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* Otherkin, Otakukin, and other similar groups tend to refer to the people who take issue with their claims as "mundanes".
* ''[[Doctor Who]]'' fans refer to non-fans as 'the Not We', a reference to the 1982 serial ''Kinda''.
* Even hackers use the term "Muggle". It has an [http://catb.org/jargon/html/M/muggle.html entry] in The [[Jargon File]].
* Non-[[Society for Creative Anachronism|SCA]] folks are called "mundanes" by members. Mundanes are also the clothes you wear in everyday life. (Same goes for Amtgard and (some) Renaissance Faires)
* People who do not participate in [
* Members of the Neopagan/Magickal community will sometimes use this term to describe non-members, replacing the earlier term "Cowan", which has the same meaning. "Mundane" is also used in this context, largely due to the high degree of crossover between the Neopagan community and the SCA.
* In the Autistic community, the terms "[[wikipedia:Neurotypical|neurotypical]]" and/or allism are used to refer to the dominant brain type, due to the negative implications of calling nonautists "normal", as that would imply there being something wrong with autism in general. Said terms are sometimes used in a [http://www.fysh.org/~zefram/allism/allism_intro.txt joking] [https://web.archive.org/web/20160309001527/http://isnt.autistics.org/ fashion] in order to demonstrate the silliness of much of the pathologization of autism.
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