Map of Monotropic Experiences

Sudden Storms of Unexpected Events

Stuck

In plain words

Something changes with no warning. You get pulled out of what you were doing. Your body reacts before you can think.

If an autistic person is pulled out of monotropic flow too quickly, it causes our sensory systems to dysregulate. This in turn triggers us into emotional dysregulation, and we quickly find ourselves in a state ranging from uncomfortable, to grumpy, to angry, or even triggered into a meltdown or a shutdown.

Kieran Rose — in their own words

What changes this

Warning. Almost all of the damage here is in the suddenness rather than the change, and notice is free to give.

Where it is on the map

Area 20 of twenty, printed on the map as Sudden Storms of Unexpected Events. It borders:

Read more