancelling headphones to T-shirts w/ Autism-related sayings

== Deleting pages (answered)==

Is it possible to actually delete a page (for example if it's redundant or spam), or do you need to make it a redirect? If so, where would you redirect a spam page to? --[[User:Fochti|Fochti]] ([[User talk:Fochti|talk]]) 01:44, 24 August 2022 (UTC)

: Okay, it ''is possible'', but only if you're one of the wiki's administrators --[[User:Fochti|Fochti]] ([[User talk:Fochti|talk]]) 20:47, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

Main Page

2022-08-29T04:40:07Z

AutExplorer: /* How to get started */

Welcome to the '''ActuallyAutistic Wiki'''! This is a community-driven guide to all aspects of autism, allism, and helping build bridges between neurotypes. It emerged recently from the #ActuallyAutistic community on Twitter.

== About this wiki ==

* '''Everyone is welcome to contribute to this wiki!'''
* You can '''edit any page''' without even having an account. Just hit the 'Edit' link on any page (including this one!). ''Important privacy note'': editing a page without having an account or without being logged in will show your IP address publicly in the changelog/history of a page.
* The number one rule of wiki editing is to be bold. '''Go ahead – make changes — even large rewrites of big topics'''. Other people can correct any mistakes you make, so have confidence, and give it a try!
** If you disagree with what someone else has put, please consider adding a [[Help:Style guidelines#Comments|note of disagreement]] and what you think/would do after that section, especially if it could be something that varies by country or even situations or if you want to change it to/from an absolute (such as job interviews or eye gaze)
* None of the content here is sacred. Please just make changes! Some of the articles are just starter content or from a particular person's perspective. Earlier versions can always be restored if necessary. '''These are all collaborative documents'''.

== How to contribute ==

* Here is a [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Starting_a_new_page short guide] on how to create a new wiki page from scratch! Please check first whether a similar page already exists to avoid duplicates.
* Here are some of our [[Help:Style guidelines|style guidelines]] if you're unsure about formatting etc. But '''don't worry or overthink too much about "getting things right"''', these are not "hard rules" – and everything can be edited, formatted & moved later without issue anyway! :)
* Please remember that '''links are CASE SENSITIVE'''. When linking to a missing page, whichever case you use will be created when someone follows the link and makes that new page. Linking to existing articles is case sensitive for every letter ''except'' the first one. Lowercasing or capitalizing a letter other than the first one will break the link / not link to the page you want. Please read [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Links this guide on links] if you want to use them!
* Do you have some '''feedback, questions or suggestions''' about this wiki project? Feel free to add them [[Talk:Meta|here]]!

== Meta ==

* [[Community guidelines]]
* [[Help:Style guidelines|Style guidelines]]
* [[Talk:Meta|Feedback, questions and suggestions]]

* Looking for stuff to do, but unsure where to start?
** [[Please help these pages]]
*** [[Add stuff here please]]
*** [[Review please]]
** [[special:AllPages|View all pages]]
** [[Special:Categories|View all categories]]

== Terminology ==

=== General ===

* [[Autism]]
* [[Neurodiversity]]
* [[Neurodivergence]]
* [[Neurotypical]]
* [[Allism]]

* [[Executive dysfunction]]
* [[Hyperfixation]]
* [[Hyperfocus]]

* [[Infodumping]]
* [[Stimming]]

* [[Neurokin]]
* [[Neuropeer]]
* [[Identity-first language]]
* [[Person-first language]]

* [[Spoon theory]]

=== Autism specific ===

* [[Monotropism]]
* [[Inertia]]

* [[Masking]]
* [[Mirroring]]
* [[Scripting]]

* [[Meltdown]]
* [[Shutdown]]
* [[Autistic burnout]]

* [[Special interest]]
* [[Autistic joy]]
* [[Echolalia]]
* [[Parallel play]]

* [[Ritual]]
* [[Routine]]
* [[Safe foods]]

=== Other ===

* [[Augmentative and alternative communication|AAC]]
* [[Applied Behavior Analysis|Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)]]
* [[Grok]]
* [[Overlapping neurotypes|AuDHD]]
* [[Highly Sensitive Person]]
* [[Justice sensitivity]]
* [[ADHD|Kinetism (ADHD)]]
* [[Late diagnosis]]
* [[Positive Behavior Support (PBS)]] (What's that?)
* [[Rejection sensitive dysphoria]]
* [[Savant]]
* [[Miscellaneous terms]] - for similar/confusing terms and definitions that probably better in one place rather than multiple short articles

=== Outmoded terminology ===

While many autists have moved away from these terms, some continue to use them to describe their experience. Please remember that people may have complex reasons for the words they choose, and that differences in vocabulary are okay. In short, while it's important to understand how these outdated terms play to most autists, it's also not helpful to police other people's word choices.

* [[Asperger syndrome]]
* [[Functioning labels|High- and low-functioning]]
* [[On the spectrum]]
* [[Autism spectrum disorder|Autism spectrum disorder (ASD)]]

== List of Autistic traits (incomplete) ==

Not every autistic person necessarily has many of the traits listed below, but these traits do tend to show up more often in autistic people than in non-autistic people.

=== Core autistic traits ===

* [[Autistic empathy]]
* [[Sensory sensitivity|Hyper-senses & hypo-senses]]
* [[Preference for certainty]]
* [[Routine]] / [[Ritual]]
* [[Special interest|Special interests]]
* [[Stimming]]

=== Autistic nonverbal communication ===

* [[Eye contact|Eye contact avoidance]]
* [[Flat affect]]
* [[Flat facing]]
* [[Being an "old soul"]]

=== Autistic verbal communication ===

* [[Accent mimicry]]
* [[Bluntness]]
* [[Selective mutism|Conditional Mutism]]
* [[Difficulty lying]]
* [[Monotone voice]]
* [[Reframing]]
* [[Verbal footnoting]]
* [[Nonspeaking]]
* [[Phone calls|Phone call avoidance]]
* [[Wordplay]]
* [[name? unconsciously getting word order wrong]]
* [[Auditory processing disorder|Auditory processing difficulties]]
* [[Infodumping|Preference for infodumping]]

=== Gender and sexuality ===

* [[Gender]]
* [[Autigender]]
* [[Demisexuality]]
* [[Autism and LGBTQ+]]
* [[Peritiosexual]]
* [[Neuroqueer]]
* [[Xenogender]]

=== Imperatives and neurological ===

* [[Resistance to bias]]
* [[Dissociation]]
* [[Irrational fears, neurological]]
* [[Divergent stress triggers]]
* [[Divergent touch needs]]
* [[Ethical fearlessness]]
* [[Experiential recreation]]
* [[Gullibility]]
* [[Inability to intuit the "point of diminishing returns"]]
* [[Intense world theory]]
* [[Median (plurality)]]
* [[Nonlinear contradiction response]]
* [[Pattern recognition]]
* [[Preference for certainty]]
* [[Prosopagnosia]]
* [[Plurality]]
* [[Susceptibility to trauma]]
* [[Sympathetic animism]]
* [[name? Willful Sensorium Override]]

=== Familial ===

* [[Autistic relatives]]
* [[Multigenerational disability]]

=== Memory ===

* [[Atypical autobiographical and episodic memory]]
* [[Emotion memory imprinting]]
* [[Childhood amnesia]]

=== Psychological ===

* [[Cat empathy]]
* [[Empathy#Hyper-empathy|Hyper-empathy]]
* [[Empathy#Hypo-empathy|Hypo-empathy]]
* [[Preference for animation]]
* [[Preference for autistically coded characters]]
* [[Gravitate towards other neurodivergents]]

=== Physical ===

* [[Arthritis]]
* [[Autistic baby face]]
* [[Hypermobility]]
* [[Toe walking]]

=== Traumagenic Autistic traits ===

* [[Over-apologizing]]
* [[People pleasing]]
* [[High mortality rate]]
* [[Irrational fears, logical]]
{{Comment|(Contradiction...?) --[[User:Fochti|Fochti]] ([[User talk:Fochti|talk]]) 18:56, 26 August 2022 (UTC)}}
{{Comment|No, they are logical fears that are irrational out of context of ND.}}
{{Comment|I think the page could be titled differently then, it sounds very ambiguous/unclear to me? --[[User:Fochti|Fochti]] ([[User talk:Fochti|talk]]) 18:56, 26 August 2022 (UTC)}}
* [[Social anxiety]]
* [[Pathological demand avoidance/pervasive drive for autonomy]]

=== Additional Autistic traits ===

* [[Comorbid interference traits]]
* [[Overlapping Autistic traits]]

=== Comorbidities ===

* [[Bipolar disorder]]
* [[Borderline personality disorder|Borderline/EUPD]]
* [[Complex post-traumatic stress disorder|CPTSD]]
* [[Dyscalculia]]
* [[Dyslexia]]
* [[Ehlers-Danlos syndrome|EDS]]
* [[Hypermobility]]
* [[Hyperlexia]]
* [[ADHD]]
* [[Obsessive-compulsive disorder|OCD]]
* [[Plurality]]
* [[Depression]]
* [[Anxiety]]

== Information and sensory processing ==

=== Information processing differences ===

* [[Aphasia]]
* [[Auditory processing disorder]]
* [[Dyslexia]]
* [[Dyspraxia]]
* [[Dyscalculia]]
* [[Dysgraphia]]
* [[Hyperlexia]]
* [[Misophonia]]
* [[Prosopagnosia]]
* [[Synesthesia]]

=== Senses ===

Many autistics have differences in their senses, such as maybe hypersensitive to sound but hyposensitive to smell. These articles should try to document examples of both types as well as potential ways to compensate.

* [[Auditory perception|Hearing]]
* [[Gastro-intestinal problems]]
* [[Interoception]]
* [[Pain]]
* [[Proprioception]]
* [[Sensory overload]]
* [[Sensory sensitivity]]
* [[Synthesthesia|Synesthesia]]
* [[Olfactory perception|Smell]]
* [[Gustatory perception|Taste]]
* [[Tactile perception|Texture]]
* [[Vestibulary perception]]
* [[Visual perception|Vision]]
* [[Aural sensitivity to electronics]]
* [[Temperature sensitivity]]

== Autistic survival guide ==

=== Allistic sociology 101 ===

* [[Ableism]]
* [[Gender]]
* [[Gossip]]
* [[Group dynamics]]
* [[Peer group]]
* [[Phatic expression]]
* [[Saving face]]
* [[Social power]]
* [[Social contract]]
* [[Social status]]

==== Culture-specific differences ====

* [[Ask and guess cultures]]
* [[High and low context cultures]]
* [[Peach and coconut cultures]]

=== Psychology 101 ===

* [[Alexithymia]]
* [[Anger]]
* [[Anxiety]]
* [[Defence mechanism]]
* [[Depression]]
* [[Empathy]]
* [[Imposter syndrome]]
* [[Learned helplessness]]
* [[Overthinking]]
* [[People pleasing]]
* [[Rumination]]
* [[Social anxiety]]
* [[Theory of mind]]
* [[Trauma]]
* [[Trauma bonding]]
* [[Trauma response]]

=== Neurology 101 ===

* [[Overlapping neurotypes]]

=== Communication and miscommunication ===

* [[Body language]]
* [[Common sense]]
* [[Double empathy problem]]
* [[Eye contact]]
* [[Facial expression|Facial expressions]]
* [[Getting coffee]]
* [[Literal interpretation]]
* [[Multi-channel communication]]
* [[Responding to "How are you?"]]
* [[Social cue|Social cues]]
* [[Tone of voice]]
* [[Idioms]]
* [[Implication]]

=== Office and work dynamics ===

* [[Corporate buzzwords]]
* [[HR interviews]]
* [[Job interviews]]
* [[Meetings]]
* [[Networking]]
* [[Team building / work socials]]
* [[Water cooler]]

=== Dating and relationships ===

* [[Autistic love languages]]
* [[Online dating]]
* [[Neurodivergent relationship|Neurodivergent relationships]]
* [[Neurodivergent sexuality]]

=== Accommodations and support ===

* [[Augmentative and alternative communication|AAC]]
* [[Autism passport]]
* [[Clear instructions]]
* [[Hidden disabilities sunflower]]
* [[Noise-cancelling headphones]]
* [[Support networks and organisations]]

=== Diagnostic journey ===

* [[Formal diagnosis]]
* [[Overlapping neurotypes|Multiple diagnoses]]
* [[Questioning]]
* [[Research]]
* [[Screening tools]]
* [[Self-diagnosis]]

=== Mental health ===

* [[Difficulties with mental health services]]
* [[Depression]]

== Autism "research" and "therapy" ==

Mainstream research on autism is often problematic in various ways.

* [[Autism Speaks]]
* [[Autism stereotypes]]
* [[Bias]]
* [[Deficit model]]
* [[Functioning labels]]
* [[Ethics of autism research]]
* [[History of autism]]
* [[The pathology paradigm|Pathology paradigm]]
* [[Stigma]]
* [[Applied_Behavior_Analysis|Applied behavior analysis]]
* [[Violence against Autistic people]]

== Resources ==

=== Media ===

* [[Books by Autistic authors]]
* [[Podcasts by Autistic creators]]
* [[Autistic representation in fiction]]
* [[Symbols of Autism]]

=== Social media ===

* [[Instagram]]
* [[TikTok]]
* [[Twitter]]
* [[YouTube]]

=== Autistic culture ===

* [[Autistic public figures]]
* [[Autistic artists]]
* [[Jokes about Autism]]

=== Articles and threads ===

* [[Articles]]
* [["Am I Autistic?" Guide]]
* [[Autism without trauma]]
* [[Non-derogatory DSM-5 diagnosis criteria for Autism]]
* [[Signs you might be autistic]]
* [[Accidentally open secrets regarding Autism]]

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*

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Welcome to the '''ActuallyAutistic Wiki'''! This is a community-driven guide to all aspects of autism, allism, and helping build bridges between neurotypes. It emerged recently from the #ActuallyAutistic community on Twitter.

== About this wiki ==

* '''Everyone is welcome to contribute to this wiki!'''
* You can '''edit any page''' without even having an account. Just hit the 'Edit' link on any page (including this one!). ''Important privacy note'': editing a page without having an account or without being logged in will show your IP address publicly in the changelog/history of a page.
* The number one rule of wiki editing is to be bold. '''Go ahead – make changes — even large rewrites of big topics'''. Other people can correct any mistakes you make, so have confidence, and give it a try!
** If you disagree with what someone else has put, please consider adding a [[Help:Style guidelines#Comments|note of disagreement]] and what you think/would do after that section, especially if it could be something that varies by country or even situations or if you want to change it to/from an absolute (such as job interviews or eye gaze)
* None of the content here is sacred. Please just make changes! Some of the articles are just starter content or from a particular person's perspective. Earlier versions can always be restored if necessary. '''These are all collaborative documents'''.

== How to get started ==

* Here is a [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Starting_a_new_page short guide] on how to create a new wiki page from scratch! Please check first whether a similar page already exists to avoid duplicates.
* Here are some of our [[Help:Style guidelines|style guidelines]] if you're unsure about formatting etc. But '''don't worry or overthink too much about "getting things right"''', these are not "hard rules" – and everything can be edited, formatted & moved later without issue anyway! :)
* Please remember that '''links are CASE SENSITIVE'''. When linking to a missing page, whichever case you use will be created when someone follows the link and makes that new page. Linking to existing articles is case sensitive for every letter ''except'' the first one. Lowercasing or capitalizing a letter other than the first one will break the link / not link to the page you want. Please read [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Links this guide on links] if you want to use them!
* Do you have some '''feedback, questions or suggestions''' about this wiki project? Feel free to add them [[Talk:Meta|here]]!

== Meta ==

* [[Community guidelines]]
* [[Help:Style guidelines|Style guidelines]]
* [[Talk:Meta|Feedback, questions and suggestions]]

* Looking for stuff to do, but unsure where to start?
** [[Please help these pages]]
*** [[Add stuff here please]]
*** [[Review please]]
** [[special:AllPages|View all pages]]
** [[Special:Categories|View all categories]]

== Terminology ==

=== General ===

* [[Autism]]
* [[Neurodiversity]]
* [[Neurodivergence]]
* [[Neurotypical]]
* [[Allism]]

* [[Executive dysfunction]]
* [[Hyperfixation]]
* [[Hyperfocus]]

* [[Infodumping]]
* [[Stimming]]

* [[Neurokin]]
* [[Neuropeer]]
* [[Identity-first language]]
* [[Person-first language]]

* [[Spoon theory]]

=== Autism specific ===

* [[Monotropism]]
* [[Inertia]]

* [[Masking]]
* [[Mirroring]]
* [[Scripting]]

* [[Meltdown]]
* [[Shutdown]]
* [[Autistic burnout]]

* [[Special interest]]
* [[Autistic joy]]
* [[Echolalia]]
* [[Parallel play]]

* [[Ritual]]
* [[Routine]]
* [[Safe foods]]

=== Other ===

* [[Augmentative and alternative communication|AAC]]
* [[Applied Behavior Analysis|Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)]]
* [[Grok]]
* [[Overlapping neurotypes|AuDHD]]
* [[Highly Sensitive Person]]
* [[Justice sensitivity]]
* [[ADHD|Kinetism (ADHD)]]
* [[Late diagnosis]]
* [[PBS]] (What's that?)
* [[Rejection sensitive dysphoria]]
* [[Savant]]
* [[Miscellaneous terms]] - for similar/confusing terms and definitions that probably better in one place rather than multiple short articles

=== Outmoded terminology ===

While many autists have moved away from these terms, some continue to use them to describe their experience. Please remember that people may have complex reasons for the words they choose, and that differences in vocabulary are okay. In short, while it's important to understand how these outdated terms play to most autists, it's also not helpful to police other people's word choices.

* [[Asperger syndrome]]
* [[Functioning labels|High- and low-functioning]]
* [[On the spectrum]]
* [[Autism spectrum disorder|Autism spectrum disorder (ASD)]]

== List of Autistic traits (incomplete) ==

Not every autistic person necessarily has many of the traits listed below, but these traits do tend to show up more often in autistic people than in non-autistic people.

=== Core autistic traits ===

* [[Autistic empathy]]
* [[Sensory sensitivity|Hyper-senses & hypo-senses]]
* [[Preference for certainty]]
* [[Routine]] / [[Ritual]]
* [[Special interest|Special interests]]
* [[Stimming]]

=== Autistic nonverbal communication ===

* [[Eye contact|Eye contact avoidance]]
* [[Flat affect]]
* [[Flat facing]]
* [[Being an "old soul"]]

=== Autistic verbal communication ===

* [[Accent mimicry]]
* [[Bluntness]]
* [[Selective mutism|Conditional Mutism]]
* [[Difficulty lying]]
* [[Monotone voice]]
* [[Reframing]]
* [[Verbal footnoting]]
* [[Nonspeaking]]
* [[Phone calls|Phone call avoidance]]
* [[Wordplay]]
* [[name? unconsciously getting word order wrong]]
* [[Auditory processing disorder|Auditory processing difficulties]]
* [[Infodumping|Preference for infodumping]]

=== Gender and sexuality ===

* [[Gender]]
* [[Autigender]]
* [[Demisexuality]]
* [[Autism and LGBTQ+]]
* [[Peritiosexual]]
* [[Neuroqueer]]
* [[Xenogender]]

=== Imperatives and neurological ===

* [[Resistance to bias]]
* [[Dissociation]]
* [[Irrational fears, neurological]]
* [[Divergent stress triggers]]
* [[Divergent touch needs]]
* [[Ethical fearlessness]]
* [[Experiential recreation]]
* [[Gullibility]]
* [[Inability to intuit the "point of diminishing returns"]]
* [[Intense world theory]]
* [[Median (plurality)]]
* [[Nonlinear contradiction response]]
* [[Pattern recognition]]
* [[Preference for certainty]]
* [[Prosopagnosia]]
* [[Plurality]]
* [[Susceptibility to trauma]]
* [[Sympathetic animism]]
* [[name? Willful Sensorium Override]]

=== Familial ===

* [[Autistic relatives]]
* [[Multigenerational disability]]

=== Memory ===

* [[Atypical autobigraphical and episodic memory]]
* [[Emotion memory imprinting]]
* [[Childhood amnesia]]

=== Pychological ===

* [[Cat empathy]]
* [[Empathy#Hyper-empathy|Hyper-empathy]]
* [[Empathy#Hypo-empathy|Hypo-empathy]]
* [[Preference for animation]]
* [[Preference for autistically coded characters]]
* [[Gravitate towards other neurodivergents]]

=== Physical ===

* [[Arthritis]]
* [[Autistic baby face]]
* [[Hypermobility]]
* [[Toe walking]]

=== Traumagenic Autistic traits ===

* [[Over-apologizing]]
* [[People pleasing]]
* [[High mortality rate]]
* [[Irrational fears, logical]]
{{Comment|(Contradiction...?) --[[User:Fochti|Fochti]] ([[User talk:Fochti|talk]]) 18:56, 26 August 2022 (UTC)}}
{{Comment|No, they are locial fears that are irrational out of context of ND.}}
{{Comment|I think the page could be titled differently then, it sounds very ambiguous/unclear to me? --[[User:Fochti|Fochti]] ([[User talk:Fochti|talk]]) 18:56, 26 August 2022 (UTC)}}
* [[Social anxiety]]
* [[Pathological demand avoidance]]

=== Additional Autistic traits ===

* [[Comorbid interference traits]]
* [[Overlapping Autistic traits]]

=== Comorbidities ===

* [[Bipolar disorder]]
* [[Borderline personality disorder|Borderline/EUPD]]
* [[Complex post-traumatic stress disorder|CPTSD]]
* [[Dyscalculia]]
* [[Dyslexia]]
* [[Ehlers-Danlos syndrome|EDS]]
* [[Hypermobility]]
* [[Hyperlexia]]
* [[ADHD]]
* [[Obsessive-compulsive disorder|OCD]]
* [[Plurality]]
* [[Depression]]
* [[Anxiety]]

== Information and sensory processing ==

=== Information processing differences ===

* [[Aphasia]]
* [[Auditory processing disorder]]
* [[Dyslexia]]
* [[Dyspraxia]]
* [[Dyscalculia]]
* [[Dysgraphia]]
* [[Hyperlexia]]
* [[Misophonia]]
* [[Prosopagnosia]]
* [[Synesthesia]]

=== Senses ===

Many autistics have differences in their senses, such as maybe hypersensitive to sound but hyposensitive to smell. These articles should try to document examples of both types as well as potential ways to compensate.

* [[Auditory perception|Hearing]]
* [[Gastro-intestinal problems]]
* [[Interoception]]
* [[Proprioception]]
* [[Sensory overload]]
* [[Sensory sensitivity]]
* [[Synthesthesia|Synesthesia]]
* [[Olfactory perception|Smell]]
* [[Gustatory perception|Taste]]
* [[Tactile perception|Texture]]
* [[Vestibulary perception]]
* [[Visual perception|Vision]]
* [[Aural sensitivity to electronics]]
* [[Temperature sensitivity]]

== Autistic survival guide ==

=== Allistic sociology 101 ===

* [[Ableism]]
* [[Gender]]
* [[Gossip]]
* [[Group dynamics]]
* [[Peer group]]
* [[Phatic expression]]
* [[Saving face]]
* [[Social power]]
* [[Social contract]]
* [[Social status]]

==== Culture-specific differences ====

* [[Ask and guess cultures]]
* [[High and low context cultures]]
* [[Peach and coconut cultures]]

=== Psychology 101 ===

* [[Alexithymia]]
* [[Anger]]
* [[Anxiety]]
* [[Defence mechanism]]
* [[Depression]]
* [[Empathy]]
* [[Imposter syndrome]]
* [[Learned helplessness]]
* [[Overthinking]]
* [[People pleasing]]
* [[Rumination]]
* [[Social anxiety]]
* [[Theory of mind]]
* [[Trauma]]
* [[Trauma bonding]]
* [[Trauma response]]

=== Neurology 101 ===

* [[Overlapping neurotypes]]

=== Communication and miscommunication ===

* [[Body language]]
* [[Common sense]]
* [[Double empathy problem]]
* [[Eye contact]]
* [[Facial expression|Facial expressions]]
* [[Getting coffee]]
* [[Literal interpretation]]
* [[Multi-channel communication]]
* [[Responding to "How are you?"]]
* [[Social cue|Social cues]]
* [[Tone of voice]]
* [[Idioms]]
* [[Implication]]

=== Office and work dynamics ===

* [[Corporate buzzwords]]
* [[HR interviews]]
* [[Job interviews]]
* [[Meetings]]
* [[Networking]]
* [[Team building / work socials]]
* [[Water cooler]]

=== Dating and relationships ===

* [[Autistic love languages]]
* [[Online dating]]
* [[Neurodivergent relationship|Neurodivergent relationships]]
* [[Neurodivergent sexuality]]

=== Accommodations and support ===

* [[Augmentative and alternative communication|AAC]]
* [[Autism passport]]
* [[Clear instructions]]
* [[Hidden disabilities sunflower]]
* [[Noise-cancelling headphones]]
* [[Support networks and organisations]]

=== Diagnostic journey ===

* [[Formal diagnosis]]
* [[Overlapping neurotypes|Multiple diagnoses]]
* [[Questioning]]
* [[Research]]
* [[Screening tools]]
* [[Self-diagnosis]]

=== Mental health ===

* [[Difficulties with mental health services]]
* [[Depression]]

== Autism "research" and "therapy" ==

Mainstream research on autism is often problematic in various ways.

* [[Autism Speaks]]
* [[Autism stereotypes]]
* [[Bias]]
* [[Deficit model]]
* [[Functioning labels]]
* [[Ethics of autism research]]
* [[History of autism]]
* [[The pathology paradigm|Pathology paradigm]]
* [[Stigma]]
* [[Applied_Behavior_Analysis|Applied behavior analysis]]
* [[Violence against Autistic people]]

== Resources ==

=== Media ===

* [[Books by Autistic authors]]
* [[Podcasts by Autistic creators]]
* [[Autistic representation in fiction]]
* [[Symbols of Autism]]

=== Social media ===

* [[Instagram]]
* [[TikTok]]
* [[Twitter]]
* [[YouTube]]

=== Autistic culture ===

* [[Autistic public figures]]
* [[Autistic artists]]
* [[Jokes about Autism]]

=== Articles and threads ===

* [[Articles]]
* [["Am I Autistic?" Guide]]
* [[Autism without trauma]]
* [[Non-derogatory DSM-5 diagnosis criteria for Autism]]
* [[Signs you might be autistic]]
* [[Accidentally open secrets regarding Autism]]

== Unsure about where to put something? Just put it here! ==

*

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2022-08-27T02:17:38Z

AutExplorer: Seems like the discussion was resolved!

