Welcome to the ND Thesaurus wiki

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Overview

The ND Thesaurus (Neurodivergent Thesaurus) is a collaborative, community-driven platform designed to help neurodivergent individuals explore, define, and understand their internal experiences. This wiki provides a space for people to describe perspectives, sensations, and experiences in their own words, linking these descriptions to similar experiences shared by others. By doing so, the ND Thesaurus aims to help users be able to find common language for various neurodivergent experiences, understand their potential causes, and assess its typical discomfort or intensity level. This resource is especially valuable for autistic individuals and others who may struggle to interpret or articulate their internal states, such as recognizing what the term “pain” is supposed to mean relative to our internal experiences due to sensory differences between autistic and allistic individuals.

Mission

Our mission is to create a comprehensive resource that validates and clarifies the internal experiences of neurodivergent individuals. By documenting how experiences manifest in different situations, we aim to:

• Help users identify and understand their experiences and sensations and communicate them to others.
• Provide context for how common or unusual a feeling might be.
• Offer insights into the potential causes and impacts of these feelings.
• Foster a sense of community and shared understanding among neurodivergent people.

How It Works

1. Contribute a Definition: Share a description of an experience, sensation, or emotion you experience. This could include physical sensations, emotional states, or cognitive experiences.
2. Describe the Context: Explain when and where this feeling occurs. For example, does it happen during sensory overload, social interactions, or specific medical situations?
3. Rate the Discomfort or Intensity: Create a poll, for users to contribute the discomfort or intensity level they usually experience to help others understand the quality of the feeling.
4. Link to Similar Feelings: Connect your entry to other definitions in the thesaurus that occur in similar situations or share characteristics.