J.K. Hamilton
@jkhpublishing.bsky.social
I write about neurodivergence, consciousness, and the future of being human.
Author of: Evolution in Progress
https://linktr.ee/jkhamilton
Author of: Evolution in Progress
https://linktr.ee/jkhamilton
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I wrote about divergent intuition and the science behind knowing what you shouldn’t know. If you’ve ever felt insight that didn’t fit the ‘official’ story of how thinking works, this one’s for you.
Divergent Intuition: The Science Behind “Knowing Things You Shouldn’t Know”
How Neurodivergent Brains Decode Patterns, Sense Micro-Cues, and Predict Outcomes Before They Happen
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December 21, 2025 at 1:32 AM
I wrote about divergent intuition and the science behind knowing what you shouldn’t know. If you’ve ever felt insight that didn’t fit the ‘official’ story of how thinking works, this one’s for you.
What if emotional sensitivity isn’t a deficit but a distinct intelligence?
In my latest piece, I unpack emotional nonverbal intelligence, the neurodivergent ability that shapes how we sense, feel, and connect without words.
In my latest piece, I unpack emotional nonverbal intelligence, the neurodivergent ability that shapes how we sense, feel, and connect without words.
Emotional Nonverbal Intelligence: The Neurodivergent Ability Nobody Talks About
How autistic and ADHD minds read emotional truth beyond words with accuracy most people miss.
medium.com
December 20, 2025 at 1:27 AM
What if emotional sensitivity isn’t a deficit but a distinct intelligence?
In my latest piece, I unpack emotional nonverbal intelligence, the neurodivergent ability that shapes how we sense, feel, and connect without words.
In my latest piece, I unpack emotional nonverbal intelligence, the neurodivergent ability that shapes how we sense, feel, and connect without words.
Neurodivergence does not exist in a vacuum. Who gets support, who gets believed, and who gets left behind often depends on race, class, gender, and power. This piece looks at why access to compassion is uneven, and why justice for neurodivergent people has to include intersectionality.
The Intersectionality of Neurodivergence and Social Justice: Why Support Depends on Who You Are…
How race, gender, and class shape the autistic and ADHD experience from diagnosis to dignity.
medium.com
December 19, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Neurodivergence does not exist in a vacuum. Who gets support, who gets believed, and who gets left behind often depends on race, class, gender, and power. This piece looks at why access to compassion is uneven, and why justice for neurodivergent people has to include intersectionality.
Real innovation rarely comes from conformity. This piece explores why neurodivergent minds drive creativity, breakthrough thinking, and the future itself.
Neurodivergent Creativity and Innovation: Why Divergent Minds Build the Future
How autistic and ADHD minds generate breakthroughs through unconventional thinking and cognitive diversity.
medium.com
December 18, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Real innovation rarely comes from conformity. This piece explores why neurodivergent minds drive creativity, breakthrough thinking, and the future itself.
“10 Essential Things Every Autistic Person Should Know” is a research-backed guide for understanding and embracing your autistic wiring...
10 Essential Things Every Autistic Person Should Know
A research-backed roadmap for embracing your neurotype, protecting your well-being, and creating a life aligned with your wiring.
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December 16, 2025 at 3:12 AM
“10 Essential Things Every Autistic Person Should Know” is a research-backed guide for understanding and embracing your autistic wiring...
What happens when an autism diagnosis comes decades late? This piece explores the quiet costs of misinterpretation, burnout, and self-blame, and how reframing identity and support can finally bring clarity, relief, and forward motion.
The Hidden Cost of Missing an Autism Diagnosis Until Adulthood (And How to Fix It)
The Emotional, Social, and Physical Toll of Growing Up Unidentified — and the Path to Rebuilding with Clarity
medium.com
December 15, 2025 at 8:09 AM
What happens when an autism diagnosis comes decades late? This piece explores the quiet costs of misinterpretation, burnout, and self-blame, and how reframing identity and support can finally bring clarity, relief, and forward motion.
This piece looks at how labels can separate us and how the spirit of ubuntu brings us back into connection. It is a reminder that we grow stronger when we see each other as part of the same human story.
How Labels Divide Us and How Ubuntu Brings Us Back Together
Why Labeling Neurodivergent People Fails and How Ubuntu Offers a Better Way to See Us
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December 12, 2025 at 4:35 AM
This piece looks at how labels can separate us and how the spirit of ubuntu brings us back into connection. It is a reminder that we grow stronger when we see each other as part of the same human story.
This piece feels like a map for minds that think quietly and deeply. It doesn’t pathologize difference. It helps you see your inner world with more precision, honesty, and respect, showing that quiet minds have their own logic and strength.
The Cartographer of Quiet Minds
Why Quiet, Pattern-Focused Brains Are Not Broken but Brilliantly Designed
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December 11, 2025 at 6:23 AM
This piece feels like a map for minds that think quietly and deeply. It doesn’t pathologize difference. It helps you see your inner world with more precision, honesty, and respect, showing that quiet minds have their own logic and strength.