Welcome to the '''ActuallyAutistic Wiki'''! This is a community-driven guide to all aspects of autism, allism, and helping build bridges between neurotypes. It emerged recently from the #ActuallyAutistic community on Twitter.

== About this wiki ==

* '''Everyone is welcome to contribute to this wiki!'''
* You can '''edit any page''' without even having an account. Just hit the 'Edit' link on any page (including this one!). ''Important privacy note'': editing a page without having an account or without being logged in will show your IP address publicly in the changelog/history of a page.
* The number one rule of wiki editing is to be bold. '''Go ahead – make changes — even large rewrites of big topics'''. Other people can correct any mistakes you make, so have confidence, and give it a try!
** If you disagree with what someone else has put, please consider adding a [[Help:Style guidelines#Comments|note of disagreement]] and what you think/would do after that section, especially if it could be something that varies by country or even situations or if you want to change it to/from an absolute (such as job interviews or eye gaze)
* None of the content here is sacred. Please just make changes! Some of the articles are just starter content or from a particular person's perspective. Earlier versions can always be restored if necessary. '''These are all collaborative documents'''.

== How to get started ==

* Here is a [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Starting_a_new_page short guide] on how to create a new wiki page from scratch! Please check first whether a similar page already exists to avoid duplicates.
* Here are some of our [[Help:Style guidelines|style guidelines]] if you're unsure about formatting etc. But '''don't worry or overthink too much about "getting things right"''', these are not "hard rules" – and everything can be edited, formatted & moved later without issue anyway! :)
* Please remember that '''links are CASE SENSITIVE'''. When linking to a missing page, whichever case you use will be created when someone follows the link and makes that new page. Linking to existing articles is case sensitive for every letter ''except'' the first one. Lowercasing or capitalizing a letter other than the first one will break the link / not link to the page you want. Please read [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Links this guide on links] if you want to use them!
* Do you have some '''feedback, questions or suggestions''' about this wiki project? Feel free to add them [[Talk:Meta|here]]!

== Meta ==

* [[Community guidelines]]
* [[Help:Style guidelines|Style guidelines]]
* [[Talk:Meta|Feedback, questions and suggestions]]

* Looking for stuff to do, but unsure where to start?
** [[Please help these pages]]
*** [[Add stuff here please]]
*** [[Review please]]
** [[special:AllPages|View all pages]]
** [[Special:Categories|View all categories]]

== Terminology ==

=== General ===

* [[Autism]]
* [[Neurodiversity]]
* [[Neurodivergence]]
* [[Neurotypical]]
* [[Allism]]

* [[Executive dysfunction]]
* [[Hyperfixation]]
* [[Hyperfocus]]

* [[Infodumping]]
* [[Stimming]]

* [[Neurokin]]
* [[Neuropeer]]
* [[Identity-first language]]
* [[Person-first language]]

* [[Spoon theory]]

=== Autism specific ===

* [[Monotropism]]
* [[Inertia]]

* [[Masking]]
* [[Mirroring]]
* [[Scripting]]

* [[Meltdown]]
* [[Shutdown]]
* [[Autistic burnout]]

* [[Special interest]]
* [[Autistic joy]]
* [[Echolalia]]
* [[Parallel play]]

* [[Ritual]]
* [[Routine]]
* [[Safe foods]]

=== Other ===

* [[Augmentative and alternative communication|AAC]]
* [[Applied Behavior Analysis|Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)]]
* [[Grok]]
* [[Overlapping neurotypes|AuDHD]]
* [[Highly Sensitive Person]]
* [[Justice sensitivity]]
* [[ADHD|Kinetism (ADHD)]]
* [[Late diagnosis]]
* [[PBS]] (What's that?)
* [[Rejection sensitive dysphoria]]
* [[Savant]]
* [[Miscellaneous terms]] - for similar/confusing terms and definitions that probably better in one place rather than multiple short articles

=== Outmoded terminology ===

While many autists have moved away from these terms, some continue to use them to describe their experience. Please remember that people may have complex reasons for the words they choose, and that differences in vocabulary are okay. In short, while it's important to understand how these outdated terms play to most autists, it's also not helpful to police other people's word choices.

* [[Asperger syndrome]]
* [[Functioning labels|High- and low-functioning]]
* [[On the spectrum]]
* [[Autism spectrum disorder|Autism spectrum disorder (ASD)]]

== List of Autistic traits (incomplete) ==

Not every autistic person necessarily has many of the traits listed below, but these traits do tend to show up more often in autistic people than in non-autistic people.

=== Core autistic traits ===

* [[Autistic empathy]]
* [[Sensory sensitivity|Hyper-senses & hypo-senses]]
* [[Preference for certainty]]
* [[Routine]] / [[Ritual]]
* [[Special interest|Special interests]]
* [[Stimming]]

=== Autistic nonverbal communication ===

* [[Eye contact|Eye contact avoidance]]
* [[Flat affect]]
* [[Flat facing]]
* [[Being an "old soul"]]

=== Autistic verbal communication ===

* [[Accent mimicry]]
* [[Bluntness]]
* [[Selective mutism|Conditional Mutism]]
* [[Difficulty lying]]
* [[Monotone voice]]
* [[Reframing]]
* [[Verbal footnoting]]
* [[Nonspeaking]]
* [[Phone calls|Phone call avoidance]]
* [[Wordplay]]
* [[name? unconsciously getting word order wrong]]
* [[Auditory processing disorder|Auditory processing difficulties]]
* [[Infodumping|Preference for infodumping]]

=== Gender and sexuality ===

* [[Gender]]
* [[Autigender]]
* [[Demisexuality]]
* [[Autism and LGBTQ+]]
* [[Peritiosexual]]
* [[Neuroqueer]]
* [[Xenogender]]

=== Imperatives and neurological ===

* [[Resistance to bias]]
* [[Dissociation]]
* [[Irrational fears, neurological]]
* [[Divergent stress triggers]]
* [[Divergent touch needs]]
* [[Ethical fearlessness]]
* [[Experiential recreation]]
* [[Gullibility]]
* [[Inability to intuit the "point of diminishing returns"]]
* [[Intense world theory]]
* [[Median (plurality)]]
* [[Nonlinear contradiction response]]
* [[Pattern recognition]]
* [[Preference for certainty]]
* [[Prosopagnosia]]
* [[Plurality]]
* [[Susceptibility to trauma]]
* [[Sympathetic animism]]
* [[name? Willful Sensorium Override]]

=== Familial ===

* [[Autistic relatives]]
* [[Multigenerational disability]]

=== Memory ===

* [[Atypical autobigraphical and episodic memory]]
* [[Emotion memory imprinting]]
* [[Childhood amnesia]]

=== Pychological ===

* [[Cat empathy]]
* [[Empathy#Hyper-empathy|Hyper-empathy]]
* [[Empathy#Hypo-empathy|Hypo-empathy]]
* [[Preference for animation]]
* [[Preference for autistically coded characters]]
* [[Gravitate towards other neurodivergents]]

=== Physical ===

* [[Arthritis]]
* [[Autistic baby face]]
* [[Hypermobility]]
* [[Toe walking]]

=== Traumagenic Autistic traits ===

* [[Over-apologizing]]
* [[People pleasing]]
* [[High mortality rate]]
* [[Irrational fears, logical]]
{{Comment|(Contradiction...?) --[[User:Fochti|Fochti]] ([[User talk:Fochti|talk]]) 18:56, 26 August 2022 (UTC)}}
{{Comment|No, they are locial fears that are irrational out of context of ND.}}
{{Comment|I think the page could be titled differently then, it sounds very ambiguous/unclear to me? --[[User:Fochti|Fochti]] ([[User talk:Fochti|talk]]) 18:56, 26 August 2022 (UTC)}}
* [[Social anxiety]]
* [[Pathological demand avoidance]]

=== Additional Autistic traits ===

* [[Comorbid interference traits]]
* [[Overlapping Autistic traits]]

=== Comorbidities ===

* [[Bipolar disorder]]
* [[Borderline personality disorder|Borderline/EUPD]]
* [[Complex post-traumatic stress disorder|CPTSD]]
* [[Dyscalculia]]
* [[Dyslexia]]
* [[Ehlers-Danlos syndrome|EDS]]
* [[Hypermobility]]
* [[Hyperlexia]]
* [[ADHD]]
* [[Obsessive-compulsive disorder|OCD]]
* [[Plurality]]
* [[Depression]]
* [[Anxiety]]

== Information and sensory processing ==

=== Information processing differences ===

* [[Aphasia]]
* [[Auditory processing disorder]]
* [[Dyslexia]]
* [[Dyspraxia]]
* [[Dyscalculia]]
* [[Dysgraphia]]
* [[Hyperlexia]]
* [[Misophonia]]
* [[Prosopagnosia]]
* [[Synesthesia]]

=== Senses ===

Many autistics have differences in their senses, such as maybe hypersensitive to sound but hyposensitive to smell. These articles should try to document examples of both types as well as potential ways to compensate.

* [[Auditory perception|Hearing]]
* [[Gastro-intestinal problems]]
* [[Interoception]]
* [[Proprioception]]
* [[Sensory overload]]
* [[Sensory sensitivity]]
* [[Synthesthesia|Synesthesia]]
* [[Olfactory perception|Smell]]
* [[Gustatory perception|Taste]]
* [[Tactile perception|Texture]]
* [[Vestibulary perception]]
* [[Visual perception|Vision]]
* [[Aural sensitivity to electronics]]
* [[Temperature sensitivity]]

== Autistic survival guide ==

=== Allistic sociology 101 ===

* [[Ableism]]
* [[Gender]]
* [[Gossip]]
* [[Group dynamics]]
* [[Peer group]]
* [[Phatic expression]]
* [[Saving face]]
* [[Social power]]
* [[Social contract]]
* [[Social status]]

==== Culture-specific differences ====

* [[Ask and guess cultures]]
* [[High and low context cultures]]
* [[Peach and coconut cultures]]

=== Psychology 101 ===

* [[Alexithymia]]
* [[Anger]]
* [[Anxiety]]
* [[Defence mechanism]]
* [[Depression]]
* [[Empathy]]
* [[Imposter syndrome]]
* [[Learned helplessness]]
* [[Overthinking]]
* [[People pleasing]]
* [[Rumination]]
* [[Social anxiety]]
* [[Theory of mind]]
* [[Trauma]]
* [[Trauma bonding]]
* [[Trauma response]]

=== Neurology 101 ===

* [[Overlapping neurotypes]]

=== Communication and miscommunication ===

* [[Body language]]
* [[Common sense]]
* [[Double empathy problem]]
* [[Eye contact]]
* [[Facial expression|Facial expressions]]
* [[Getting coffee]]
* [[Literal interpretation]]
* [[Multi-channel communication]]
* [[Responding to "How are you?"]]
* [[Social cue|Social cues]]
* [[Tone of voice]]
* [[Idioms]]
* [[Implication]]

=== Office and work dynamics ===

* [[Corporate buzzwords]]
* [[HR interviews]]
* [[Job interviews]]
* [[Meetings]]
* [[Networking]]
* [[Team building / work socials]]
* [[Water cooler]]

=== Dating and relationships ===

* [[Autistic love languages]]
* [[Online dating]]
* [[Neurodivergent relationship|Neurodivergent relationships]]
* [[Neurodivergent sexuality]]

=== Accommodations and support ===

* [[Augmentative and alternative communication|AAC]]
* [[Autism passport]]
* [[Clear instructions]]
* [[Hidden disabilities sunflower]]
* [[Noise-cancelling headphones]]
* [[Support networks and organisations]]

=== Diagnostic journey ===

* [[Formal diagnosis]]
* [[Overlapping neurotypes|Multiple diagnoses]]
* [[Questioning]]
* [[Research]]
* [[Screening tools]]
* [[Self-diagnosis]]

=== Mental health ===

* [[Difficulties with mental health services]]
* [[Depression]]

== Autism "research" and "therapy" ==

* [[Autism Speaks]]
* [[Autism stereotypes]]
* [[Bias]]
* [[Deficit model]]
* [[Functioning labels]]
* [[Ethics of autism research]]
* [[History of autism]]
* [[The pathology paradigm|Pathology paradigm]]
* [[Stigma]]
* [[Applied_Behavior_Analysis|Applied behavior analysis]]
* [[Violence against Autistic people]]

== Resources ==

=== Media ===

* [[Books by Autistic authors]]
* [[Podcasts by Autistic creators]]
* [[Autistic representation in fiction]]
* [[Symbols of Autism]]

=== Social media ===

* [[Instagram]]
* [[TikTok]]
* [[Twitter]]
* [[YouTube]]

=== Autistic culture ===

* [[Autistic public figures]]
* [[Autistic artists]]
* [[Jokes about Autism]]

=== Articles and threads ===

* [[Articles]]
* [["Am I Autistic?" Guide]]
* [[Autism without trauma]]
* [[Non-derogatory DSM-5 diagnosis criteria for Autism]]
* [[Signs you might be autistic]]
* [[Accidentally open secrets regarding Autism]]

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2022-08-27T02:16:58Z

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Welcome to the '''ActuallyAutistic Wiki'''! This is a community-driven guide to all aspects of autism, allism, and helping build bridges between neurotypes. It emerged recently from the #ActuallyAutistic community on Twitter.

== About this wiki ==

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== Terminology ==

=== General ===

* [[Autism]]
* [[Neurodiversity]]
* [[Neurodivergence]]
* [[Neurotypical]]
* [[Allism]]

* [[Executive dysfunction]]
* [[Hyperfixation]]
* [[Hyperfocus]]

* [[Infodumping]]
* [[Stimming]]

* [[Neurokin]]
* [[Neuropeer]]
* [[Identity-first language]]
* [[Person-first language]]

* [[Spoon theory]]

=== Autism specific ===

* [[Monotropism]]
* [[Inertia]]

* [[Masking]]
* [[Mirroring]]
* [[Scripting]]

* [[Meltdown]]
* [[Shutdown]]
* [[Autistic burnout]]

* [[Special interest]]
* [[Autistic joy]]
* [[Echolalia]]
* [[Parallel play]]

* [[Ritual]]
* [[Routine]]
* [[Safe foods]]

=== Other ===

* [[Augmentative and alternative communication|AAC]]
* [[Applied Behavior Analysis|Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)]]
* [[Grok]]
* [[Overlapping neurotypes|AuDHD]]
* [[Highly Sensitive Person]]
* [[Justice sensitivity]]
* [[ADHD|Kinetism (ADHD)]]
* [[Late diagnosis]]
* [[PBS]] (What's that?)
* [[Rejection sensitive dysphoria]]
* [[Savant]]
* [[Miscellaneous terms]] - for similar/confusing terms and definitions that probably better in one place rather than multiple short articles

=== Outmoded terminology ===

While many autists have moved away from these terms, some continue to use them to describe their experience. Please remember that people may have complex reasons for the words they choose, and that differences in vocabulary are okay. In short, while it's important to understand how these outdated terms play to most autists, it's also not helpful to police other people's word choices.

* [[Asperger syndrome]]
* [[Functioning labels|High- and low-functioning]]
* [[On the spectrum]]
* [[Autism spectrum disorder|Autism spectrum disorder (ASD)]]

== List of Autistic traits (incomplete) ==

{{Comment|I propose to de-clutter this section. For example, make a page for the Core Autistic Traits, and migrating the links in that section to that page. But doing the same for each section. --[[User:Fire Eider|Fire Eider]] ([[User talk:Fire Eider|talk]]) 14:49, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

I actually like being able to see all these links in one spot. It lets you scan and get a sense of things. But because the list is pretty long, we could potentially move this entire section to an `Autistic traits` page. On the other hand — it might not actually just be bad to have a fairly long "Main" page that serves as an index into content generally --[[User:AutExplorer|AutExplorer]] ([[User talk:AutExplorer|talk]])

I also like this, for the moment. It reduces the barrier to entry because people see all the stuff that's currently available for editing in one central place and can then just click on something immediately when they think "Oh, I want to add my thoughts to that!" --[[User:Fochti|Fochti]] ([[User talk:Fochti|talk]]) 18:25, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

Good points. I retract what I said earlier --[[User:Fire Eider|Fire Eider]] ([[User talk:Fire Eider|talk]]) 19:38, 25 August 2022 (UTC)}}

Not every autistic person necessarily has many of the traits listed below, but these traits do tend to show up more often in autistic people than in non-autistic people.

=== Core autistic traits ===

* [[Autistic empathy]]
* [[Sensory sensitivity|Hyper-senses & hypo-senses]]
* [[Preference for certainty]]
* [[Routine]] / [[Ritual]]
* [[Special interest|Special interests]]
* [[Stimming]]

=== Autistic nonverbal communication ===

* [[Eye contact|Eye contact avoidance]]
* [[Flat affect]]
* [[Flat facing]]
* [[Being an "old soul"]]

=== Autistic verbal communication ===

* [[Accent mimicry]]
* [[Bluntness]]
* [[Selective mutism|Conditional Mutism]]
* [[Difficulty lying]]
* [[Monotone voice]]
* [[Reframing]]
* [[Verbal footnoting]]
* [[Nonspeaking]]
* [[Phone calls|Phone call avoidance]]
* [[Wordplay]]
* [[name? unconsciously getting word order wrong]]
* [[Auditory processing disorder|Auditory processing difficulties]]
* [[Infodumping|Preference for infodumping]]

=== Gender and sexuality ===

* [[Gender]]
* [[Autigender]]
* [[Demisexuality]]
* [[Autism and LGBTQ+]]
* [[Peritiosexual]]
* [[Neuroqueer]]
* [[Xenogender]]

=== Imperatives and neurological ===

* [[Resistance to bias]]
* [[Dissociation]]
* [[Irrational fears, neurological]]
* [[Divergent stress triggers]]
* [[Divergent touch needs]]
* [[Ethical fearlessness]]
* [[Experiential recreation]]
* [[Gullibility]]
* [[Inability to intuit the "point of diminishing returns"]]
* [[Intense world theory]]
* [[Median (plurality)]]
* [[Nonlinear contradiction response]]
* [[Pattern recognition]]
* [[Preference for certainty]]
* [[Prosopagnosia]]
* [[Plurality]]
* [[Susceptibility to trauma]]
* [[Sympathetic animism]]
* [[name? Willful Sensorium Override]]

=== Familial ===

* [[Autistic relatives]]
* [[Multigenerational disability]]

=== Memory ===

* [[Atypical autobigraphical and episodic memory]]
* [[Emotion memory imprinting]]
* [[Childhood amnesia]]

=== Pychological ===

* [[Cat empathy]]
* [[Empathy#Hyper-empathy|Hyper-empathy]]
* [[Empathy#Hypo-empathy|Hypo-empathy]]
* [[Preference for animation]]
* [[Preference for autistically coded characters]]
* [[Gravitate towards other neurodivergents]]

=== Physical ===

* [[Arthritis]]
* [[Autistic baby face]]
* [[Hypermobility]]
* [[Toe walking]]

=== Traumagenic Autistic traits ===

* [[Over-apologizing]]
* [[People pleasing]]
* [[High mortality rate]]
* [[Irrational fears, logical]]
{{Comment|(Contradiction...?) --[[User:Fochti|Fochti]] ([[User talk:Fochti|talk]]) 18:56, 26 August 2022 (UTC)}}
{{Comment|No, they are locial fears that are irrational out of context of ND.}}
{{Comment|I think the page could be titled differently then, it sounds very ambiguous/unclear to me? --[[User:Fochti|Fochti]] ([[User talk:Fochti|talk]]) 18:56, 26 August 2022 (UTC)}}
* [[Social anxiety]]
* [[Pathological demand avoidance]]

=== Additional Autistic traits ===

* [[Comorbid interference traits]]
* [[Overlapping Autistic traits]]

=== Comorbidities ===

* [[Bipolar disorder]]
* [[Borderline personality disorder|Borderline/EUPD]]
* [[Complex post-traumatic stress disorder|CPTSD]]
* [[Dyscalculia]]
* [[Dyslexia]]
* [[Ehlers-Danlos syndrome|EDS]]
* [[Hypermobility]]
* [[Hyperlexia]]
* [[ADHD]]
* [[Obsessive-compulsive disorder|OCD]]
* [[Plurality]]
* [[Depression]]
* [[Anxiety]]

== Information and sensory processing ==

=== Information processing differences ===

* [[Aphasia]]
* [[Auditory processing disorder]]
* [[Dyslexia]]
* [[Dyspraxia]]
* [[Dyscalculia]]
* [[Dysgraphia]]
* [[Hyperlexia]]
* [[Misophonia]]
* [[Prosopagnosia]]
* [[Synesthesia]]

=== Senses ===

Many autistics have differences in their senses, such as maybe hypersensitive to sound but hyposensitive to smell. These articles should try to document examples of both types as well as potential ways to compensate.

* [[Auditory perception|Hearing]]
* [[Gastro-intestinal problems]]
* [[Interoception]]
* [[Proprioception]]
* [[Sensory overload]]
* [[Sensory sensitivity]]
* [[Synthesthesia|Synesthesia]]
* [[Olfactory perception|Smell]]
* [[Gustatory perception|Taste]]
* [[Tactile perception|Texture]]
* [[Vestibulary perception]]
* [[Visual perception|Vision]]
* [[Aural sensitivity to electronics]]
* [[Temperature sensitivity]]

== Autistic survival guide ==

=== Allistic sociology 101 ===

* [[Ableism]]
* [[Gender]]
* [[Gossip]]
* [[Group dynamics]]
* [[Peer group]]
* [[Phatic expression]]
* [[Saving face]]
* [[Social power]]
* [[Social contract]]
* [[Social status]]

==== Culture-specific differences ====

* [[Ask and guess cultures]]
* [[High and low context cultures]]
* [[Peach and coconut cultures]]

=== Psychology 101 ===

* [[Alexithymia]]
* [[Anger]]
* [[Anxiety]]
* [[Defence mechanism]]
* [[Depression]]
* [[Empathy]]
* [[Imposter syndrome]]
* [[Learned helplessness]]
* [[Overthinking]]
* [[People pleasing]]
* [[Rumination]]
* [[Social anxiety]]
* [[Theory of mind]]
* [[Trauma]]
* [[Trauma bonding]]
* [[Trauma response]]

=== Neurology 101 ===

* [[Overlapping neurotypes]]

=== Communication and miscommunication ===

* [[Body language]]
* [[Common sense]]
* [[Double empathy problem]]
* [[Eye contact]]
* [[Facial expression|Facial expressions]]
* [[Getting coffee]]
* [[Literal interpretation]]
* [[Multi-channel communication]]
* [[Responding to "How are you?"]]
* [[Social cue|Social cues]]
* [[Tone of voice]]
* [[Idioms]]
* [[Implication]]

=== Office and work dynamics ===

* [[Corporate buzzwords]]
* [[HR interviews]]
* [[Job interviews]]
* [[Meetings]]
* [[Networking]]
* [[Team building / work socials]]
* [[Water cooler]]

=== Dating and relationships ===

* [[Autistic love languages]]
* [[Online dating]]
* [[Neurodivergent relationship|Neurodivergent relationships]]
* [[Neurodivergent sexuality]]

=== Accommodations and support ===

* [[Augmentative and alternative communication|AAC]]
* [[Autism passport]]
* [[Clear instructions]]
* [[Hidden disabilities sunflower]]
* [[Noise-cancelling headphones]]
* [[Support networks and organisations]]

=== Diagnostic journey ===

* [[Formal diagnosis]]
* [[Overlapping neurotypes|Multiple diagnoses]]
* [[Questioning]]
* [[Research]]
* [[Screening tools]]
* [[Self-diagnosis]]

=== Mental health ===

* [[Difficulties with mental health services]]
* [[Depression]]

== Autism "research" and "therapy" ==

* [[Autism Speaks]]
* [[Autism stereotypes]]
* [[Bias]]
* [[Deficit model]]
* [[Functioning labels]]
* [[Ethics of autism research]]
* [[History of autism]]
* [[The pathology paradigm|Pathology paradigm]]
* [[Stigma]]
* [[Applied_Behavior_Analysis|Applied behavior analysis]]
* [[Violence against Autistic people]]

== Resources ==

=== Media ===

* [[Books by Autistic authors]]
* [[Podcasts by Autistic creators]]
* [[Autistic representation in fiction]]
* [[Symbols of Autism]]

=== Social media ===

* [[Instagram]]
* [[TikTok]]
* [[Twitter]]
* [[YouTube]]

=== Autistic culture ===

* [[Autistic public figures]]
* [[Autistic artists]]
* [[Jokes about Autism]]

=== Articles and threads ===

* [[Articles]]
* [["Am I Autistic?" Guide]]
* [[Autism without trauma]]
* [[Non-derogatory DSM-5 diagnosis criteria for Autism]]
* [[Signs you might be autistic]]
* [[Accidentally open secrets regarding Autism]]

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2022-08-26T17:37:03Z

AutExplorer: /* Adding images (Answered) */

{{Emphasis|This talk page is intended for discussions about ActuallyAutistic Wiki itself, general questions, feedback, and suggestions.}}
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== Citing community consensus ==

How should we assert "distilled wisdom" such as ABA being harmful? (It seems important to do so, see e.g. this thread: https://twitter.com/WIRblog/status/1563002859246956544)

We could use phrases like "Many people within the autistic community agree that...", but we want to avoid "false controversies" (thanks @fochti for this phrase!) where it seems like there's disagreement on a topic when really there's broad agreement.

Much of what the #ActuallyAutistic community has done is share our experiences until we collectively distill certain things that seem broadly true to us. This is like What We Do, and it would be really valuable to share this knowledge with with new #ActuallyAutistic people and with the world at large.

We're talking about knowledge about knowledge: not just "ABA is harmful", but "There's #ActuallyAutistic consensus that ABA is harmful"

=== Special citations for asserting community consensus ===

One possibility would be to have have certain special citations:

* [community-consensus]: means there's rough community consensus within the #ActuallyAutistic community
* [community-controversy]: means there's meaningful controversy within the #ActuallyAutistic community; sizeable groups on more than one side
* [experimental-theory]: experimental theory, not yet tested and accepted or rejected by the #ActuallyAutistic community at large

Examples:
* ABA is harmful [community-consensus] [1] [2] [3]
* Most people within the #ActuallyAutistic community prefer identity-first language [community-consensus]
* Masking isn't worth it [community-controversy]
* Monotropism explains everything about autism [experimental-theory]

Tags like "[community-consensus]" could link to an explanation of what community consensus means, how knowledge is distilled within the #ActuallyAutistic community, etc.

Very open to suggestions about what the actual tags should be. For example maybe instead of [community-consensus] it should be [actuallyautistic-consensus] or [autistic-consensus] or [aa-consensus] or [our-consensus] or [consensus] or [consensus-view] or...

