Could the theory of monotropism help explain ADHD? What about executive dysfunction, or my Bipolar 2 misdiagnosis, or OCD? Can you trick yourself into a flow state? Is rumination just flow, but evil?? All this and more in conversation with writer, science educator, and chair of the Autistic Mutual Aid Society Edinburgh, Fergus Murray!
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Links:
* Attention, Monotropism, and the Diagnostic Criteria for Autism, Murray et al 2005
* Monotropism Questionnaire pre-print
* you can also take the Monotropism Questionnaire for funsies here
* Monotropism and Well-being, Fergusā 2023 talk at the Scottish Autism Research Group Conference
* Me complaining about the capitalist propaganda in Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
* Towards autistic flow theory: A non-pathologising conceptual approach, 2024
* Loops of Concern by Sonny Hallett
00:00 Intro / Monotropism vs Polytropism
03:26 The Monotropism Questionnaire
05:43 On Being a āSerial Monotropistā
10:48 ADHD and Monotropism
15:00 Monotropism vs Executive Dysfunction
18:11 On Autistic Flow Theory
24:51 āTunnels not Tasksā
27:36 Intersubjective Flow (Flowing Together)
28:56 The Light and Dark Side of Flow
32:46 Autism and Chronic Illness
35:23 Monotropism and OCD
39:12 Weird Pride
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