How do you pay attention? What do you pay attention to? Can you direct your attention? Do you sometimes feel like a slave to your attention orientation? Monotropism is a theory around attention that many autistic people, including myself, resonate with. It describes both our strengths and our weaknesses. Before I read the original paper proposing this theory, I felt it made sense of practically everything in terms of how my attention plays out. However, after reading the full paper and further researching, I realised it didn’t even touch the sides. This is a video about that.