This piece flips the script on what’s considered “disordered” by showing how neurotypical norms can create dysfunction in people who don’t fit the mold. It highlights how the world often misunderstands difference as deficit, and why reframing that is a step toward real connection and clarity.
The Neurotypical Disorder
A Deep Dive Into the Desensitization of a World Population Gone Numb
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December 11, 2025 at 6:17 AM
This piece flips the script on what’s considered “disordered” by showing how neurotypical norms can create dysfunction in people who don’t fit the mold. It highlights how the world often misunderstands difference as deficit, and why reframing that is a step toward real connection and clarity.
This piece reframes autism not as brokenness but as a different kind of clarity in a world built on assumptions that don’t fit all minds. It celebrates the strength of a wiring that sees patterns others miss, stays grounded amid chaos, and offers a sane perspective in an often overwhelming world.
The King Who Stayed Sane: Autism in a World Drinking Mad Water
Evolutionary and Neurological Evidence That Autism Reflects the Human Baseline
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December 11, 2025 at 6:05 AM
This piece reframes autism not as brokenness but as a different kind of clarity in a world built on assumptions that don’t fit all minds. It celebrates the strength of a wiring that sees patterns others miss, stays grounded amid chaos, and offers a sane perspective in an often overwhelming world.
Some systems don’t process violence as “story.” They process it as danger, live, visceral, and immediate. Read why that physical flinch is your nervous system’s warning sign, not a flaw.
The Empathic Recoil: Why Violence Makes Some People Physically Flinch
When your nervous system feels pain you never physically lived, and why that sensitivity is not a flaw.
medium.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Some systems don’t process violence as “story.” They process it as danger, live, visceral, and immediate. Read why that physical flinch is your nervous system’s warning sign, not a flaw.
Not all brains are wired for quiet. Some live for new patterns, constant discovery, and raw dopamine feedback. This piece explores what that means — for ADHD, autism, and anyone whose brain won’t settle for the same old.
The Dopamine Blueprint: Why Some Brains Need Constant Discovery
The Neuroscience Behind ADHD, Autism, and the Drive for Novelty
medium.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Not all brains are wired for quiet. Some live for new patterns, constant discovery, and raw dopamine feedback. This piece explores what that means — for ADHD, autism, and anyone whose brain won’t settle for the same old.
If you’ve ever felt like your meltdown means something is wrong with you, you’re not broken, you’re human. This piece lays out the neuroscience behind emotional overload, and why self-blame gets so many of us stuck.
Stop Beating Yourself Up: The Science That Ends Meltdown Shame
What neuroscience reveals about autistic overwhelm, shame, and self-forgiveness.
medium.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:34 AM
If you’ve ever felt like your meltdown means something is wrong with you, you’re not broken, you’re human. This piece lays out the neuroscience behind emotional overload, and why self-blame gets so many of us stuck.
Your body speaks in silence. This short piece digs into how neuroscience is finally tuning into the hidden voice of bodily signals — and why that matters more than ever.
The Hidden Sense: What Neuroscience Is Learning About the Body’s Quiet Voice
A science-based exploration of how interoception connects emotion, awareness, and the evolving neurodivergent brain.
medium.com
December 9, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Your body speaks in silence. This short piece digs into how neuroscience is finally tuning into the hidden voice of bodily signals — and why that matters more than ever.
Want peace, not just relief? This explores how consistent self-care reshapes your nervous system, quietly and for good.
Rewiring Happiness: A Self-Kept Promise for a Balanced Mind
How neuroplasticity turns awareness into emotional stability
medium.com
December 9, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Want peace, not just relief? This explores how consistent self-care reshapes your nervous system, quietly and for good.
A quick dive into why ADHD brains don’t just watch a show, they build another one inside. If you’ve ever missed a scene because your imagination took over, this one will feel familiar.
The Show Inside the Show: Why ADHD Turns Watching Into Imagination
A neuroscience-backed look at why ADHD attention drifts, how imagination hijacks focus, and why it’s not a flaw but an evolved feature.
medium.com
December 9, 2025 at 1:18 AM
A quick dive into why ADHD brains don’t just watch a show, they build another one inside. If you’ve ever missed a scene because your imagination took over, this one will feel familiar.
Curiosity is the brain’s most underestimated survival tool. In this article, I unpack how curiosity drives learning, adaptation, and resilience — especially for minds that process the world deeply and differently…
Curiosity: The Brain’s Most Underestimated Survival Tool
Why Curiosity, Not Intelligence, Is the Real Driver of Survival and Innovation
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December 7, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Curiosity is the brain’s most underestimated survival tool. In this article, I unpack how curiosity drives learning, adaptation, and resilience — especially for minds that process the world deeply and differently…
Science calls it divergent neural optimization. I call it evolution in progress. This article digs deep into how neurodivergent brains — autistic, ADHD, and other wiring differences — don’t just cope with change. They adapt to it...
