Map of Monotropic Experiences

Rabbit Holes of Research

Flow

In plain words

You start looking one thing up. Hours later you are still going. You end up knowing a great deal about it.

“Down the rabbit hole” is an English-language idiom or trope which refers to getting deep into something, or ending up somewhere strange.

A shared community coinage with no single originator.

What changes this

Being allowed to go all the way down. Depth is the point, and an environment that rewards only breadth is asking a monotropic mind to work against its own grain and calling the result a focus problem.

Where it is on the map

Area 6 of twenty, printed on the map as Rabbit Holes of Research. It borders:

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