Am I Autistic? You're not the only one who's asked

Am I autistic?An intellectual autobiography

I became preoccupied with holistic explanations based on minimal assumptions. I recall spending hours thinking furiously in my bedroom— overlooking cherry blossoms in the front garden: I was convinced that there should be a singular explanation for the shape of things, just starting from the premise that something existed. My best conceptualization of this was some abstract point in an abstract space that, in later life, transpired to be a point attractor in a phase-space. This style of thinking made it easy to understand dynamical systems theory in terms of attracting sets—and the distinction between different forms of attracting manifolds.