Many fuzzy blogs, with two of the blobs labeled “autistic” and “ADHD” blobs partially overlapping, and question marks everywhere.

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   Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Dec-2025 05:21:12 JST Paul Cantrell

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   A lot of conversations about neurodivergence take the form of the first image below. I’m arguing to adopt the framing of the second image instead (except 100- or 1000-dimensional instead of 2-dimensional).

   We’ve identified a few clusterings in a space of extraordinary and beautiful variation, and given those clusterings names. How useful those names are! How little they capture, even so! How much variation remains unnamed! How much variation must exist within every human being!

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