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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.
- 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 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 short guide on how to create a new wiki page from scratch!
- Here are some of our 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! :)
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ActuallyAutistic terminology
- Allism
- Autism
- Autistic burnout
- Autistic inertia
- Autistic joy
- Echolalia
- Executive dysfunction
- Hyperfixation
- Hyperfocus
- Inertia
- Interoception
- Infodumping
- Justice sensitivity
- Late diagnosis
- Masking
- Meltdown
- Monotropism
- Neurodivergence
- Neurodiversity
- Neuropeer
- Neurotypical
- Parallel play
- Rejection sensitive dysphoria
- Ritual
- Routine
- Safe foods
- Savant
- Sensory overload
- Shutdown
- Special interest
- Spoon theory
- Stimming
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.
Sociology
Psychology
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 culture
- Autistic celebrities
- Autistic representation in fiction
- Books by Autistic authors
- Community hashtags
- Podcasts by Autistic creators
Accommodations
- AAC
- Autism passport
- Clear instructions
- Hidden disabilities sunflower
- Noise-cancelling headphones
- Support networks and organisations
Culture-specific differences
Diagnostic journey
Problems with autism research
- Autism Speaks
- Autism stereotypes
- Bias
- Deficit model
- Functioning labels
- Ethics of autism research
- 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?)
Mental health
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
I have no idea where to put this page so I'll just put it here and hope somebody else will move it later to a more appropriate place
You can put stuff that doesn't fit anywhere else (yet) here.
- Miscellaneous terms - for similar/confusing terms and definitions that probably better in one place rather than multiple short articles
Meta
Discussion
We can talk about the wiki itself in talk-pages[1]. Feel free to create your own for topics.