: I really like the idea of special citation tags --[[User:Fochti|Fochti]] ([[User talk:Fochti|talk]]) 15:20, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

=== Special language for asserting community consensus ===

Alternatively we could write out certain key phrases:
* There's consensus within the #ActuallyAutistic community that ABA is harmful.
* There's consensus within the #ActuallyAutistic community that most autists within the #ActuallyAutistic community prefer identity-first language
* There's controversy within the community about whether masking is worth it
* There's an experimental theory that monotropism explains everything

Writing out the phrases feels a bit wordy, and also shoves the content of the sentence to the end. Could also be written the other way around:

* ABA is harmful, according to rough consensus within the community.
* Most people within the #ActuallyAutistic prefer identity-first language, according to rough consensus within the community.

But this still feels wordy. I think I like the special citation form.

=== Citation storms ===

Another possibility (which we could do in addition to using tags like [community-consensus]) would be to have "citation storms", where we maybe cite like 50 or 100 Twitter threads of lived experience of #ActuallyAutistic people.

But a citation storm can't stand in for something like [community-consensus] tags, because a citation storm on its own doesn't assert that there ''aren't'' other popular views within the community.

--[[User:AutExplorer|AutExplorer]] ([[User talk:AutExplorer|talk]]) 15:07, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

== Signing lived experiences ==

When writing their lived experience, should the person sign their (user)name? I understand some might not want to have their experience linked to them, so maybe the guidelines could mention that you can put your username if you wish to? I also understand that that might make the articles a bit clunky/harder to navigate --[[User:Fire Eider|Fire Eider]] ([[User talk:Fire Eider|talk]]) 16:37, 23 August 2022 (UTC)

: We were thinking about adding "Lived experience" sections where it might apply. This alone would make it clear that whatever people put there is 100% subjective. If people want to sign what they put there they can, but no pressure. Once we know how to handle this consistently and elegantly we will update the guidelines. --[[User:Fochti|Fochti]] ([[User talk:Fochti|talk]]) 15:24, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

== Handling citations ==

How do we do citations? I tried to fix [[Overlapping neurotypes]] but I don't know if that looks right. I want some more info before I fix other pages, please

: It looks good to me --[[User:Fire Eider|Fire Eider]] ([[User talk:Fire Eider|talk]])

: For now we have this: [[Help:Style guidelines#References]] --[[User:Fochti|Fochti]] ([[User talk:Fochti|talk]]) 15:19, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

== English (US) vs English (UK) ==

I think we need some consensus on whether people should use American English spelling or British English spelling. Whatever we're gonna use, it should be put into the style guidelines. (Yes, I always focus on the most important topics! :D) --[[User:Fochti|Fochti]] ([[User talk:Fochti|talk]]) 22:47, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

== autistic vs Autistic ==

We need some consensus on whether we capitalise "Autistic", like "Deaf", or not; prefarably sooner than later :D What do you think? --[[User:Fochti|Fochti]] ([[User talk:Fochti|talk]]) 22:47, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

: Personally I'm accustomed to using lowercase. If others prefer uppercase, my suggestion would be: (1) use uppercase 'A' to refer to the Autistic community as a distinct subculture, but (2) use lowercase 'a' to refer to autistic people when talking about our neurotype itself. Thus a person could be 'autistic' (the neurotype) without necessarily also being "Autistic" (participating in the Autistic community). [[User:Mona Pereth|Mona Pereth]] ([[User talk:Mona Pereth|talk]]) 15:11, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

:: That's a great suggestion! We will put some thought into that and update our style guidelines accordingly as soon as we agreed on something. Might take a while though :D --[[User:Fochti|Fochti]] ([[User talk:Fochti|talk]]) 16:01, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

== REQUEST: make external links open in new window ==

I think the usual thing is for external links (to other sites) to open in another window/tab. I think maybe that's how it worked yesterday and it got changed. Here's the docs on how to adjust the setting: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgExternalLinkTarget
--[[User:Severian|Severian]] ([[User talk:Severian|talk]]) 01:57, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

hmm, strange, no specifically-related settings were changed! (The default theme did change; perhaps that explains why the behavior shifted?) I checked wikipedia, and it seems that their external links *don't* open in a new window. And also looks like mediawiki by doesn't open links in a new window by default either. --[[User:AutExplorer|AutExplorer]] ([[User talk:AutExplorer|talk]]) 16:41, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

== Adding images (answered) ==

Is there a way to add images to a page? The help says to upload an image, but I don't know where to upload it to

Yep! Here's the upload link:
[[File:Upload file link documentation.png|x150px]]
--[[User:AutExplorer|AutExplorer]] ([[User talk:AutExplorer|talk]]) 15:38, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

== Where to get autism-related stuff ==

Should we have a page saying where to get autism-related stuff? On the one hand, this could be a useful resource. On the other, it could very easily turn into a spam page, w/ nothing but free advertising

: What do you mean by "autism related stuff"? --[[User:Fochti|Fochti]] ([[User talk:Fochti|talk]]) 18:39, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

:: Good question. That may be too difficult to judge. Anything from noise-cancelling headphones to T-shirts w/ Autism-related sayings

== Deleting pages (answered)==

Is it possible to actually delete a page (for example if it's redundant or spam), or do you need to make it a redirect? If so, where would you redirect a spam page to? --[[User:Fochti|Fochti]] ([[User talk:Fochti|talk]]) 01:44, 24 August 2022 (UTC)

: Okay, it ''is possible'', but only if you're one of the wiki's administrators --[[User:Fochti|Fochti]] ([[User talk:Fochti|talk]]) 20:47, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

== Allistic vs. Non-autistic ==

They mean the same thing, but "non-autistic" is less jargon-y and more people would understand it. In the interest of making our content accessible to autistic newcomers and to non-autistic people, should we have a preference for writing "non-autistic" over "allistic"? --[[User:AutExplorer|AutExplorer]] ([[User talk:AutExplorer|talk]]) 17:36, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

Talk:Meta

2022-08-26T17:36:56Z

AutExplorer: /* Adding images */

{{Emphasis|This talk page is intended for discussions about ActuallyAutistic Wiki itself, general questions, feedback, and suggestions.}}
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== Citing community consensus ==

How should we assert "distilled wisdom" such as ABA being harmful? (It seems important to do so, see e.g. this thread: https://twitter.com/WIRblog/status/1563002859246956544)

We could use phrases like "Many people within the autistic community agree that...", but we want to avoid "false controversies" (thanks @fochti for this phrase!) where it seems like there's disagreement on a topic when really there's broad agreement.

Much of what the #ActuallyAutistic community has done is share our experiences until we collectively distill certain things that seem broadly true to us. This is like What We Do, and it would be really valuable to share this knowledge with with new #ActuallyAutistic people and with the world at large.

We're talking about knowledge about knowledge: not just "ABA is harmful", but "There's #ActuallyAutistic consensus that ABA is harmful"

=== Special citations for asserting community consensus ===

One possibility would be to have have certain special citations:

* [community-consensus]: means there's rough community consensus within the #ActuallyAutistic community
* [community-controversy]: means there's meaningful controversy within the #ActuallyAutistic community; sizeable groups on more than one side
* [experimental-theory]: experimental theory, not yet tested and accepted or rejected by the #ActuallyAutistic community at large

Examples:
* ABA is harmful [community-consensus] [1] [2] [3]
* Most people within the #ActuallyAutistic community prefer identity-first language [community-consensus]
* Masking isn't worth it [community-controversy]
* Monotropism explains everything about autism [experimental-theory]

Tags like "[community-consensus]" could link to an explanation of what community consensus means, how knowledge is distilled within the #ActuallyAutistic community, etc.

Very open to suggestions about what the actual tags should be. For example maybe instead of [community-consensus] it should be [actuallyautistic-consensus] or [autistic-consensus] or [aa-consensus] or [our-consensus] or [consensus] or [consensus-view] or...

: I really like the idea of special citation tags --[[User:Fochti|Fochti]] ([[User talk:Fochti|talk]]) 15:20, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

=== Special language for asserting community consensus ===

Alternatively we could write out certain key phrases:
* There's consensus within the #ActuallyAutistic community that ABA is harmful.
* There's consensus within the #ActuallyAutistic community that most autists within the #ActuallyAutistic community prefer identity-first language
* There's controversy within the community about whether masking is worth it
* There's an experimental theory that monotropism explains everything

Writing out the phrases feels a bit wordy, and also shoves the content of the sentence to the end. Could also be written the other way around:

* ABA is harmful, according to rough consensus within the community.
* Most people within the #ActuallyAutistic prefer identity-first language, according to rough consensus within the community.

But this still feels wordy. I think I like the special citation form.

=== Citation storms ===

Another possibility (which we could do in addition to using tags like [community-consensus]) would be to have "citation storms", where we maybe cite like 50 or 100 Twitter threads of lived experience of #ActuallyAutistic people.

But a citation storm can't stand in for something like [community-consensus] tags, because a citation storm on its own doesn't assert that there ''aren't'' other popular views within the community.

--[[User:AutExplorer|AutExplorer]] ([[User talk:AutExplorer|talk]]) 15:07, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

== Signing lived experiences ==

When writing their lived experience, should the person sign their (user)name? I understand some might not want to have their experience linked to them, so maybe the guidelines could mention that you can put your username if you wish to? I also understand that that might make the articles a bit clunky/harder to navigate --[[User:Fire Eider|Fire Eider]] ([[User talk:Fire Eider|talk]]) 16:37, 23 August 2022 (UTC)

: We were thinking about adding "Lived experience" sections where it might apply. This alone would make it clear that whatever people put there is 100% subjective. If people want to sign what they put there they can, but no pressure. Once we know how to handle this consistently and elegantly we will update the guidelines. --[[User:Fochti|Fochti]] ([[User talk:Fochti|talk]]) 15:24, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

== Handling citations ==

How do we do citations? I tried to fix [[Overlapping neurotypes]] but I don't know if that looks right. I want some more info before I fix other pages, please

: It looks good to me --[[User:Fire Eider|Fire Eider]] ([[User talk:Fire Eider|talk]])

: For now we have this: [[Help:Style guidelines#References]] --[[User:Fochti|Fochti]] ([[User talk:Fochti|talk]]) 15:19, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

== English (US) vs English (UK) ==

I think we need some consensus on whether people should use American English spelling or British English spelling. Whatever we're gonna use, it should be put into the style guidelines. (Yes, I always focus on the most important topics! :D) --[[User:Fochti|Fochti]] ([[User talk:Fochti|talk]]) 22:47, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

== autistic vs Autistic ==

We need some consensus on whether we capitalise "Autistic", like "Deaf", or not; prefarably sooner than later :D What do you think? --[[User:Fochti|Fochti]] ([[User talk:Fochti|talk]]) 22:47, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

: Personally I'm accustomed to using lowercase. If others prefer uppercase, my suggestion would be: (1) use uppercase 'A' to refer to the Autistic community as a distinct subculture, but (2) use lowercase 'a' to refer to autistic people when talking about our neurotype itself. Thus a person could be 'autistic' (the neurotype) without necessarily also being "Autistic" (participating in the Autistic community). [[User:Mona Pereth|Mona Pereth]] ([[User talk:Mona Pereth|talk]]) 15:11, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

:: That's a great suggestion! We will put some thought into that and update our style guidelines accordingly as soon as we agreed on something. Might take a while though :D --[[User:Fochti|Fochti]] ([[User talk:Fochti|talk]]) 16:01, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

== REQUEST: make external links open in new window ==

I think the usual thing is for external links (to other sites) to open in another window/tab. I think maybe that's how it worked yesterday and it got changed. Here's the docs on how to adjust the setting: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgExternalLinkTarget
--[[User:Severian|Severian]] ([[User talk:Severian|talk]]) 01:57, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

hmm, strange, no specifically-related settings were changed! (The default theme did change; perhaps that explains why the behavior shifted?) I checked wikipedia, and it seems that their external links *don't* open in a new window. And also looks like mediawiki by doesn't open links in a new window by default either. --[[User:AutExplorer|AutExplorer]] ([[User talk:AutExplorer|talk]]) 16:41, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

== Adding images (Answered) ==

Is there a way to add images to a page? The help says to upload an image, but I don't know where to upload it to

Yep! Here's the upload link:
[[File:Upload file link documentation.png|x150px]]
--[[User:AutExplorer|AutExplorer]] ([[User talk:AutExplorer|talk]]) 15:38, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

== Where to get autism-related stuff ==

Should we have a page saying where to get autism-related stuff? On the one hand, this could be a useful resource. On the other, it could very easily turn into a spam page, w/ nothing but free advertising

: What do you mean by "autism related stuff"? --[[User:Fochti|Fochti]] ([[User talk:Fochti|talk]]) 18:39, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

:: Good question. That may be too difficult to judge. Anything from noise-cancelling headphones to T-shirts w/ Autism-related sayings

== Deleting pages (answered)==

Is it possible to actually delete a page (for example if it's redundant or spam), or do you need to make it a redirect? If so, where would you redirect a spam page to? --[[User:Fochti|Fochti]] ([[User talk:Fochti|talk]]) 01:44, 24 August 2022 (UTC)

: Okay, it ''is possible'', but only if you're one of the wiki's administrators --[[User:Fochti|Fochti]] ([[User talk:Fochti|talk]]) 20:47, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

== Allistic vs. Non-autistic ==

They mean the same thing, but "non-autistic" is less jargon-y and more people would understand it. In the interest of making our content accessible to autistic newcomers and to non-autistic people, should we have a preference for writing "non-autistic" over "allistic"? --[[User:AutExplorer|AutExplorer]] ([[User talk:AutExplorer|talk]]) 17:36, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

Talk:Meta

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AutExplorer: /* Allistic vs. Non-autistic */ new section

{{Emphasis|This talk page is intended for discussions about ActuallyAutistic Wiki itself, general questions, feedback, and suggestions.}}
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== Citing community consensus ==

How should we assert "distilled wisdom" such as ABA being harmful? (It seems important to do so, see e.g. this thread: https://twitter.com/WIRblog/status/1563002859246956544)

We could use phrases like "Many people within the autistic community agree that...", but we want to avoid "false controversies" (thanks @fochti for this phrase!) where it seems like there's disagreement on a topic when really there's broad agreement.

Much of what the #ActuallyAutistic community has done is share our experiences until we collectively distill certain things that seem broadly true to us. This is like What We Do, and it would be really valuable to share this knowledge with with new #ActuallyAutistic people and with the world at large.

We're talking about knowledge about knowledge: not just "ABA is harmful", but "There's #ActuallyAutistic consensus that ABA is harmful"

=== Special citations for asserting community consensus ===

One possibility would be to have have certain special citations:

* [community-consensus]: means there's rough community consensus within the #ActuallyAutistic community
* [community-controversy]: means there's meaningful controversy within the #ActuallyAutistic community; sizeable groups on more than one side
* [experimental-theory]: experimental theory, not yet tested and accepted or rejected by the #ActuallyAutistic community at large

Examples:
* ABA is harmful [community-consensus] [1] [2] [3]
* Most people within the #ActuallyAutistic community prefer identity-first language [community-consensus]
* Masking isn't worth it [community-controversy]
* Monotropism explains everything about autism [experimental-theory]

Tags like "[community-consensus]" could link to an explanation of what community consensus means, how knowledge is distilled within the #ActuallyAutistic community, etc.

Very open to suggestions about what the actual tags should be. For example maybe instead of [community-consensus] it should be [actuallyautistic-consensus] or [autistic-consensus] or [aa-consensus] or [our-consensus] or [consensus] or [consensus-view] or...

: I really like the idea of special citation tags --[[User:Fochti|Fochti]] ([[User talk:Fochti|talk]]) 15:20, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

=== Special language for asserting community consensus ===

Alternatively we could write out certain key phrases:
* There's consensus within the #ActuallyAutistic community that ABA is harmful.
* There's consensus within the #ActuallyAutistic community that most autists within the #ActuallyAutistic community prefer identity-first language
* There's controversy within the community about whether masking is worth it
* There's an experimental theory that monotropism explains everything

Writing out the phrases feels a bit wordy, and also shoves the content of the sentence to the end. Could also be written the other way around:

* ABA is harmful, according to rough consensus within the community.
* Most people within the #ActuallyAutistic prefer identity-first language, according to rough consensus within the community.

But this still feels wordy. I think I like the special citation form.

=== Citation storms ===

Another possibility (which we could do in addition to using tags like [community-consensus]) would be to have "citation storms", where we maybe cite like 50 or 100 Twitter threads of lived experience of #ActuallyAutistic people.

But a citation storm can't stand in for something like [community-consensus] tags, because a citation storm on its own doesn't assert that there ''aren't'' other popular views within the community.

--[[User:AutExplorer|AutExplorer]] ([[User talk:AutExplorer|talk]]) 15:07, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

== Signing lived experiences ==

When writing their lived experience, should the person sign their (user)name? I understand some might not want to have their experience linked to them, so maybe the guidelines could mention that you can put your username if you wish to? I also understand that that might make the articles a bit clunky/harder to navigate --[[User:Fire Eider|Fire Eider]] ([[User talk:Fire Eider|talk]]) 16:37, 23 August 2022 (UTC)

: We were thinking about adding "Lived experience" sections where it might apply. This alone would make it clear that whatever people put there is 100% subjective. If people want to sign what they put there they can, but no pressure. Once we know how to handle this consistently and elegantly we will update the guidelines. --[[User:Fochti|Fochti]] ([[User talk:Fochti|talk]]) 15:24, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

== Handling citations ==

How do we do citations? I tried to fix [[Overlapping neurotypes]] but I don't know if that looks right. I want some more info before I fix other pages, please

: It looks good to me --[[User:Fire Eider|Fire Eider]] ([[User talk:Fire Eider|talk]])

: For now we have this: [[Help:Style guidelines#References]] --[[User:Fochti|Fochti]] ([[User talk:Fochti|talk]]) 15:19, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

== English (US) vs English (UK) ==

I think we need some consensus on whether people should use American English spelling or British English spelling. Whatever we're gonna use, it should be put into the style guidelines. (Yes, I always focus on the most important topics! :D) --[[User:Fochti|Fochti]] ([[User talk:Fochti|talk]]) 22:47, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

== autistic vs Autistic ==

We need some consensus on whether we capitalise "Autistic", like "Deaf", or not; prefarably sooner than later :D What do you think? --[[User:Fochti|Fochti]] ([[User talk:Fochti|talk]]) 22:47, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

: Personally I'm accustomed to using lowercase. If others prefer uppercase, my suggestion would be: (1) use uppercase 'A' to refer to the Autistic community as a distinct subculture, but (2) use lowercase 'a' to refer to autistic people when talking about our neurotype itself. Thus a person could be 'autistic' (the neurotype) without necessarily also being "Autistic" (participating in the Autistic community). [[User:Mona Pereth|Mona Pereth]] ([[User talk:Mona Pereth|talk]]) 15:11, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

:: That's a great suggestion! We will put some thought into that and update our style guidelines accordingly as soon as we agreed on something. Might take a while though :D --[[User:Fochti|Fochti]] ([[User talk:Fochti|talk]]) 16:01, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

== REQUEST: make external links open in new window ==

I think the usual thing is for external links (to other sites) to open in another window/tab. I think maybe that's how it worked yesterday and it got changed. Here's the docs on how to adjust the setting: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgExternalLinkTarget
--[[User:Severian|Severian]] ([[User talk:Severian|talk]]) 01:57, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

hmm, strange, no specifically-related settings were changed! (The default theme did change; perhaps that explains why the behavior shifted?) I checked wikipedia, and it seems that their external links *don't* open in a new window. And also looks like mediawiki by doesn't open links in a new window by default either. --[[User:AutExplorer|AutExplorer]] ([[User talk:AutExplorer|talk]]) 16:41, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

== Adding images ==

Is there a way to add images to a page? The help says to upload an image, but I don't know where to upload it to

Yep! Here's the upload link:
[[File:Upload file link documentation.png|x150px]]
--[[User:AutExplorer|AutExplorer]] ([[User talk:AutExplorer|talk]]) 15:38, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

== Where to get autism-related stuff ==

Should we have a page saying where to get autism-related stuff? On the one hand, this could be a useful resource. On the other, it could very easily turn into a spam page, w/ nothing but free advertising

: What do you mean by "autism related stuff"? --[[User:Fochti|Fochti]] ([[User talk:Fochti|talk]]) 18:39, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

:: Good question. That may be too difficult to judge. Anything from noise-cancelling headphones to T-shirts w/ Autism-related sayings

== Deleting pages (answered)==

Is it possible to actually delete a page (for example if it's redundant or spam), or do you need to make it a redirect? If so, where would you redirect a spam page to? --[[User:Fochti|Fochti]] ([[User talk:Fochti|talk]]) 01:44, 24 August 2022 (UTC)

: Okay, it ''is possible'', but only if you're one of the wiki's administrators --[[User:Fochti|Fochti]] ([[User talk:Fochti|talk]]) 20:47, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

== Allistic vs. Non-autistic ==

They mean the same thing, but "non-autistic" is less jargon-y and more people would understand it. In the interest of making our content accessible to autistic newcomers and to non-autistic people, should we have a preference for writing "non-autistic" over "allistic"? --[[User:AutExplorer|AutExplorer]] ([[User talk:AutExplorer|talk]]) 17:36, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

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Welcome to the '''ActuallyAutistic Wiki'''! This is a community-driven guide to all aspects of autism, allism, and helping build bridges between neurotypes. It emerged recently from the #ActuallyAutistic community on Twitter.

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== Meta ==

* [[Community guidelines]]
* [[Help:Style guidelines|Style guidelines]]
* [[Talk:Meta|Feedback, questions and suggestions]]
* [[Please help these pages]] – [[Add stuff here please]], [[Review please]]

== ActuallyAutistic terminology ==
* [[Augmentative and alternative communication|AAC]]
* [[Allism]]
* [[Applied Behavior Analysis|Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)]]
* [[Autism]]
* [[Overlapping neurotypes|AuDHD]]
* [[Autistic burnout]]
* [[Autistic joy]]
* [[Echolalia]]
* [[Executive dysfunction]]
* [[Grok]]
* [[Highly Sensitive Person]]
* [[Hyperfixation]]
* [[Hyperfocus]]
* [[Identity-first language]]
* [[Inertia]]
* [[Infodumping]]
* [[Justice sensitivity]]
* [[ADHD|Kinetism (ADHD)]]
* [[Late diagnosis]]
* [[Masking]]
* [[Meltdown]]
* [[Monotropism]]
* [[Neurodivergence]]
* [[Neurodiversity]]
* [[Neurokin]]
* [[Neuropeer]]
* [[Neurotypical]]
* [[Parallel play]]
* [[PBS]]
* [[Person-first language]]
* [[Rejection sensitive dysphoria]]
* [[Ritual]]
* [[Routine]]
* [[Safe foods]]
* [[Savant]]
* [[Shutdown]]
* [[Special interest]]
* [[Spoon theory]]
* [[Stimming]]
* [[Miscellaneous terms]] - for similar/confusing terms and definitions that probably better in one place rather than multiple short articles

== List of Autistic traits (incomplete) ==

{{Comment|I propose to de-clutter this section. For example, make a page for the Core Autistic Traits, and migrating the links in that section to that page. But doing the same for each section. --[[User:Fire Eider|Fire Eider]] ([[User talk:Fire Eider|talk]]) 14:49, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

I actually like being able to see all these links in one spot. It lets you scan and get a sense of things. But because the list is pretty long, we could potentially move this entire section to an `Autistic traits` page. On the other hand — it might not actually just be bad to have a fairly long "Main" page that serves as an index into content generally --[[User:AutExplorer|AutExplorer]] ([[User talk:AutExplorer|talk]])

I also like this, for the moment. It reduces the barrier to entry because people see all the stuff that's currently available for editing in one central place and can then just click on something immediately when they think "Oh, I want to add my thoughts to that!" --[[User:Fochti|Fochti]] ([[User talk:Fochti|talk]]) 18:25, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

Good points. I retract what I said earlier --[[User:Fire Eider|Fire Eider]] ([[User talk:Fire Eider|talk]]) 19:38, 25 August 2022 (UTC)}}

Not every autistic person necessarily has many of the traits listed below, but these traits do tend to show up more often in autistic people than in non-autistic people.

=== Core autistic traits ===

* [[Autistic empathy]]
* [[Sensory sensitivity|Hyper-senses & hypo-senses]]
* [[Preference for certainty]]
* [[Routine]] / [[Ritual]]
* [[Special interest|Special interests]]
* [[Stimming]]

=== Autistic nonverbal communication ===

* [[Eye contact|Eye contact avoidance]]
* [[Flat affect]]
* [[Flat facing]]
* [[Being an "old soul"]]

=== Autistic verbal communication ===

* [[Accent mimicry]]
* [[Bluntness]]
* [[Selective mutism|Conditional Mutism]]
* [[Difficulty lying]]
* [[Monotone voice]]
* [[Reframing]]
* [[Verbal footnoting]]
* [[Nonspeaking]]
* [[Phone calls|Phone call avoidance]]
* [[Wordplay]]
* [[name? unconsciously getting word order wrong]]
* [[Auditory processing disorder|Auditory processing difficulties]]
* [[Infodumping|Preference for infodumping]]

=== Gender and sexuality ===

* [[Gender]]
* [[Autigender]]
* [[Demisexuality]]
* [[Autism and LGBTQ+]]
* [[Peritiosexual]]
* [[Neuroqueer]]
* [[Xenogender]]

=== Imperatives and neurological ===

* [[Resistance to bias]]
* [[Dissociation]]
* [[Irrational fears, neurological]]
* [[Divergent stress triggers]]
* [[Divergent touch needs]]
* [[Ethical fearlessness]]
* [[Experiential recreation]]
* [[Gullibility]]
* [[Inability to intuit the "point of diminishing returns"]]
* [[Intense world theory]]
* [[Median (plurality)]]
* [[Nonlinear contradiction response]]
* [[Pattern recognition]]
* [[Preference for certainty]]
* [[Prosopagnosia]]
* [[Plurality]]
* [[Susceptibility to trauma]]
* [[Sympathetic animism]]
* [[name? Willful Sensorium Override]]

=== Familial ===

* [[Autistic relatives]]
* [[Multigenerational disability]]

=== Memory ===

* [[Atypical autobigraphical and episodic memory]]
* [[Emotion memory imprinting]]
* [[Childhood amnesia]]

=== Pychological ===

* [[Imposter syndrome|Autistic imposter syndrome ]]
* [[Cat empathy]]
* [[Rumination]]
* [[Overthinking]]
* [[Preference for animation]]
* [[Preference for autistically coded characters]]
* [[Gravitate to other neurodivergents]]
* [[Social contracts]]

=== Physical ===

* [[Arthritis]]
* [[Autistic baby face]]
* [[Hypermobility]]
* [[Toe walking]]

=== Senses ===

* [[Aural sensitivity to electronics]]
* [[Hyper-empathy]]
* [[Hypo-empathy]]
* [[Temperature sensitivity]]

=== Traumagenic Autistic traits ===

* [[Over-apologizing]]
* [[People-pleasing]]
* [[High mortality rate]]
* [[Irrational fears, logical]] (Contradiction...?) No, they are locial fears that are irrational out of context of ND.
* [[Social anxiety]]
* [[Pathological demand avoidance]]

=== Additional Autistic traits ===

* [[Comorbid interference traits]]
* [[Overlapping Autistic traits]]

== Social Media ==

* [[Instagram]]
* [[TikTok]]
* [[Twitter]]
* [[YouTube]]

== Outmoded terminology ==

While many autists have moved away from these terms, some continue to use them to describe their experience. Please remember that people may have complex reasons for the words they choose, and that differences in vocabulary are okay. In short, while it's important to understand how these outdated terms play to most autists, it's also not helpful to police other people's word choices.

