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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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Questionnaire Presentation
The Edinburgh University questionnaire received an overwhelming response – more than 1,100 usable respondents, 700+ autistic ones. Valeria Garau will be reporting on the results in a poster presentation on the 13th of July between 13:00 and 13:45 BST at the Autistica Research Festival (which runs from the 11th-15th of July). Edit: download a PDF…
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Monotropism survey study
Valeria Garau, a Masters student at the University of Edinburgh supervised by Sue Fletcher-Watson, is conducting research to develop and evaluate a self-report measure of monotropism: a set of survey questions developed by members of the ‘Interest System’ Google Group. Edit: download a PDF of a poster presenting the first results here. Her questionnaire is…
