A Rhapsody on Neurodiversity

Minds can, to a limited extent, be willfully navigated across the plane of neurodiversity, a claim offered as philosophical extrapolation rather than science. It draws on Guattari's schizoanalysis, which explores several coexisting explanations of the psyche instead of tracing a single originary childhood trauma, and on Simon Baron-Cohen's 2016 Royal College of Psychiatrists presentation, which compares neurodiversity to judging apples and oranges by different standards. The writer describes spending several months, at ages 21 to 23, designing the Modular Generalist Program, a period that brought social alienation and mild neurasthenia before a return to more typical social life.