Monotropism Questionnaire

what is monotropism?

Monotropism is a theory about autistic experience created by autistic people which suggests that we tend to focus on a few attention tunnels very intensely, meaning we forget about anything else outside our current attention tunnels. This explains lots of autistic experiences including our sensory experiences.

More information can be found below:

Monotropism:

A theory which describes how autistic people use attention and interests. We have an interest based nervous system. Autistic people are monotropic- we focus our attention more intensely on a few or a singular interests, leaving little processing resources for anything outside of our current interests/attention tunnel.

Monotropism

Monotropism is a theory developed by autistic people that describes our neurology and the way we use our attention. Typically autistic people are monotropic and this means we tend to use our processing resources and attention much more intensely on a single or a few interests. This means we can become specialists on anything that captures our attention.

Monotropism is the reason why we can hyper focus and our interests are more meaningful to us.

Alternatively, neurotypical people are polytropic this means they can spread their attention across multiple tunnels with much less depth.

https://monotropism.org/

Monotropism is a theory about autistic experience created by autistic people which suggests that we tend to focus on a few attention tunnels very intensely, meaning we forget about anything else outside our current attention tunnels. This explains lots of autistic experiences including our sensory experiences.

More information can be found below:

Monotropism:

A theory which describes how autistic people use attention and interests. We have an interest based nervous system. Autistic people are monotropic- we focus our attention more intensely on a few or a singular interests, leaving little processing resources for anything outside of our current interests/attention tunnel.

Monotropism

Monotropism is a theory developed by autistic people that describes our neurology and the way we use our attention. Typically autistic people are monotropic and this means we tend to use our processing resources and attention much more intensely on a single or a few interests. This means we can become specialists on anything that captures our attention.

Monotropism is the reason why we can hyper focus and our interests are more meaningful to us.

Alternatively, neurotypical people are polytropic this means they can spread their attention across multiple tunnels with much less depth.

https://monotropism.org/