#monotropy

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!

Special guests that sneak in: Aegion , Stony , Hvitsar , Taxxie , Fornigel (Alex Forbes x Nigel Colbie. Sounds like a gel for fornicating hjbghjk. So we're coining it that) , and sparsely -> Aerymun , Valaerion.

Instinct

Bowlby believed in natural selection - the idea that attachments are formed to ensure that the baby survives to maturity so that they can reproduce.

Children give out social releases to generate a response, such as crying and smiling, which encourage the caregiver to look after them.

The caregiver's instinct is to protect the baby from harm and nurture them to ensure survival to maturity.

Without these instincts, the baby's survival is less successful, so it doesn't survive to maturity and the genes are no longer in the gene pool.

Monotropy

A single attachment is made to one person who is most important to the baby.

For every infant, one relationship is more important than the rest.

Internal Working Model

A template/role model for the baby's future relationships.

The child is said to build up a model of themselves as loveable or not, the caregiver as trustworthy or not and a model of the relationship between the two.

The Internal Working Model will influence the child's later relationships through to adulthood.

Sensitive Period

First 3 years of the child's life.