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The best way to find out about monotropism, is to take a lovely exploration through this website, put together by Fergus Murray - @ferrous, with support from Wenn Lawson & Panda Mery @panda

https://monotropism.org/about/

"Monotropism is a theory of autism developed by autistic people, initially by Dinah Murray and Wenn Lawson." @ferrous

"In a nutshell, monotropism is the tendency for our interests to pull us in more strongly than most people."

"It rests on a model of the mind as an ‘interest system’: we are all interested in many things, and our interests help direct our attention."

"Different interests are salient at different times. In a monotropic mind, fewer interests tend to be aroused at any time, and they attract more of our processing resources, making it harder to deal with things outside of our current attention tunnel." @ferrous
( https://www.bps.org.uk/psychologist/me-and-monotropism-unified-theory-autism )

There is SO much brilliant information, research articles, videos, how the theory translates into practice on that website ... in many different formats, and it's being continually added to.

Here's a link to the 'explanation' page, including (amongst many other great links) a nice, short video written & narrated by Kieran Rose (The Autistic Advocate on Tw*tter) and animated by Josh Knowles:
https://monotropism.org/explanations/

I'm sure that will go some way to answering your question :)

(Thank you Fergus for curating it all. I visit the site frequently, and tell many others about it - always receiving great feedback).
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#Monotropism #Monotropic #AutismTheory #Autism #Autistic @occtherapy

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The best way to find out about monotropism, is to take a lovely exploration through this website, put together by Fergus Murray - @ferrous, with support from Wenn Lawson & Panda Mery @panda

https://monotropism.org/about/

"Monotropism is a theory of autism developed by autistic people, initially by Dinah Murray and Wenn Lawson." @ferrous

"In a nutshell, monotropism is the tendency for our interests to pull us in more strongly than most people."

"It rests on a model of the mind as an ‘interest system’: we are all interested in many things, and our interests help direct our attention."

"Different interests are salient at different times. In a monotropic mind, fewer interests tend to be aroused at any time, and they attract more of our processing resources, making it harder to deal with things outside of our current attention tunnel." @ferrous
( https://www.bps.org.uk/psychologist/me-and-monotropism-unified-theory-autism )

There is SO much brilliant information, research articles, videos, how the theory translates into practice on that website ... in many different formats, and it's being continually added to.

Here's a link to the 'explanation' page, including (amongst many other great links) a nice, short video written & narrated by Kieran Rose (The Autistic Advocate on Tw*tter) and animated by Josh Knowles:
https://monotropism.org/explanations/

I'm sure that will go some way to answering your question :)

(Thank you Fergus for curating it all. I visit the site frequently, and tell many others about it - always receiving great feedback).
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#Monotropism #Monotropic #AutismTheory #Autism #Autistic @fediot