More monotropic art by Peter Myers . Click here to run a short animation by Ferenc Virag, an artist who has a diagnosis of Kanner type Autism rather than Asperger's Syndrome. . More monotropic art by Andy Warhol . . . . Andy Warhol . It is a quantitive difference being measured.
Polytropic people tend to have multiple interests aroused and accessible at any time.
When the Torrance Test is applied in this study, it is polytropism not creativity which is being measured Autistic creativity will tend to be monotropic and thus missed by such measures. Craig and Baron-Cohen s account conflates imagination with fantasy, which I believe is a mistake. Recall that in dealing with monotropic children we are dealing with individuals who may be working constantly and hard at the task of basic comprehension. They are baffled and frightened a lot of the time. Fantasy-based imagination is leisure enabled surplus enabled time consuming Play emerges from a sense of safety.