Alia Breon, MD
Exploring Autism Through a Lens of Monotropism and the Neuroscience of Attention.
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How might prediction mismatch contribute to overwhelm and burnout in monotropic thinkers? (opens the original)
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Last year I felt irresistibly pulled toward Lisa Feldman Barrett’s book How Emotions Are Made. I read it once because it’s a great book with lots to teach. But I kept returning — and kept rereading — because of one passage, buried in chapter 10:“Some scientists hypothesize that people on the autism spectrum have brains that predict too narrowly. If your predictions are overly specific, then almost any variation in sensory input registers as a prediction error. The world becomes a barrage of unex
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