Relevant background facts shedding light on the deep roots of the disease model of individual experience.

"Western scientists have created an artifact: in our efforts to study emotions in an elemental way, we have created an experimental method that has strong but hidden context effects. It produces a psychological model that is intellectually pleasing but it has little to do with reality." - Feldman Barret et al.

“Our minds, brains, and indeed our biology are substantially shaped by social norms, values, institutions, beliefs, and languages. By setting the incentives and defining the constraints, our culturally-constructed world shapes how we think, feel, and perceive—it tinkers with and calibrates the machinery of our minds." - J. Henrich

The streetlight effect is not contained in fundamental physics, or even science, it is everywhere.. It is may be the defining characteristic of our era.

Our physiological variability and the way our brain constructs its picture of reality mean that we each see a somewhat different reality. The Perception Census is the first big data project that starts mapping this variability. It can radically change how we think of ourselves and others, including neurodiversity.