Starting Points for Understanding Autism

Monotropism in Practice

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1. Coping with multiple channels is hard

2. Filtering is tricky and error-prone

3. Changing tracks is destabilising

4. I often experience things intensely

5. I keep looping back to my interests and concerns

6. Other things that drop out of my awareness tend to stay dropped

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