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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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== 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]]
* [[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 ==
* [[CPTSD]]
* [[Dyscalculia]]
* [[Dyslexia]]
* [[EDS / Hypermobility]]
* [[Hyperlexia]]
* [[ADHD|Kinetism (ADHD)]]
* [[Plurality]]
* [[BPD]]

== 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 ==

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* [[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]]

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