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This is the intro to a new series where I’ll be exploring a theory of autism called monotropism from the perspective of an absolute beginner. I found out about the monotropic model of autism a few days ago and have just begun to learn about it. I don't know a lot as of yet (aside from my own lived experience as a person who definitely is monotropic) but I am intrigued and want to learn more and thought others might want to learn along with me. If you like my content, please follow the podcast! For more on monotropism, please visit monotropism.org and / or follow the podcast and we explore this topic. Check out my blog Writing On The Spectrum here: BarbaraGraver.substack.com or here: WritingOnTheSpectrum.com Episode 14 Transcript Full transcript below. To access closed captioning (or the transcript is cut off), please listen via the podbean app or at AutisticPOV.com (https://www.autisticpov.com/). Welcome to Autistic POV. My name is Barbara Graver and I started this podcast to share a bit of my journey as a late diagnosed autistic. Hi everybody, this is Barbara Graver. Welcome to today's episode of Autistic POV. Today we're going to be talking about an alternate theory of autism that's called monotropism. 0:32 And I found out about this theory just recently, actually, on Substack. Someone I follow on Substack, and now I can't remember who had mentioned it, that they were interested in it. And it was the first I'd heard of it. So I found the website, which is monotropism.org, and I began to read about it. 0:53 And it really, really resonated with me. And basically the idea, and I'm going to read from the website, the idea is that monotropic minds have their attention pulled very strongly towards a small number of interests. I'm paraphrasing. at a given time. And this leaves fewer resources for other processes. So in other words, 1:18 you are so focused on your special interests that it affects the way you function in other arenas, which is so true of me. Very, very true of me. Very true of other people I know who are autistic too. And the Creators of this theory believe that this idea of monotropism can explain directly 1:42 or indirectly all of the features commonly associated with autism. And it's interesting. To me, it's interesting because I had been actually thinking about this on my own. I'd been thinking a lot ever since I charted my own autistic traits, which I talk about in the previous episode, actually a couple times in a couple previous episodes. 2:08 Ever since I had done that, I'd been interested in this idea that hyper focus, special interests, intense attention is really, really key in the way autism presents in me. And this was when I rated my autistic traits. I did a chart kind of loosely adapted on the DSM-5. 2:32 And when I rated my traits, hyper focus was the most prominent trait I had. I actually gave that a 10, which is maybe I could have gone with nine, but I gave that a 10. Whereas my other traits, I had a few other traits that were seven and eights and then others that were quite low. 2:52 So the idea of monotropism really interested me because that's my major trait. Now there may be other people who feel their major trait is not described by hyperfocus who might not feel this kind of resonance with the idea that I do. But to me, it made a lot of sense. 3:10 And they do say that you don't need to accept it as a general theory of autism, that it could still be useful for you. So the more I thought about it, the more I thought that I think they have a point. And the creators of the theory are Dina Murray, who is deceased, and Wynne Lawson. 3:28 These are both PhDs. I think Dina Murray was... specialized in language, where Winn-Lawson, I believe, has a PhD in psychology. They both have academic credentials, and I know that Winn-Lawson, at least, is definitely autistic. So this kind of goes with the idea of us helping to determine the paradigm regarding autism. 3:56 So I thought about some of my other traits that my issues with communication. Also, I could connect the issues I have with communication too. And other things, such pattern recognition, I think also can be related to focus or attention. Sensitivities to me seem like a little more of a stretch. I felt 4:22 that you could say that people have sensitivities because they're focused on certain things, certain tactile things. I'm not sure that that always explains it, but I do think hyposensitivities are very much explained by monotropism. In other words, if you're working at something, like if you're working or researching regarding one of your special interests, you may not notice, 4:50 um, You may not notice if you have to go to the bathroom. You may not notice if you're hungry or thirsty. You may just kind of block everything out. And I do this. I'll even, if I'm writing or doing something special interest related, someone can come into my study and actually start to talk to me. 5:09 And I'll stop what I'm doing ...