Every person arrives pre-tuned. A handful of low-level neural settings — how fast you process, how densely you're wired, how hard you brake, how loudly the world comes in — are dialed in before you have any say in the matter, by genes and the environments that shaped them.
This instrument turns eight of those settings into knobs. None of them is a disorder. Each is just a quiet trade-off: a strength bought with a cost. But turn a few of them together, past where the population usually sits, and familiar shapes emerge in the output — the restless attention we call ADHD, the deep locked focus and sensory flood of autism, the slow tide of bipolar mood, the looping vigilance of OCD. You never selected those shapes. They fell out of where the dials landed.
That's the whole point. We are quick to read other people's behavior as choices — as effort, character, or fault. Watch how little has to move here for one person to become another, and how unchosen all of it is. The hope is a little more grace for minds tuned differently than your own.
Artistic model, not a clinical one. Mappings are deliberately simplified and gesture at real (and often genuinely contested) neuroscience — reduced synaptic pruning in autism, aberrant-salience accounts of psychosis, arousal/inhibition balance in mood — without claiming to reproduce it. Nothing here diagnoses anyone, including you.