ALT 6 Things that drop out of awareness / attention tunnel tend to stay dropped. Reminders & visual aids may be helpful. Home If you are monotropic, more energy will be channelled into fewer attention streams at any one time; this means there will be less resources for everything outside of that channel. Even though you may have asked your child a 100 times to put their shoes on, if they are engaged in something else, it may not register and they may carry on playing. Having visual prompts and checklists can help manage other tasks. School Managing executive functioning tasks at school can be more challenging if you are monotropic. Packing your bag for all the different lessons, remembering homework and PE kits and everything else involves alot of thought processing. Routines, checklists, timers and other gentle prompts may help (and also not having too much to try and juggle!). Friendships Monotropism may be a way of explaining why some autistic people have a very intense inte