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December 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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January 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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April 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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October 12, 2019

Researchers’ view of initiation in autism

Autistic people usually consider inertia to be both a tendency to keep going and a tendency to stay stopped. My research needs to be a bit narrower, so I’m focusing mainly on the tendency to stay stopped, or to get ‘stuck’, because they tend to cause more problems. I’ve taken to calling these initiation impairments, at least for now. Even...

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September 12, 2019

27 words for ‘stuck’

I’ve started on my PhD, and the first item on the agenda was to write a literature review. I thought that would be quite straightforward as there is virtually no research literature on autistic inertia so far. It has turned out to be a little more complicated. Because of the lack of research specifically in this area, I have to...

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