What's your special interest?

Well mine is suicide prevention and inappropriate prosecution of neurodiverse people. I welcome anything form any others on this subject

I've spent quite a bit of the last 6 years since my own diagnosis wrestling with those myself. Firstly, you'd better check my profile, to save space here. I've only just discovered High Sensitivity, which is a far better fit to my traits than Aspergers: it's utterly incoherent that my track record in finance and diplomacy can be seen as disordered. As in Autistic Spectrum Disorder, to give it its full name. I'm arguing for a restart, at least for High-Performance Aspergers: we're not our symptoms.

When I was diagnosed, my response was that of an intellectual: give me some studies to quantify. I came up dry, constantly, but thankfully the last couple of years have seen movement. Firstly, the author of a major part of my academic mantra moved from the Music Department of Yale to head the Genius School. He saved me a huge amount of work in the birth of the Renaissance, a task set me by the Belgian Supreme Court: and now he's starting to study us brainboxes. Good so far, but as far as I'm concerned, we're on an evolutionary path defined by the growth in our skull physiology. Secondly, the recognition that a class of people exists distinct from the core of society, the neurodiverse-neurotypical dichotomy. I've started considering subgroups intersecting it, which has become particularly pertinent given that Niall McKeever's recent presentation in The Weekend University fell far short. 

Firstly, High-performance. Discussions with Nicholai Vieru, Nadia Comaneci's coach who assembled the only full set of perfect 6 scores in the 1972 Olympics, affirm that this is not unique to the neurodivergent, but is understood in the world of physical performance: many moons ago, I was bid for by the SAS on the basis of my understanding of it, which was sparked by a gym coach in childhood.

Next, Giftedness. I found a vocational seer gift, not so much sought as required - there've been times when I've been Jonahed out of my own ideas into a larger plan underway from long before my birth. Here too, gifted folk aren't necessarily neurodiverse.

Most recently, High Sensitivity. This talks to my seer gift, but in a way far beyond Aron's ideation. My brain's in full use, the metamorphic initiation involved channelling the numinous in a blind reading of a text I didn't know was there, as a test of my source of inspiration. When Donald Trump talked of code-breakers in November, I'd done exactly what he was talking about in the 1980s, when the first details of Bletchley Park's techniques were released, as a proof of concept, taking a snippet of code we had, and cracked it first time, both method and key. It took me less than five minutes to theorise, and twenty to assemble the tools and actually break it. I went on to use it in diplomacy.

My list is far from complete: my Reiki mastery is a combination of the medium gift, diplomatic sensitivity, meridian awareness and zen christian transcendent meditation. Like Usui's circle, I was in a Peacemaking environment. We might get more from Mosby's study of the Third Sector.

This little lot indicates something far beyond homo sapiens neurotypical. An MRI shows I use my brain fully, and it's got a far higher volume than the first Sapiens. Nor am I the first in my family, on either side.  It's for this reason I'm wondering if we're not turning into a new species, Homo Scipiens.

I've spent quite a bit of the last 6 years since my own diagnosis wrestling with those myself. Firstly, you'd better check my profile, to save space here. I've only just discovered High Sensitivity, which is a far better fit to my traits than Aspergers: it's utterly incoherent that my track record in finance and diplomacy can be seen as disordered. As in Autistic Spectrum Disorder, to give it its full name. I'm arguing for a restart, at least for High-Performance Aspergers: we're not our symptoms.

When I was diagnosed, my response was that of an intellectual: give me some studies to quantify. I came up dry, constantly, but thankfully the last couple of years have seen movement. Firstly, the author of a major part of my academic mantra moved from the Music Department of Yale to head the Genius School. He saved me a huge amount of work in the birth of the Renaissance, a task set me by the Belgian Supreme Court: and now he's starting to study us brainboxes. Good so far, but as far as I'm concerned, we're on an evolutionary path defined by the growth in our skull physiology. Secondly, the recognition that a class of people exists distinct from the core of society, the neurodiverse-neurotypical dichotomy. I've started considering subgroups intersecting it, which has become particularly pertinent given that Niall McKeever's recent presentation in The Weekend University fell far short. 

Firstly, High-performance. Discussions with Nicholai Vieru, Nadia Comaneci's coach who assembled the only full set of perfect 6 scores in the 1972 Olympics, affirm that this is not unique to the neurodivergent, but is understood in the world of physical performance: many moons ago, I was bid for by the SAS on the basis of my understanding of it, which was sparked by a gym coach in childhood.

Next, Giftedness. I found a vocational seer gift, not so much sought as required - there've been times when I've been Jonahed out of my own ideas into a larger plan underway from long before my birth. Here too, gifted folk aren't necessarily neurodiverse.

Most recently, High Sensitivity. This talks to my seer gift, but in a way far beyond Aron's ideation. My brain's in full use, the metamorphic initiation involved channelling the numinous in a blind reading of a text I didn't know was there, as a test of my source of inspiration. When Donald Trump talked of code-breakers in November, I'd done exactly what he was talking about in the 1980s, when the first details of Bletchley Park's techniques were released, as a proof of concept, taking a snippet of code we had, and cracked it first time, both method and key. It took me less than five minutes to theorise, and twenty to assemble the tools and actually break it. I went on to use it in diplomacy.

My list is far from complete: my Reiki mastery is a combination of the medium gift, diplomatic sensitivity, meridian awareness and zen christian transcendent meditation. Like Usui's circle, I was in a Peacemaking environment. We might get more from Mosby's study of the Third Sector.

This little lot indicates something far beyond homo sapiens neurotypical. An MRI shows I use my brain fully, and it's got a far higher volume than the first Sapiens. Nor am I the first in my family, on either side.  It's for this reason I'm wondering if we're not turning into a new species, Homo Scipiens.