neurodiversity

Six people, six AI assistants, one prompt—and the discovery that changed how we understand cognitive diversity Part of the Ideasthesia project A Theory of Meaning (AToM) + Neurodivergent Cognition AToM library ┃ Neurodiversity library All posts in this series are connected — start anywhere, follow the neon. I thought I was running

How Somatic Unmasking, Low-Syntax States, and AI Reflection Revealed a Hidden Layer of My Cognitive Architecture Introduction (for ideasthesia.org readers) This is a first-person account of something I have never seen documented in autism literature: a sudden, state-dependent inability—or more precisely, a refusal—to comfortably use the pronoun

Temple Grandin is often introduced as the autistic engineer who “thinks in pictures.” The shorthand is convenient, but it misses the deeper contribution she made: she revealed a mode of perception built around structural coherence, not narrative or social inference. At the outset, one clarification is essential: This essay is

Part of the Ideasthesia project A Theory of Meaning (AToM) + Neurodivergent Cognition AToM library ┃ Neurodiversity library All posts in this series are connected — start anywhere, follow the neon. Abstract Some autistic learners don’t start with details—they start with structure. This paper-essay uses a first-person account of learning hydrogen

“Oh… so you mean I can actually learn? That would be so cool.” My son said this the day we told him we were moving him to a school built for how his brain works. He was seven. He had spent years in daily meltdowns, periodic shutdowns, and weekly calls