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Monotropism Questionnaire

Ausomely Autistic

Hello fellow autistic people!

I have just found this brilliant monotropism questionnaire created by Fergus Murray (autistic monotropism expert). It is so much more relatable and meaningful than any other questionnaire related to autistic experience. I have completed it and I scored very highly- 197/235 meaning I am more monotropic than 55% of autistic people and 96% of allistic people. This is a test of how monotropic you are and is part of a wider project about monotropism and autistic people. It is not a questionnaire to identify whether you are autistic or not.

Questionnaire:

Two websites:

https://osf.io/4wru2

https://dlcincluded.github.io/MQ/

More information about the questionnaire:

https://monotropism.org/2023/mq/

I hope you find this interesting! How did you score on the Monotropism Questionnaire?

Parents

  • 189, more monotropic than 36% of autistic and 93% of allistic people. 

    I could never understand how people at school could get good marks at lots of different subjects. I tended to be top of the top set in subjects I enjoyed, and no better than mediocre, if not abysmal, at subjects that did not interest me.

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  • 189, more monotropic than 36% of autistic and 93% of allistic people. 

    I could never understand how people at school could get good marks at lots of different subjects. I tended to be top of the top set in subjects I enjoyed, and no better than mediocre, if not abysmal, at subjects that did not interest me.

Children
  • in reply to Martin

    same for me. Only excelled in one subject. They gave up, just let me do that one thing, thinking I was slow. I added other scholastic subjects later in life on my own - but doing them one at a time.

  • in reply to Martin

    I answered a number of questions with 'neutral', because I did what the question asked about, but not for the reason given. Also, though I get fixated on things, other people do not 'tell me' that I do (because I can gauge other people's limits), and, though I have loops of thought, I do not get 'stuck' in them because I force myself to move out from them. Ironically, I have scored lower than perhaps I should have, due to an autistic desire for exactitude and absolute truth. Ha!

  • in reply to Martin

    Neither could I, I enjoyed sixth form education much more than school because I could hyper focus on one or two subjects and specialise.

    I think monotropism is also the reason why degree level education appeals to us because it is a chance for us to become specialists in our dedicated interests.

    What were your favourite subjects at school?