Title: Polymathy and Neurodivergent Cognition: the Polymathic Neurodivergent Profile (PNP) and the Capability-Adjustment Fallacy Author: Michael Darius Eastwood Publication date: 2026-07-03 Version: v1.5 Revised: 2026-08-31 OSF DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/RBHDP Canonical URL: https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/papers/paper-c-pnp.html Abstract -------- This paper proposes the Polymathic Neurodivergent Profile (PNP) as a descriptive, non-diagnostic framework for a rare but practically important pattern: unusually strong cross-domain learning, structural pattern transfer between fields, intense self-directed research, and high output in complex, high-interest domains, coexisting with clinically significant difficulty in routine administration, pacing, timekeeping, task-switching, and low-stimulation procedural work. The central proposition is the Capability-Adjustment Fallacy: the institutional inference that visible high performance is evidence that reasonable adjustments are unnecessary. That inference is unsafe, and is contradicted by existing clinical guidance. NICE CG142 already directs professionals to recognise the discrepancy between intellectual functioning and adaptive functioning, and modern strengths-based assessment treats the same neurodivergent trait as advantage or impairment depending on context. Beyond naming the pattern, the paper does three further things. First, it presents a documented live case: the author's own profile, evidenced across three independent documentation streams (clinical assessment, a court record in which adjustment requests and high-quality self-represented output coexist, and a dated research corpus, whose signature-time assertions are the mail provider's rather than an RFC 3161 timestamp, spanning AI alignment, scaling theory, and mathematics). Second, it sets out a priority and convergence analysis: the framework's central claim about neurodivergent cognition found adjacent territory in Hernández-Espinosa and colleagues (PNAS Nexus, 14 April 2026), whose subject is artificial agents: they prove full AI-human alignment mathematically impossible for Turing-complete systems and propose diversity among competing agents, under a neurodivergence analogy, as the counterbalance, an argument that in turn served as the stated conceptual foundation for a formal undecidability result (Gumbau Mezquita, June 2026); the author's timestamped manuscripts precede both. Third, it states a falsifiability standard: pre-committed abandonment conditions, operational measures, and the incremental-validity test the construct must pass or be discarded. The aim is neither to medicalise polymathy nor to use ability as immunity from ordinary process, but to prevent a recurrent error: the conversion of a person's strengths into evidence against their needs. Keywords: autism spectrum condition; ADHD; twice-exceptionality; monotropism; executive function; reasonable adjustments; strengths-based assessment; institutional misrecognition; access to justice; AI alignment; cognitive diversity. Key findings (quotable) ----------------------- - The central proposition is the Capability-Adjustment Fallacy: the institutional inference that visible high performance is evidence that reasonable adjustments are unnecessary. - That inference is unsafe, and is contradicted by existing clinical guidance. - NICE CG142 already directs professionals to recognise the discrepancy between intellectual functioning and adaptive functioning, and modern strengths-based assessment treats the same neurodivergent trait as advantage or impairment depending on context. - Beyond naming the pattern, the paper does three further things. Priority claims relevant to this paper -------------------------------------- - PC-012 (2026-01-02): The coherent 37-concept apparatus of the Eden programme was first published in Infinite Architects on 2 January 2026. Originator-declared conceptual apparatus, not peer-reviewed findings. - PC-010 (2026-01-02): The Infinite Architects paperback (ISBN 978-1806056200, ISBN-10 1806056208) was first published on 2 January 2026. The book presents the ARC Principle, the Eden Protocol, the semiconductor Chokepoint framing, the HARI Treaty proposal, the Three Ethical Loops and the 37 named concepts. Book's featured equation is U = I x R squared; the research papers use U = I x R^alpha with the exponent open to measurement. Citation -------- Michael Darius Eastwood (2026). Polymathy and Neurodivergent Cognition: the Polymathic Neurodivergent Profile (PNP) and the Capability-Adjustment Fallacy. OSF DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/RBHDP. https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/papers/paper-c-pnp.html Notes ----- Hardware framings held at the site's already-published two-sentence concept ceiling: safety constraints at hardware level through cryptographic tokens in silicon, TRL 0-1, no prototype. 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