Grassini Grimaldi, Alessandro: The Two Solitudes: A Socio Anthropological Study of Vertical and Horizontal Isolation in Neurodivergent and Cognitively Divergent Experience

The Two Solitudes introduces a new socio anthropological distinction between two fundamentally different forms of human isolation: vertical solitude and horizontal solitude. Vertical solitude refers to the historically recognised isolation of leaders, commanders, visionaries, and elevated figures whose displacement from ordinary social experience occurs through hierarchy, responsibility, or power. Horizontal solitude, by contrast, refers to the dimensional isolation experienced by neurodivergent