#monotropism

Monotropism describes a tendency for a person's attention to concentrate deeply on a small number of interests at a time, rather than distributing attention across many things (a mode called 'polytropism'). This intense focus can lead to a real depth of interest, expertise and immersive sensory experiences, but may also make it harder to switch tasks, process multiple inputs at once or cope with interruptions.

MONOTROPIC ATTRACTION

A form of emotional or interpersonal focus where one person becomes the central, often exclusive, object of affection, attention, or devotion regardless of whether the connection is romantic, platonic, or something else. Relationships with other people may feel mellowed or generally lighter.

Coined from the neurodivergent term monotropism; Monotropism is an individual's tendency to focus their attention on a small or singular number of interests at any time, with them neglecting or not perceiving lesser interests

This term was made by and for neurodivergent people!

it's like my stomach is an angry man screaming, I deliberately choose to ignore.

Although it focused on actual people themselves. This post is about a subject and your immersivity with it that involves people / characters).

I believe this sensorical experience an aro/ace may confuse with "love sick" (alloness depictions) is monotropy on that particular subject which so happens to be shipping / a ship since monotropy does that to anything. Monotropy is quite immersive.

Perhaps this shall help other monotropic neurodivergents out there on the aro/ace spectrum who aren't aware of the term.

Monotropy funsies with Monotroptic!

I'm not sure if this counts as autism positivity, but it's peaceful and cats are great, so I'm doing it. Here's an autistic person utterly engrossed in watching a cat.

This is an illustration for the Autism Living Wiki's article on monotropism. This theory of autism suggests that we tend to focus intensely on one thing (or just a few things) at a time and struggle to transition between topics. It doesn't explain all of autism, but could relate to topics like special interests, hyperfocus, and executive dysfunction.