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Dąbrowski’s Theory of Positive Disintegration anticipated what neuroscience now begins to affirm: certain nervous systems are built for transformation. Hyperneuroplasticity may provide the biological foundation for developmental potential, with the third factor as its governing mechanism and multilevelness as its structural expression.

the goal is to co-create conditions where the system’s own intelligence can reorganize into new forms of stability and meaning

A striking medical parallel that illustrates this duality at an extreme of HNP is found in paraneoplastic disorders. I am actively collecting data on possible correlations between HNP neurodivergence and paraneoplastic disorders, an exploratory effort that remains preliminary but helps inform why I am attentive to this edge case.

So imagine when I saw a cheesy Facebook post about a supposed 2025 genetics study that modeled how the DNA signals for dyslexia relate to other conditions and found that dyslexia aligns most closely with ADHD on a shared, attention-and-learning genetic pattern. Whoa. Too good to be true? Not when it's believable and supports a framework I’ve worked to develop.

Looking across the lifespan, hyperneuroplasticity emerges as a systemic orientation that permeates every stage of development, rather than a temporary trait to be gained or lost.

...HNP provides a useful umbrella for grouping certain forms of neurodivergence. Profiles such as autism, ADHD, giftedness, and trauma-shaped neurodivergence often share systemic hyperresponsiveness: accelerated learning, fluid identity shifts, sensory amplification, and greater susceptibility to both brilliance and destabilization. Seen through the lens of hyperneuroplasticity, these are all variations of a shared underlying orientation toward intensified plastic responsiven

Bringing all these seemingly random threads of dynamic brain states, nitric oxide, and neurodivergence together highlights how hyperneuroplasticity involves the intimate coupling of brain and body.

For humans navigating giftedness, neurodivergence, or trauma recovery, the octopus serves as both metaphor and scientific model. It reminds us of our capacity for deep, systemic change and calls us to radically accept a fluidity that can be both barrier and brilliance.

Epigenetics illustrates how coherence at the cellular level is achieved through regulatory processes that are themselves mutable. Process metaphysics explains this at the level of being, while hyperneuroplasticity captures it in the lived experience of certain neurobiological profiles. Whether at the scale of molecules, neural networks, or whole organisms, stability arises by transforming with change rather than resisting it.

The DecodeME study marks a turning point. It acts as a compass pointing us to a terrain where ME/CFS is genetic, biological, and systemic, rather than irrational or hyperbolic. Hyperneuroplasticity tells us that this terrain is shared with those navigating MCAS, EDS, autism, ADHD, trauma, giftedness, and beyond.

Taken together, hyperneuroplasticity, the blood–brain barrier, EDS, MCAS, dysautonomia, and FND form a constellation of overlapping expressions of a body and brain that are open, sensitive, and dynamic. This reframing points toward interventions that aim to stabilize barriers, modulate immune activity, regulate autonomic flow, and most importantly, harness hyperneuroplasticity constructively through learning, creativity, and self-directed adaptation.

For years, we've been handed diagnostic fragments. Each label attempts to describe a set of traits, challenges, or neurological styles. Yet beneath the variation, there is a shared thread running through many of these lived experiences, one that rarely gets named directly: a nervous system that adapts quickly, deeply, and often at great cost.