Articles by Eefje Gilbert on high-masking neurodivergence, trauma and the three-axes methodology. Each piece appears in the language it was published in, with its source. Not translated, because a translated citation can no longer be traced.
The theoretical article behind the three axes. Why nervous system regulation and relational contact are not enough, what the vertical axis is, and why it can be described both measurably and theologically without either description cancelling the other. On masking as a vertical axis deficit, the dark night as a dimensional problem, and the line between what I believe and what I know.
Every year too many neurodivergent people die by suicide, including those who did everything we asked. What if we have mistaken survival for recovery? A question to clinicians about where we direct our attention: at the person, or also at the environment.
Why neurodivergent people do not need more regulation toward the norm, but environments that do not require their nervous systems to be overridden, constantly. On the hyperscanning research by Feng and colleagues, two different questions, and what safety concretely is.
A contribution to the policy and training debate. High-masking neurodivergent clients do not appear in the Dutch disability and reintegration system as a neurodivergent profile but as complex, recurring cases. This article makes the group visible, describes recognition signals, reads recurrence as a sign of mismatch and proposes three practical implications for UWV. With references. In Dutch.
Part 5 of 5. How a linguist who studied click languages in Africa ended up in a field in The Hague, and why that is a single straight line. On ti estin and estin ti: a philosopher father's question and the ground that comes before it.
Part 4 of 5. A horse lies down flat on the sand and a woman sees, for the first time, how tired she really is. On masking in high-masking neurodivergent women, what it costs, and why an external reference point is needed to see it.
Part 3 of 5. A man kicks a pylon across the arena and the horse yawns. On the mechanism behind equine-assisted work: not magic, but a prey animal that reads nervous systems instead of narratives.
Part 2 of 5. An arena, a horse called Tygo, and the words "yeah, fine". On incongruence: the gap between what you say and what your body holds, and what happens when an animal refuses to take the words at face value.
Part 1 of 5. A linguist spends fifteen years sharpening language as a tool for understanding reality, and discovers that the thing she most needed to understand could not be reached through language at all. From a Flemish dinner table via Khoisan click languages and the Bagyeli in Cameroon to the edge where words stop.
Wisdom is not something you know but something you embody. On noticing in hindsight as the first building block, on data becoming information and knowledge becoming wisdom only when the nervous system dares to act on it, and on Vervaeke's observation that we have institutions for knowledge but none for wisdom.