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Alia Breon, MD

Exploring Autism Through a Lens of Monotropism and the Neuroscience of Attention.

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  1. Issue · Sep 22, 2026

    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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