#monotropic — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #monotropic, aggregated by home.social.
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@Reemt I’ve learned to accept my monotropic and ADHD brain and just know that, yes, the packing will all happen at once and only when I’ve quieted the other things that demand attention in my head. Kind of like skipping tracks until that song the properly matched one’s mood turns up.
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Yet another “the #autism diagnosis should have been free” moment:
Well before puberty, how much I LOVED the beginning of Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and how I would read the first few pages over and over and over
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CW: PSA - some maybe useful terms for autistic, ADHD, and AuDHD folks
We've been reading more into AuDHD burnout recently, but not enough to write a full post on that. However, in doing so, we've learnt some useful terms that we wanted to share.
Monotropism (monotropic)
- You focus more intensely on one task (or a small number of tasks).
- Allows for deep, intense thinking and entering flow states.
- Busy, unadjusted environments with lots of distractions and being interrupted mid-flow cause stress, anger, and exhaustion.
- Common (but not universal) neurodivergent experience.
Polytropism (polytropic)
- You can switch your focus between multiple tasks at once.
- Ability to switch between multiple tasks with a shallow focus.
- More comfortable in busy, changeable environments.
- Common (but not universal) non-neurodivergent experience.
Alexithymia (alexithymic)
- Sometimes called emotional blindness.
- Difficulty in recognising, expressing, feeling, sourcing, and describing your own emotions.
#neurodivergent #neurodivergence #neurospicy #neurospiciness #ActuallyAutistic #ADHD #AuDHD #monotropism #monotropic #polytropism #polytropic #alexithymia #alexithymic #EmotionalBlindness
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CW: PSA - some maybe useful terms for autistic, ADHD, and AuDHD folks
We've been reading more into AuDHD burnout recently, but not enough to write a full post on that. However, in doing so, we've learnt some useful terms that we wanted to share.
Monotropism (monotropic)
- You focus more intensely on one task (or a small number of tasks).
- Allows for deep, intense thinking and entering flow states.
- Busy, unadjusted environments with lots of distractions and being interrupted mid-flow cause stress, anger, and exhaustion.
- Common (but not universal) neurodivergent experience.
Polytropism (polytropic)
- You can switch your focus between multiple tasks at once.
- Ability to switch between multiple tasks with a shallow focus.
- More comfortable in busy, changeable environments.
- Common (but not universal) non-neurodivergent experience.
Alexithymia (alexithymic)
- Sometimes called emotional blindness.
- Difficulty in recognising, expressing, feeling, sourcing, and describing your own emotions.
#neurodivergent #neurodivergence #neurospicy #neurospiciness #ActuallyAutistic #ADHD #AuDHD #monotropism #monotropic #polytropism #polytropic #alexithymia #alexithymic #EmotionalBlindness
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CW: PSA - some maybe useful terms for autistic, ADHD, and AuDHD folks
We've been reading more into AuDHD burnout recently, but not enough to write a full post on that. However, in doing so, we've learnt some useful terms that we wanted to share.
Monotropism (monotropic)
- You focus more intensely on one task (or a small number of tasks).
- Allows for deep, intense thinking and entering flow states.
- Busy, unadjusted environments with lots of distractions and being interrupted mid-flow cause stress, anger, and exhaustion.
- Common (but not universal) neurodivergent experience.
Polytropism (polytropic)
- You can switch your focus between multiple tasks at once.
- Ability to switch between multiple tasks with a shallow focus.
- More comfortable in busy, changeable environments.
- Common (but not universal) non-neurodivergent experience.
Alexithymia (alexithymic)
- Sometimes called emotional blindness.
- Difficulty in recognising, expressing, feeling, sourcing, and describing your own emotions.
#neurodivergent #neurodivergence #neurospicy #neurospiciness #ActuallyAutistic #ADHD #AuDHD #monotropism #monotropic #polytropism #polytropic #alexithymia #alexithymic #EmotionalBlindness
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CW: PSA - some maybe useful terms for autistic, ADHD, and AuDHD folks
We've been reading more into AuDHD burnout recently, but not enough to write a full post on that. However, in doing so, we've learnt some useful terms that we wanted to share.
Monotropism (monotropic)
- You focus more intensely on one task (or a small number of tasks).
- Allows for deep, intense thinking and entering flow states.
- Busy, unadjusted environments with lots of distractions and being interrupted mid-flow cause stress, anger, and exhaustion.
- Common (but not universal) neurodivergent experience.
Polytropism (polytropic)
- You can switch your focus between multiple tasks at once.
- Ability to switch between multiple tasks with a shallow focus.
- More comfortable in busy, changeable environments.
- Common (but not universal) non-neurodivergent experience.
Alexithymia (alexithymic)
- Sometimes called emotional blindness.
- Difficulty in recognising, expressing, feeling, sourcing, and describing your own emotions.
#neurodivergent #neurodivergence #neurospicy #neurospiciness #ActuallyAutistic #ADHD #AuDHD #monotropism #monotropic #polytropism #polytropic #alexithymia #alexithymic #EmotionalBlindness
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CW: PSA - some maybe useful terms for autistic, ADHD, and AuDHD folks
We've been reading more into AuDHD burnout recently, but not enough to write a full post on that. However, in doing so, we've learnt some useful terms that we wanted to share.
Monotropism (monotropic)
- You focus more intensely on one task (or a small number of tasks).
- Allows for deep, intense thinking and entering flow states.
- Busy, unadjusted environments with lots of distractions and being interrupted mid-flow cause stress, anger, and exhaustion.
- Common (but not universal) neurodivergent experience.
Polytropism (polytropic)
- You can switch your focus between multiple tasks at once.
- Ability to switch between multiple tasks with a shallow focus.
- More comfortable in busy, changeable environments.
- Common (but not universal) non-neurodivergent experience.
Alexithymia (alexithymic)
- Sometimes called emotional blindness.
- Difficulty in recognising, expressing, feeling, sourcing, and describing your own emotions.
#neurodivergent #neurodivergence #neurospicy #neurospiciness #ActuallyAutistic #ADHD #AuDHD #monotropism #monotropic #polytropism #polytropic #alexithymia #alexithymic #EmotionalBlindness
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If someone knows how to do this or would find it fun or easy… I really want the word “monotropic” in the “hot topic” font 🙏
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@actuallyautistic Do any of my fellow #ActuallyAutistic peers find your #monotropic tendencies/needs are more pronounced at some times more than others?
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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 -
@OT_CarersUnite @wellbeingEyears
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 @pandahttps://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