Byronism Spectrum

Most people are not even aware of what Byronism is. Some know it as a personality archetype found in antiheroes in litterature. What if, Byronism was more than that, but also a sociological phenomenon and a form of neurodivergency?

Teiu (Issam) and Arti theorize that this could be the case. Since 2018, at least four or five persons with "Byronic tendencies" have been potentially identified and observed by the author of this study without concrete scientific instruments but mere observations - with some additional individuals who seem to share subthreshold tendency.

It usually begins in preadolescence.

The name of Byronism originally defined a literary movement that was popularized in the 19th century by Lord George Byron, British writer and poet, and father of Ada Lovelace.

Developmental Byronism is a spectrum - there are no two persons alike - although similarities span across the palette.

Issam and Arti have themselves reported their own former signs of Byronism, and how they overcame them over time as they aged out of adolescence.

The byronic condition is a theory proposed by Teiu claiming that there exists a specific spectrum of neurodevelopmental archetypes and psychosocial traits related to an overlooked dark personality trait. It affects a person's moral and social perceptions, their information processing, and adaptive behaviors. The condition follows three different core symptoms:

- Negativism; byronics tend to have strongly negative outlooks on life and society, mainly due to misanthropy, angst, and pessimism. Behaviorally, they may be "edgy", irritable and provocative. Oftentimes their negativism mostly pertains to their edgy attitude and not necessarily their perceptions. Some types of Byronism do not have the expanded negativistic thoughts and behaviors seen in the full form, but are only provocative.

- Aberrations or delays of specific developmental metacognitive and adaptive skills, such as failing to take situations and feelings of others seriously; disinhibition in social situations; inflexibility or over-flexibility of identity and mind; processing of events, facts and information; forming ungrounded belief systems; poor self-control; overgeneralizing and doublethinking; and neglecting responsibilities, even basic ones such as taking care of another or one's own health. These are not explained by cognitive disorders. Some cases are so metacognitively pronounced that the individual struggles to differentiate between their internal universe and consensus reality.

- The presence of rigidity in themes of beliefs and interests; such as that humanity is fundamentally bad or evil, death and life, or that women are all deceivers. These are called ideotypies. Some ideotypies can be sexualized.

An alternative model of byronism merges ideotypies with metacognitive functioning, creating two rather than three byronic dimensions: negativism and metacognitive/adaptive ability. Someone with classic Byronism will present symptoms in metacognitive, adaptive, emotional and negativistic areas. Atypical Byronism tends to develop as having only either negativism or the metacognitive/adaptive deficits, or happen in a regressive manner in late childhood or adolescence.

Overcoming Byronism

I believe that there are several ways in which Byronism can be reversed. I have overcame my own Byronesque traits by recognizing that I was probably mind controlled. I've had situations for example where I believed I had narcissistic and sociopathic traits, and told someone, which was certainly against my own nature. I had situations where I provoked others with sexual assault jokes or by drawing a nazi sign. Situations such as this can stem from self-humiliation prompts. A human who is not under mind control rarely does such things.

First of all, I highly recommend limiting social media exposure and use to diminish traits of Byronism, as it tends to over-enable byronic tendencies from the way it is designed. People are often encouraged to be edgy and become severely angsty or develop a negative worldview. Trolling, and baiting are frequent Byronic behaviors on social media. For once try focusing away from politics, and social problems - learn dasein. You could have a spiritual crisis by doing so.

Second - practice your discernment skills and learn to see inside a person or situation deeper instead of judging based on surface data and jumping too much to conclusions. Byronism (and tot phenotypes) can easily cause people to have limited scopes of perspective based on outside impressions or egocentric experiences due to how information is processed by their minds and a survival mechanism. Said processing impairment may harm relationships.

Third - Byronism can sometimes mold itself to fake other disorder because of wanting to use neurodiversity as a trend as it can make one look edgy (e.g. false sociopath). Before you become a DID faker on TikTok, inform yourself about mental conditions. Faking DID at all is unethical.

Four - Don't draw back every facet of life to Kafka, ranting about Alex Jones, or Nietzsche. Vary your sources of intellectualism and spiritual philosophies - too much nihilism and Dadaistic philosophies can poison your mind.

- Issam/Teiu

Types of Byronism

The edgelord: Perhaps a common form of the byronic trait, pseudo-sociopathic byronics believe that being marginalized and antisocial is "cool" due to its edginess. They tend to relate to others via adhering to, and enabling deliberately provocative, controversial judgments, actions and rhetoric to create shock albeit they do not really believe in what they pretend to adhere to at all. They seem to somewhat lack sensitivity for others and have very prejudicial beliefs.

The SJW: Vindictive or social justice warrior byronics have a very reactive form of byronism. Proclaiming tolerance yet being an opposite. They have an often overanalytical and hyper-political worldview despite ironically not being able to surpass processing social information beyond first impressions and categorizing people into castes as a survival mechanism. Their core attitude is the same: overgeneralizing; for example, all men as pigs, all liberals being dumb, or all women being deceivers.

The angsty/neurotic type: This form of Byronism is mainly defined by severe angst and irritability/intolerance but beliefs are not explicitly narrow.

Withdrawn Byronic: This type is a more introverted, socially aversive form of Byronic traits, not primarily due to anxiety but mainly hatred and misanthropy. Some are very lackluster in their sense of responsibility and organization, neglecting their habitat and environment, such as, urinating in bottles and not going to the bathroom, and spending 22 hours a day on a computer. Most express their disdain through virtual means and they selectively form bonds with people they judge favorable to their own standards.

Byronism can also have three levels of gravity which are categorized as mild, moderate and severe. Nevertheless, they can be irritable. Byronics can become extremely narrow in their moral and societal perceptions.