The Bright Insight Blog

...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

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.