Editing Henri Poincaré (section)

=== Legacy and Diagnostic Reflection ===
While celebrated during his lifetime, Poincaré was often misunderstood by peers who expected affective accessibility or rhetorical warmth. He remained misunderstood as a “cold genius,” a “mathematical mystic,” or an “inhuman calculator.” But these characterizations miss the point: Poincaré was not socially aloof because he lacked feeling. He was '''structured inward''', and his emotion found form only through '''pattern, logic, and internal symmetry'''.

In light of the evidence, it is clear that his '''neurodivergence enabled rather than limited''' his contributions to science, and that his life-long patterns of social discomfort, perfectionism, symbolic cognition, and environmental ritual point unambiguously toward '''Asperger syndrome'''.
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