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The Pros And Cons Of Monotropism

DormouseAtRest_25

This video about the strengths, challenges and strategies of monotropism attracted many interesting comments.

I appreciated one person's comments acting as a summary of their notes from watching the video:

"Strengths:
1. Ability to provide 100% of attention, therefore become an expert in your field.
2. superhuman ability to ignore all else/ don't see distractions.

Challenges:
1. Missing a lot of info
2. Lack of tasks where monotropism is best strategy.
3. Energy required to switch tasks
4. Maintaining weak tie relationship is difficult.

Strategies:
1. Lifestyle design- design life around strengths. Pick high reward tasks.
2. Start noticing how much transition time you need.
3. Leverage flow state.
4. Give yourself time to wind down "

Within strategies, number 2; about how much transition time you need between tasks is something I have been practicing recently - and have found to be helpful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5p8BD73xXxI

I don't think we talk about and explore our strengths / positives as often as would be educational and supportive.

If we can learn to assess our personal Autistic strengths - maybe that can help us to better profile ourselves - closer to employment and volunteering opportunity matches - while mitigating the likelihood of burnout.

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  • DormouseAtRest_25 said:
    I don't think we talk about and explore our strengths / positives as often as would be educational and supportive.

    I would probably add Strong Moral Compass to the common list of autistic traits too.

    I think all of these traits can be a double edges sword however and my personal experience is people remember the failings far more than the successes.

    A good strategy is probably to think "I am capable of xyz" and use it to build self confidence and self worth. A counterbalance of self acceptance for the times when it doesn't work the way we want it to is going to be essential to keep things positive though.

    As a group I feel we do tend to see the negatives more then the positives so it's a good call to remind ourselves of all we can be.

    Good post!

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  • DormouseAtRest_25 said:
    I don't think we talk about and explore our strengths / positives as often as would be educational and supportive.

    I would probably add Strong Moral Compass to the common list of autistic traits too.

    I think all of these traits can be a double edges sword however and my personal experience is people remember the failings far more than the successes.

    A good strategy is probably to think "I am capable of xyz" and use it to build self confidence and self worth. A counterbalance of self acceptance for the times when it doesn't work the way we want it to is going to be essential to keep things positive though.

    As a group I feel we do tend to see the negatives more then the positives so it's a good call to remind ourselves of all we can be.

    Good post!

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