* [[Asperger syndrome]]
* [[Functioning labels|High- and low-functioning]]
* [[On the spectrum]]
* Autism spectrum disorder (ASD)

== Sociology ==

* [[Ableism]]
* [[Gender]]
* [[Gossip]]
* [[Group dynamics]]
* [[Peer group]]
* [[Phatic expression]]
* [[Saving face]]
* [[Social power]]
* [[Social status]]

== Psychology ==

* [[Alexithymia]]
* [[Anxiety]]
* [[Defence mechanism|Defence mechanisms]]
* [[Empathy]]
* [[Imposter syndrome]]
* [[Theory of mind]]

== Neurology ==

* [[Overlapping neurotypes]]

== Allistic communication & miscommunication ==

* [[Body language]]
* [[Common sense]]
* [[Double empathy problem]]
* [[Eye contact]]
* [[Facial expression|Facial expressions]]
* [[Getting coffee]]
* [[Literal interpretation]]
* [[Multi-channel communication]]
* [[Responding to "How are you?"]]
* [[Social cue|Social cues]]
* [[Tone of voice]]

== Dating and relationships ==

* [[Autistic love languages]]
* [[Online dating]]
* [[Neurodivergent relationship|Neurodivergent relationships]]
* [[Neurodivergent sexuality]]

== Autistic culture ==

* [[Articles]]
* [[Autistic artists]]
* [[Autistic public figures]]
* [[Autistic representation in fiction]]
* [[Books by Autistic authors]]
* [[Jokes about Autism]]
* [[Podcasts by Autistic creators]]
* [[Symbols of Autism]]

== Comorbidities ==

* [[Bipolar disorder|BPD]]
{{Comment|Isn't BPD short for Borderline Personality Disorder, not Bipolar Disorder?}}
* [[Complex post-traumatic stress disorder|CPTSD]]
* [[Dyscalculia]]
* [[Dyslexia]]
* [[Ehlers-Danlos syndrome|EDS]]
* [[Hypermobility]]
* [[Hyperlexia]]
* [[ADHD|Kinetism (ADHD)]]
* [[Obsessive-compulsive disorder|OCD]]
* [[Plurality]]
*Depression/Anxiety

== Accommodations ==

* [[Augmentative and alternative communication|AAC]]
* [[Autism passport]]
* [[Clear instructions]]
* [[Hidden disabilities sunflower]]
* [[Noise-cancelling headphones]]
* [[Support networks and organisations]]

== Culture-specific differences ==

* [[Ask and guess cultures]]
* [[High and low context cultures]]
* [[Peach and coconut cultures]]

== Diagnostic journey ==

* [[Formal diagnosis]]
* [[Overlapping neurotypes|Multiple diagnoses]]
* [[Questioning]]
* [[Research]]
* [[Screening tools]]
* [[Self-diagnosis]]

== Problems with autism research ==

* [[Autism Speaks]]
* [[Autism stereotypes]]
* [[Bias]]
* [[Deficit model]]
* [[Functioning labels]]
* [[Ethics of autism research]]
* [[History of autism]]
* [[Stigma]]

== How to help ==

{{Comment|I have no idea what the purpose of this section and the page below is supposed to be..?}}

* [[Capacity]]

== Mental health ==

* [[Applied_Behavior_Analysis|Applied behavior analysis]]
* [[Depression]]
* [[Difficulties with mental health services]]

== Information processing differences ==

* [[Aphasia]]
* [[Auditory processing disorder]]
* [[Dyslexia]]
* [[Dyspraxia]]
* [[Dyscalculia]]
* [[Dysgraphia]]
* [[Hyperlexia]]
* [[Misophonia]]
* [[Prosopagnosia]]
* [[Synesthesia]]

== Office & work dynamics ==

* [[Corporate buzzwords]]
* [[HR interviews]]
* [[Job interviews]] - ended up writing like a short essay in this one which boils down to the importance of respecting diversity of thought on this wiki. Maybe it would be better suited to copy into another page, but not sure which?
* [[Meetings]]
* [[Networking]]
* [[Team building / work socials]]
* [[Water cooler]]

== Articles and Threads ==

* [["Am I Autistic?" Guide]]
* [[Autism without trauma]]
* [[Non-derogatory DSM-5 diagnosis criteria for Autism]]
* [[Signs you might be autistic]]
* [[Accidentally open secrets regarding Autism]]

== Senses ==

Many autistics have differences in their senses, such as maybe hypersensitive to sound but hyposensitive to smell. These articles should try to document examples of both types as well as potential ways to compensate.

* [[Auditory perception|Hearing]]
* [[Gastro-intestinal problems]]
* [[Interoception]]
* [[Proprioception]]
* [[Sensory overload]]
* [[Sensory sensitivity]]
* [[Synthesthesia|Synesthesia]]
* [[Olfactory perception|Smell]]
* [[Gustatory perception|Taste]]
* [[Tactile perception|Texture]]
* [[Vestibulary perception]]
* [[Visual perception|Vision]]

== Yet-to-be-sorted categories ==

You can put stuff that doesn't fit anywhere else (yet) here.

* [[Violence against Autistic people]]
* [[Idioms]]

== Misc ==

* [[special:AllPages|View all pages]]
* [[Special:Categories|View all categories]]

Talk:Meta

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AutExplorer:

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== Citing community consensus ==

How should we assert "distilled wisdom" such as ABA being harmful? (It seems important to do so, see e.g. this thread: https://twitter.com/WIRblog/status/1563002859246956544)

We could use phrases like "Many people within the autistic community agree that...", but we want to avoid "false controversies" (thanks @fochti for this phrase!) where it seems like there's disagreement on a topic when really there's broad agreement.

Much of what the #ActuallyAutistic community has done is share our experiences until we collectively distill certain things that seem broadly true to us. This is like What We Do, and it would be really valuable to share this knowledge with with new #ActuallyAutistic people and with the world at large.

We're talking about knowledge about knowledge: not just "ABA is harmful", but "There's #ActuallyAutistic consensus that ABA is harmful"

=== Special citations for asserting community consensus ===

One possibility would be to have have certain special citations:

* [community-consensus]: means there's rough community consensus within the #ActuallyAutistic community
* [community-controversy]: means there's meaningful controversy within the #ActuallyAutistic community; sizeable groups on more than one side
* [experimental-theory]: experimental theory, not yet tested and accepted or rejected by the #ActuallyAutistic community at large

Examples:
* ABA is harmful [community-consensus] [1] [2] [3]
* Most people within the #ActuallyAutistic community prefer identity-first language [community-consensus]
* Masking isn't worth it [community-controversy]
* Monotropism explains everything about autism [experimental-theory]

Tags like "[community-consensus]" could link to an explanation of what community consensus means, how knowledge is distilled within the #ActuallyAutistic community, etc.

Very open to suggestions about what the actual tags should be. For example maybe instead of [community-consensus] it should be [actuallyautistic-consensus] or [autistic-consensus] or [aa-consensus] or [our-consensus] or [consensus] or [consensus-view] or...

: I really like the idea of special citation tags --[[User:Fochti|Fochti]] ([[User talk:Fochti|talk]]) 15:20, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

=== Special language for asserting community consensus ===

Alternatively we could write out certain key phrases:
* There's consensus within the #ActuallyAutistic community that ABA is harmful.
* There's consensus within the #ActuallyAutistic community that most autists within the #ActuallyAutistic community prefer identity-first language
* There's controversy within the community about whether masking is worth it
* There's an experimental theory that monotropism explains everything

Writing out the phrases feels a bit wordy, and also shoves the content of the sentence to the end. Could also be written the other way around:

* ABA is harmful, according to rough consensus within the community.
* Most people within the #ActuallyAutistic prefer identity-first language, according to rough consensus within the community.

But this still feels wordy. I think I like the special citation form.

=== Citation storms ===

Another possibility (which we could do in addition to using tags like [community-consensus]) would be to have "citation storms", where we maybe cite like 50 or 100 Twitter threads of lived experience of #ActuallyAutistic people.

But a citation storm can't stand in for something like [community-consensus] tags, because a citation storm on its own doesn't assert that there ''aren't'' other popular views within the community.

--[[User:AutExplorer|AutExplorer]] ([[User talk:AutExplorer|talk]]) 15:07, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

== Signing lived experiences ==

When writing their lived experience, should the person sign their (user)name? I understand some might not want to have their experience linked to them, so maybe the guidelines could mention that you can put your username if you wish to? I also understand that that might make the articles a bit clunky/harder to navigate --[[User:Fire Eider|Fire Eider]] ([[User talk:Fire Eider|talk]]) 16:37, 23 August 2022 (UTC)

: We were thinking about adding "Lived experience" sections where it might apply. This alone would make it clear that whatever people put there is 100% subjective. If people want to sign what they put there they can, but no pressure. Once we know how to handle this consistently and elegantly we will update the guidelines. --[[User:Fochti|Fochti]] ([[User talk:Fochti|talk]]) 15:24, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

== Handling citations ==

How do we do citations? I tried to fix [[Overlapping neurotypes]] but I don't know if that looks right. I want some more info before I fix other pages, please

: It looks good to me --[[User:Fire Eider|Fire Eider]] ([[User talk:Fire Eider|talk]])

: For now we have this: [[Help:Style guidelines#References]] --[[User:Fochti|Fochti]] ([[User talk:Fochti|talk]]) 15:19, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

== English (US) vs English (UK) ==

I think we need some consensus on whether people should use American English spelling or British English spelling. Whatever we're gonna use, it should be put into the style guidelines. (Yes, I always focus on the most important topics! :D) --[[User:Fochti|Fochti]] ([[User talk:Fochti|talk]]) 22:47, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

== autistic vs Autistic ==

We need some consensus on whether we capitalise "Autistic", like "Deaf", or not; prefarably sooner than later :D What do you think? --[[User:Fochti|Fochti]] ([[User talk:Fochti|talk]]) 22:47, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

: Personally I'm accustomed to using lowercase. If others prefer uppercase, my suggestion would be: (1) use uppercase 'A' to refer to the Autistic community as a distinct subculture, but (2) use lowercase 'a' to refer to autistic people when talking about our neurotype itself. Thus a person could be 'autistic' (the neurotype) without necessarily also being "Autistic" (participating in the Autistic community). [[User:Mona Pereth|Mona Pereth]] ([[User talk:Mona Pereth|talk]]) 15:11, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

:: That's a great suggestion! We will put some thought into that and update our style guidelines accordingly as soon as we agreed on something. Might take a while though :D --[[User:Fochti|Fochti]] ([[User talk:Fochti|talk]]) 16:01, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

== REQUEST: make external links open in new window ==

I think the usual thing is for external links (to other sites) to open in another window/tab. I think maybe that's how it worked yesterday and it got changed. Here's the docs on how to adjust the setting: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgExternalLinkTarget
--[[User:Severian|Severian]] ([[User talk:Severian|talk]]) 01:57, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

hmm, strange, no specifically-related settings were changed! (The default theme did change; perhaps that explains why the behavior shifted?) I checked wikipedia, and it seems that their external links *don't* open in a new window. And also looks like mediawiki by doesn't open links in a new window by default either. --[[User:AutExplorer|AutExplorer]] ([[User talk:AutExplorer|talk]]) 16:41, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

== Adding images ==

Is there a way to add images to a page? The help says to upload an image, but I don't know where to upload it to

Yep! Here's the upload link:
[[File:Upload file link documentation.png|x150px]]
--[[User:AutExplorer|AutExplorer]] ([[User talk:AutExplorer|talk]]) 15:38, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

== Where to get autism-related stuff ==

Should we have a page saying where to get autism-related stuff? On the one hand, this could be a useful resource. On the other, it could very easily turn into a spam page, w/ nothing but free advertising

: What do you mean by "autism related stuff"? --[[User:Fochti|Fochti]] ([[User talk:Fochti|talk]]) 18:39, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

:: Good question. That may be too difficult to judge. Anything from noise-cancelling headphones to T-shirts w/ Autism-related sayings

== Deleting pages (answered)==

Is it possible to actually delete a page (for example if it's redundant or spam), or do you need to make it a redirect? If so, where would you redirect a spam page to? --[[User:Fochti|Fochti]] ([[User talk:Fochti|talk]]) 01:44, 24 August 2022 (UTC)

: Okay, it ''is possible'', but only if you're one of the wiki's administrators --[[User:Fochti|Fochti]] ([[User talk:Fochti|talk]]) 20:47, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

Talk:Meta

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AutExplorer:

{{Emphasis|This talk page is intended for discussions about ActuallyAutistic Wiki itself, including general questions, feedback, and suggestions.}}
{{Talk}}


== Citing community consensus ==

How should we assert "distilled wisdom" such as ABA being harmful? (It seems important to do so, see e.g. this thread: https://twitter.com/WIRblog/status/1563002859246956544)

We could use phrases like "Many people within the autistic community agree that...", but we want to avoid "false controversies" (thanks @fochti for this phrase!) where it seems like there's disagreement on a topic when really there's broad agreement.

Much of what the #ActuallyAutistic community has done is share our experiences until we collectively distill certain things that seem broadly true to us. This is like What We Do, and it would be really valuable to share this knowledge with with new #ActuallyAutistic people and with the world at large.

We're talking about knowledge about knowledge: not just "ABA is harmful", but "There's #ActuallyAutistic consensus that ABA is harmful"

=== Special citations for asserting community consensus ===

One possibility would be to have have certain special citations:

* [community-consensus]: means there's rough community consensus within the #ActuallyAutistic community
* [community-controversy]: means there's meaningful controversy within the #ActuallyAutistic community; sizeable groups on more than one side
* [experimental-theory]: experimental theory, not yet tested and accepted or rejected by the #ActuallyAutistic community at large

Examples:
* ABA is harmful [community-consensus] [1] [2] [3]
* Most people within the #ActuallyAutistic community prefer identity-first language [community-consensus]
* Masking isn't worth it [community-controversy]
* Monotropism explains everything about autism [experimental-theory]

Tags like "[community-consensus]" could link to an explanation of what community consensus means, how knowledge is distilled within the #ActuallyAutistic community, etc.

Very open to suggestions about what the actual tags should be. For example maybe instead of [community-consensus] it should be [actuallyautistic-consensus] or [autistic-consensus] or [aa-consensus] or [our-consensus] or [consensus] or [consensus-view] or...

: I really like the idea of special citation tags --[[User:Fochti|Fochti]] ([[User talk:Fochti|talk]]) 15:20, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

=== Special language for asserting community consensus ===

Alternatively we could write out certain key phrases:
* There's consensus within the #ActuallyAutistic community that ABA is harmful.
* There's consensus within the #ActuallyAutistic community that most autists within the #ActuallyAutistic community prefer identity-first language
* There's controversy within the community about whether masking is worth it
* There's an experimental theory that monotropism explains everything

Writing out the phrases feels a bit wordy, and also shoves the content of the sentence to the end. Could also be written the other way around:

* ABA is harmful, according to rough consensus within the community.
* Most people within the #ActuallyAutistic prefer identity-first language, according to rough consensus within the community.

But this still feels wordy. I think I like the special citation form.

=== Citation storms ===

Another possibility (which we could do in addition to using tags like [community-consensus]) would be to have "citation storms", where we maybe cite like 50 or 100 Twitter threads of lived experience of #ActuallyAutistic people.

But a citation storm can't stand in for something like [community-consensus] tags, because a citation storm on its own doesn't assert that there ''aren't'' other popular views within the community.

--[[User:AutExplorer|AutExplorer]] ([[User talk:AutExplorer|talk]]) 15:07, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

== Signing lived experiences ==

When writing their lived experience, should the person sign their (user)name? I understand some might not want to have their experience linked to them, so maybe the guidelines could mention that you can put your username if you wish to? I also understand that that might make the articles a bit clunky/harder to navigate --[[User:Fire Eider|Fire Eider]] ([[User talk:Fire Eider|talk]]) 16:37, 23 August 2022 (UTC)

: We were thinking about adding "Lived experience" sections where it might apply. This alone would make it clear that whatever people put there is 100% subjective. If people want to sign what they put there they can, but no pressure. Once we know how to handle this consistently and elegantly we will update the guidelines. --[[User:Fochti|Fochti]] ([[User talk:Fochti|talk]]) 15:24, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

== Handling citations ==

How do we do citations? I tried to fix [[Overlapping neurotypes]] but I don't know if that looks right. I want some more info before I fix other pages, please

: It looks good to me --[[User:Fire Eider|Fire Eider]] ([[User talk:Fire Eider|talk]])

: For now we have this: [[Help:Style guidelines#References]] --[[User:Fochti|Fochti]] ([[User talk:Fochti|talk]]) 15:19, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

== English (US) vs English (UK) ==

I think we need some consensus on whether people should use American English spelling or British English spelling. Whatever we're gonna use, it should be put into the style guidelines. (Yes, I always focus on the most important topics! :D) --[[User:Fochti|Fochti]] ([[User talk:Fochti|talk]]) 22:47, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

== autistic vs Autistic ==

We need some consensus on whether we capitalise "Autistic", like "Deaf", or not; prefarably sooner than later :D What do you think? --[[User:Fochti|Fochti]] ([[User talk:Fochti|talk]]) 22:47, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

: Personally I'm accustomed to using lowercase. If others prefer uppercase, my suggestion would be: (1) use uppercase 'A' to refer to the Autistic community as a distinct subculture, but (2) use lowercase 'a' to refer to autistic people when talking about our neurotype itself. Thus a person could be 'autistic' (the neurotype) without necessarily also being "Autistic" (participating in the Autistic community). [[User:Mona Pereth|Mona Pereth]] ([[User talk:Mona Pereth|talk]]) 15:11, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

== REQUEST: make external links open in new window ==

I think the usual thing is for external links (to other sites) to open in another window/tab. I think maybe that's how it worked yesterday and it got changed. Here's the docs on how to adjust the setting: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgExternalLinkTarget
--[[User:Severian|Severian]] ([[User talk:Severian|talk]]) 01:57, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

== Adding images ==

Is there a way to add images to a page? The help says to upload an image, but I don't know where to upload it to

Yep! Here's the upload link:
[[File:Upload file link documentation.png|x150px]]
--[[User:AutExplorer|AutExplorer]] ([[User talk:AutExplorer|talk]]) 15:38, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

== Where to get autism-related stuff ==

Should we have a page saying where to get autism-related stuff? On the one hand, this could be a useful resource. On the other, it could very easily turn into a spam page, w/ nothing but free advertising

: What do you mean by "autism related stuff"? --[[User:Fochti|Fochti]] ([[User talk:Fochti|talk]]) 18:39, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

:: Good question. That may be too difficult to judge. Anything from noise-cancelling headphones to T-shirts w/ Autism-related sayings

== Deleting pages (answered)==

Is it possible to actually delete a page (for example if it's redundant or spam), or do you need to make it a redirect? If so, where would you redirect a spam page to? --[[User:Fochti|Fochti]] ([[User talk:Fochti|talk]]) 01:44, 24 August 2022 (UTC)

: Okay, it ''is possible'', but only if you're one of the wiki's administrators --[[User:Fochti|Fochti]] ([[User talk:Fochti|talk]]) 20:47, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

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== Citing community consensus ==

How should we assert "distilled wisdom" such as ABA being harmful? (It seems important to do so, see e.g. this thread: https://twitter.com/WIRblog/status/1563002859246956544)

We could use phrases like "Many people within the autistic community agree that...", but we want to avoid "false controversies" (thanks @fochti for this phrase!) where it seems like there's disagreement on a topic when really there's broad agreement.

Much of what the #ActuallyAutistic community has done is share our experiences until we collectively distill certain things that seem broadly true to us. This is like What We Do, and it would be really valuable to share this knowledge with with new #ActuallyAutistic people and with the world at large.

We're talking about knowledge about knowledge: not just "ABA is harmful", but "There's #ActuallyAutistic consensus that ABA is harmful"

=== Special citations for asserting community consensus ===

One possibility would be to have have certain special citations:

* [community-consensus]: means there's rough community consensus within the #ActuallyAutistic community
* [community-controversy]: means there's meaningful controversy within the #ActuallyAutistic community; sizeable groups on more than one side
* [experimental-theory]: experimental theory, not yet tested and accepted or rejected by the #ActuallyAutistic community at large

Examples:
* ABA is harmful [community-consensus] [1] [2] [3]
* Most people within the #ActuallyAutistic community prefer identity-first language [community-consensus]
* Masking isn't worth it [community-controversy]
* Monotropism explains everything about autism [experimental-theory]

Tags like "[community-consensus]" could link to an explanation of what community consensus means, how knowledge is distilled within the #ActuallyAutistic community, etc.

Very open to suggestions about what the actual tags should be. For example maybe instead of [community-consensus] it should be [actuallyautistic-consensus] or [autistic-consensus] or [aa-consensus] or [our-consensus] or [consensus] or [consensus-view] or...

: I really like the idea of special citation tags --[[User:Fochti|Fochti]] ([[User talk:Fochti|talk]]) 15:20, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

=== Special language for asserting community consensus ===

Alternatively we could write out certain key phrases:
* There's consensus within the #ActuallyAutistic community that ABA is harmful.
* There's consensus within the #ActuallyAutistic community that most autists within the #ActuallyAutistic community prefer identity-first language
* There's controversy within the community about whether masking is worth it
* There's an experimental theory that monotropism explains everything

Writing out the phrases feels a bit wordy, and also shoves the content of the sentence to the end. Could also be written the other way around:

* ABA is harmful, according to rough consensus within the community.
* Most people within the #ActuallyAutistic prefer identity-first language, according to rough consensus within the community.

But this still feels wordy. I think I like the special citation form.

=== Citation storms ===

Another possibility (which we could do in addition to using tags like [community-consensus]) would be to have "citation storms", where we maybe cite like 50 or 100 Twitter threads of lived experience of #ActuallyAutistic people.

But a citation storm can't stand in for something like [community-consensus] tags, because a citation storm on its own doesn't assert that there ''aren't'' other popular views within the community.

--[[User:AutExplorer|AutExplorer]] ([[User talk:AutExplorer|talk]]) 15:07, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

== English (US) vs English (UK) ==

I think we need some consensus on whether people should use American English spelling or British English spelling. Whatever we're gonna use, it should be put into the style guidelines. (Yes, I always focus on the most important topics! :D) --[[User:Fochti|Fochti]] ([[User talk:Fochti|talk]]) 22:47, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

== autistic vs Autistic ==

We need some consensus on whether we capitalise "Autistic", like "Deaf", or not; prefarably sooner than later :D What do you think? --[[User:Fochti|Fochti]] ([[User talk:Fochti|talk]]) 22:47, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

Personally I'm accustomed to using lowercase. If others prefer uppercase, my suggestion would be: (1) use uppercase 'A' to refer to the Autistic community as a distinct subculture, but (2) use lowercase 'a' to refer to autistic people when talking about our neurotype itself. Thus a person could be 'autistic' (the neurotype) without necessarily also being "Autistic" (participating in the Autistic community). [[User:Mona Pereth|Mona Pereth]] ([[User talk:Mona Pereth|talk]]) 15:11, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

== REQUEST: make external links open in new window ==

I think the usual thing is for external links (to other sites) to open in another window/tab. I think maybe that's how it worked yesterday and it got changed. Here's the docs on how to adjust the setting: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgExternalLinkTarget
--[[User:Severian|Severian]] ([[User talk:Severian|talk]]) 01:57, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

== Adding images ==

Is there a way to add images to a page? The help says to upload an image, but I don't know where to upload it to

== Where to get autism-related stuff ==

Should we have a page saying where to get autism-related stuff? On the one hand, this could be a useful resource. On the other, it could very easily turn into a spam page, w/ nothing but free advertising

: What do you mean by "autism related stuff"? --[[User:Fochti|Fochti]] ([[User talk:Fochti|talk]]) 18:39, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

:: Good question. That may be too difficult to judge. Anything from noise-cancelling headphones to T-shirts w/ Autism-related sayings

== Deleting pages (answered)==

Is it possible to actually delete a page (for example if it's redundant or spam), or do you need to make it a redirect? If so, where would you redirect a spam page to? --[[User:Fochti|Fochti]] ([[User talk:Fochti|talk]]) 01:44, 24 August 2022 (UTC)

: Okay, it ''is possible'', but only if you're one of the wiki's administrators --[[User:Fochti|Fochti]] ([[User talk:Fochti|talk]]) 20:47, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

Talk:Meta

2022-08-26T15:30:03Z

AutExplorer:

{{Emphasis|This talk page is intended for discussions about ActuallyAutistic Wiki itself, including general questions, feedback, and suggestions.}}
{{Talk}}


== Citing community consensus ==

How should we assert "distilled wisdom" such as ABA being harmful? (It seems important to do so, see e.g. this thread: https://twitter.com/WIRblog/status/1563002859246956544)

We could use phrases like "Many people within the autistic community agree that...", but we want to avoid "false controversies" (thanks @fochti for this phrase!) where it seems like there's disagreement on a topic when really there's broad agreement.

Much of what the #ActuallyAutistic community has done is share our experiences until we collectively distill certain things that seem broadly true to us. This is like What We Do, and it would be really valuable to share this knowledge with with new #ActuallyAutistic people and with the world at large.

