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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…
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Theory Vs Trait
(originally a Twitter thread, posted by Fergus Murray) I want to talk a bit about Monotropism as a theory of autism vs. monotropism as a cognitive trait. The first thing to say is that it was always both: the trait was identified because it seemed to explain so much about autistic experience. Dinah Murray (that’s…
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Audio: podcasts etc.
For those who like to take things in through their ears, here’s a collection of audio-only resources relating to monotropism. If we’re missing any, please let us know!
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Wenn & Fergus on the Autism Stories podcast + questionnaire poster
Recently Wenn Lawson and Fergus Murray were interviewed by Doug Blecher for the Autism Stories podcast. Wenn, Dinah and Fergus all previously appeared in separate episodes. Meanwhile, preliminary results of the previously discussed monotropism questionnaire have been announced: according to this measure, autistic people overwhelmingly tend to be substantially more monotropic than the general population. ADHDers are also more…
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Aucademy Live on Monotropism
On Saturday (2022-07-02) Fergus Murray, Tanya Adkin, Chloe Farahar and Ben Usher-Barrass discussed monotropism on Aucademy for a little over an hour and a half. It was a wide-ranging discussion, covering (among other things) an introduction to the theory, a lot about the practical applications, why it’s taken so long for substantial research to get…
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설문지 발표
에딘버러 대학 설문지는 압도적 인 응답을 받았습니다 – 1,100 명 이상의 사용 가능한 응답자, 700 + 자폐증 응답자. 발레리아 가라우 (Valeria Garau )는 7 월 13 일 13 시부 터 13시 45 분 사이에 자폐증 연구 축제 (7 월 11 일부터 15 일까지 진행되는)에서 포스터 프리젠 테이션에서 결과를 발표 할 예정입니다. 자폐증 커뮤니티의 많은 사람들이…
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Presentazione del questionario
Il questionario dell'Università di Edimburgo ha ricevuto una risposta travolgente: più di 1.100 intervistati utilizzabili, oltre 700 autistici. Valeria Garau riporterà i risultati in una presentazione poster il 13 luglio tra le 13:00 e le 13:45 BST al Festival della Ricerca Autistica (che si svolgerà dall'11 al 15 luglio). Si noti che molti nella comunità…
