The mind as an interest system
A round-up of research and academic books related to monotropism, collated by Helen Edgar with Fergus Murray. This is just a snapshot of some things that have crossed our path between June and December 2025. Nearly all of these mention monotropism and have been peer-reviewed, or accepted as academic dissertations. Inclusion does not imply endorsement. Research is listed [ ] The post Winter…
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A round-up of research, writing and other resources related to monotropism collated by Helen Edgar and Fergus Murray. This is just a snapshot of some things that have crossed our path. The theory of Monotropism is rapidly gaining interest, and it is becoming increasingly hard to keep on top of everything despite being so monotropic [ ] The post Spring Round-Up 2025 appeared first on Monotropism .
This week saw the publication by Springer of the latest book from Wenn Lawson, co-creator of the theory of Monotropism. Autism and Being Monotropic: What Medical and Other Practitioners Need to Know becomes the primary book-length exploration of the theory and what it means a title previously claimed by his 2010 book The Passionate [ ] The post Book News appeared first on Monotropism .
Bluesky is a social media platform reminiscent of the early days of Twitter, but with various extra features. For example, we have a Monotropism feed which automatically pulls in posts that mention monotropism, and some other relevant posts; and we have a starter pack of people who are researching and writing about monotropism. We have [ ] The post Monotropism on Bluesky appeared first on…
Reading and Research The following list is a selection of papers that all focus on or include reference to the theory of monotropism published between July-Dec 2024.We have aimed for this to be comprehensive, but if you know of other papers that have come out that may have missed our attention, please do get in [ ] The post July-December 2024 Research Round-Up appeared first on Monotropism .
Something interesting that we ve noticed in recent months is that a surprising number of musicians have been making music named after monotropism! Here is a collection of what we ve noticed as of November 2024. Inclusion is not necessarily endorsement, and some of these tracks may be too noisy for some listeners. Also, we haven t spoken [ ] The post Monotropism Music appeared first on Monotropism…
Reading Research A trans-diagnostic investigation of attention, hyper-focus, and monotropism in autism, attention dysregulation hyperactivity development, and the general population (Dwyer, P., Williams, Z. J., Lawson, W., Rivera, S. M. 2024) Neurodiversity, 2 A super valuable and exciting piece of research, a must-read for everyone interested in monotropism! We found elevated levels of…
Part 1 of this update collected written work published or found since last year s end-of-Summer round-up. Here, we focus mainly on videos, podcasts, and social media resources related to monotropism. Some of these are from 2023 but have only recently entered our attention tunnel. This is likely just the tip of the ice, reflecting some [ ] The post Spring 2024 Round-Up, part 2: Videos and Social…
A seasonal round-up from Helen Edgar (Autistic Realms) of research and reading material related to monotropism, with contributions from Fergus Murray. It has been a really busy few months with new research, blogs, training and other monotropism related resources being produced and shared. The theory of monotropism is definitely causing some ripples across social media, [ ] The post Spring 2024…