We're talking about knowledge about knowledge: not just "ABA is harmful", but "There's #ActuallyAutistic consensus that ABA is harmful"

=== Special citations for asserting community consensus ===

One possibility would be to have have certain special citations:

* [community-consensus]: means there's rough community consensus within the #ActuallyAutistic community
* [community-controversy]: means there's meaningful controversy within the #ActuallyAutistic community; sizeable groups on more than one side
* [experimental-theory]: experimental theory, not yet tested and accepted or rejected by the #ActuallyAutistic community at large

Examples:
* ABA is harmful [community-consensus] [1] [2] [3]
* Most people within the #ActuallyAutistic community prefer identity-first language [community-consensus]
* Masking isn't worth it [community-controversy]
* Monotropism explains everything about autism [experimental-theory]

Tags like "[community-consensus]" could link to an explanation of what community consensus means, how knowledge is distilled within the #ActuallyAutistic community, etc.

Very open to suggestions about what the actual tags should be. For example maybe instead of [community-consensus] it should be [actuallyautistic-consensus] or [autistic-consensus] or [aa-consensus] or [our-consensus] or [consensus] or [consensus-view] or...

: I really like the idea of special citation tags --[[User:Fochti|Fochti]] ([[User talk:Fochti|talk]]) 15:20, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

=== Special language for asserting community consensus ===

Alternatively we could write out certain key phrases:
* There's consensus within the #ActuallyAutistic community that ABA is harmful.
* There's consensus within the #ActuallyAutistic community that most autists within the #ActuallyAutistic community prefer identity-first language
* There's controversy within the community about whether masking is worth it
* There's an experimental theory that monotropism explains everything

Writing out the phrases feels a bit wordy, and also shoves the content of the sentence to the end. Could also be written the other way around:

* ABA is harmful, according to rough consensus within the community.
* Most people within the #ActuallyAutistic prefer identity-first language, according to rough consensus within the community.

But this still feels wordy. I think I like the special citation form.

=== Citation storms ===

Another possibility (which we could do in addition to using tags like [community-consensus]) would be to have "citation storms", where we maybe cite like 50 or 100 Twitter threads of lived experience of #ActuallyAutistic people.

But a citation storm can't stand in for something like [community-consensus] tags, because a citation storm on its own doesn't assert that there ''aren't'' other popular views within the community.

--[[User:AutExplorer|AutExplorer]] ([[User talk:AutExplorer|talk]]) 15:07, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

== English (US) vs English (UK) ==

I think we need some consensus on whether people should use American English spelling or British English spelling. Whatever we're gonna use, it should be put into the style guidelines. (Yes, I always focus on the most important topics! :D) --[[User:Fochti|Fochti]] ([[User talk:Fochti|talk]]) 22:47, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

== autistic vs Autistic ==

We need some consensus on whether we capitalise "Autistic", like "Deaf", or not; prefarably sooner than later :D What do you think? --[[User:Fochti|Fochti]] ([[User talk:Fochti|talk]]) 22:47, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

Personally I'm accustomed to using lowercase. If others prefer uppercase, my suggestion would be: (1) use uppercase 'A' to refer to the Autistic community as a distinct subculture, but (2) use lowercase 'a' to refer to autistic people when talking about our neurotype itself. Thus a person could be 'autistic' (the neurotype) without necessarily also being "Autistic" (participating in the Autistic community). [[User:Mona Pereth|Mona Pereth]] ([[User talk:Mona Pereth|talk]]) 15:11, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

== REQUEST: make external links open in new window ==

I think the usual thing is for external links (to other sites) to open in another window/tab. I think maybe that's how it worked yesterday and it got changed. Here's the docs on how to adjust the setting: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgExternalLinkTarget
--[[User:Severian|Severian]] ([[User talk:Severian|talk]]) 01:57, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

== Adding images ==

Is there a way to add images to a page? The help says to upload an image, but I don't know where to upload it to

== Where to get autism-related stuff ==

Should we have a page saying where to get autism-related stuff? On the one hand, this could be a useful resource. On the other, it could very easily turn into a spam page, w/ nothing but free advertising

: What do you mean by "autism related stuff"? --[[User:Fochti|Fochti]] ([[User talk:Fochti|talk]]) 18:39, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

:: Good question. That may be too difficult to judge. Anything from noise-cancelling headphones to T-shirts w/ Autism-related sayings

== Deleting pages (answered)==

Is it possible to actually delete a page (for example if it's redundant or spam), or do you need to make it a redirect? If so, where would you redirect a spam page to? --[[User:Fochti|Fochti]] ([[User talk:Fochti|talk]]) 01:44, 24 August 2022 (UTC)

: Okay, it ''is possible'', but only if you're one of the wiki's administrators --[[User:Fochti|Fochti]] ([[User talk:Fochti|talk]]) 20:47, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

Talk:Meta

2022-08-26T15:29:27Z

AutExplorer:

{{Emphasis|This talk page is intended for discussions about ActuallyAutistic Wiki itself, including general questions, feedback, and suggestions.}}
{{Talk}}

== English (US) vs English (UK) ==

I think we need some consensus on whether people should use American English spelling or British English spelling. Whatever we're gonna use, it should be put into the style guidelines. (Yes, I always focus on the most important topics! :D) --[[User:Fochti|Fochti]] ([[User talk:Fochti|talk]]) 22:47, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

== autistic vs Autistic ==

We need some consensus on whether we capitalise "Autistic", like "Deaf", or not; prefarably sooner than later :D What do you think? --[[User:Fochti|Fochti]] ([[User talk:Fochti|talk]]) 22:47, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

Personally I'm accustomed to using lowercase. If others prefer uppercase, my suggestion would be: (1) use uppercase 'A' to refer to the Autistic community as a distinct subculture, but (2) use lowercase 'a' to refer to autistic people when talking about our neurotype itself. Thus a person could be 'autistic' (the neurotype) without necessarily also being "Autistic" (participating in the Autistic community). [[User:Mona Pereth|Mona Pereth]] ([[User talk:Mona Pereth|talk]]) 15:11, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

== REQUEST: make external links open in new window ==

I think the usual thing is for external links (to other sites) to open in another window/tab. I think maybe that's how it worked yesterday and it got changed. Here's the docs on how to adjust the setting: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgExternalLinkTarget
--[[User:Severian|Severian]] ([[User talk:Severian|talk]]) 01:57, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

== Adding images ==

Is there a way to add images to a page? The help says to upload an image, but I don't know where to upload it to

== Where to get autism-related stuff ==

Should we have a page saying where to get autism-related stuff? On the one hand, this could be a useful resource. On the other, it could very easily turn into a spam page, w/ nothing but free advertising

: What do you mean by "autism related stuff"? --[[User:Fochti|Fochti]] ([[User talk:Fochti|talk]]) 18:39, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

:: Good question. That may be too difficult to judge. Anything from noise-cancelling headphones to T-shirts w/ Autism-related sayings

== Deleting pages (answered)==

Is it possible to actually delete a page (for example if it's redundant or spam), or do you need to make it a redirect? If so, where would you redirect a spam page to? --[[User:Fochti|Fochti]] ([[User talk:Fochti|talk]]) 01:44, 24 August 2022 (UTC)

: Okay, it ''is possible'', but only if you're one of the wiki's administrators --[[User:Fochti|Fochti]] ([[User talk:Fochti|talk]]) 20:47, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

== Citing community consensus ==

How should we assert "distilled wisdom" such as ABA being harmful? (It seems important to do so, see e.g. this thread: https://twitter.com/WIRblog/status/1563002859246956544)

We could use phrases like "Many people within the autistic community agree that...", but we want to avoid "false controversies" (thanks @fochti for this phrase!) where it seems like there's disagreement on a topic when really there's broad agreement.

Much of what the #ActuallyAutistic community has done is share our experiences until we collectively distill certain things that seem broadly true to us. This is like What We Do, and it would be really valuable to share this knowledge with with new #ActuallyAutistic people and with the world at large.

We're talking about knowledge about knowledge: not just "ABA is harmful", but "There's #ActuallyAutistic consensus that ABA is harmful"

=== Special citations for asserting community consensus ===

One possibility would be to have have certain special citations:

* [community-consensus]: means there's rough community consensus within the #ActuallyAutistic community
* [community-controversy]: means there's meaningful controversy within the #ActuallyAutistic community; sizeable groups on more than one side
* [experimental-theory]: experimental theory, not yet tested and accepted or rejected by the #ActuallyAutistic community at large

Examples:
* ABA is harmful [community-consensus] [1] [2] [3]
* Most people within the #ActuallyAutistic community prefer identity-first language [community-consensus]
* Masking isn't worth it [community-controversy]
* Monotropism explains everything about autism [experimental-theory]

Tags like "[community-consensus]" could link to an explanation of what community consensus means, how knowledge is distilled within the #ActuallyAutistic community, etc.

Very open to suggestions about what the actual tags should be. For example maybe instead of [community-consensus] it should be [actuallyautistic-consensus] or [autistic-consensus] or [aa-consensus] or [our-consensus] or [consensus] or [consensus-view] or...

: I really like the idea of special citation tags --[[User:Fochti|Fochti]] ([[User talk:Fochti|talk]]) 15:20, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

=== Special language for asserting community consensus ===

Alternatively we could write out certain key phrases:
* There's consensus within the #ActuallyAutistic community that ABA is harmful.
* There's consensus within the #ActuallyAutistic community that most autists within the #ActuallyAutistic community prefer identity-first language
* There's controversy within the community about whether masking is worth it
* There's an experimental theory that monotropism explains everything

Writing out the phrases feels a bit wordy, and also shoves the content of the sentence to the end. Could also be written the other way around:

* ABA is harmful, according to rough consensus within the community.
* Most people within the #ActuallyAutistic prefer identity-first language, according to rough consensus within the community.

But this still feels wordy. I think I like the special citation form.

=== Citation storms ===

Another possibility (which we could do in addition to using tags like [community-consensus]) would be to have "citation storms", where we maybe cite like 50 or 100 Twitter threads of lived experience of #ActuallyAutistic people.

But a citation storm can't stand in for something like [community-consensus] tags, because a citation storm on its own doesn't assert that there ''aren't'' other popular views within the community.

--[[User:AutExplorer|AutExplorer]] ([[User talk:AutExplorer|talk]]) 15:07, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

Help talk:Style guidelines

2022-08-26T15:22:35Z

AutExplorer: /* Citing community consensus */

{{Talk}}
== Signing lived experiences ==

When writing their lived experience, should the person sign their (user)name? I understand some might not want to have their experience linked to them, so maybe the guidelines could mention that you can put your username if you wish to? I also understand that that might make the articles a bit clunky/harder to navigate --[[User:Fire Eider|Fire Eider]] ([[User talk:Fire Eider|talk]]) 16:37, 23 August 2022 (UTC)

== Handling citations ==

How do we do citations? I tried to fix [[Overlapping neurotypes]] but I don't know if that looks right. I want some more info before I fix other pages, please

: It looks good to me --[[User:Fire Eider|Fire Eider]] ([[User talk:Fire Eider|talk]])

: For now we have this: [[Help:Style guidelines#References]] --[[User:Fochti|Fochti]] ([[User talk:Fochti|talk]]) 15:19, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

== Citing community consensus ==

How should we assert "distilled wisdom" such as ABA being harmful? (It seems important to do so, see e.g. this thread: https://twitter.com/WIRblog/status/1563002859246956544)

We could use phrases like "Many people within the autistic community agree that...", but we want to avoid "false controversies" (thanks @fochti for this phrase!) where it seems like there's disagreement on a topic when really there's broad agreement.

Much of what the #ActuallyAutistic community has done is share our experiences until we collectively distill certain things that seem broadly true to us. This is like What We Do, and it would be really valuable to share this knowledge with with new #ActuallyAutistic people and with the world at large.

We're talking about knowledge about knowledge: not just "ABA is harmful", but "There's #ActuallyAutistic consensus that ABA is harmful"

=== Special citations for asserting community consensus ===

One possibility would be to have have certain special citations:

* [community-consensus]: means there's rough community consensus within the #ActuallyAutistic community
* [community-controversy]: means there's meaningful controversy within the #ActuallyAutistic community; sizeable groups on more than one side
* [experimental-theory]: experimental theory, not yet tested and accepted or rejected by the #ActuallyAutistic community at large

Examples:
* ABA is harmful [community-consensus] [1] [2] [3]
* Most people within the #ActuallyAutistic community prefer identity-first language [community-consensus]
* Masking isn't worth it [community-controversy]
* Monotropism explains everything about autism [experimental-theory]

Tags like "[community-consensus]" could link to an explanation of what community consensus means, how knowledge is distilled within the #ActuallyAutistic community, etc.

Very open to suggestions about what the actual tags should be. For example maybe instead of [community-consensus] it should be [actuallyautistic-consensus] or [autistic-consensus] or [aa-consensus] or [our-consensus] or [consensus] or [consensus-view] or...

: I really like the idea of special citation tags --[[User:Fochti|Fochti]] ([[User talk:Fochti|talk]]) 15:20, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

=== Special language for asserting community consensus ===

Alternatively we could write out certain key phrases:
* There's consensus within the #ActuallyAutistic community that ABA is harmful.
* There's consensus within the #ActuallyAutistic community that most autists within the #ActuallyAutistic community prefer identity-first language
* There's controversy within the community about whether masking is worth it
* There's an experimental theory that monotropism explains everything

Writing out the phrases feels a bit wordy, and also shoves the content of the sentence to the end. Could also be written the other way around:

* ABA is harmful, according to rough consensus within the community.
* Most people within the #ActuallyAutistic prefer identity-first language, according to rough consensus within the community.

But this still feels wordy. I think I like the special citation form.

=== Citation storms ===

Another possibility (which we could do in addition to using tags like [community-consensus]) would be to have "citation storms", where we maybe cite like 50 or 100 Twitter threads of lived experience of #ActuallyAutistic people.

But a citation storm can't stand in for something like [community-consensus] tags, because a citation storm on its own doesn't assert that there ''aren't'' other popular views within the community.

--[[User:AutExplorer|AutExplorer]] ([[User talk:AutExplorer|talk]]) 15:07, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

Help talk:Style guidelines

2022-08-26T15:16:37Z

AutExplorer: /* Special citations for asserting community consensus */

* When writing their lived experience, should the person sign their (user)name? I understand some might not want to have their experience linked to them, so maybe the guidelines could mention that you can put your username if you wish to? I also understand that that might make the articles a bit clunky/harder to navigate --[[User:Fire Eider|Fire Eider]] ([[User talk:Fire Eider|talk]]) 16:37, 23 August 2022 (UTC)

* How do we do citations? I tried to fix [[Overlapping_neurotypes]] but I don't know if that looks right. I want some more info before I fix other pages, please
:: It looks good to me --[[User:Fire Eider|Fire Eider]] ([[User talk:Fire Eider|talk]])

== Citing community consensus ==

How should we assert "distilled wisdom" such as ABA being harmful? (It seems important to do so, see e.g. this thread: https://twitter.com/WIRblog/status/1563002859246956544)

We could use phrases like "Many people within the autistic community agree that...", but we want to avoid "false controversies" (thanks @fochti for this phrase!) where it seems like there's disagreement on a topic when really there's broad agreement.

Much of what the #ActuallyAutistic community has done is share our experiences until we collectively distill certain things that seem broadly true to us. This is like What We Do, and it would be really valuable to share this knowledge with with new #ActuallyAutistic people and with the world at large.

We're talking about knowledge about knowledge: not just "ABA is harmful", but "There's #ActuallyAutistic consensus that ABA is harmful"

=== Special citations for asserting community consensus ===

One possibility would be to have have certain special citations:

* [community-consensus]: means there's rough community consensus within the #ActuallyAutistic community
* [community-controversy]: means there's meaningful controversy within the #ActuallyAutistic community; sizeable groups on more than one side
* [experimental-theory]: experimental theory, not yet tested and accepted or rejected by the #ActuallyAutistic community at large

Examples:
* ABA is harmful [community-consensus] [1] [2] [3]
* Most people within the #ActuallyAutistic community prefer identity-first language [community-consensus]
* Masking isn't worth it [community-controversy]
* Monotropism explains everything about autism [experimental-theory]

Tags like "[community-consensus]" could link to an explanation of what community consensus means, how knowledge is distilled within the #ActuallyAutistic community, etc.

Very open to suggestions about what the actual tags should be. For example maybe instead of [community-consensus] it should be [actuallyautistic-consensus] or [autistic-consensus] or [aa-consensus] or [our-consensus] or [consensus] or [consensus-view] or...

=== Special language for asserting community consensus ===

Alternatively we could write out certain key phrases:
* There's consensus within the #ActuallyAutistic community that ABA is harmful.
* There's consensus within the #ActuallyAutistic community that most autists within the #ActuallyAutistic community prefer identity-first language
* There's controversy within the community about whether masking is worth it
* There's an experimental theory that monotropism explains everything

Writing out the phrases feels a bit wordy, and also shoves the content of the sentence to the end. Could also be written the other way around:

* ABA is harmful, according to rough consensus within the community.
* Most people within the #ActuallyAutistic prefer identity-first language, according to rough consensus within the community.

But this still feels wordy. I think I like the special citation form.

=== Citation storms ===

Another possibility (which we could do in addition to using tags like [community-consensus]) would be to have "citation storms", where we maybe cite like 50 or 100 Twitter threads of lived experience of #ActuallyAutistic people.

But a citation storm can't stand in for something like [community-consensus] tags, because a citation storm on its own doesn't assert that there aren't other popular views within the community.

--[[User:AutExplorer|AutExplorer]] ([[User talk:AutExplorer|talk]]) 15:07, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

Help talk:Style guidelines

2022-08-26T15:13:37Z

AutExplorer:

* When writing their lived experience, should the person sign their (user)name? I understand some might not want to have their experience linked to them, so maybe the guidelines could mention that you can put your username if you wish to? I also understand that that might make the articles a bit clunky/harder to navigate --[[User:Fire Eider|Fire Eider]] ([[User talk:Fire Eider|talk]]) 16:37, 23 August 2022 (UTC)

* How do we do citations? I tried to fix [[Overlapping_neurotypes]] but I don't know if that looks right. I want some more info before I fix other pages, please
:: It looks good to me --[[User:Fire Eider|Fire Eider]] ([[User talk:Fire Eider|talk]])

== Citing community consensus ==

How should we assert "distilled wisdom" such as ABA being harmful? (It seems important to do so, see e.g. this thread: https://twitter.com/WIRblog/status/1563002859246956544)

We could use phrases like "Many people within the autistic community agree that...", but we want to avoid "false controversies" (thanks @fochti for this phrase!) where it seems like there's disagreement on a topic when really there's broad agreement.

Much of what the #ActuallyAutistic community has done is share our experiences until we collectively distill certain things that seem broadly true to us. This is like What We Do, and it would be really valuable to share this knowledge with with new #ActuallyAutistic people and with the world at large.

We're talking about knowledge about knowledge: not just "ABA is harmful", but "There's #ActuallyAutistic consensus that ABA is harmful"

=== Special citations for asserting community consensus ===

One possibility would be to have have certain special citations:

* [community-consensus]: means there's rough community consensus within the #ActuallyAutistic community
* [community-controversy]: means there's meaningful controversy within the #ActuallyAutistic community; sizeable groups on more than one side
* [experimental-theory]: experimental theory, not yet tested and accepted or rejected by the #ActuallyAutistic community at large

Examples:
* ABA is harmful [community-consensus] [1] [2] [3]
* Most people within the #ActuallyAutistic community prefer identity-first language [community-consensus]
* Masking isn't worth it [community-controversy]
* Monotropism explains everything about autism [experimental-theory]

Tags like "[community-consensus]" could link to an explanation of what community consensus means, how knowledge is distilled within the #ActuallyAutistic community, etc.

Very open to suggestions about what the actual tags should be. For example maybe instead of [community-consensus] it should be [actuallyautistic-consensus] or [aa-consensus] or [our-consensus] or [consensus] or [consensus-view] or...

=== Special language for asserting community consensus ===

Alternatively we could write out certain key phrases:
* There's consensus within the #ActuallyAutistic community that ABA is harmful.
* There's consensus within the #ActuallyAutistic community that most autists within the #ActuallyAutistic community prefer identity-first language
* There's controversy within the community about whether masking is worth it
* There's an experimental theory that monotropism explains everything

Writing out the phrases feels a bit wordy, and also shoves the content of the sentence to the end. Could also be written the other way around:

* ABA is harmful, according to rough consensus within the community.
* Most people within the #ActuallyAutistic prefer identity-first language, according to rough consensus within the community.

But this still feels wordy. I think I like the special citation form.

=== Citation storms ===

Another possibility (which we could do in addition to using tags like [community-consensus]) would be to have "citation storms", where we maybe cite like 50 or 100 Twitter threads of lived experience of #ActuallyAutistic people.

But a citation storm can't stand in for something like [community-consensus] tags, because a citation storm on its own doesn't assert that there aren't other popular views within the community.

--[[User:AutExplorer|AutExplorer]] ([[User talk:AutExplorer|talk]]) 15:07, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

Help talk:Style guidelines

2022-08-26T15:12:00Z

AutExplorer: /* Special citations for asserting community consensus */

* When writing their lived experience, should the person sign their (user)name? I understand some might not want to have their experience linked to them, so maybe the guidelines could mention that you can put your username if you wish to? I also understand that that might make the articles a bit clunky/harder to navigate --[[User:Fire Eider|Fire Eider]] ([[User talk:Fire Eider|talk]]) 16:37, 23 August 2022 (UTC)

* How do we do citations? I tried to fix [[Overlapping_neurotypes]] but I don't know if that looks right. I want some more info before I fix other pages, please
:: It looks good to me --[[User:Fire Eider|Fire Eider]] ([[User talk:Fire Eider|talk]])

== Citing community consensus ==

How should we assert "distilled wisdom" such as ABA being harmful? (It seems important to do so, see e.g. this thread: https://twitter.com/WIRblog/status/1563002859246956544)

We could use phrases like "Many people within the autistic community agree that...", but we want to avoid "false controversies" (thanks @fochti for this phrase!) where it seems like there's disagreement on a topic when really there's broad agreement.

Much of what the #ActuallyAutistic community has done is share our experiences until we collectively distill certain things that seem broadly true to us. This is like What We Do, and it would be really valuable to share this knowledge with with new #ActuallyAutistic people and with the world at large.

We're talking about knowledge about knowledge: not just "ABA is harmful", but "There's #ActuallyAutistic consensus that ABA is harmful"

=== Special citations for asserting community consensus ===

One possibility would be to have have certain special citations:

* [community-consensus]: means there's rough community consensus within the #ActuallyAutistic community
* [community-controversy]: means there's meaningful controversy within the #ActuallyAutistic community; sizeable groups on more than one side
* [experimental-theory]: experimental theory, not yet tested and accepted or rejected by the #ActuallyAutistic community at large

Examples:
* ABA is harmful [community-consensus] [1] [2] [3]
* Most people within the #ActuallyAutistic community prefer identity-first language [community-consensus]
* Masking isn't worth it [community-controversy]
* Monotropism explains everything about autism [experimental-theory]

Tags like "[community-consensus]" could link to an explanation of what community consensus means, how knowledge is distilled within the #ActuallyAutistic community, etc.

=== Special language for asserting community consensus ===

Alternatively we could write out certain key phrases:
* There's consensus within the #ActuallyAutistic community that ABA is harmful.
* There's consensus within the #ActuallyAutistic community that most autists within the #ActuallyAutistic community prefer identity-first language
* There's controversy within the community about whether masking is worth it
* There's an experimental theory that monotropism explains everything

Writing out the phrases feels a bit wordy, and also shoves the content of the sentence to the end. Could also be written the other way around:

* ABA is harmful, according to rough consensus within the community.
* Most people within the #ActuallyAutistic prefer identity-first language, according to rough consensus within the community.

But this still feels wordy. I think I like the special citation form.

=== Citation storms ===

Another possibility (which we could do in addition to using tags like [community-consensus]) would be to have "citation storms", where we maybe cite like 50 or 100 Twitter threads of lived experience of #ActuallyAutistic people.

But a citation storm can't stand in for something like [community-consensus] tags, because a citation storm on its own doesn't assert that there aren't other popular views within the community.

--[[User:AutExplorer|AutExplorer]] ([[User talk:AutExplorer|talk]]) 15:07, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

Help talk:Style guidelines

2022-08-26T15:10:56Z

AutExplorer: /* Special citations for asserting community consensus */

* When writing their lived experience, should the person sign their (user)name? I understand some might not want to have their experience linked to them, so maybe the guidelines could mention that you can put your username if you wish to? I also understand that that might make the articles a bit clunky/harder to navigate --[[User:Fire Eider|Fire Eider]] ([[User talk:Fire Eider|talk]]) 16:37, 23 August 2022 (UTC)

* How do we do citations? I tried to fix [[Overlapping_neurotypes]] but I don't know if that looks right. I want some more info before I fix other pages, please
:: It looks good to me --[[User:Fire Eider|Fire Eider]] ([[User talk:Fire Eider|talk]])

== Citing community consensus ==

How should we assert "distilled wisdom" such as ABA being harmful? (It seems important to do so, see e.g. this thread: https://twitter.com/WIRblog/status/1563002859246956544)

We could use phrases like "Many people within the autistic community agree that...", but we want to avoid "false controversies" (thanks @fochti for this phrase!) where it seems like there's disagreement on a topic when really there's broad agreement.

Much of what the #ActuallyAutistic community has done is share our experiences until we collectively distill certain things that seem broadly true to us. This is like What We Do, and it would be really valuable to share this knowledge with with new #ActuallyAutistic people and with the world at large.

We're talking about knowledge about knowledge: not just "ABA is harmful", but "There's #ActuallyAutistic consensus that ABA is harmful"

=== Special citations for asserting community consensus ===

One possibility would be to have have certain special citations:

* [community-consensus]: means there's rough community consensus within the #ActuallyAutistic community
* [community-controversy]: means there's meaningful controversy within the #ActuallyAutistic community; sizeable groups on more than one side
* [experimental-theory]: experimental theory, not yet tested and accepted or rejected by the #ActuallyAutistic community at large

Examples:
* ABA is harmful [community-consensus] [1] [2] [3]
* Most people within the #ActuallyAutistic community prefer identity-first language [community-consensus]
* Masking isn't worth it [community-controversy]
* Monotropism explains everything about autism [experimental-theory]

=== Special language for asserting community consensus ===

Alternatively we could write out certain key phrases:
* There's consensus within the #ActuallyAutistic community that ABA is harmful.
* There's consensus within the #ActuallyAutistic community that most autists within the #ActuallyAutistic community prefer identity-first language
* There's controversy within the community about whether masking is worth it
* There's an experimental theory that monotropism explains everything

Writing out the phrases feels a bit wordy, and also shoves the content of the sentence to the end. Could also be written the other way around:

* ABA is harmful, according to rough consensus within the community.
* Most people within the #ActuallyAutistic prefer identity-first language, according to rough consensus within the community.

But this still feels wordy. I think I like the special citation form.

