Tism – a colloquial or shorthand term sometimes used within autistic communities to refer to Autism, often playfully or self-referentially (e.g., “I’ve got the tism” or “on the tism spectrum”). It is not a clinical or diagnostic term, and its use is informal, subcultural, and context specific.
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Davis, B., & Francis, K. (2025). “Tism” in Discourses on Learning in Education. https://learningdiscourses.com.
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