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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!

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  • 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!

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