The Neurobiological Reality of Giftedness as a Neurodivergence, and the Social Justice Implications
A rebuttal to the erroneous article: “High Intelligence Is Not Neurodivergence”
Dr. Patty Gently
An INFJ heretic-hermit and doctor of developmental psychology living in the liminal. As a dyslexic 2e adult, I map the tensions between trauma, giftedness, and inner truth through GEARs and Dąbrowski’s TPD—for the fire-shaped, still seeking home.
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Is Too!
Responding to an article about high intelligence not being a neurodivergence (shared by a prominent development center for gifted children)
HNP Master Reference List — Organized by Subject
557 unique references, sorted into 21 subject categories (cross-listed where relevant)
Dąbrowski’s Psychoneurosis and the HNP Coupling Model
Notes from an EDS conference and a book group's slow read of a 1972 psychiatry text
Pre-Pandemic POTS and Long COVID POTS Share the Same Inflammatory Signature
A Hyperneuroplastic Perspective
The Pedestal and Push
25 years of it and never again.
How the Mind Builds a World It Cannot See: Memory, Imagination, and the HNP Simulation Engine
Hyperneuroplasticity and the Mind’s Eye Part Three
Where the HNP Knot Actually Sits
What one genetic thread running through eight psychiatric diagnoses reveals about hyperneuroplastic coupling (Part 3 of 'If You Pull the Wrong String')
What the String Is Made Of: HNP as the Missing Thread in RCCX Theory
A companion piece to “If You Pull the Wrong String”
Selective Mutism, PDA, and the Cost of Access in Hyperneuroplastic Systems
Why I sometimes just can't.