Tag: monotropism
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Beyond Awareness: Exploring Your Autistic Profile and Identity – Part 2
For those of you who are visual thinkers, it may be helpful to imagine the executive functions as senior staff responsible for managing a large company. Senior staff delegate and plan tasks for a business, in a similar way to how executive functioning skills enable us as individuals to plan, organise and ultimately carry out…
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Attention tunnel wombs
About Viv Dawes I am late identified AuDHD with a PDA profile. I am a lived experience author, trainer and consultant and originally trained as an artist in the 1980s. As well as my work as an author and trainer I am a keen photographer. Thinking about how deep attention tunnels can be like a…
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Map of Monotropic Experiences: Free Open Source Training Resources
For far too long, Autism has been explained from the outside. It’s time to tell our own stories. Explore our Map of Monotropic Experiences and discover a new, affirming way to understand your Autistic identity. Free training now available with Autistic Realms and Stimpunks!
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Monotropism Reflected in the Communication Style of Artistic Expression
Becca Cook is an AuDHD artist, animal communicator, and writer. Monotropism is a cognitive tendency often present in autistic individuals, characterized by an intense focus on one or two interests at a time. My attention feels like a narrow beam of light, bright, deep, and consuming. This focus creates a rich inner world, one where…
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Call for Submissions: Share your experiences of being monotropic.
Open Invite: Share your experiences of being monotropic. Share poems, art, blogs, essays, videos, podcasts, music, etc. that reflect your experience of being monotropic. We will publish across Stimpunks & Autistic Realms as part of our community project. Some stories may be chosen for a community ebook that will be openly licensed; if you would…
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Map of Monotropic Experiences
This map highlights 20 common aspects of monotropic experience. How many do you experience?
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Zappa: A Monotropic Life
Entering flow states – or attention tunnels – is a necessary coping strategy for many of us. Fergus Murray I just watched the Frank Zappa documentary by Alex Winter. Zappa strikes me as intensely, relentlessly, and relatably monotropic. For me, the film shouts “monotropism” and “flow state” throughout. When focused like this an Autistic person…
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Octavia Butler on Positive Obsession
Octavia Butler’s “positive obsession” reminds me of special interests and monotropism. God is Change,And in the end,God prevails.But meanwhile…Kindness eases Change.Love quiets fear.And a sweet and powerfulPositive obsessionBlunts pain,Diverts rage,And engages each of usIn the greatest,The most intenseOf our chosen struggles Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler PRODIGY IS, AT ITS essence, adaptability…
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Finding Belonging in Collective Flow
Looking back with the vocabulary of neurodiversity, my career was much about seeking belonging in collective flow. Working on the WordPress core development team back in the early days of the project was a lesson in neurodiverse collaboration and developing collective flow. There’s nothing like working together toward a common goal to build community and…
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“Parallel play was observed as one of the most frequent play states for autistic children in free play settings.”
We updated our “Flow” and “Parallel Play” glossary pages with selections from “Diversity in Autistic Play: Autistic Adults’ Experiences | Autism in Adulthood”. Parallel Play Many autistic adults discussed their preferences in social play, which relate to social play differences and who they preferred to play with. We found some potential social play differences, such…
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Enhancing Self-Determination with Interdependence, Niche Construction, and Flow
Two important areas of self-determination for us are niche construction and flow. If we aren’t allowed to construct niches so we can achieve flow states, we aren’t sufficiently self-determined. In “Frontiers | Toward understanding and enhancing self-determination: a qualitative exploration with autistic adults without co-occurring intellectual disability”, we detect themes of “let me build my…
