Map of Monotropic Experiences — A map you can find yourself on

Twenty places a monotropic person goes. Some of them are where the good work happens; some of them are weather that other people make. This is Helen Edgar's map of her own Autistic and ADHD experience, and it turned out that a great many of us live here too.

Each numbered marker opens that area, and so does its name in the key below. Prefer them sorted by what kind of place they are? The twenty areas groups them into flow, connection, stuck states and pressure.

The water it all sits in

It would be easy to read this map as a picture of a person. It is not. Burnout Whirlpools and the Shark Infested Waters are not weather that happens to you — they are produced, by schools and workplaces and clinics built on the assumption that there is one correct way to have a mind. The second map is about who makes the weather.

Take it further

Free open-source training — about forty-five minutes, for schools, workplaces, health settings and community groups.

Mapping Monotropism in Education — Helen Edgar on what the map means at school, for teachers and families.

Mark your own map, and share it with the community story project.

The Monotropism Questionnaire — Garau et al.'s validated measure, shared under CC BY-NC-SA. We link it rather than copying it.