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Welcome to Autipedia! This site is dedicated to the documentation of folk Autism knowledge from Autistics themselves. There are currently 2 admins: #01 and #02. Please refer to any admin by their #number and they/them pronouns. Articles written collectively will use we/us/our/ours/ourselves pronouns; Articles written by a singular admin will use I/me/my/mine/myself pronouns. Each page will credit an author and an editor; An admin may do either. All admin are Autistic themselves.
What is Autism?
Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder that was coined in 1911 by Paul Eugen as a form of childhood schizophrenia, then famously further described seperately by Leo Kanner and Hans Asperger in 1943 and 1944 respectively. Today, Autism is a single diagnosis (Aspergers was dropped from the DSM in 2013) under the name Autism Spectrum Disorder, aka ASD. Autism has historically been described and defined by allistics (the word for non-autistics), and the landscape of Autism knowledge today is full of misinformation and harmful myths. What exactly autism is neurologically is unknown, but it is known for certain to be at least partially hereditary. Generally, we believe there are four symptom groups (which I've dubbed Neo-criteria) (and that all start with S so are called The Four S's): Special Interests, Social Divergence, Sensory Processing Differences, Stereotyped and Repetitive Behavior. But overall, our theory is that Autism is about sensory processing on the whole, mostly having to do with the brain being more-than-averagely connected. Unfortunately we not neuroscientists, and most neuroscientists who are interested in Autism are more interested in "curing it" than understanding it (and if they did, we fear that information would be used against us, probably for the sake of eugenics).
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