=== Citation storms ===

Another possibility (which we could do in addition to using tags like [community-consensus]) would be to have "citation storms", where we maybe cite like 50 or 100 Twitter threads of lived experience of #ActuallyAutistic people.

But a citation storm can't stand in for something like [community-consensus] tags, because a citation storm on its own doesn't assert that there aren't other popular views within the community.

--[[User:AutExplorer|AutExplorer]] ([[User talk:AutExplorer|talk]]) 15:07, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

Help talk:Style guidelines

2022-08-26T15:10:01Z

AutExplorer: /* Special language for asserting community consensus */

* When writing their lived experience, should the person sign their (user)name? I understand some might not want to have their experience linked to them, so maybe the guidelines could mention that you can put your username if you wish to? I also understand that that might make the articles a bit clunky/harder to navigate --[[User:Fire Eider|Fire Eider]] ([[User talk:Fire Eider|talk]]) 16:37, 23 August 2022 (UTC)

* How do we do citations? I tried to fix [[Overlapping_neurotypes]] but I don't know if that looks right. I want some more info before I fix other pages, please
:: It looks good to me --[[User:Fire Eider|Fire Eider]] ([[User talk:Fire Eider|talk]])

== Citing community consensus ==

How should we assert "distilled wisdom" such as ABA being harmful? (It seems important to do so, see e.g. this thread: https://twitter.com/WIRblog/status/1563002859246956544)

We could use phrases like "Many people within the autistic community agree that...", but we want to avoid "false controversies" (thanks @fochti for this phrase!) where it seems like there's disagreement on a topic when really there's broad agreement.

Much of what the #ActuallyAutistic community has done is share our experiences until we collectively distill certain things that seem broadly true to us. This is like What We Do, and it would be really valuable to share this knowledge with with new #ActuallyAutistic people and with the world at large.

We're talking about knowledge about knowledge: not just "ABA is harmful", but "There's #ActuallyAutistic consensus that ABA is harmful"

=== Special citations for asserting community consensus ===

One possibility would be to have have certain special citations:

[community-consensus]: means there's rough community consensus within the #ActuallyAutistic community
[community-controversy]: means there's meaningful controversy within the #ActuallyAutistic community; sizeable groups on more than one side
[experimental-theory]: experimental theory, not yet tested and accepted or rejected by the #ActuallyAutistic community at large

Examples:
* ABA is harmful [community-consensus] [1] [2] [3]
* Most people within the #ActuallyAutistic community prefer identity-first language [community-consensus]
* Masking isn't worth it [community-controversy]
* Monotropism explains everything about autism [experimental-theory]

=== Special language for asserting community consensus ===

Alternatively we could write out certain key phrases:
* There's consensus within the #ActuallyAutistic community that ABA is harmful.
* There's consensus within the #ActuallyAutistic community that most autists within the #ActuallyAutistic community prefer identity-first language
* There's controversy within the community about whether masking is worth it
* There's an experimental theory that monotropism explains everything

Writing out the phrases feels a bit wordy, and also shoves the content of the sentence to the end. Could also be written the other way around:

* ABA is harmful, according to rough consensus within the community.
* Most people within the #ActuallyAutistic prefer identity-first language, according to rough consensus within the community.

But this still feels wordy. I think I like the special citation form.

=== Citation storms ===

Another possibility (which we could do in addition to using tags like [community-consensus]) would be to have "citation storms", where we maybe cite like 50 or 100 Twitter threads of lived experience of #ActuallyAutistic people.

But a citation storm can't stand in for something like [community-consensus] tags, because a citation storm on its own doesn't assert that there aren't other popular views within the community.

--[[User:AutExplorer|AutExplorer]] ([[User talk:AutExplorer|talk]]) 15:07, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

Help talk:Style guidelines

2022-08-26T15:09:50Z

AutExplorer: /* Special citations for asserting community consensus */

* When writing their lived experience, should the person sign their (user)name? I understand some might not want to have their experience linked to them, so maybe the guidelines could mention that you can put your username if you wish to? I also understand that that might make the articles a bit clunky/harder to navigate --[[User:Fire Eider|Fire Eider]] ([[User talk:Fire Eider|talk]]) 16:37, 23 August 2022 (UTC)

* How do we do citations? I tried to fix [[Overlapping_neurotypes]] but I don't know if that looks right. I want some more info before I fix other pages, please
:: It looks good to me --[[User:Fire Eider|Fire Eider]] ([[User talk:Fire Eider|talk]])

== Citing community consensus ==

How should we assert "distilled wisdom" such as ABA being harmful? (It seems important to do so, see e.g. this thread: https://twitter.com/WIRblog/status/1563002859246956544)

We could use phrases like "Many people within the autistic community agree that...", but we want to avoid "false controversies" (thanks @fochti for this phrase!) where it seems like there's disagreement on a topic when really there's broad agreement.

Much of what the #ActuallyAutistic community has done is share our experiences until we collectively distill certain things that seem broadly true to us. This is like What We Do, and it would be really valuable to share this knowledge with with new #ActuallyAutistic people and with the world at large.

We're talking about knowledge about knowledge: not just "ABA is harmful", but "There's #ActuallyAutistic consensus that ABA is harmful"

=== Special citations for asserting community consensus ===

One possibility would be to have have certain special citations:

[community-consensus]: means there's rough community consensus within the #ActuallyAutistic community
[community-controversy]: means there's meaningful controversy within the #ActuallyAutistic community; sizeable groups on more than one side
[experimental-theory]: experimental theory, not yet tested and accepted or rejected by the #ActuallyAutistic community at large

Examples:
* ABA is harmful [community-consensus] [1] [2] [3]
* Most people within the #ActuallyAutistic community prefer identity-first language [community-consensus]
* Masking isn't worth it [community-controversy]
* Monotropism explains everything about autism [experimental-theory]

=== Special language for asserting community consensus ===

Alternatively we could write out certain key phrases:
- There's consensus within the #ActuallyAutistic community that ABA is harmful.
- There's consensus within the #ActuallyAutistic community that most autists within the #ActuallyAutistic community prefer identity-first language
- There's controversy within the community about whether masking is worth it
- There's an experimental theory that monotropism explains everything

Writing out the phrases feels a bit wordy, and also shoves the content of the sentence to the end. Could also be written the other way around:

- ABA is harmful, according to rough consensus within the community.
- Most people within the #ActuallyAutistic prefer identity-first language, according to rough consensus within the community.

But this still feels wordy. I think I like the special citation form.

=== Citation storms ===

Another possibility (which we could do in addition to using tags like [community-consensus]) would be to have "citation storms", where we maybe cite like 50 or 100 Twitter threads of lived experience of #ActuallyAutistic people.

But a citation storm can't stand in for something like [community-consensus] tags, because a citation storm on its own doesn't assert that there aren't other popular views within the community.

--[[User:AutExplorer|AutExplorer]] ([[User talk:AutExplorer|talk]]) 15:07, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

Help talk:Style guidelines

2022-08-26T15:09:33Z

AutExplorer: /* Citing community consensus */

* When writing their lived experience, should the person sign their (user)name? I understand some might not want to have their experience linked to them, so maybe the guidelines could mention that you can put your username if you wish to? I also understand that that might make the articles a bit clunky/harder to navigate --[[User:Fire Eider|Fire Eider]] ([[User talk:Fire Eider|talk]]) 16:37, 23 August 2022 (UTC)

* How do we do citations? I tried to fix [[Overlapping_neurotypes]] but I don't know if that looks right. I want some more info before I fix other pages, please
:: It looks good to me --[[User:Fire Eider|Fire Eider]] ([[User talk:Fire Eider|talk]])

== Citing community consensus ==

How should we assert "distilled wisdom" such as ABA being harmful? (It seems important to do so, see e.g. this thread: https://twitter.com/WIRblog/status/1563002859246956544)

We could use phrases like "Many people within the autistic community agree that...", but we want to avoid "false controversies" (thanks @fochti for this phrase!) where it seems like there's disagreement on a topic when really there's broad agreement.

Much of what the #ActuallyAutistic community has done is share our experiences until we collectively distill certain things that seem broadly true to us. This is like What We Do, and it would be really valuable to share this knowledge with with new #ActuallyAutistic people and with the world at large.

We're talking about knowledge about knowledge: not just "ABA is harmful", but "There's #ActuallyAutistic consensus that ABA is harmful"

=== Special citations for asserting community consensus ===

One possibility would be to have have certain special citations:

[community-consensus]: means there's rough community consensus within the #ActuallyAutistic community
[community-controversy]: means there's meaningful controversy within the #ActuallyAutistic community; sizeable groups on more than one side
[experimental-theory]: experimental theory, not yet tested and accepted or rejected by the #ActuallyAutistic community at large

Examples:
- ABA is harmful [community-consensus] [1] [2] [3]
- Most people within the #ActuallyAutistic community prefer identity-first language [community-consensus]
- Masking isn't worth it [community-controversy]
- Monotropism explains everything about autism [experimental-theory]

=== Special language for asserting community consensus ===

Alternatively we could write out certain key phrases:
- There's consensus within the #ActuallyAutistic community that ABA is harmful.
- There's consensus within the #ActuallyAutistic community that most autists within the #ActuallyAutistic community prefer identity-first language
- There's controversy within the community about whether masking is worth it
- There's an experimental theory that monotropism explains everything

Writing out the phrases feels a bit wordy, and also shoves the content of the sentence to the end. Could also be written the other way around:

- ABA is harmful, according to rough consensus within the community.
- Most people within the #ActuallyAutistic prefer identity-first language, according to rough consensus within the community.

But this still feels wordy. I think I like the special citation form.

=== Citation storms ===

Another possibility (which we could do in addition to using tags like [community-consensus]) would be to have "citation storms", where we maybe cite like 50 or 100 Twitter threads of lived experience of #ActuallyAutistic people.

But a citation storm can't stand in for something like [community-consensus] tags, because a citation storm on its own doesn't assert that there aren't other popular views within the community.

--[[User:AutExplorer|AutExplorer]] ([[User talk:AutExplorer|talk]]) 15:07, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

Help talk:Style guidelines

2022-08-26T15:07:41Z

AutExplorer: /* Citing community consensus */ new section

* When writing their lived experience, should the person sign their (user)name? I understand some might not want to have their experience linked to them, so maybe the guidelines could mention that you can put your username if you wish to? I also understand that that might make the articles a bit clunky/harder to navigate --[[User:Fire Eider|Fire Eider]] ([[User talk:Fire Eider|talk]]) 16:37, 23 August 2022 (UTC)

* How do we do citations? I tried to fix [[Overlapping_neurotypes]] but I don't know if that looks right. I want some more info before I fix other pages, please
:: It looks good to me --[[User:Fire Eider|Fire Eider]] ([[User talk:Fire Eider|talk]])

== Citing community consensus ==

How should we assert "distilled wisdom" such as ABA being harmful? (It seems important to do so, see e.g. this thread: https://twitter.com/WIRblog/status/1563002859246956544)

We could use phrases like "Many people within the autistic community agree that...", but we want to avoid "false controversies" (thanks @fochti for this phrase!) where it seems like there's disagreement on a topic when really there's broad agreement.

Much of what the #ActuallyAutistic community has done is share our experiences until we collectively distill certain things that seem broadly true to us.

=== Special citations for asserting community consensus ===

One possibility would be to have have certain special citations:

[community-consensus]: means there's rough community consensus within the #ActuallyAutistic community
[community-controversy]: means there's meaningful controversy within the #ActuallyAutistic community; sizeable groups on more than one side
[experimental-theory]: experimental theory, not yet tested and accepted or rejected by the #ActuallyAutistic community at large

Examples:
- ABA is harmful [community-consensus] [1] [2] [3]
- Most people within the #ActuallyAutistic community prefer identity-first language [community-consensus]
- Masking isn't worth it [community-controversy]
- Monotropism explains everything about autism [experimental-theory]

=== Special language for asserting community consensus ===

Alternatively we could write out certain key phrases:
- There's consensus within the #ActuallyAutistic community that ABA is harmful.
- There's consensus within the #ActuallyAutistic community that most autists within the #ActuallyAutistic community prefer identity-first language
- There's controversy within the community about whether masking is worth it
- There's an experimental theory that monotropism explains everything

Writing out the phrases feels a bit wordy, and also shoves the content of the sentence to the end. Could also be written the other way around:

- ABA is harmful, according to rough consensus within the community.
- Most people within the #ActuallyAutistic prefer identity-first language, according to rough consensus within the community.

But this still feels wordy. I think I like the special citation form.

=== Citation storms ===

Another possibility (which we could do in addition to using tags like [community-consensus]) would be to have "citation storms", where we maybe cite like 50 or 100 Twitter threads of lived experience of #ActuallyAutistic people.

But a citation storm can't stand in for something like [community-consensus] tags, because a citation storm on its own doesn't assert that there aren't other popular views within the community.

--[[User:AutExplorer|AutExplorer]] ([[User talk:AutExplorer|talk]]) 15:07, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

Main Page

2022-08-25T17:41:46Z

AutExplorer: /* (Incomplete) List of Known Autistic Traits */

Welcome to the '''ActuallyAutistic Wiki'''! This is a community-driven guide to all aspects of autism, allism, and helping build bridges between neurotypes. It emerged recently from the #ActuallyAutistic community on Twitter.

* '''Everyone is welcome to contribute to this wiki!'''
* You can '''edit any page''' without even having an account. Just hit the 'Edit' link on any page (including this one!). ''Important privacy note'': editing a page without having an account or without being logged in will show your IP address publicly in the changelog/history of a page.
* The number one rule of wiki editing is to be bold. '''Go ahead – make changes — even large rewrites of big topics'''. Other people can correct any mistakes you make, so have confidence, and give it a try!
** If you disagree with what someone else has put, please consider adding a [[Style guidelines#Comments|note of disagreement]] and what you think/would do after that section, especially if it could be something that varies by country or even situations or if you want to change it to/from an absolute (such as job interviews or eye gaze)
* None of the content here is sacred. Please just make changes! Some of the articles are just starter content or from a particular person's perspective. Earlier versions can always be restored if necessary. '''These are all collaborative documents'''.
* Here is a [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Starting_a_new_page short guide] on how to create a new wiki page from scratch! Please check first whether a similar page already exists to avoid duplicates.
* Here are some of our [[Style guidelines|style guidelines]] if you're unsure about formatting etc. But '''don't worry or overthink too much about "getting things right"''', these are not "hard rules" – and everything can be edited, formatted & moved later without issue anyway! :)
* If you have some ideas on how to improve this project, feel free to use the ''Talk:Topic'' discussions [[Main Page#Discussion|at the end of this page!]] You can also create your own!
* '''Please remember that links are CASE SENSITIVE'''. When linking to a missing page, whichever case you use will be created when someone follows the link and makes that new page. Linking to existing articles is case sensitive for every letter ''except'' the first one. Lowercasing or capitalizing a letter other than the first one will break the link / not link to the page you want. Please read [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Links this guide on links] if you want to use them!

== ActuallyAutistic terminology ==
* [[Augmentative and alternative communication|AAC]]
* [[Allism]]
* [[Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)]]
* [[Autism]]
* [[Overlapping neurotypes|AuDHD]]
* [[Autistic burnout]]
* [[Autistic joy]]
* [[Echolalia]]
* [[Executive dysfunction]]
* [[Grok]]
* [[Highly Sensitive Person (HSP)]]
* [[Hyperfixation]]
* [[Hyperfocus]]
* [[Identity-first language]]
* [[Inertia]]
* [[Infodumping]]
* [[Justice sensitivity]]
* [[ADHD|Kinetism (ADHD)]]
* [[Late diagnosis]]
* [[Masking]]
* [[Meltdown]]
* [[Monotropism]]
* [[Neurodivergence]]
* [[Neurodiversity]]
* [[Neurokin]]
* [[Neuropeer]]
* [[Neurotypical]]
* [[Parallel play]]
* [[PBS]]
* [[Person-first language]]
* [[Rejection sensitive dysphoria]]
* [[Ritual]]
* [[Routine]]
* [[Safe foods]]
* [[Savant]]
* [[Shutdown]]
* [[Special interest]]
* [[Spoon theory]]
* [[Stimming]]
* [[Miscellaneous terms]] - for similar/confusing terms and definitions that probably better in one place rather than multiple short articles

== (Incomplete) List of Known Autistic Traits ==
{{Comment|I propose to de-clutter this section. For example, make a page for the Core Autistic Traits, and migrating the links in that section to that page. But doing the same for each section. --[[User:Fire Eider|Fire Eider]] ([[User talk:Fire Eider|talk]]) 14:49, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

I actually like being able to see all these links in one spot. It lets you scan and get a sense of things. But because the list is pretty long, we could potentially move this entire section to an `Autistic traits` page. On the other hand — it might not actually just be bad to have a fairly long "Main" page that serves as an index into content generally --[[User:AutExplorer|AutExplorer]] ([[User talk:AutExplorer|talk]])}}

Not every autistic person necessarily has many of the traits listed below, but these traits do tend to show up more often in autistic people than in non-autistic people.

* [[Core Autistic Traits]]
** [[Autistic Empathy]]
** [[Hyper-Senses & Hypo-Senses]]
** [[Preference for Predictable Outcomes]]
** [[Special interest|Special Interests]]
** [[Stimming]]

* [[Communication & Interaction (Non-Verbal)]]
** [[Eye contact|Eye Contact Avoidance]]
** [[Flat Affect]]
** [[Flat Facing]]
** [["Old Soul"]]

* [[Communication & Interaction (Verbal)]]
** [[Accent Mimicry]]
** [[Autistic Social Bluntness]]
** [[Conditional Mutism (Selective Mutism)]]
** [[Difficulty in Chaining Lies]]
** [[Flat Tone]]
** [[Reframing]]
** [[Verbal Footnoting]]
** [[Nonverbal]]
** [[Phone Call Avoidance]]
** [[name? Inability to understand wordplay]]
** [[name? obsession with wordplay]]
** [[name? unconsciously getting word order wrong]]
** [[name? Conditional Hard of Hearing for words]]
** [[Preference for Infodumping]]

* [[Gender and Sexuality]]
** [[Autigender]]
** [[Demisexuality]]
** [[Disproportionally LGBTQ+]]
** [[Peritiosexual]]
** [[Neuroqueer]]
** [[Xenogender]]

* [[Imperatives & Neurological]]
** [[Bias Resiliance]]
** [[Dissociation]]
** [[Irrational Fears, Neurological]]
** [[Divergent Stress Triggers]]
** [[Divergent Touch Needs]]
** [[Ethical Fearlessness]]
** [[Experiential Recreation]]
** [[Gullibility]]
** [[Inability to Intuit the "point of diminishing returns."]]
** [[Intense World]]
** [[Median (Plurality)]]
** [[Nonlinear Contradiction Response]]
** [[Pattern Recognition]]
** [[Preference for Certainty]]
** [[Prosopagnosia]]
** [[Plurality]]
** [[Susceptibility to trauma]]
** [[Sympathetic Animism]]
** [[name? Willful Sensorium Override]]

* [[Familial]]
** [[Autistic Relatives]]
** [[Multigenerational Disability]]

* [[Memory]]
** [[Atypical Autobigraphical Episodic Memory]]
** [[Emotion Memory Imprinting]]
** [[name? Lack of childhood memories]]

* [[Pychological]]
** [[Imposter syndrome|Autistic Imposter Syndrome ]]
** [[Cat Empathy]]
** [[Rumination]]
** [[Animation fixation]]
** [[Preference for Autistically Coded Characters]]
** [[Gravitate to other Neurodivergents]]
** [[Social Contracts]]

* [[Physical]]
** [[Arthritis]]
** [[Baby Face]]
** [[Hypermobility]]
** [[Toe walking]]

* [[Senses]]
** [[Aural sensitivity to Electronics]]
** [[Hyper-Empathy]]
** [[Hypo-Empathy]]
** [[Temperature Sensitivity]]

* [[Traumagenic Autistic Traits]]
** [[Chronic Apologizing]]
** [[High Mortality Rate]]
** [[Irrational Fears, Logical]]
** [[Social Anxiety]]
** [[Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA)]]

* [[Additional Autistic Traits]]
** [[Comorbid Interference Traits]]
** [[Overlapping Autistic Traits]]

== Social Media ==

* [[Instagram]]
* [[TikTok]]
* [[Twitter]]
* [[YouTube]]

== Outmoded terminology ==

While many autists have moved away from these terms, some continue to use them to describe their experience. Please remember that people may have complex reasons for the words they choose, and that differences in vocabulary are okay. In short, while it's important to understand how these outdated terms play to most autists, it's also not helpful to police other people's word choices.

* [[Asperger syndrome]]
* [[Functioning labels|High- and low-functioning]]
* [[On the spectrum]]

== Sociology ==

* [[Gender]]
* [[Gossip]]
* [[Group dynamics]]
* [[Peer group]]
* [[Power]]
* [[Saving face]]
* [[Social status]]

== Psychology ==

* [[Alexithymia]]
* [[Anxiety]]
* [[Defence mechanism|Defence mechanisms]]
* [[Empathy]]
* [[Imposter syndrome]]
* [[Theory of mind]]

== Allistic communication & miscommunication ==

* [[Body language]]
* [[Common sense]]
* [[Double empathy problem]]
* [[Eye contact]]
* [[Facial expression|Facial expressions]]
* [[Getting coffee]]
* [[Literal interpretation]]
* [[Multi-channel communication]]
* [[Responding to "How are you?"]]
* [[Social cue|Social cues]]
* [[Tone of voice]]

== Dating & relationships ==

* [[Autistic love languages]]
* [[Dating apps / online dating]]
* [[Neurodivergent relationship]]
* [[Neurodivergent sexuality]]

== Autistic culture ==

* [[Articles]]
* [[Autistic artists]]
* [[Autistic celebrities]]
* [[Autistic representation in fiction]]
* [[Books by Autistic authors]]
* [[Jokes about Autism]]
* [[Podcasts by Autistic creators]]
* [[Symbols of Autism]]

== Comorbidities ==
* [[BPD]]
* [[CPTSD]]
* [[Dyscalculia]]
* [[Dyslexia]]
* [[EDS / Hypermobility]]
* [[Hyperlexia]]
* [[ADHD|Kinetism (ADHD)]]
* [[Plurality]]

== Accommodations ==

* [[Augmentative and alternative communication|AAC]]
* [[Autism passport]]
* [[Clear instructions]]
* [[Hidden disabilities sunflower]]
* [[Noise-cancelling headphones]]
* [[Support networks and organisations]]

== Culture-specific differences ==

* [[Ask and guess cultures]]
* [[High and low context cultures]]
* [[Peach and coconut cultures]]

== Diagnostic journey ==

* [[Formal diagnosis]]
* [[Overlapping neurotypes|Multiple diagnoses]]
* [[Questioning]]
* [[Research]]
* [[Screening tools]]
* [[Self-diagnosis]]

== Problems with autism research ==

* [[Autism Speaks]]
* [[Autism stereotypes]]
* [[Bias]]
* [[Deficit model]]
* [[Functioning labels]]
* [[Ethics of autism research]]
* [[History of autism]]
* [[Stigma]]

== How to help ==

{{Comment|I have no idea what the purpose of this section and the page below is supposed to be..?}}

* [[Capacity]]

== Mental health ==

* [[Applied_Behavior_Analysis|Applied behavior analysis]]
* [[Depression]]
* [[Difficulties with mental health services]]

== Information processing differences ==

* [[Aphasia]]
* [[Auditory processing disorder]]
* [[Dyslexia]]
* [[Dyspraxia]]
* [[Dyscalculia]]
* [[Dysgraphia]]
* [[Hyperlexia]]
* [[Misophonia]]
* [[Prosopagnosia]]
* [[Synesthesia]]

== Office & work dynamics ==

* [[Corporate buzzwords]]
* [[HR interviews]]
* [[Job interviews]] - ended up writing like a short essay in this one which boils down to the importance of respecting diversity of thought on this wiki. Maybe it would be better suited to copy into another page, but not sure which?
* [[Meetings]]
* [[Networking]]
* [[Team building / work socials]]
* [[Water cooler]]

== Articles and Threads ==

* [["Am I Autistic?" Guide]]
* [[Autism without trauma]]
* [[Non-derogatory DSM-5 diagnosis criteria for Autism]]
* [[Signs you might be autistic]]

== Senses ==

Many autistics have differences in their senses, such as maybe hypersensitive to sound but hyposensitive to smell. These articles should try to document examples of both types as well as potential ways to compensate.

* [[Auditory perception|Hearing]]
* [[Gastro-intestinal problems]]
* [[Interoception]]
* [[Proprioception]]
* [[Sensory overload]]
* [[Sensory sensitivity]]
* [[Olfactory perception|Smell]]
* [[Gustatory perception|Taste]]
* [[Tactile perception|Texture]]
* [[Vestibulary perception]]
* [[Visual perception|Vision]]

== Yet-to-be-sorted categories ==

You can put stuff that doesn't fit anywhere else (yet) here.

* [[Violence against Autistic people]]

== Meta ==

* [[Community guidelines]]
* [[Style guidelines]]

== Discussion ==

We can talk about the wiki itself in talk-pages[https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Talk_pages]. Feel free to create your own for topics.

* [[Feedback, questions and suggestions]]
* [[Talk:Meta]]
* [[Talk:Miscellaneous]]

== Misc ==

* [[special:AllPages|View all pages]]
* [[Special:Categories|View all categories]]

Instagram

2022-08-25T16:00:06Z

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== Accounts ==

* [https://www.instagram.com/autie.nay/ @autie.nay]
* [https://www.instagram.com/autisticbookclub/ @autisticbookclub]
* [https://www.instagram.com/autistic_callum_/ @autistic_callum_]
* [https://www.instagram.com/livedexperienceeducator/ @livedexperienceeducator]
* [https://www.instagram.com/myautisticsoul/ @myautisticsoul]
* [https://www.instagram.com/neuro_divers/ @neuro_divers]
* [https://www.instagram.com/neurodivergent_insights/ @neurodivergent_insights]
* [https://www.instagram.com/neurodivergent_lou/ @neurodivergent_lou]
* [https://www.instagram.com/neurodivergent_researcher/ @neurodivergent_researcher]
* [https://www.instagram.com/theautisticlife/ @theautisticlife]

== Hashtags ==

{{Comment| Not sharing hashtag lists with other platforms for the moment. Please add some IG hashtags here. See [[Twitter]] for example hashtag list format.}}

[[Category:Autistic culture]]

Main Page

2022-08-25T15:59:08Z

AutExplorer: /* (Incomplete) List of Known Autistic Traits */

Welcome to the '''ActuallyAutistic Wiki'''! This is a community-driven guide to all aspects of autism, allism, and helping build bridges between neurotypes. It emerged recently from the #ActuallyAutistic community on Twitter.

