Blog – Autistic Inertia

12/16/2020

First article on autistic inertia

I have finally written and submitted my first article on my inertia research. It hasn’t been reviewed yet, but for now I have uploaded it as a ‘preprint’ on PsyArXiv here: “No way out except from external intervention” first-hand accounts of autistic inertia. I’ve included the abstract at the bottom of this post. I’m putting a more accessible summary first....

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12/19/2023

Autistic Christmas

It’s Christmas time again, and as with every year, I am hearing everywhere about how much autistic people hate Christmas. My family, almost all of us autistic, are atypically atypical this way. We love Christmas! As with so many autistic things, there are three things that create this love/hate polarisation. Sensory: Some people find the lights, crowds, and incessant Christmas...

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12/10/2023

PREDICT Guides for Activities and Special Occasions

Improving the predictability of special occasions. It’s Christmas time again, and as with every year, I am hearing everywhere about how much autistic people hate Christmas. My family, almost all of us autistic, are atypically atypical this way. We love Christmas! One thing our family quite like about Christmas is the predictability. “Predictability??” You heard me right. Christmas is the...

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05/27/2022

The Initiative Triad

Difficulties with initiating voluntary action have a substantial impact on quality of life for people with various psychiatric and neurological conditions, yet they are largely neglected by formal research. Understanding of inertia is impeded by: the arbitrary distinctions between neurological, psychiatric, and neurodevelopmental conditions, the biases arising from the most obvious or ‘primary’ symptoms, and the enormous diversity of terminology...

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05/20/2022

Initiation triad

What I found interesting in my research so far is that there is a common pattern of problems with: executive function, motivation (a lack of which is called a lot of things, including ‘apathy’), and initiation of movement (including slowness and getting stuck). These three areas of impairment (call it ‘Buckle’s triad of initiation impairments’ ;)) are commonly seen to...

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04/06/2022

Why ‘first come first served’ is not fair

This is about events, giveaways and other limited events. I am not talking about an ongoing service with limited capacity for which there is a waiting list that everyone ends up on. The problem First come first served is seen as fair because everyone has an equal opportunity to apply. There is an underlying assumption that those who care the...

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03/12/2022

Protected: What I do

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08/31/2021

Miracle App and what support workers aren’t

Social services want me to use a Miracle App that will solve all my problems. I can hardly wait. I agreed to the referral with very little hope that it will work because I like to be (seen to be) compliant and I like apps. A lot. Never mind that they don’t count having a smart phone as a disability...

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01/15/2021

Working from home

Working at home can be hard, whether it’s education, paid work, voluntary work, or personal interest. For people with inertia, weak executive function or differences in sensory processing, attention, inertia, or a number of other issues that affect neurodivergent people, it can be particularly difficult. Here are some tips written with autistic people in mind, to accommodate narrow, intense (‘monotropic‘)...

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04/27/2020

Online focus groups on autistic inertia

Are you autistic? Do you get stuck  and can’t start things? If you can answer ‘yes’ to both of these questions, we would like you to consider participating in some research conducted by the University of Manchester. We are looking at the problems autistic people sometimes have with getting started on things, even if they really need or want to do them. Some people...

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