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Dinah Murray Archive update
Fergus Murray I posted about recent additions to The Dinah Murray Archive on this site a few weeks ago. At the time, I was drawing a blank on where to find her 1992 and 1993 Durham conference papers, where she first introduced and elaborated on the concept of monotropism. Finally, an old friend pointed out…
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Pete Wharmby on Monotropism & Special Interests
Pete Wharmby, autistic author and former English teacher, has written two books that talk about monotropism, and a chapter in a third (see below). I (Fergus Murray) recently had a chat with him about monotropism, education, writing and the internet, for AMASE. We also shared a panel with Elliott Spaeth on neurodiversity in education, at…
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Building the Dinah Murray Archive
Fergus Murray We started this site with all of Dinah’s writing that was already online on her Productive Irritant site, and some of her work that we were able to pull from the Wayback Machine’s archive of her old Autism & Computing site, previously lost to the internet. Panda Mery has been a huge help…
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Autism and Mental Health course
Free online course wins prize For anyone wanting to learn more deeply about Monotropism and what it means for autistic wellbeing, the single best place to go right now is probably Curtin University’s edX course, ‘Autism and Mental Health‘. Wenn Lawson, one of the people who originally developed the theory of Monotropism, was heavily involved…
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Monotropism Questionnaire Online
Fergus Murray We shared a presentation about the Monotropism Questionnaire (MQ) around this time last year. Since then, work has been ongoing on a journal article writing up the results. This is still awaiting peer-review, but is now available on the OSF pre-print server along with the questionnaire itself (see below) which has been made…
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Recent writing on Monotropism
A quick round-up of recent work: Tanya Adkin and David Gray-Hammond have both been doing a lot of thinking and writing about monotropism, mental health and burnout on David’s site, Emergent Divergence. The idea of meerkat mode is particulary evocative. David also discusses monotropism in his compelling book of collected essays, The New Normal. Meanwhile…
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Monotropism anthology: call for submissions
Damian Milton is editing an anthology on monotropism, The Monotropism Reader, for Pavilion Press in association with PARC (the Participatory Autism Research Collective) and is currently seeking proposals for chapters. The call for proposals closes on the 24th of July. Pavilion previously published The Neurodiversity Reader, on which he was the lead editor. Together with…
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The Adult Autism Assessment Handbook (and video)
The Adult Autism Assessment Handbook is the first serious attempt to provide an in-depth guide for anyone conducting adult assessments for autism. This long-overdue book has been written from a neurodiversity-affirming perspective, by a team of neurotypical and neurodivergent authors, so naturally it talks about monotropism in some depth. The book’s deep dive into autistic…
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Wenn Lawson on 1800 Seconds on Autism
The new series of Jamie Knight and Robyn Steward’s excellent podcast 1800 Seconds on Autism is out, and it features an interview with Wenn Lawson talking about monotropism under the title ‘Monotropism has changed my life’! Jamie’s also started a Tunnels Not Tasks Twitter account, and is slowly working on more content around this theme…
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Translating this site
If you’re potentially interested in translating any of the materials on this site into your own language, please sign up here! Reaching an international audience is a high priority for me (Fergus). In much of the world, non-autistic specialists dominate the discourse around autism even more than they do in the English-speaking world. This is…
