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You Are Not a Single Number (Normal Doesn’t Exist and The Average Represents No One Arguments): Scientifically Defined.
Normal doesn’t exist.” “The average represents no one.” Many in neurodivergent communities have made these arguments for years. This post traces three essays and one peer-reviewed paper that give them scientific form — definitions, mathematics,… Read more
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Irreconcilable Differences—At Least So They Think
Normal doesn’t exist.” “The average represents no one.” Many in neurodivergent communities have made these Some scientific arguments persist because both sides are using maps drawn for different terrain. What Lynn Margulis, curved geometry, and… Read more
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The Average Is Not a Person
When did the middle of a distribution become the goal of a human life? From Quetelet’s “average man” to severity levels and functioning labels: how a population summary became a target state — and what… Read more
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What Changes What?
“Everything interacts” is not yet science. A gentle introduction to the Jacobian — the mathematics of what changes what — and the difference between a complex-systems model and complexity branding. A claim counts when it… Read more
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Not a Shift, an Opening
Sep 20, 2026 · @Lori Hogenkamp Why I no longer state my purpose as a paradigm shift The word I stopped using For years I described what I was building (sometimes what we were building)… Read more
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The Wiring Diagram Is the Finding
On the largest protein map ever built for autism — and the question it makes unavoidable On 27 August, a UCSF-led team published in Science the largest map of molecular interactions ever assembled for autism.… Read more
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The Brain Thinks Through the Body
How the mind–body split hides solutions, from autism to aging An ESF perspective. This essay describes a conceptual framework, not medical guidance. Nothing here is a substitute for clinical evaluation, and none of it claims… Read more
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The Autism Split Debate Is Really an Argument About Who Deserves What
By Lori Hogenkamp There is an argument missing from the debate over whether the autism spectrum should be split, and I want to make it — but I need you to hold your judgment for… Read more
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One System, Many Diagnoses
Autistic adults often carry a stack of “comorbidities,” treated as separate problems by separate specialists. This piece makes a different case: one regulatory system with no margin left, surfacing in several places at once. Not… Read more
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Reading the Body of a Neurotype
Most of the case for neurodiversity has been made in the register of the mind — ways of thinking, attending, communicating. But a neurotype was never only cognitive. In Toward an Emergent Paradigm I named… Read more
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