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Elaine McGreevy she/her
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Speech & Language Therapist. Love the quietness. Monotropic.
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October 18, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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& not needlessly making them switch focus away from deep attention on learning that benefits & matters to them?

@thewoodbug.bsky.social’s work on interest-based learning chimes with your insights re wasted staff effort imv.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Autism, intense interests and support in school: from wasted efforts to shared understandings
Having intense or “special” interests and a tendency to focus in depth to the exclusion of other inputs, is associated with autistic cognition, sometimes framed as “monotropism”. Despite some drawb...
www.tandfonline.com
September 4, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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Q2: 1) factors impacting
high rates of Autistic unaliving in high masking Autists 2) Autistic Joy/glimmers and the healing impact of Monotropic flow 3) impact of Rampant discrimination, stigmatization, infantalization in hiring practices, media representation & political circles by decision makers
May 3, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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