* '''Everyone is welcome to contribute to this wiki!'''
* You can '''edit any page''' without even having an account. Just hit the 'Edit' link on any page (including this one!). ''Important privacy note'': editing a page without having an account or without being logged in will show your IP address publicly in the changelog/history of a page.
* The number one rule of wiki editing is to be bold. '''Go ahead – make changes — even large rewrites of big topics'''. Other people can correct any mistakes you make, so have confidence, and give it a try!
** If you disagree with what someone else has put, please consider adding a [[Style guidelines#Comments|note of disagreement]] and what you think/would do after that section, especially if it could be something that varies by country or even situations or if you want to change it to/from an absolute (such as job interviews or eye gaze)
* None of the content here is sacred. Please just make changes! Some of the articles are just starter content or from a particular person's perspective. Earlier versions can always be restored if necessary. '''These are all collaborative documents'''.
* Here is a [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Starting_a_new_page short guide] on how to create a new wiki page from scratch! Please check first whether a similar page already exists to avoid duplicates.
* Here are some of our [[Style guidelines|style guidelines]] if you're unsure about formatting etc. But '''don't worry or overthink too much about "getting things right"''', these are not "hard rules" – and everything can be edited, formatted & moved later without issue anyway! :)
* If you have some ideas on how to improve this project, feel free to use the ''Talk:Topic'' discussions [[Main Page#Discussion|at the end of this page!]] You can also create your own!
* '''Please remember that links are CASE SENSITIVE'''. When linking to a missing page, whichever case you use will be created when someone follows the link and makes that new page. Linking to existing articles is case sensitive for every letter ''except'' the first one. Lowercasing or capitalizing a letter other than the first one will break the link / not link to the page you want. Please read [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Links this guide on links] if you want to use them!

== ActuallyAutistic terminology ==
* [[Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)]]
* [[Allism]]
* [[Autism]]
* [[Overlapping neurotypes|AuDHD]]
* [[Autistic burnout]]
* [[Autistic joy]]
* [[Echolalia]]
* [[Executive dysfunction]]
* [[Grok]]
* [[Highly Sensitive Person (HSP)]]
* [[Hyperfixation]]
* [[Hyperfocus]]
* [[Identity-first language]]
* [[Inertia]]
* [[Infodumping]]
* [[Justice sensitivity]]
* [[ADHD|Kinetism (ADHD)]]
* [[Late diagnosis]]
* [[Masking]]
* [[Meltdown]]
* [[Monotropism]]
* [[Neurodivergence]]
* [[Neurodiversity]]
* [[Neurokin]]
* [[Neuropeer]]
* [[Neurotypical]]
* [[Parallel play]]
* [[PBS]]
* [[Person-first language]]
* [[Rejection sensitive dysphoria]]
* [[Ritual]]
* [[Routine]]
* [[Safe foods]]
* [[Savant]]
* [[Shutdown]]
* [[Special interest]]
* [[Spoon theory]]
* [[Stimming]]
* [[Miscellaneous terms]] - for similar/confusing terms and definitions that probably better in one place rather than multiple short articles

== (Incomplete) List of Known Autistic Traits ==
{{Comment|I propose to de-clutter this section. For example, make a page for the Core Autistic Traits, and migrating the links in that section to that page. But doing the same for each section. --[[User:Fire Eider|Fire Eider]] ([[User talk:Fire Eider|talk]]) 14:49, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

I actually like being able to see all these links in one spot. It lets you scan and get a sense of things. But because the list is pretty long, we could potentially move this entire section to an `Autistic traits` page. On the other hand — it might not actually just be bad to have a fairly long "Main" page that serves as an index into content generally --[[User:AutExplorer|AutExplorer]] ([[User talk:AutExplorer|talk]])}}

* [[Core Autistic Traits]]
** [[Autistic Empathy]]
** [[Hyper-Senses & Hypo-Senses]]
** [[Preference for Predictable Outcomes]]
** [[Special interest|Special Interests]]
** [[Stimming]]

* [[Communication & Interaction (Non-Verbal)]]
** [[Eye contact|Eye Contact Avoidance]]
** [[Flat Affect]]
** [[Flat Facing]]
** [["Old Soul"]]

* [[Communication & Interaction (Verbal)]]
** [[Accent Mimicry]]
** [[Autistic Social Bluntness]]
** [[Conditional Mutism (Selective Mutism)]]
** [[Difficulty in Chaining Lies]]
** [[Flat Tone]]
** [[Reframing]]
** [[Verbal Footnoting]]
** [[Nonverbal]]
** [[Phone Call Avoidance]]
** [[name? Inability to understand wordplay]]
** [[name? obsession with wordplay]]
** [[name? unconsciously getting word order wrong]]
** [[name? Conditional Hard of Hearing for words]]
** [[Preference for Infodumping]]

* [[Gender and Sexuality]]
** [[Autigender]]
** [[Demisexuality]]
** [[Disproportionally LGBTQ+]]
** [[Peritiosexual]]
** [[Neuroqueer]]
** [[Xenogender]]

* [[Imperatives & Neurological]]
** [[Bias Resiliance]]
** [[Dissociation]]
** [[Irrational Fears, Neurological]]
** [[Divergent Stress Triggers]]
** [[Divergent Touch Needs]]
** [[Ethical Fearlessness]]
** [[Experiential Recreation]]
** [[Gullibility]]
** [[Inability to Intuit the "point of diminishing returns."]]
** [[Intense World]]
** [[Median (Plurality)]]
** [[Nonlinear Contradiction Response]]
** [[Pattern Recognition]]
** [[Preference for Certainty]]
** [[Prosopagnosia]]
** [[Plurality]]
** [[Susceptibility to trauma]]
** [[Sympathetic Animism]]
** [[name? Willful Sensorium Override]]

* [[Familial]]
** [[Autistic Relatives]]
** [[Multigenerational Disability]]

* [[Memory]]
** [[Atypical Autobigraphical Episodic Memory]]
** [[Emotion Memory Imprinting]]
** [[name? Lack of childhood memories]]

* [[Pychological]]
** [[Imposter syndrome|Autistic Imposter Syndrome ]]
** [[Cat Empathy]]
** [[Rumination]]
** [[Animation fixation]]
** [[Preference for Autistically Coded Characters]]
** [[Gravitate to other Neurodivergents]]
** [[Social Contracts]]

* [[Physical]]
** [[Arthritis]]
** [[Baby Face]]
** [[Hypermobility]]
** [[Toe walking]]

* [[Senses]]
** [[Aural sensitivity to Electronics]]
** [[Hyper-Empathy]]
** [[Hypo-Empathy]]
** [[Temperature Sensitivity]]

* [[Traumagenic Autistic Traits]]
** [[Chronic Apologizing]]
** [[High Mortality Rate]]
** [[Irrational Fears, Logical]]
** [[Social Anxiety]]
** [[Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA)]]

* [[Additional Autistic Traits]]
** [[Comorbid Interference Traits]]
** [[Overlapping Autistic Traits]]

== Social Media ==

* [[Instagram]]
* [[TikTok]]
* [[Twitter]]
* [[YouTube]]

== Outmoded terminology ==

While many autists have moved away from these terms, some continue to use them to describe their experience. Please remember that people may have complex reasons for the words they choose, and that differences in vocabulary are okay. In short, while it's important to understand how these outdated terms play to most autists, it's also not helpful to police other people's word choices.

* [[Asperger syndrome]]
* [[Functioning labels|High- and low-functioning]]
* [[On the spectrum]]

== Sociology ==

* [[Gender]]
* [[Gossip]]
* [[Group dynamics]]
* [[Peer group]]
* [[Power]]
* [[Saving face]]
* [[Social status]]

== Psychology ==

* [[Alexithymia]]
* [[Anxiety]]
* [[Defence mechanism|Defence mechanisms]]
* [[Empathy]]
* [[Imposter syndrome]]
* [[Theory of mind]]

== Allistic communication & miscommunication ==

* [[Body language]]
* [[Common sense]]
* [[Double empathy problem]]
* [[Eye contact]]
* [[Facial expression|Facial expressions]]
* [[Getting coffee]]
* [[Literal interpretation]]
* [[Multi-channel communication]]
* [[Responding to "How are you?"]]
* [[Social cue|Social cues]]
* [[Tone of voice]]

== Dating & relationships ==

* [[Autistic love languages]]
* [[Dating apps / online dating]]
* [[Neurodivergent relationship]]
* [[Neurodivergent sexuality]]

== Autistic culture ==

* [[Articles]]
* [[Autistic artists]]
* [[Autistic celebrities]]
* [[Autistic representation in fiction]]
* [[Books by Autistic authors]]
* [[Jokes about Autism]]
* [[Podcasts by Autistic creators]]
* [[Symbols of Autism]]

== Comorbidities ==
* [[BPD]]
* [[CPTSD]]
* [[Dyscalculia]]
* [[Dyslexia]]
* [[EDS / Hypermobility]]
* [[Hyperlexia]]
* [[ADHD|Kinetism (ADHD)]]
* [[Plurality]]

== Accommodations ==

* [[Augmentative and alternative communication|AAC]]
* [[Autism passport]]
* [[Clear instructions]]
* [[Hidden disabilities sunflower]]
* [[Noise-cancelling headphones]]
* [[Support networks and organisations]]

== Culture-specific differences ==

* [[Ask and guess cultures]]
* [[High and low context cultures]]
* [[Peach and coconut cultures]]

== Diagnostic journey ==

* [[Formal diagnosis]]
* [[Overlapping neurotypes|Multiple diagnoses]]
* [[Questioning]]
* [[Research]]
* [[Screening tools]]
* [[Self-diagnosis]]

== Problems with autism research ==

* [[Autism Speaks]]
* [[Autism stereotypes]]
* [[Bias]]
* [[Deficit model]]
* [[Functioning labels]]
* [[Ethics of autism research]]
* [[History of autism]]
* [[Stigma]]

== How to help ==

{{Comment|I have no idea what the purpose of this section and the page below is supposed to be..?}}

* [[Capacity]]

== Mental health ==

* [[Applied_Behavior_Analysis|Applied behavior analysis]]
* [[Depression]]
* [[Difficulties with mental health services]]

== Information processing differences ==

* [[Aphasia]]
* [[Auditory processing disorder]]
* [[Dyslexia]]
* [[Dyspraxia]]
* [[Dyscalculia]]
* [[Dysgraphia]]
* [[Hyperlexia]]
* [[Misophonia]]
* [[Prosopagnosia]]
* [[Synesthesia]]

== Office & work dynamics ==

* [[Corporate buzzwords]]
* [[HR interviews]]
* [[Job interviews]] - ended up writing like a short essay in this one which boils down to the importance of respecting diversity of thought on this wiki. Maybe it would be better suited to copy into another page, but not sure which?
* [[Meetings]]
* [[Networking]]
* [[Team building / work socials]]
* [[Water cooler]]

== Articles and Threads ==

* [["Am I Autistic?" Guide]]
* [[Autism without trauma]]
* [[Non-derogatory DSM-5 diagnosis criteria for Autism]]
* [[Signs you might be autistic]]

== Senses ==

Many autistics have differences in their senses, such as maybe hypersensitive to sound but hyposensitive to smell. These articles should try to document examples of both types as well as potential ways to compensate.

* [[Auditory perception|Hearing]]
* [[Gastro-intestinal problems]]
* [[Interoception]]
* [[Proprioception]]
* [[Sensory overload]]
* [[Sensory sensitivity]]
* [[Olfactory perception|Smell]]
* [[Gustatory perception|Taste]]
* [[Tactile perception|Texture]]
* [[Vestibulary perception]]
* [[Visual perception|Vision]]

== Yet-to-be-sorted categories ==

You can put stuff that doesn't fit anywhere else (yet) here.

* [[Violence against Autistic people]]

== Meta ==

* [[Community guidelines]]
* [[Style guidelines]]

== Discussion ==

We can talk about the wiki itself in talk-pages[https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Talk_pages]. Feel free to create your own for topics.

* [[Feedback, questions and suggestions]]
* [[Talk:Meta]]
* [[Talk:Miscellaneous]]

== Misc ==

* [[special:AllPages|View all pages]]
* [[Special:Categories|View all categories]]

Main Page

2022-08-25T15:58:58Z

AutExplorer: /* (Incomplete) List of Known Autistic Traits */

Welcome to the '''ActuallyAutistic Wiki'''! This is a community-driven guide to all aspects of autism, allism, and helping build bridges between neurotypes. It emerged recently from the #ActuallyAutistic community on Twitter.

* '''Everyone is welcome to contribute to this wiki!'''
* You can '''edit any page''' without even having an account. Just hit the 'Edit' link on any page (including this one!). ''Important privacy note'': editing a page without having an account or without being logged in will show your IP address publicly in the changelog/history of a page.
* The number one rule of wiki editing is to be bold. '''Go ahead – make changes — even large rewrites of big topics'''. Other people can correct any mistakes you make, so have confidence, and give it a try!
** If you disagree with what someone else has put, please consider adding a [[Style guidelines#Comments|note of disagreement]] and what you think/would do after that section, especially if it could be something that varies by country or even situations or if you want to change it to/from an absolute (such as job interviews or eye gaze)
* None of the content here is sacred. Please just make changes! Some of the articles are just starter content or from a particular person's perspective. Earlier versions can always be restored if necessary. '''These are all collaborative documents'''.
* Here is a [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Starting_a_new_page short guide] on how to create a new wiki page from scratch! Please check first whether a similar page already exists to avoid duplicates.
* Here are some of our [[Style guidelines|style guidelines]] if you're unsure about formatting etc. But '''don't worry or overthink too much about "getting things right"''', these are not "hard rules" – and everything can be edited, formatted & moved later without issue anyway! :)
* If you have some ideas on how to improve this project, feel free to use the ''Talk:Topic'' discussions [[Main Page#Discussion|at the end of this page!]] You can also create your own!
* '''Please remember that links are CASE SENSITIVE'''. When linking to a missing page, whichever case you use will be created when someone follows the link and makes that new page. Linking to existing articles is case sensitive for every letter ''except'' the first one. Lowercasing or capitalizing a letter other than the first one will break the link / not link to the page you want. Please read [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Links this guide on links] if you want to use them!

== ActuallyAutistic terminology ==
* [[Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)]]
* [[Allism]]
* [[Autism]]
* [[Overlapping neurotypes|AuDHD]]
* [[Autistic burnout]]
* [[Autistic joy]]
* [[Echolalia]]
* [[Executive dysfunction]]
* [[Grok]]
* [[Highly Sensitive Person (HSP)]]
* [[Hyperfixation]]
* [[Hyperfocus]]
* [[Identity-first language]]
* [[Inertia]]
* [[Infodumping]]
* [[Justice sensitivity]]
* [[ADHD|Kinetism (ADHD)]]
* [[Late diagnosis]]
* [[Masking]]
* [[Meltdown]]
* [[Monotropism]]
* [[Neurodivergence]]
* [[Neurodiversity]]
* [[Neurokin]]
* [[Neuropeer]]
* [[Neurotypical]]
* [[Parallel play]]
* [[PBS]]
* [[Person-first language]]
* [[Rejection sensitive dysphoria]]
* [[Ritual]]
* [[Routine]]
* [[Safe foods]]
* [[Savant]]
* [[Shutdown]]
* [[Special interest]]
* [[Spoon theory]]
* [[Stimming]]
* [[Miscellaneous terms]] - for similar/confusing terms and definitions that probably better in one place rather than multiple short articles

== (Incomplete) List of Known Autistic Traits ==
{{Comment|I propose to de-clutter this section. For example, make a page for the Core Autistic Traits, and migrating the links in that section to that page. But doing the same for each section. --[[User:Fire Eider|Fire Eider]] ([[User talk:Fire Eider|talk]]) 14:49, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

I actually like being able to see all these links in one spot. It lets you scan and get a sense of things. But because the list is pretty long, we could potentially move this entire section to an `Autistic traits` page. On the other hand — it might not actually just be bad to have a fairly long "Main" page that serves as an index into content generally --[[User:AutExplorer|AutExplorer]] ([[User talk:AutExplorer|talk]])

}}

* [[Core Autistic Traits]]
** [[Autistic Empathy]]
** [[Hyper-Senses & Hypo-Senses]]
** [[Preference for Predictable Outcomes]]
** [[Special interest|Special Interests]]
** [[Stimming]]

* [[Communication & Interaction (Non-Verbal)]]
** [[Eye contact|Eye Contact Avoidance]]
** [[Flat Affect]]
** [[Flat Facing]]
** [["Old Soul"]]

* [[Communication & Interaction (Verbal)]]
** [[Accent Mimicry]]
** [[Autistic Social Bluntness]]
** [[Conditional Mutism (Selective Mutism)]]
** [[Difficulty in Chaining Lies]]
** [[Flat Tone]]
** [[Reframing]]
** [[Verbal Footnoting]]
** [[Nonverbal]]
** [[Phone Call Avoidance]]
** [[name? Inability to understand wordplay]]
** [[name? obsession with wordplay]]
** [[name? unconsciously getting word order wrong]]
** [[name? Conditional Hard of Hearing for words]]
** [[Preference for Infodumping]]

* [[Gender and Sexuality]]
** [[Autigender]]
** [[Demisexuality]]
** [[Disproportionally LGBTQ+]]
** [[Peritiosexual]]
** [[Neuroqueer]]
** [[Xenogender]]

* [[Imperatives & Neurological]]
** [[Bias Resiliance]]
** [[Dissociation]]
** [[Irrational Fears, Neurological]]
** [[Divergent Stress Triggers]]
** [[Divergent Touch Needs]]
** [[Ethical Fearlessness]]
** [[Experiential Recreation]]
** [[Gullibility]]
** [[Inability to Intuit the "point of diminishing returns."]]
** [[Intense World]]
** [[Median (Plurality)]]
** [[Nonlinear Contradiction Response]]
** [[Pattern Recognition]]
** [[Preference for Certainty]]
** [[Prosopagnosia]]
** [[Plurality]]
** [[Susceptibility to trauma]]
** [[Sympathetic Animism]]
** [[name? Willful Sensorium Override]]

* [[Familial]]
** [[Autistic Relatives]]
** [[Multigenerational Disability]]

* [[Memory]]
** [[Atypical Autobigraphical Episodic Memory]]
** [[Emotion Memory Imprinting]]
** [[name? Lack of childhood memories]]

* [[Pychological]]
** [[Imposter syndrome|Autistic Imposter Syndrome ]]
** [[Cat Empathy]]
** [[Rumination]]
** [[Animation fixation]]
** [[Preference for Autistically Coded Characters]]
** [[Gravitate to other Neurodivergents]]
** [[Social Contracts]]

* [[Physical]]
** [[Arthritis]]
** [[Baby Face]]
** [[Hypermobility]]
** [[Toe walking]]

* [[Senses]]
** [[Aural sensitivity to Electronics]]
** [[Hyper-Empathy]]
** [[Hypo-Empathy]]
** [[Temperature Sensitivity]]

* [[Traumagenic Autistic Traits]]
** [[Chronic Apologizing]]
** [[High Mortality Rate]]
** [[Irrational Fears, Logical]]
** [[Social Anxiety]]
** [[Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA)]]

* [[Additional Autistic Traits]]
** [[Comorbid Interference Traits]]
** [[Overlapping Autistic Traits]]

== Social Media ==

* [[Instagram]]
* [[TikTok]]
* [[Twitter]]
* [[YouTube]]

== Outmoded terminology ==

While many autists have moved away from these terms, some continue to use them to describe their experience. Please remember that people may have complex reasons for the words they choose, and that differences in vocabulary are okay. In short, while it's important to understand how these outdated terms play to most autists, it's also not helpful to police other people's word choices.

* [[Asperger syndrome]]
* [[Functioning labels|High- and low-functioning]]
* [[On the spectrum]]

== Sociology ==

* [[Gender]]
* [[Gossip]]
* [[Group dynamics]]
* [[Peer group]]
* [[Power]]
* [[Saving face]]
* [[Social status]]

== Psychology ==

* [[Alexithymia]]
* [[Anxiety]]
* [[Defence mechanism|Defence mechanisms]]
* [[Empathy]]
* [[Imposter syndrome]]
* [[Theory of mind]]

== Allistic communication & miscommunication ==

* [[Body language]]
* [[Common sense]]
* [[Double empathy problem]]
* [[Eye contact]]
* [[Facial expression|Facial expressions]]
* [[Getting coffee]]
* [[Literal interpretation]]
* [[Multi-channel communication]]
* [[Responding to "How are you?"]]
* [[Social cue|Social cues]]
* [[Tone of voice]]

== Dating & relationships ==

* [[Autistic love languages]]
* [[Dating apps / online dating]]
* [[Neurodivergent relationship]]
* [[Neurodivergent sexuality]]

== Autistic culture ==

* [[Articles]]
* [[Autistic artists]]
* [[Autistic celebrities]]
* [[Autistic representation in fiction]]
* [[Books by Autistic authors]]
* [[Jokes about Autism]]
* [[Podcasts by Autistic creators]]
* [[Symbols of Autism]]

== Comorbidities ==
* [[BPD]]
* [[CPTSD]]
* [[Dyscalculia]]
* [[Dyslexia]]
* [[EDS / Hypermobility]]
* [[Hyperlexia]]
* [[ADHD|Kinetism (ADHD)]]
* [[Plurality]]

== Accommodations ==

* [[Augmentative and alternative communication|AAC]]
* [[Autism passport]]
* [[Clear instructions]]
* [[Hidden disabilities sunflower]]
* [[Noise-cancelling headphones]]
* [[Support networks and organisations]]

== Culture-specific differences ==

* [[Ask and guess cultures]]
* [[High and low context cultures]]
* [[Peach and coconut cultures]]

== Diagnostic journey ==

* [[Formal diagnosis]]
* [[Overlapping neurotypes|Multiple diagnoses]]
* [[Questioning]]
* [[Research]]
* [[Screening tools]]
* [[Self-diagnosis]]

== Problems with autism research ==

* [[Autism Speaks]]
* [[Autism stereotypes]]
* [[Bias]]
* [[Deficit model]]
* [[Functioning labels]]
* [[Ethics of autism research]]
* [[History of autism]]
* [[Stigma]]

== How to help ==

{{Comment|I have no idea what the purpose of this section and the page below is supposed to be..?}}

* [[Capacity]]

== Mental health ==

* [[Applied_Behavior_Analysis|Applied behavior analysis]]
* [[Depression]]
* [[Difficulties with mental health services]]

== Information processing differences ==

* [[Aphasia]]
* [[Auditory processing disorder]]
* [[Dyslexia]]
* [[Dyspraxia]]
* [[Dyscalculia]]
* [[Dysgraphia]]
* [[Hyperlexia]]
* [[Misophonia]]
* [[Prosopagnosia]]
* [[Synesthesia]]

== Office & work dynamics ==

* [[Corporate buzzwords]]
* [[HR interviews]]
* [[Job interviews]] - ended up writing like a short essay in this one which boils down to the importance of respecting diversity of thought on this wiki. Maybe it would be better suited to copy into another page, but not sure which?
* [[Meetings]]
* [[Networking]]
* [[Team building / work socials]]
* [[Water cooler]]

== Articles and Threads ==

* [["Am I Autistic?" Guide]]
* [[Autism without trauma]]
* [[Non-derogatory DSM-5 diagnosis criteria for Autism]]
* [[Signs you might be autistic]]

== Senses ==

Many autistics have differences in their senses, such as maybe hypersensitive to sound but hyposensitive to smell. These articles should try to document examples of both types as well as potential ways to compensate.

* [[Auditory perception|Hearing]]
* [[Gastro-intestinal problems]]
* [[Interoception]]
* [[Proprioception]]
* [[Sensory overload]]
* [[Sensory sensitivity]]
* [[Olfactory perception|Smell]]
* [[Gustatory perception|Taste]]
* [[Tactile perception|Texture]]
* [[Vestibulary perception]]
* [[Visual perception|Vision]]

== Yet-to-be-sorted categories ==

You can put stuff that doesn't fit anywhere else (yet) here.

* [[Violence against Autistic people]]

== Meta ==

* [[Community guidelines]]
* [[Style guidelines]]

== Discussion ==

We can talk about the wiki itself in talk-pages[https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Talk_pages]. Feel free to create your own for topics.

* [[Feedback, questions and suggestions]]
* [[Talk:Meta]]
* [[Talk:Miscellaneous]]

== Misc ==

* [[special:AllPages|View all pages]]
* [[Special:Categories|View all categories]]

Auditory perception

2022-08-25T05:34:28Z

AutExplorer: /* Workarounds */

'''Auditory perception''', more commonly known as ''hearing'', is one of the basic 5 senses. Autistics can be [[Sensory sensitivity|hypersensitive or hyposensitive]] to sounds.

== Auditory hypersensitivity ==

Some people are hypersensitive to sounds. Sounds that don't bother others can be intolerably loud. For example, some people can hear fluorescent lights humming (as well as see them flickering).

Other people can be easily fatigued by long, sustained sounds, such as hairdryers, vacuum cleaners, and extractor fans.

There are a few categories of sound sensitivity:
* [[Hyperacusis]]
* [[Misophonia]]
* [[Phonophobia]]

=== Workarounds ===

There are several ways to block out the sounds of your immediate environment:

* Noise-cancelling headphones or earphones
* Using regular headphones or earphones to listen to music or field recordings
* Earplugs are the cheapest option, although they only attenuate sounds, they don't mask them with other (more predictable) sounds of your own choosing
* White noise
* Having an office with a door that closes
* Soundproofing
* Teaching people about your sound sensitivities

== Auditory hyposensitivity ==

{{Comment|Someone who knows more about this experience can add here}}

=== Workarounds ===

{{Comment|Someone who knows ways to help hyposensitivity to sounds can add here}}

[[Category:Senses]]

Auditory perception

2022-08-25T02:19:55Z

AutExplorer: /* Auditory hypersensitivity */

'''Auditory perception''', more commonly known as ''hearing'', is one of the basic 5 senses. Autistics can be [[Sensory sensitivity|hypersensitive or hyposensitive]] to sounds.

== Auditory hypersensitivity ==

Some people are hypersensitive to sounds. Sounds that don't bother others can be intolerably loud. For example, some people can hear fluorescent lights humming (as well as see them flickering).

Other people can be easily fatigued by long, sustained sounds, such as hairdryers, vacuum cleaners, and extractor fans.

