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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

• Allism
• Autism
• Autistic burnout
• Echolalia
• Executive dysfunction
• Hyperfixation
• Hyperfocus
• Infodumping
• Justice sensitivity
• Masking
• Meltdown
• Monotropism
• Neurodivergence
• Neurodiversity
• Neurotypical
• Parallel play
• Rejection sensitive dysphoria
• Ritual
• Routine
• Safe foods
• Savant
• Sensory overload
• Shutdown
• Special interest
• Spoon theory
• Stimming

Outmoded terminology

• Asperger syndrome
• High- and low-functioning
• The autism spectrum

Sociology

• Gossip
• Group dynamics
• Peer group
• Power
• Saving face
• Social status

Psychology

• Alexithymia
• Anxiety
• Empathy
• Imposter syndrome
• Theory of mind

Allistic communication & miscommunication

• Body language
• Common sense
• Common Sense (Different content, should be merged.)
• Defence mechanisms (Put a lot of other stuff in here about disagreeing with people in general. Not sure if some of it should go elsewhere.)
• Double empathy problem
• Eye contact
• Facial expressions
• Getting coffee
• Literal interpretation
• Multi-channel communication
• Responding to "How are you?"
• Social cues
• Tone of voice

Dating & relationships

• Autistic love languages
• Dating apps / online dating
• Neurodivergent relationships

Autistic culture

• Autistic celebrities
• Autistic representation in fiction
• Books by Autistic authors
• Podcasts by Autistic creators

Accommodations

• AAC
• Hidden disabilities sunflower
• Noise-cancelling headphones

Culture-specific differences

• Ask and guess cultures
• High and low context cultures
• Peach and coconut cultures

Diagnostic journey

• Formal diagnosis
• Multiple diagnoses
• Questioning
• Research
• Screening tools
• Self-diagnosis

Problems with autism research

• Autism Speaks
• Autism stereotypes
• Deficit model
• Functioning labels
• Ethics of autism research
• Gender bias
• History of autism
• Stigma

How to help

(I have no idea what the purpose of this section and the page below is supposed to be?)

• Capacity

Mental health

• Applied behavior analysis
• Depression
• Difficulties with mental health services

Information processing differences

• Aphasia
• Auditory processing disorder
• Dyslexia
• Dyspraxia
• Dyscalculia
• Dysgraphia
• Hyperlexia
• Prosopagnosia
• Synesthesia

Office & work dynamics

• Corporate buzzwords
• HR interviews
• Job interviews
• Meetings
• Networking
• Team building / work socials
• Water cooler

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.

• Hearing
• Interoception
• Proprioception
• Sensory sensitivity
• Smell
• Taste
• Texture
• Vestibulary perception
• Vision

Meta

• Community guidelines
• Style guidelines

Discussion

We can talk about the wiki itself in talk-pages[1]. Feel free to create your own for topics.

• Talk:Feature wishlist
• Talk:Meta
• Talk:Miscellaneous

Misc

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