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Monotropism Questionnaire

Ausomely Autistic
9 months ago

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?

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  • 9 months ago

    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.

  • 9 months ago 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!

  • 9 months ago in reply to Martin
    Martin said:
    Ironically, I have scored lower than perhaps I should have, due to an autistic desire for exactitude and absolute truth. Ha!

    Funny! This test is very much of measure of monotropism as well as autistic experience, sadly you don’t score higher for autistic honesty!

    I am surprised that the original author of this questionnaire autistic monotropism expert Fergus Murray didn’t spot how some of us in the autistic community could answer the questions in the same way you have. Maybe he was being very monotropic about researching monotropism?!

    Martin said:
    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

    I understand what you mean, this is a brilliant example of an autistic literal interpretation! You maybe could have answered the question differently because it seems that you do get stuck in thought loops, you are just aware of them and know what to do about them. This means you are a very self aware autistic person.

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  • 9 months ago in reply to Martin
    Martin said:
    Ironically, I have scored lower than perhaps I should have, due to an autistic desire for exactitude and absolute truth. Ha!

    Funny! This test is very much of measure of monotropism as well as autistic experience, sadly you don’t score higher for autistic honesty!

    I am surprised that the original author of this questionnaire autistic monotropism expert Fergus Murray didn’t spot how some of us in the autistic community could answer the questions in the same way you have. Maybe he was being very monotropic about researching monotropism?!

    Martin said:
    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

    I understand what you mean, this is a brilliant example of an autistic literal interpretation! You maybe could have answered the question differently because it seems that you do get stuck in thought loops, you are just aware of them and know what to do about them. This means you are a very self aware autistic person.

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