Meerkat Mounds
Stuck
In plain words
You are watching for danger all the time. You cannot settle into anything. This happens when a place does not feel safe.
Heightened state of vigilance and arousal that involves constantly looking for danger and threat. It is more than hyper-arousal, it is an overwhelmed monotropic person desperately looking for a hook into a monotropic flow-state.
Tanya Adkin & David Gray-Hammond — in their own words
What changes this
Removing the threat, not the vigilance. Meerkat mode is an accurate reading of an unsafe room. It stops when the room is safe, and telling somebody to calm down inside it is asking them to stop perceiving correctly.
Where it is on the map
Area 11 of twenty, printed on the map as Meerkat Mounds. It borders:
- Mountains of Ruminating Thoughts
- Shark Infested Waters of Neuronormativity and Behaviourism & Double Empathy Problems
- Burnout Whirlpools