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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?

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  • Very Interesting. I had not heard of this term, so thank you for sharing. I thought I would share my results: 

    Monotropism Score: 149 / 235

    Average: 3.17

    This score means that you are more Monotropic than about 1% of autistic people and about 49% of allistic people.

  • in reply to Astrid

    You are very welcome! I am glad you find the topic of monotropism interesting.

    Do you identify with/relate to the theory of monotropism?

  • in reply to Ausomely Autistic

    It is all very new to me.  I would say aspects of it I relate too very strongly other aspects I don't and some at a weaker level. It shows that we autistics are all unique, so I think that by evaluating different levels of different autistic people, it highlights the fact that stereotypical ideologies are not correct. 

    Overall I would say yes I do identify with the theory.  

  • in reply to Astrid

    You are very welcome! 

    Astrid said:
    I was in a meeting with people and they said that I was communicating well and that I did not come across as autistic and that I was doing "really well". I found that comment strange, and a little bit upsetting, I know that they were trying to be kind and were not bad people, but I felt that they were suddenly making themselves superior over autistics and suddenly I became inferior the moment I mentioned I am autistic

    I am sorry this happened to you, NT’s obviously don’t understand what being autistic means.

    I completely understand why you felt upset, I would be too. I don’t know why NT’s perceive being autistic negatively and don’t understand how patronising that comment could have been. NT’s don’t understand communication differences and instead falsely believe we have communication ‘deficits’ . This is yet again an example of the Double Empathy Problem.

    Always remember that you are Ausomely Autistic!

  • in reply to Astrid

    I can understand why you would find that comment upsetting and I would too.

    It suggests that coming across as autistic is in someway bad and that we should be rewarded and praised for masking our natural autistic communication. That is wrong. Masking is bad for our mental health and we should be encouraged to be our authentic selves.

    I appreciate that people mean well but it does not help. Personally all that happens if I get that kind of comment is I become even more anxious and self conscious about how I am communicating, rather than feeling able to just be myself.

    What people don't see is the effect that meeting may have on us afterwards and that we may need several days of quiet and alone time to recover.

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  • in reply to Astrid

    I can understand why you would find that comment upsetting and I would too.

    It suggests that coming across as autistic is in someway bad and that we should be rewarded and praised for masking our natural autistic communication. That is wrong. Masking is bad for our mental health and we should be encouraged to be our authentic selves.

    I appreciate that people mean well but it does not help. Personally all that happens if I get that kind of comment is I become even more anxious and self conscious about how I am communicating, rather than feeling able to just be myself.

    What people don't see is the effect that meeting may have on us afterwards and that we may need several days of quiet and alone time to recover.

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