Map of Monotropic Experiences

Meerkat Mounds

Stuck

Mound, meerkat — drawn with shapes from the map builder, which you can use to draw your own.

In plain words

You are watching for danger all the time, like a meerkat. You cannot settle into anything, and you cannot find your way into flow. 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.

Named by Tanya Adkin. Definition quoted from Tanya Adkin & David Gray-Hammond.

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:

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