A space built from
necessity.
I built this because I needed it — and couldn’t find it. Every resource existed somewhere. None of it was in one place, written for someone like me: a woman, identified late, who thinks in mathematics and needs both the plain truth and the precise one.
Why Cassandra’s Latent Space
In Greek mythology, Cassandra was a Trojan princess gifted with the ability to see the future — and cursed so that no one would believe her. She spoke truth. She was ignored, dismissed, called hysterical.
For many neurodivergent women, this myth resonates with painful accuracy. We spend years knowing something is different — about how we think, how we feel, how we move through the world — and being told we are wrong, too sensitive, too much, or not enough.
The name is an acknowledgement of that experience. And a reclamation of it.
In machine learning, a latent space is a compressed representation of data where hidden structure becomes visible. Points that seem unrelated on the surface cluster together in latent space — revealing patterns that were always there, just not yet seen.
Neurodivergent minds work similarly. The patterns are real. The connections are real. The way we process, perceive, and experience the world is real — it just doesn’t always map onto the coordinates everyone else is using.
This space is for making those patterns visible.
Identified late.
Everything made sense.
I am a mathematician working with AI. I have multiple degrees across mathematics and the humanities. I have spent my life being simultaneously too much and not enough — too intense, too focused, too literal, too sensitive — while also being told I was gifted, capable, fine.
“Fine” is not the same as understood. And understood is what I needed.
My identification as autistic and highly gifted as an adult was, in equal measure, a relief and a grief. Relief because decades of confusion suddenly had a shape. Grief because of all the years spent not knowing, not having the language, not having the map.
During that process, I searched for resources obsessively — as one does. I found fragments everywhere: a validated test on one site, a paper on another, a forum thread that almost said what I needed. Nothing was in one place. Nothing was written for a woman who wanted both the human story and the citation.
So I built it. This is that place.
What this space
is for.
Cassandra’s Latent Space exists to give neurodivergent women — and the people who love and support them — a single, honest, rigorous place to begin understanding.
Not a clinical manual. Not a listicle. Something in between: curated, personal, and precise.
Validated tests — the psychometric tools used in identification, with scoring guides, interpretation notes, and links to the original research. In both Clear and Precise versions.
Curated reading — the books, papers, and articles I read during my own process, organised so you can find what you need without starting from scratch.
Honest context — what these tests can and cannot tell you, how identification works for women specifically, and why so many of us arrive here later than we should have.
A human voice — because information without humanity is just data, and you deserve both.