Speed, Timothy: Veridical Mapping as a Spatial Operation - Neurodivergent Cognition Beyond Representational Models

Research on autism and neurodivergence has produced a wide range of partial models over recent decades, including monotropism, hyper-systemizing, intense-world hypotheses, variants of predictive processing, theories of veridical mapping, and empirical descriptions of savant phenomena. Each of these approaches captures real aspects of neurodivergent cognition, yet they remain fragmented and fail to explain why these phenomena systematically co-occur. The present paper proposes an ontological re-f