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Autistic Inertia
Within the autistic community, autistic inertia is the difficulty many autistic people experience in starting, stopping, or switching tasks or activities. While not an official clinical diagnosis, it is often discussed as a lived experience that affects executive functioning. Autistic inertia can manifest in different ways. For some people, it means finding it very difficult to begin a task even when they want to. For others, it involves being Hyperfocus, unable to stop a task once it has started or feeling mentally "stuck" in a current state. This inertia is often reported to be unrelated to motivation, laziness, or Depression (mood), depression, and can be extremely frustrating or distressing for the person experiencing it. This phenomenon may be related to differences in executive function, and some researchers and autistic advocates consider it distinct from procrastination or catatonia. See also *Cognitive flexibility **Task switching (psychology) **Cognitive shifting *Execu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Autistic Community
Societal and cultural aspects of autism or sociology of autism come into play with recognition of autism, approaches to its support services and therapies, and how autism affects the definition of personhood. The autistic community is divided primarily into two camps: the autism rights movement and the medical model of autism, pathology paradigm. The pathology paradigm advocates for supporting research into therapies, treatments, or a cure to help minimize or remove autistic traits, seeing treatment as vital to help individuals with autism, while the neurodiversity movement believes autism should be seen as a different way of being and advocates against a cure and interventions that focus on normalization (but do not oppose interventions that emphasize acceptance, adaptive skills building, or interventions that aim to reduce intrinsically harmful traits, behaviors, or conditions), seeing it as trying to exterminate autistic people and their individuality. Both are controversial in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
