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* People who do not participate in [http://www.geocaching.com Geocaching] are called Muggles by Geocachers. When a geocache disappears, it has been "muggled."
* 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.
* In Russia, most youth subcultures such as punks, metalheads, goths, otaku, [[LAR Pers]] etc, use the word "tsivily" ("civilians") for people outside the subcultures.
* Non-Military, also known as "Civilians."
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