I was reading a book called "The Happiness of Pursuit" recently as part of my personal education to get a better grip on this puzzle that is Mason's brain.
What I have come to understand is that there are gaps in his neural construction of the representations of how he sees the world. But, where there are gaps there are also connections in other areas that typical people don't have often making it seem as if he is often psychic or intuitive on some way. Hence the the term neurodivergent.
I'm getting a better grasp on the truth that all of our realities are merely constructions created by our brains and we believe them to be true because we have common representations produced by a mechanism that is largely consistent across all people. The fact that there are people who have alternate configurations that result in different representations or constructions of reality are the exceptions that prove the rule. That is that all realities are perceptions.
We cannot truly know if the world or the universe is truly as we perceive. This is what science ultimately endeavors to determine, but even the tools of science and science itself are merely constructions of a mechanism capable of experiencing the universe in only a limited capacity. What if some neurodivergent perspective is, in fact, a more accurate representation of an objective reality.
If such aberrations in perception persist would they represent an evolution? By definition, yes. For now, they represent an anomaly, a dysfunction, a disorder, a difference at best.
But, what if those that view people like this, children particularly, as mystics or indigo kids are closer to the truth than the more common belief that they are simply disabled? What does that mean for our future? How much further would we advance and how much more quickly if we simply embraced these differences rather than constantly seeking to fix them?
Our future has always been locked in what we seek to understand and our means has always been to master rather than nurture and foster. Perhaps that needs to be our first evolution before we let such radically different perspectives lead us to whatever future we construct. After all, our track record of getting to this far hasn't been so great. Some might say we've been lucky to have survived.
