Can't See The Forest For The Trees (Bottom-Up Thinking)

Hello. I love researching autistic experience too!

These links below are the best sources of knowledge on autistic experience - (in my very biased autistic opinion!)

First of all, Aucademy is brilliant!

https://youtube.com/@aucademy6195

Aucademy also have their own website and page which collates resources about autistic experience:

https://aucademy.co.uk/books/

This is one of their other webpages that collates theories about our autistic experience:

https://aucademy.co.uk/theories-about-autistic-experience/

Finally, one of the main and most relatable theories about our autistic experience is monotropism. It is incredibly accurate and an autistic derived theory. Monotropism describes the way that we as autistic people use attention, for a more in depth explanation here is the link to the main website below:

https://www.bps.org.uk/psychologist/me-and-monotropism-unified-theory-autism?fbclid=IwAR3vr83FiTLNQRiRYQPSdlhbCZMMQhjvA_OFJ8YCcd_XiIPv4cMf8Nr8ABg

https://monotropism.org/

Happy hyper focusing! I would love to chat to you more about our shared interests!

Thank you so much! I'm excited to start exploring. Though I'm looking at autistic inner worlds at the moment, and I have to hand copy the information I find. One of my quirks

I would really enjoy a chat also, that would be amazing. 

You are very welcome. I look forward to chatting with you, it would be really cool! What do you mean by autistic inner worlds?

I assume you mean autistic cognition in which case monotropism is at the core of our cognitive style.

I save all or most of the information I find onto my phone’s Reading List or my specific autistic experience Notes folder.

It seems like you already know about the great collection of autistic blogs that is Neuroclastic, but on the website there is a comprehensive document which I think is called Understanding The Autistic Mind. It’s brilliant, very detailed!

Here is the link to the PDF:

https://neuroclastic.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/UNDERSTANDING-THE-AUTISTIC-MIND-11.pdf

Enjoy your autistic experience research deep dive!

It's horrific isn't it.

I've learnt a lot about myself this weekend. Though the information itself doesn't help. I still rock and want to cry because my thoughts and everything that's in my head is overwhelming. I still want to do anything to make it stop, I even fantasize about drilling into my skull to make it stop. So knowing why doesn't really help except to validate my experience. 

I can see why people would consider those who describe it to be mad. That's not giving an excuse to the despicable treatment of autists or other neurodivergent individuals.

I've kept it quiet myself thinking I was crazy.

Yeah in the not so distance past, doctors trained in psychosis, used to diagnose people with schizophrenia for having a vivid imagination.. when really we just had better interactions in our head than with neurotypicals..

Do you have conversations with people in your head, then later have no idea if you actually spoke with them or not? 

I get stressed when people pull me out of my inner world. 

Pikl said:

You're amazing! I'm heading into research heaven

Really! Thanks for the compliment! I am glad you are in research heaven, enjoy it there! I hope you don’t get pulled out of a flow state.

Interesting topic! We autistic people often have very rich inner worlds myself included. I often feel like I am talking to a different person when I speak or think in third person for example, speaking in third person helps me feel more connected to myself. I used to have imaginary friends as well.

You're amazing! I'm heading into research heaven

the autistic inner world is the fantasy world that we can create inside our heads. It's also the place where we have our conversations with people either real or imaginary. And for some people (myse included) it's where we have a conversation with our inner self, that's like a seperate person with different point of view. Great for debates.until I found it today I honestly thought I was very daged.

You're amazing! I'm heading into research heaven

the autistic inner world is the fantasy world that we can create inside our heads. It's also the place where we have our conversations with people either real or imaginary. And for some people (myse included) it's where we have a conversation with our inner self, that's like a seperate person with different point of view. Great for debates.until I found it today I honestly thought I was very daged.

It's horrific isn't it.

I've learnt a lot about myself this weekend. Though the information itself doesn't help. I still rock and want to cry because my thoughts and everything that's in my head is overwhelming. I still want to do anything to make it stop, I even fantasize about drilling into my skull to make it stop. So knowing why doesn't really help except to validate my experience. 

I can see why people would consider those who describe it to be mad. That's not giving an excuse to the despicable treatment of autists or other neurodivergent individuals.

I've kept it quiet myself thinking I was crazy.

Yeah in the not so distance past, doctors trained in psychosis, used to diagnose people with schizophrenia for having a vivid imagination.. when really we just had better interactions in our head than with neurotypicals..

Do you have conversations with people in your head, then later have no idea if you actually spoke with them or not? 

I get stressed when people pull me out of my inner world. 

Pikl said:

You're amazing! I'm heading into research heaven

Really! Thanks for the compliment! I am glad you are in research heaven, enjoy it there! I hope you don’t get pulled out of a flow state.

Interesting topic! We autistic people often have very rich inner worlds myself included. I often feel like I am talking to a different person when I speak or think in third person for example, speaking in third person helps me feel more connected to myself. I used to have imaginary friends as well.