Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- Masking(also: Camouflaging, Social camouflage, Neurotypical passing)
- The conscious or unconscious process by which neurodivergent individuals — particularly autistic people — suppress their natural behaviours, communication styles, and reactions to conform to neurotypical social expectations. Masking includes monitoring and adjusting facial…
- Meltdown(also: Sensory meltdown)
- An intense, involuntary response to overwhelming sensory, emotional, or cognitive overload, commonly experienced by autistic and other neurodivergent individuals. Unlike a tantrum, a meltdown is not a deliberate behaviour but a loss of behavioural control triggered when coping…
- Monotropism
- A cognitive theory of autism, developed by Dinah Murray, Mike Lesser, and Wenn Lawson, that describes autistic attention as tending to be pulled strongly into a narrow focus (one "attention tunnel") rather than distributed broadly across many concurrent inputs. Monotropism…
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