Me and Monotropism: A unified theory of autism (2018)
The theory is wonderful in its simplicity and I can see how that&#x27;s appealing, but it doesn&#x27;t feel correct to me. I don&#x27;t think neurotypical people are really paying attention to everything they need to when talking to people and I (an autistic person) am just unable to. I also don&#x27;t see how the theory addresses my state when I&#x27;m in between interests. As of now there&#x27;s no overwhelming interest that consumes all my thoughts yet I still experience autism. This is an interesting model and I do appreciate the reframing from dysfunction to functioning differently, but I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s a complete picture and I think it&#x27;s especially bad at communicating how it feels to be autistic.