There are a few categories of sound sensitivity:
* [[Hyperacusis]]
* [[Misophonia]]
* [[Phonophobia]]

=== Workarounds ===

There are several ways to block out the sounds of your immediate environment:

* Noise-cancelling headphones or earphones
* Using regular headphones or earphones to listen to music or field recordings
* Earplugs are the cheapest option, although they only attenuate sounds, they don't mask them with other (more predictable) sounds of your own choosing

== Auditory hyposensitivity ==

{{Comment|Someone who knows more about this experience can add here}}

=== Workarounds ===

{{Comment|Someone who knows ways to help hyposensitivity to sounds can add here}}

[[Category:Senses]]

Auditory perception

2022-08-25T02:19:44Z

AutExplorer: /* Auditory hypersensitivity */

'''Auditory perception''', more commonly known as ''hearing'', is one of the basic 5 senses. Autistics can be [[Sensory sensitivity|hypersensitive or hyposensitive]] to sounds.

== Auditory hypersensitivity ==

Some people are hypersensitive to sounds. Sounds that don't bother others can be intolerably loud. For example, some people can hear fluorescent lights humming (as well as see them flickering).

Other people can be easily fatigued by long, sustained sounds, such as hairdryers, vacuum cleaners, and extractor fans.

There are a few categories of sound sensitivity:
- [[Hyperacusis]]
- [[Misophonia]]
- [[Phonophobia]]

=== Workarounds ===

There are several ways to block out the sounds of your immediate environment:

* Noise-cancelling headphones or earphones
* Using regular headphones or earphones to listen to music or field recordings
* Earplugs are the cheapest option, although they only attenuate sounds, they don't mask them with other (more predictable) sounds of your own choosing

== Auditory hyposensitivity ==

{{Comment|Someone who knows more about this experience can add here}}

=== Workarounds ===

{{Comment|Someone who knows ways to help hyposensitivity to sounds can add here}}

[[Category:Senses]]

Main Page

2022-08-25T02:17:54Z

AutExplorer: /* Incomplete List of Known Autistic Traits */

Welcome to the '''ActuallyAutistic Wiki'''! This is a community-driven guide to all aspects of autism, allism, and helping build bridges between neurotypes. It emerged recently from the #ActuallyAutistic community on Twitter.

* '''Everyone is welcome to contribute to this wiki!'''
* You can '''edit any page''' without even having an account. Just hit the 'Edit' link on any page (including this one!). ''Important privacy note'': editing a page without having an account or without being logged in will show your IP address publicly in the changelog/history of a page.
* The number one rule of wiki editing is to be bold. '''Go ahead – make changes — even large rewrites of big topics'''. Other people can correct any mistakes you make, so have confidence, and give it a try!
** If you disagree with what someone else has put, please consider adding a [[Style guidelines#Comments|note of disagreement]] and what you think/would do after that section, especially if it could be something that varies by country or even situations or if you want to change it to/from an absolute (such as job interviews or eye gaze)
* None of the content here is sacred. Please just make changes! Some of the articles are just starter content or from a particular person's perspective. Earlier versions can always be restored if necessary. '''These are all collaborative documents'''.
* Here is a [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Starting_a_new_page short guide] on how to create a new wiki page from scratch! Please check first whether a similar page already exists to avoid duplicates.
* Here are some of our [[Style guidelines|style guidelines]] if you're unsure about formatting etc. But '''don't worry or overthink too much about "getting things right"''', these are not "hard rules" – and everything can be edited, formatted & moved later without issue anyway! :)
* If you have some ideas on how to improve this project, feel free to use the ''Talk:Topic'' discussions [[Main Page#Discussion|at the end of this page!]] You can also create your own!
* '''Please remember that links are CASE SENSITIVE'''. When linking to a missing page, whichever case you use will be created when someone follows the link and makes that new page. Linking to existing articles is case sensitive for every letter ''except'' the first one. Lowercasing or capitalizing a letter other than the first one will break the link / not link to the page you want. Please read [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Links this guide on links] if you want to use them!

== ActuallyAutistic terminology ==
* [[Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)]]
* [[Allism]]
* [[Autism]]
* [[Overlapping neurotypes|AuDHD]]
* [[Autistic burnout]]
* [[Autistic joy]]
* [[Echolalia]]
* [[Executive dysfunction]]
* [[Grok]]
* [[Highly Sensitive Person (HSP)]]
* [[Hyperfixation]]
* [[Hyperfocus]]
* [[Identity-first language]]
* [[Inertia]]
* [[Infodumping]]
* [[Justice sensitivity]]
* [[Late diagnosis]]
* [[Masking]]
* [[Meltdown]]
* [[Monotropism]]
* [[Neurodivergence]]
* [[Neurodiversity]]
* [[Neuropeer]]
* [[Neurotypical]]
* [[Parallel play]]
* [[PBS]]
* [[Person-first language]]
* [[Rejection sensitive dysphoria]]
* [[Ritual]]
* [[Routine]]
* [[Safe foods]]
* [[Savant]]
* [[Shutdown]]
* [[Special interest]]
* [[Spoon theory]]
* [[Stimming]]
* [[Miscellaneous terms]] - for similar/confusing terms and definitions that probably better in one place rather than multiple short articles

== Incomplete List of Known Autistic Traits ==
* [[Accent Mimicry]]
* [[Atypical Autobigraphical Episodic Memory]]
* [[Aural sensitivity to Electronics]]
* [[Autigender]]
* [[Autistic Empathy]]
* [[Imposter syndrome|Autistic Imposter Syndrome ]]
* [[Autistic Relatives]]
* [[Autistic Social Bluntness]]
* [[Baby Face]]
* [[Bias Resiliance]]
* [[Cat Empathy]]
* [[Chronic Apologizing (Traumagenic) ]]
* [[Comorbid Interference Traits]]
* [[Conditional Mutism (Selective Mutism)]]
* [[Demisexuality]]
* [[Difficulty in Chaining Lies]]
* [[Disproportionally LGBTQ+]]
* [[Dissociation]]
* [[Divergent Stress Triggers]]
* [[Divergent Touch Needs]]
* [[Ethical Fearlessness]]
* [[Eye contact|Eye Contact Avoidance]]
* [[Emotion Memory Imprinting]]
* [[Experiential Recreation]]
* [[Flat Affect]]
* [[Flat Facing]]
* [[Flat Tone]]
* [[Gravitate to other Neurodivergents]]
* [[Gullibility]]
* [[High Mortality Rate]]
* [[Hyper-Empathy]]
* [[Hypo-Empathy]]
* [[Inability to Intuit the "point of diminishing returns."]]
* [[Intense World]]
* [[Irrational Fears, Neurological]]
* [[Irrational Fears, Logical]]
* [[Median (Plurality)]]
* [[Neuroqueer]]
* [[Nonlinear Contradiction Response]]
* [[Nonverbal]]
* [["Old Soul"]]
* [[Overlapping Autistic Traits]]
* [[Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA)]]
* [[Pattern Recognition]]
* [[Peritiosexual]]
* [[Phone Call Avoidance]]
* [[Preference for Autistically Coded Characters]]
* [[Preference for Certainty]]
* [[Preference for Infodumping]]
* [[Preference for Predictable Outcomes]]
* [[Prosopagnosia]]
* [[Plurality]]
* [[Reframing]]
* [[Social Anxiety]]
* [[Social Contracts]]
* [[Special interest|Special Interests]]
* [[Susceptibility to trauma]]
* [[Stimming]]
* [[Sympathetic Animism]]
* [[Temperature Sensitivity]]
* [[Toe Walking]]
* [[Traumagenic Autistic Traits]]
* [[Verbal Footnoting]]
* [[Xenogender]]
* [[name? Willful Sensorium Override]]
* [[name? Conditionally Hard of Hearing]]
* [[name? Inability to understand wordplay]]
* [[name? obsession with wordplay]]
* [[name? animation fixation]]
* [[name? Lack of childhood memories]]
* [[name? unconsciously getting word order wrong]]
* [[name? Overthinking]]

== Social Media ==

* [[Instagram]]
* [[TikTok]]
* [[Twitter]]
* [[YouTube]]

== Outmoded terminology ==

While many autists have moved away from these terms, some continue to use them to describe their experience. Please remember that people may have complex reasons for the words they choose, and that differences in vocabulary are okay. In short, while it's important to understand how these outdated terms play to most autists, it's also not helpful to police other people's word choices.

* [[Asperger syndrome]]
* [[Functioning labels|High- and low-functioning]]
* [[On the spectrum]]

== Sociology ==

* [[Gender]]
* [[Gossip]]
* [[Group dynamics]]
* [[Peer group]]
* [[Power]]
* [[Saving face]]
* [[Social status]]

== Psychology ==

* [[Alexithymia]]
* [[Anxiety]]
* [[Defence mechanism|Defence mechanisms]]
* [[Empathy]]
* [[Imposter syndrome]]
* [[Theory of mind]]

== Allistic communication & miscommunication ==

* [[Body language]]
* [[Common sense]]
* [[Double empathy problem]]
* [[Eye contact]]
* [[Facial expression|Facial expressions]]
* [[Getting coffee]]
* [[Literal interpretation]]
* [[Multi-channel communication]]
* [[Responding to "How are you?"]]
* [[Social cue|Social cues]]
* [[Tone of voice]]

== Dating & relationships ==

* [[Autistic love languages]]
* [[Dating apps / online dating]]
* [[Neurodivergent relationship]]
* [[Neurodivergent sexuality]]

== Autistic culture ==

* [[Articles]]
* [[Autistic celebrities]]
* [[Autistic representation in fiction]]
* [[Books by Autistic authors]]
* [[Jokes about Autism]]
* [[Podcasts by Autistic creators]]
* [[Symbols of Autism]]

== Comorbidities ==
* [[BPD]]
* [[CPTSD]]
* [[Dyscalculia]]
* [[Dyslexia]]
* [[EDS / Hypermobility]]
* [[Hyperlexia]]
* [[ADHD|Kinetism (ADHD)]]
* [[Plurality]]

== Accommodations ==

* [[Augmentative and alternative communication|AAC]]
* [[Autism passport]]
* [[Clear instructions]]
* [[Hidden disabilities sunflower]]
* [[Noise-cancelling headphones]]
* [[Support networks and organisations]]

== Culture-specific differences ==

* [[Ask and guess cultures]]
* [[High and low context cultures]]
* [[Peach and coconut cultures]]

== Diagnostic journey ==

* [[Formal diagnosis]]
* [[Overlapping neurotypes|Multiple diagnoses]]
* [[Questioning]]
* [[Research]]
* [[Screening tools]]
* [[Self-diagnosis]]

== Problems with autism research ==

* [[Autism Speaks]]
* [[Autism stereotypes]]
* [[Bias]]
* [[Deficit model]]
* [[Functioning labels]]
* [[Ethics of autism research]]
* [[History of autism]]
* [[Stigma]]

== How to help ==

{{Comment|I have no idea what the purpose of this section and the page below is supposed to be..?}}

* [[Capacity]]

== Mental health ==

* [[Applied_Behavior_Analysis|Applied behavior analysis]]
* [[Depression]]
* [[Difficulties with mental health services]]

== Information processing differences ==

* [[Aphasia]]
* [[Auditory processing disorder]]
* [[Dyslexia]]
* [[Dyspraxia]]
* [[Dyscalculia]]
* [[Dysgraphia]]
* [[Hyperlexia]]
* [[Misophonia]]
* [[Prosopagnosia]]
* [[Synesthesia]]

== Office & work dynamics ==

* [[Corporate buzzwords]]
* [[HR interviews]]
* [[Job interviews]] - ended up writing like a short essay in this one which boils down to the importance of respecting diversity of thought on this wiki. Maybe it would be better suited to copy into another page, but not sure which?
* [[Meetings]]
* [[Networking]]
* [[Team building / work socials]]
* [[Water cooler]]

== Articles and Threads ==

* [["Am I Autistic?" Guide]]
* [[Autism Without Trauma? ]]
* [[Non-Derogatory DSM-5 Diagnosis Criteria for Autism]]

== Senses ==

Many autistics have differences in their senses, such as maybe hypersensitive to sound but hyposensitive to smell. These articles should try to document examples of both types as well as potential ways to compensate.

* [[Auditory perception|Hearing]]
* [[Gastro-intestinal problems]]
* [[Interoception]]
* [[Proprioception]]
* [[Sensory overload]]
* [[Sensory sensitivity]]
* [[Olfactory perception|Smell]]
* [[Gustatory perception|Taste]]
* [[Tactile perception|Texture]]
* [[Vestibulary perception]]
* [[Visual perception|Vision]]

== Yet-to-be-sorted categories ==

You can put stuff that doesn't fit anywhere else (yet) here.

* [[Victimization]]

== Meta ==

* [[Community guidelines]]
* [[Style guidelines]]

== Discussion ==

We can talk about the wiki itself in talk-pages[https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Talk_pages]. Feel free to create your own for topics.

* [[Feedback, questions and suggestions]]
* [[Talk:Meta]]
* [[Talk:Miscellaneous]]

== Misc ==

* [[special:AllPages|View all pages]]
* [[Special:Categories|View all categories]]

Masking

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AutExplorer:

'''Masking''' is when an autistic person tries to act like an [[Allism|allistic]] person with the intention of fitting in or being allowed in an environment. When done for prolonged periods of time, this can be very harmful and lead to [[Autistic burnout|burnout]].

On average, autistic women may mask more strongly than autistic men, and this may be one of the reasons fewer autistic women are diagnosed.

== Measuring masking ==

The [https://embrace-autism.com/cat-q/ CAT-Q test] can be used to measure how much you mask.

== Types of Masking ==

(Non-exhaustive list)

* Forcing oneself to look in other [[Eye contact|people's eyes]]
* Actively monitoring [[Body language|body language]], [[Facial expression|facial expressions]], and [[Tone of voice|tone]]
* Holding back/hiding [[Meltdown|meltdowns]] and/or [[Shutdown|shutdowns]]
* Camouflaging
* Hiding [[Stimming|stims]]
* [[Scripting]]
* Mimicking/Mirroring

[[Category:Stubs]]

Masking

2022-08-24T03:31:31Z

AutExplorer:

'''Masking''' is when an autistic person tries to act like an [[Allism|allistic]] person with the intention of fitting in or being allowed in an environment. When done for prolonged periods of time, this can be very harmful and lead to [[Autistic burnout|burnout]].

Autistic women mask more strongly than autistic men on average, and this may be one of the reasons fewer autistic women are diagnosed.

== Measuring masking ==

The [https://embrace-autism.com/cat-q/ CAT-Q test] can be used to measure how much you mask.

== Types of Masking ==

(Non-exhaustive list)

* Forcing oneself to look in other [[Eye contact|people's eyes]]
* Actively monitoring [[Body language|body language]], [[Facial expression|facial expressions]], and [[Tone of voice|tone]]
* Holding back/hiding [[Meltdown|meltdowns]] and/or [[Shutdown|shutdowns]]
* Camouflaging
* Hiding [[Stimming|stims]]
* [[Scripting]]
* Mimicking/Mirroring

[[Category:Stubs]]

Masking

2022-08-24T03:31:09Z

AutExplorer:

'''Masking''' is when an autistic person tries to act like an [[Allism|allistic]] person with the intention of fitting in or being allowed in an environment. When done for prolonged periods of time, this can be very harmful and lead to [[Autistic burnout|burnout]].

The [https://embrace-autism.com/cat-q/ CAT-Q test] can be used to measure how much you mask.

Autistic women mask more strongly than autistic men on average, and this may be one of the reasons fewer autistic women are diagnosed.

== Types of Masking ==

(Non-exhaustive list)

* Forcing oneself to look in other [[Eye contact|people's eyes]]
* Actively monitoring [[Body language|body language]], [[Facial expression|facial expressions]], and [[Tone of voice|tone]]
* Holding back/hiding [[Meltdown|meltdowns]] and/or [[Shutdown|shutdowns]]
* Camouflaging
* Hiding [[Stimming|stims]]
* [[Scripting]]
* Mimicking/Mirroring

[[Category:Stubs]]

Masking

2022-08-24T03:30:53Z

AutExplorer:

'''Masking''' is when an autistic person tries to act like an [[Allism|allistic]] person with the intention of fitting in or being allowed in an environment. The [https://embrace-autism.com/cat-q/ CAT-Q test] can be used to measure how much you mask.

When done for prolonged periods of time, this can be very harmful and lead to [[Autistic burnout|burnout]].

Autistic women mask more strongly than autistic men on average, and this may be one of the reasons fewer autistic women are diagnosed.

== Types of Masking ==

(Non-exhaustive list)

* Forcing oneself to look in other [[Eye contact|people's eyes]]
* Actively monitoring [[Body language|body language]], [[Facial expression|facial expressions]], and [[Tone of voice|tone]]
* Holding back/hiding [[Meltdown|meltdowns]] and/or [[Shutdown|shutdowns]]
* Camouflaging
* Hiding [[Stimming|stims]]
* [[Scripting]]
* Mimicking/Mirroring

[[Category:Stubs]]

Autism stereotypes

2022-08-24T03:28:44Z

AutExplorer:

There are many '''stereotypes''' and stigmas surrounding autism and other forms of neurodiversity.

While stereotypes perform a function in society and may not have harmful intent, they often result in people viewing all autistics as being a certain way. Negative traits are magnified.

A typical stereotype of an autistic person is: white, male, stims with their hands/fingers, stares at the ground, socially oblivious, quite smart or perhaps quite dumb. This stereotype is particularly harmful because it stops people from recognizing that women and people of color are autistic as well, which can prevent accurate self-diagnosis and professional diagnosis.

There are many examples of stereotypes in modern media. The list below is not exhaustive, but gives an idea of the Autism landscape in popular media.

== TV ==
* Shaun, ''The Good Doctor'' (Medical Drama)
* Sam Gardner, ''Atypical'' (Comedy-Drama)
* ''Love on the Spectrum'' (Reality - While the people featured in the show are actually autistic, the commentary and framing/tone of the show, which comes from allistic narrators/therapists/family members, contributes to many stereotypes.)

== Books ==
* Christopher, ''The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time'' (While not stated in the book itself, the blurb refers to [[Asperger syndrome]])

== Movies ==
* Rain Man
* ''Music'' (Musical Drama)

== Theatre ==
* Christopher, ''The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time''

== Maths ==

* Autistic people can do mathematics to a high level

== Gaming ==

Main Page

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AutExplorer:

Talk:Main Page

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AutExplorer: /* Test */

== Test ==

I've never tried using a wiki discussion page before [[User:AutExplorer|AutExplorer]] ([[User talk:AutExplorer|talk]]) 20:13, 23 August 2022 (UTC)

: It's pretty horrible isn't it :D --[[User:Fochti|Fochti]] ([[User talk:Fochti|talk]]) 20:39, 23 August 2022 (UTC)

: Yup lol --[[User:AutExplorer|AutExplorer]] ([[User talk:AutExplorer|talk]]) 20:47, 23 August 2022 (UTC)

== Dyscalculia & page linking ==

Dyscalculia is in both the "Psychology" and the "Information processing difference" sections. Should it be in just one, or both? Expanding on that, should other pages be linked in different sections, or limited to one? --[[User:Fire Eider|Fire Eider]] ([[User talk:Fire Eider|talk]]) 16:57, 23 August 2022 (UTC)

: I'd say it doesn't belong in psychology anyway because it's very much a 100% neurological thing that either is a feature of your brain or isn't. The second question is great, and I have no idea :D How do other wikis like Wikipedia handle this? --[[User:Fochti|Fochti]] ([[User talk:Fochti|talk]]) 17:24, 23 August 2022 (UTC)

== Is it okay to add a new section to the Main Page? (yes) ==

Hi, I was wondering about another major section relating to stages of diagnosis. e.g. as below. [[User:Russell Cannon|Russell Cannon]] ([[User talk:Russell Cannon|talk]]) 01:25 23 August 2022 (BST)

: Oh, I think this would be a great idea! Feel free to add it to the main page! And by the way, you can just...do it, without asking; we're still very much in the "chaotic experimentation phase" :) [[User:Fochti|Fochti]] ([[User talk:Fochti|talk]]) 00:40, 23 August 2022 (UTC)

:: Thanks! LOL! I spent 3 hours studying the help on formatting syntax, came back and the work was already done! :) I'll get up to speed and do something useful soon hopefully! [[User:Russell Cannon|Russell Cannon]] ([[User talk:Russell Cannon|talk]]) 02:21, 23 August 2022 (UTC)

::: No worries, and hey – your idea of adding this section already was a very useful contribution to the page! :) [[User:Fochti|Fochti]] ([[User talk:Fochti|talk]]) 02:23, 23 August 2022 (UTC)

:::: Thanks! <thumbs-up emoji> [[User:Russell Cannon|Russell Cannon]] ([[User talk:Russell Cannon|talk]]) 02:52, 23 August 2022 (UTC)

== Welcome to ActuallyAutistic Wiki! ==

Hello! Is this thing on...? [[User:Fochti|Fochti]] ([[User talk:Fochti|talk]]) 23:24, 22 August 2022 (UTC)

Talk:Main Page

2022-08-23T20:47:10Z

AutExplorer: /* Test */

== Test ==

I've never tried using a wiki discussion page before [[User:AutExplorer|AutExplorer]] ([[User talk:AutExplorer|talk]]) 20:13, 23 August 2022 (UTC)

: It's pretty horrible isn't it :D --[[User:Fochti|Fochti]] ([[User talk:Fochti|talk]]) 20:39, 23 August 2022 (UTC)

: Yup lol [[User:AutExplorer|AutExplorer]] ([[User talk:AutExplorer|talk]]) 20:47, 23 August 2022 (UTC)

== Dyscalculia & page linking ==

Dyscalculia is in both the "Psychology" and the "Information processing difference" sections. Should it be in just one, or both? Expanding on that, should other pages be linked in different sections, or limited to one? --[[User:Fire Eider|Fire Eider]] ([[User talk:Fire Eider|talk]]) 16:57, 23 August 2022 (UTC)

: I'd say it doesn't belong in psychology anyway because it's very much a 100% neurological thing that either is a feature of your brain or isn't. The second question is great, and I have no idea :D How do other wikis like Wikipedia handle this? --[[User:Fochti|Fochti]] ([[User talk:Fochti|talk]]) 17:24, 23 August 2022 (UTC)

== Is it okay to add a new section to the Main Page? (yes) ==

Hi, I was wondering about another major section relating to stages of diagnosis. e.g. as below. [[User:Russell Cannon|Russell Cannon]] ([[User talk:Russell Cannon|talk]]) 01:25 23 August 2022 (BST)

: Oh, I think this would be a great idea! Feel free to add it to the main page! And by the way, you can just...do it, without asking; we're still very much in the "chaotic experimentation phase" :) [[User:Fochti|Fochti]] ([[User talk:Fochti|talk]]) 00:40, 23 August 2022 (UTC)

:: Thanks! LOL! I spent 3 hours studying the help on formatting syntax, came back and the work was already done! :) I'll get up to speed and do something useful soon hopefully! [[User:Russell Cannon|Russell Cannon]] ([[User talk:Russell Cannon|talk]]) 02:21, 23 August 2022 (UTC)

::: No worries, and hey – your idea of adding this section already was a very useful contribution to the page! :) [[User:Fochti|Fochti]] ([[User talk:Fochti|talk]]) 02:23, 23 August 2022 (UTC)

:::: Thanks! <thumbs-up emoji> [[User:Russell Cannon|Russell Cannon]] ([[User talk:Russell Cannon|talk]]) 02:52, 23 August 2022 (UTC)

== Welcome to ActuallyAutistic Wiki! ==

Hello! Is this thing on...? [[User:Fochti|Fochti]] ([[User talk:Fochti|talk]]) 23:24, 22 August 2022 (UTC)

Main Page

2022-08-23T20:20:23Z

AutExplorer: /* Culture specific differences */

Main Page

2022-08-23T20:20:09Z

AutExplorer: /* Outmoded terminology */

User:Fochti

2022-08-23T20:19:39Z

AutExplorer:

blep

(Hmm, can you edit other people's user pages? Seems like yes, buahahah)

User:AutExplorer

2022-08-23T20:14:56Z

AutExplorer: Created page with "Hello, I'm https://twitter.com/AutExplorer on Twitter Feel free to contact me about problems or issues related to this wiki site"

Hello, I'm https://twitter.com/AutExplorer on Twitter

Feel free to contact me about problems or issues related to this wiki site

Talk:Main Page

2022-08-23T20:13:45Z

AutExplorer: /* Test */

== Welcome to ActuallyAutistic Wiki! ==

Hello! Is this thing on...? [[User:Fochti|Fochti]] ([[User talk:Fochti|talk]]) 23:24, 22 August 2022 (UTC)

== Is it okay to add a new section to the Main Page? (yes) ==

Hi, I was wondering about another major section relating to stages of diagnosis. e.g. as below. [[User:Russell Cannon|Russell Cannon]] ([[User talk:Russell Cannon|talk]]) 01:25 23 August 2022 (BST)

: Oh, I think this would be a great idea! Feel free to add it to the main page! And by the way, you can just...do it, without asking; we're still very much in the "chaotic experimentation phase" :) [[User:Fochti|Fochti]] ([[User talk:Fochti|talk]]) 00:40, 23 August 2022 (UTC)

:: Thanks! LOL! I spent 3 hours studying the help on formatting syntax, came back and the work was already done! :) I'll get up to speed and do something useful soon hopefully! [[User:Russell Cannon|Russell Cannon]] ([[User talk:Russell Cannon|talk]]) 02:21, 23 August 2022 (UTC)

::: No worries, and hey – your idea of adding this section already was a very useful contribution to the page! :) [[User:Fochti|Fochti]] ([[User talk:Fochti|talk]]) 02:23, 23 August 2022 (UTC)

:::: Thanks! <thumbs-up emoji> [[User:Russell Cannon|Russell Cannon]] ([[User talk:Russell Cannon|talk]]) 02:52, 23 August 2022 (UTC)

== Dyscalculia & page linking ==

Dyscalculia is in both the "Psychology" and the "Information processing difference" sections. Should it be in just one, or both? Expanding on that, should other pages be linked in different sections, or limited to one? --[[User:Fire Eider|Fire Eider]] ([[User talk:Fire Eider|talk]]) 16:57, 23 August 2022 (UTC)

: I'd say it doesn't belong in psychology anyway because it's very much a 100% neurological thing that either is a feature of your brain or isn't. The second question is great, and I have no idea :D How do other wikis like Wikipedia handle this? --[[User:Fochti|Fochti]] ([[User talk:Fochti|talk]]) 17:24, 23 August 2022 (UTC)

== Test ==

I've never tried using a wiki discussion page before [[User:AutExplorer|AutExplorer]] ([[User talk:AutExplorer|talk]]) 20:13, 23 August 2022 (UTC)

Talk:Main Page

2022-08-23T20:13:30Z

AutExplorer: /* Test */ new section