Science Calls It Divergent Neural Optimization. I Call It Evolution in Progress
A neuroscience-based look at why autism, ADHD, and other divergent minds may represent the next stage of human evolution
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December 7, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Science calls it divergent neural optimization. I call it evolution in progress. This article digs deep into how neurodivergent brains — autistic, ADHD, and other wiring differences — don’t just cope with change. They adapt to it...
When Civilization Outpaces the Nervous System
Modern life moves at breakneck speed, but our nervous systems didn’t come with an update. In this article I explore how overstimulation, sensory overload, and constant change have created a deep disconnect between our environment and our biology.
Modern life moves at breakneck speed, but our nervous systems didn’t come with an update. In this article I explore how overstimulation, sensory overload, and constant change have created a deep disconnect between our environment and our biology.
The Great Disconnect: How Civilization Outpaced the Nervous System
Exploring the Mismatch Between Human Biology and the Digital World
medium.com
December 7, 2025 at 6:04 AM
When Civilization Outpaces the Nervous System
Modern life moves at breakneck speed, but our nervous systems didn’t come with an update. In this article I explore how overstimulation, sensory overload, and constant change have created a deep disconnect between our environment and our biology.
Modern life moves at breakneck speed, but our nervous systems didn’t come with an update. In this article I explore how overstimulation, sensory overload, and constant change have created a deep disconnect between our environment and our biology.
Inside the Brain’s Reality-Making Machine
An exploration of how perception forms from incomplete data and why our minds create more than they receive.
An exploration of how perception forms from incomplete data and why our minds create more than they receive.
When Shadows Walk: How the Brain Paints Reality from Fragments
Exploring predictive perception, neurodivergence, and the ghostly illusions that prove how creative our brains really are.
medium.com
December 6, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Inside the Brain’s Reality-Making Machine
An exploration of how perception forms from incomplete data and why our minds create more than they receive.
An exploration of how perception forms from incomplete data and why our minds create more than they receive.
A deep look at how an entire generation of autistic adults went unseen and what it means to finally be recognised. The truth was there the whole time.
The Hidden Generation: How Autism Went Unseen for Decades
Exploring why millions of autistic adults were overlooked, and how science is finally catching up.
medium.com
December 6, 2025 at 6:08 AM
A deep look at how an entire generation of autistic adults went unseen and what it means to finally be recognised. The truth was there the whole time.
This piece explores how the neurodivergent mind uses the Default Mode Network to think deeply, imagine, and stay true to itself in a world that pressures sameness.
The Default Mode Rebellion: Why Divergent Brains Refuse to Conform
A science-based look at how neurodivergent minds challenge conformity and fuel human evolution
medium.com
December 6, 2025 at 6:01 AM
This piece explores how the neurodivergent mind uses the Default Mode Network to think deeply, imagine, and stay true to itself in a world that pressures sameness.
This article peels back the layers of what we label “disorder” and shows how neurodivergent wiring follows a hidden logic that offers creative insight, emotional depth, and a perspective built for complexity. It does not ask you to change your brain, it asks you to reconsider what “normal” means…
Neurological Differences: The Hidden Logic of a Divergent Brain
A science-based look at the unseen intelligence behind autism, ADHD, and other divergent brain types.
medium.com
December 4, 2025 at 9:15 PM
This article peels back the layers of what we label “disorder” and shows how neurodivergent wiring follows a hidden logic that offers creative insight, emotional depth, and a perspective built for complexity. It does not ask you to change your brain, it asks you to reconsider what “normal” means…
What if willpower isn’t a tank you drain but a story you tell yourself?
This piece challenges the idea that constant self-control is a sustainable virtue and argues that most of what we call “willpower” is built on brittle myths; not biology.
This piece challenges the idea that constant self-control is a sustainable virtue and argues that most of what we call “willpower” is built on brittle myths; not biology.
The Myth of Willpower: Your Brain Was Never Designed for Constant Self-Control
Redefining Strength Through Science, Rhythm, and the Architecture of the Mind
medium.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:58 PM
What if willpower isn’t a tank you drain but a story you tell yourself?
This piece challenges the idea that constant self-control is a sustainable virtue and argues that most of what we call “willpower” is built on brittle myths; not biology.
This piece challenges the idea that constant self-control is a sustainable virtue and argues that most of what we call “willpower” is built on brittle myths; not biology.
When difference becomes a diagnosis, but only because someone changed the definition.
This article traces how normal genetic variation was recast as disorder, and argues that what we call “abnormal” may actually be humanity’s evolutionary advantage.
This article traces how normal genetic variation was recast as disorder, and argues that what we call “abnormal” may actually be humanity’s evolutionary advantage.
How the Gene Became a Disorder: The Re-branding of Human Variation
Reclaiming Autism’s Origins: Why Neurodiversity Is Evolution, Not Error
medium.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:47 PM
When difference becomes a diagnosis, but only because someone changed the definition.
This article traces how normal genetic variation was recast as disorder, and argues that what we call “abnormal” may actually be humanity’s evolutionary advantage.
This article traces how normal genetic variation was recast as disorder, and argues that what we call “abnormal” may actually be humanity’s evolutionary advantage.