The Byronism spectrum is a set of personality and neurodevelopmental traits developed by Tay Sam Pharol as a neurodiversity theory, which affect a portion of the human population (and some ETs as well, perhaps). Its continuum includes the Rose neurotype and the Byronic neurotype, defined as overlapping yet different neurotypes. Individuals with Byronic traits commonly experience the following characteristics: tendency towards strong negative emotionality, poor adaptability and high ideological and cognitive rigidity.
Although it seems to be a combination of epigenetic and environmental factor, most of influencing variables appear to be environmental.
Centralized themes of interest and fixation sharing a common theme can be a facet of the neurotype as well as a more external locus of attention. Byronci persons may also have differences in how they are desensitized or sensitive to others' pain and suffering, or their own.
Byronism also incorporates predicaments on belief formation and identity, as conceptualizations of the identity of concepts, ideas, opinions, and even persons can be biased heavily by socio-emotional perceptions and cognitive rigidity, leading potentially to impaired situational awareness or empathy, intense zealotry, or a fixation on categorization, generalizations or bold moral judgment partly due to how the social environment raises a person into developing said traits. Byronic individuals may tend to have predominantly emotional reasoning. They may variably understand the moral impact of their actions, but may live simultaneously a preconceived belief system which can affect their social behavior, relationships and social approaches.
Education is also a primary factor in the causation of Byronism due to its current system of indoctrination.
Disillusionment responses can become easily caused phenomena in a pre-Byronic or Byronic person, particularly a young individual such as a teenager or child; causing potentially a "reactive" form of Byronism, called reactive Byronism. Feelings of being "failed by society" and betrayal may occur, leading to desperate self-avengement. Reactive forms of Byronism lead to the same effect of enhardening and rigidification of belief systems, depression, irritability, and emotional anxiety or angst. On the other side, there are persons who develop a highly rigid belief system imposed by educational, familial or cultural influence, which may cause fanaticism, fascist traits, doublethinking or poor self-awareness - without the disillusionment reaction.
Irritability as well as angst are key facets of the Byronic personality due to the core sentiment of deep incompatibility and frustration with attempting to survive in an unfitting societal system and/or early disillusionment. Many Byronic persons have deep interpersonal or cultural trauma from childhood and adolescence, sometime saccompanied by neglect and physical abuse, or attachment disruptions. Said adverse and traumatic experiences can aid the outcome of Byronism or trigger its onset.
Byronics may have variable social expressions and internal expressions - not all will be inherently miserable, as some are "happy Byronics". Some have less ideological rigidity yet show traits in other areas. The universal trait in Byronism is that of specific forms of adaptative deficiencies or incompatibilities paired with perceptual rigidities and emotional dysregulation.
The primary difference between an adaptive deficiency; versus an adaptive incompatibility is that a deficiency is strictly from a developmental limitation hindering the potential to survive or thrive in a societal model, or even survive alone, while an incompatibility is defined moreso an incapacity to feel harmonized within a cultural framework regarding how it corresponds to internal personal values, while the individual still carries potential to adapt, and can still be compensated by masking - which in Byronism inevitably can causes persistently aggravating psychological and often behavioral polarization out of distress, if the person does not receive support or change environments. This harmful psychological polarization effect can last as long as the individual is not sufficiently supported or does not change from their less compatible environment to a more compatible environment (such as moving to a more natural, spiritual and peaceful area; changing school programs, living with a specific cultural group, etc). An adaptive incompatibility can be paired with an adaptive deficiency further hindering the individual's potential to acclimate or function within their environment. Some Byronics do not feel content with their environment regardless of its state.
Byronism commonly gets misdiagnosed as an autism spectrum condition. It is not discounted that autism, particularily forms which do not hinder verbal or intellectual skills, can be often co-occuring with Byronism. Although the neurotype can affect anyone, some people who may identify as Highly Sensitive Persons may have Byronic traits. As a differential neurotype, Byronism does not include sensory processing differences most of the time, and if there are communication differences they generally do not cause social limitations. Repetitive behaviors are not a symptom yet can be sometimes co-occuring. Children who are susceptible to developing Byronism as teenagers or preteens, seem to commonly have "behavioral problems", particularily oppositionality, disinhibited impulses, and mood dysregulation. Some persons on the Byronic spectrum not only experience inadaptability, and perceptual rigidities, but can also become highly dysregulated, especially before adulthood.
Overall, Byronism is considered by Tay to be the most "human" of psychological syndromes. It is not considered a pathology but a common reaction to an unhealthy social environment.
