for people with autism AKA bronies 2E Twice Exceptional, refers to someone who has both a learning disorder (on this forum it will usually be an ASD) and is intellectually/academically gifted. This is not the same thing as Savantism. AD Autistic Disorder, this is the proper name for the classic autism that was described by Kanner. Affective Empathy The ability to give the proper emotional response to others emotions, this is sometimes referred to as Sympathy or just Empathy AS Aspergers Syndrome, the milder form of Autism described by Hans Asperger. ASD Autism Spectrum Disorder, a general term for all forms of autism, in some countries this term may be used for PDD-NOS. In the DSM-V it is proposed that all ASDs are to be merged into one disorder, with different degrees of severity. Aspie This is someone who has Aspergers syndrome, and it is sometimes used to describe other people with mild autism who arent diagnosed with AS. The term Aspergian is also sometimes used. Autie This is someone with Autistic Disorder, and the term is based on the term Aspie. ASPD Anti-social Personality Disorder, one of the four Class B (Dramatic) personality disorders, and it is the current medical term for Psychopathy and Sociopathy. Here anti-social means deliberately doing things that are detrimental to other people, and it has nothing to do with the asocial tendencies of autism. BAP Broad Autism Phenotype, this is a label is for people who display autistic traits, but it isnt severe enough to warrant a diagnosis. BPD Borderline Personality Disorder, one of the four Class B personality disorders. For some reason this keeps coming up here, and it seems fundamentally different than the other Class B PDs. This is not to be confused with Bipolar Disorder, which I guess is BD, but it isnt brought up nearly as much. Cognitive Empathy The ability to deduce another persons motivations and thoughts, and sometimes it also refers to emotions. HFA High Functioning Autism, an informal term for people with Autistic Disorder who are considered High Functioning. One of the reasons for the merge of ASDs in the DSM-V is that while HFA is the same diagnosis as LFA (in most countries), most people with HFA have more common with those with AS than those with LFA. HPD Histrionic Personality Disorder, one of the four Class B personality disorders. This one is sometimes considered the polar opposite of AS, though all of the Class B disorders tend to be pretty far from Autism, except for maybe BPD. LFA Low functioning autism, an informal term for more severe cases of Autistic Disorder. Negative Symptom Something present in most people that is absent in people with the syndrome. This does not always suggest that such a symptom is a bad thing, though it usually does as not normal is usually thought of as bad for some reason. NPD Narcissistic Personality Disorder, one of the four Class B personality disorders. Along with Psychopathy and Machiavellian personality this makes up the Dark Triad, three related personality traits that disregard other people. NT Neurotypical, this refers to someone who is not on the Autistic Spectrum, people here often forget that just as all Aspies are different all NTs are different too, and they often forget that due to the way that the Autism spectrum is defined there is no sharp line between autistic and non-autistic. The term is also sometimes used to refer to people who are also not schizophrenic and do not have ADHD, but its roots are in reference to autism. NVLD Nonverbal Learning Disorder, this is an often overlooked disorder where there is difficulty with nonverbal learning, which may cause social problems. Though some people with AS have this, it is by no means the same thing as AS, and its should not be assumed that aspies tend to have deficiencies in nonverbal learning. PDD Pervasive Developmental Disorder, a group of disorders which autism is a part of. The term is sometimes used to refer to PDD-NOS. PDD-NOS Pervasive Developmental Disorder, Not Otherwise Specified, this is any disorder on the autism spectrum that does not fit any of the other ASDs to be diagnosed as one of those. Positive Symptom Symptom that is something that most people do not have, it does not imply that the symptom is a good thing Special Interest An obsession that an autistic person has. An autistic person can have multiple of these at once, and some of them change very frequently, generally the more narrow ones, and some last for a very long time, generally the somewhat broad ones. Special interests can be as broad as video games or zoology or as restricted as Lady Gagas left big toe, and can be anywhere in between. The development of special interests can be seen as a pattern of autistic learning that is simply different from the normal way of gathering information, instead of skimming the surface of a broad area and slowly getting deeper an autistic person could tackle a subject by first developing a deep knowledge of narrow area and slowly expanding to the rest of the topic. I imagine it like as non-autists learn horizontally, then vertically, while autists learn vertically, then horizontally. Spectrumite A general term for someone on the autism spectrum. The term Autist is also sometimes used. Stimming Engaging in repetitive behaviors. Stims, properly referred to as stereotypies, are a type of tic, but they tend to be more controllable then true tics. They are believed to be used to relieve anxiety or to help focus. ToM Theory of the Mind, another name for cognitive empathy.
Posted on: Sat, 23 Aug 2014 16:39:01 +0000
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