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Allistic vs Ballistic - What's the difference?

allistic | ballistic |

As adjectives the difference between allistic and ballistic

is that allistic is (label) nonautistic while ballistic is (not comparable) or relating to ballistics.

allistic

English

Adjective

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  • (label) Nonautistic.
  • * 2013 , Corbett Joan O'Toole, " Disclosing Our Relationships to Disabilities: An Invitation for Disability Studies", Disability Studies Quarterly , Volume 33, Number 2 (endnote):
    • As with the rest of the article, I am following the conventions of the disabled people I am discussing. Autistics prefer to be called "autistic" and perceive the term "people with autism" as an allistic (non-autistic) phrase.
  • * 2013 , Ianthe M. Belisle Dempsey, " Autism Acceptance Month (And Why Autism $peaks Should Stop Talking)", Indy (Bloomington–Normal, Illinois), Volume 12, Number 10, April 2013, page 1:
    • The ASMC, like A$, aims mostly at helping to ease the “burden” autistic children and family members place on their allistic relatives and caretakers.
  • * 2014 , Stormy O'Brink, " People with disabilities are not broken", The Northern Iowan (University of Northern Iowa), 28 April 2014:
    • For those who don’t know, Autism Speaks has an executive board and leadership made entirely of allistic people, or people who are not autistic.
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    • ballistic

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (not comparable) Or relating to ballistics.
  • (comparable) Or relating to projectiles moving under their own momentum, air drag, gravity and sometimes rocket power
  • (comparable, slang) Very angry.
    • When he heard him lie about it, he went ballistic .

    Synonyms

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    Derived terms

    * ballisticity * ballistic missile * ballistics * ballistic syllable * ballistic vest * go ballistic