Coded
What if the psyche is not disordered -but speaking in a language we have not yet learned to read?
There is a new language emerging. I heard in passing —” ADHD-coded.” Not a diagnosis. Not a fixed identity. But a recognition. A way of sensing that someone is moving through thought, time, and meaning differently. As if they are not speaking out of order, but speaking in code.
In depth psychology, we don’t choose our archetypes. They move through us.
The puer—restless, searching alive with possibility.
The matriarchal—intuitive, fluid, attuned to unseen rhythms.
The trickster—disrupting sequence, breaking form.
Sabiduria—wisdom that does not arrive in steps, but in synthesis.
But perhaps more than this, the psyche is not singular. It is polytheistic. Not one voice, but many. Not one path, but multiple movements occurring at once.
This weekend, a friend came over. He spoke for nearly forty-five minutes—moving through politics, literature, war, religion, and human behavior. It wasn’t linear. It was a kind of cyclone. At times, it felt scattered. At times, excessive. But I listened. And at the end, he arrived. “People just need to like people,” he said. “Regardless of color, gender, religion, politics…people just need to get back to loving people.” And there it was. Not random. Not disorganized. But a psyche moving through many voices—to retrieve a single truth.
James Hillman wrote, “The gods have become our diseases.” What was once experienced as myth, image, and archetype is now often reduced to symptom. What we fail to recognize, what we no longer know how to name, does not disappear. It returns. Through the body. Through behavior. Through the collective. Perhaps what we are calling “neurodivergent” is, in part, a psyche encountering its own multiplicity—without the mythological language that once held it. What if “coded” minds are not losing the thread—but following multiple threads into the collective field? Not efficiency—but integration. Not disorder—but archetypal movement. And perhaps this is where anxiety lives. In the tension between a world that demands linear clarity—and a psyche that moves in symbols, spirals, and associations. Because what appears fragmented may be the psyche in the act of remembering itself. Maybe we are not becoming more disordered—maybe we are becoming more coded.
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