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Attention, monotropism and the diagnostic criteria for autism
  • Literature Review
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May 2005

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Wendy Lawson

The authors conclude from a range of literature relevant to the autistic condition that atypical strategies for the allocation of attention are central to the condition. This assertion is examined in the context of recent research, the diagnostic criteria for autism in DSMIV and ICD-10, and the personal experiences of individuals with autism including one of the authors of the article. The first two diagnostic criteria are shown to follow from the ‘restricted range of interests’ referred to in the third criterion. Implications for practice are indicated.

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... Specifically, the WCC would assume difficulties in generalizing social learning across situations, which may be linked to a tendency for feeling socially overwhelmed amongst autistic people (Happé, 1999;Hill, 2004). While the theory has been criticized for failing to specify the level at which integration difficulties may occur (Baron-Cohen, 2008), the idea that autistic people attend more to detail has remained influential (Murray et al., 2005;Lesser and Murray, 2020). The theory of monotropism (Murray et al., 2005) furthers the idea that autistic people have a tendency to attend to detail. ...

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Exploring the different cognitive, emotional and imaginative experiences of autistic and non-autistic adult readers when contemplating serious literature as compared to non-fiction
Mind as a Dynamical System:Implications for Autism
  • Citing Chapter
  • January 1999

... Increasingly, however, Autism scholars working through a critical neurodiversity paradigm are beginning to foreground the significance of exploring first-person descriptions of Autistic subjectivity while bracketing pathological assumptions (Bertilsdotter-Rosqvist et al., 2020;Kapp, 2020;Milton et al., 2020;Walker, 2021). Indeed, as Bertilsdotter-Rosqvist, Botha, et al. (2023) argue, Autistic lived experiences have informed the development of Autistic-led theories, such as monotropism (D. Murray et al., 2005), flow states (McDonnell & Milton, 2014), inertial motion (Buckle et al., 2021;Rapaport et al., 2023), and the double empathy problem (Milton, 2012;Milton et al., 2022). Together, these constitute a "rapidly developing academic sphere" (Bertilsdotter-Rosqvist, Botha, et al., 2023, p. 3) in Autism research. ...

Attention, monotropism and the diagnostic criteria for autism