Editing Gerard Manley Hopkins (section)

== '''Summary of Asperger Traits in Gerard Manley Hopkins''' ==
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|+'''Diagnostic Trait Matrix: Gerard Manley Hopkins'''
! Trait
! Evidence in Biography
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| '''Monotropic focus'''
| Intense focus on poetry, metrics, nature, and religious ritual; obsession with detail in journals and verse.
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| '''Systemizing cognition'''
| Created a new poetic system (sprung rhythm); constructed a rigid moral-religious code.
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| '''Emotional flattening / affective minimalism'''
| Described as “austere,” with little emotional display; few affective relationships.
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| '''Selective sociality'''
| Few close friendships (e.g., Bridges, Dolben); discomfort in social settings.
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| '''Pragmatic language differences'''
| Communication in monologue rather than dialogue; literal responses to jokes and metaphors.
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| '''Superego rigidity / moral structure'''
| Severe self-discipline, harsh guilt, self-denial, idealistic religious devotion.
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| '''Sensory regulation / hypersensitivity'''
| Heightened sensory awareness expressed in poetry; sensitivity to rhythm, sound, visual details.
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| '''Environmental control / ritualism'''
| Rigid routines in Jesuit life; distress at changes in assignment or environment.
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| '''Affective displacement'''
| Spiritual sublimation of romantic or erotic feeling; childlike reverence in verse.
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| '''Narrative recursion or symbolic structuring'''
| Introspective, repetitive poetic themes; inward spiritual drama over interpersonal narrative.
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