Also in time for Disability Pride Month, I want to call attention to how as more recognize that autistic women & girls & autistics assigned female at birth are autistic & disabled, the injustices in how the autism field responds to threats to its power to make abrupt, false, restrictive decisions 1/

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Relatively new to this but not to theories of attention. I had encoded monotropism as being a way of describing more intense (deeper) and longer lasting focusses both perceptually and conceptually.

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Thanks for clarifying, that makes perfect sense if we’re talking purely linguistically ☺️ always a challenge if ideas get layered upon a root that brings certain associations, perhaps contrary to the nuance within. There was another interesting debate around using ‘degrowth’ as a term

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Yeah, I was being a little flippant. It was late, & I was rambling. I was only reflecting on the etymology/how the word sounds. But I appreciate all of the information. I don’t know much about the theory, happy to learn more :))

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Another way that #autistic special interests are magic: I find it very easy to retain information about my special interests. It comes naturally, more than learning about other subjects.

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