Ancient oak tree with spreading roots — a symbol of ancestral depth

Ancestral Neurodivergence Map

by Davina Robertson MA  ·  Belonging to Myself

💻 This tool works best on a laptop or desktop — it can be a little tricky to read on a phone.

This tool invites you to explore the patterns of overexcitabilities, giftedness, and diagnosable differences that have run through your family across generations. It is a tool for self-exploration and reflection, not diagnosis—a way of seeing yourself, and maybe your children, in context, and understanding where the threads you carry may have come from. It is worth noting that overexcitabilities and giftedness are themselves ways of diverging from the majority neurotype—they too are part of the rich spectrum of human neurodivergence, not separate from it.

A note before you begin

This may be you just wondering for much of it, making your best guess. You will be working with fragments—stories, impressions, second-hand accounts, or simply what you sense or sensed about them. That is enough. Mark what feels true to you, leave blank what you do not know, and hold all of it lightly. You may be wrong. There will almost certainly be people and traits with no evidence remaining. Women, especially, in past generations may not have been free to demonstrate their giftedness. There may well be others you have no way of knowing about. This is a map, not a verdict.