The research · the numbers · the sources
Antidote is built on one thesis: your brain and your LLM run the same architecture — brilliant associative pattern-completion with four structural leaks: attention, memory, time, and verbatim truth. Every claim on the main page traces here, to a published study or its coverage. Audit everything. That is the point.
The evidence gallery
Every statistic deployed on sloppyxbaby.com, paired with its source. If a number can't survive this table, it doesn't go on the page.
| Stat | Finding | Source |
|---|---|---|
| +300% | A single irrelevant sentence ("Interesting fact: cats sleep most of their lives") raised wrong-answer rates over 300% in DeepSeek-R1 and OpenAI o1-class models — and made even correct answers up to 3× longer. | CatAttack LRM robustness study, 2024 |
| −30% | LLM accuracy collapses 30%+ when key information sits in the middle of the context window — even in 128K-token models. | Liu et al., Lost in the Middle, Stanford 2023 |
| 500–1000% | LLMs miss task-duration estimates by 500–1000%; top conversational models score 4.3/100 on the TimeSpeak temporal benchmark. | Tan, Tan & Soatto, 2026 |
| d = 0.69–0.74 | Working-memory deficit in ADHD is among the most replicated findings in clinical science. | ADHD working-memory meta-analyses (Kofler et al., 2024) |
| d = 0.69+ | Adults with ADHD show elevated false-memory confabulation on DRM-paradigm tests — the same effect-size class as the working-memory deficit. | Soliman & Elfar, J. Attention Disorders, 2017 |
| n = 671,000 | Autistic hyper-systemizing confirmed in a PNAS mega-study — systemizing (isolate one variable, hold the rest constant, observe the output) is the formal definition of prompt engineering. | Greenberg, Warrier, Allison & Baron-Cohen, PNAS 2018 |
| n = 1,110 | Monotropism — the single-channel "attention tunnel" — validated by the Monotropism Questionnaire, with high scores correlating to both autism and ADHD. | Garau, Murray et al., 2023 — via monotropism.org |
| more coherent | Confabulated LLM outputs are measurably more narratively coherent than truthful ones — fluency is not evidence of truth. | Sui, Duede, Wu & So, ACL 2024 |
| $500K | The NSF funded $500K (2026) for LLM-based strength-based job coaching for autistic adults (Georgia Tech) — institutional validation that this cognitive frame is real. | NSF award, Kim & Riedl — Georgia Tech news |
The merge map
Andrej Karpathy's public writing catalogued how vibe coding fails; the cognitive science names the architecture producing those failures. Each of the four principles is precisely the accommodation for one isomorphic deficit. Nominative reference only — no endorsement stated or implied.
| Karpathy's observed failure | The cognitive analog | Antidote's fix |
|---|---|---|
| Silent assumptions, hidden confusion | Confabulation — gist-track pattern completion that believes itself | Surface-assumptions rule; verification against ground truth |
| Overcomplication, bloated abstractions | Distractibility — every unneeded token burns attention (CatAttack) | Simplicity budgets; scoped context; lean injection order |
| Orthogonal edits, touching what it shouldn't | Monotropic split — context-breaking intrusion | Surgical-changes rule; request-traced diffs |
| Needs goals, not instructions | Point of performance — structure must live where behavior happens | AGENTS.md constitution; step→verify loops |
The vocabulary
Precise terms are load-bearing. These six run through everything Antidote ships.
For the human, too
Four field-tested patterns AuDHD users already run through LLMs. Each is on the Antidote roadmap as a future SKILL.md — documented here because the research behind them is the same research behind the kit.
Micro-stepping
"Give me only the first 5 physical actions, under 2 minutes each." Overwhelming, abstract projects decompose into the next physical action plus the step after it — the same decomposition Measured Time enforces on the agent.
Social translation
Neurodivergent→neurotypical reformatting of blunt, literal text for workplace consumption. The model doesn't suffer social fatigue or judgment — let it carry the translation cost instead of your nervous system.
Synthetic body doubling
10–30 minute accountability loops that pull a wandering mind back to the point of performance — combating time blindness and hyperfocus alike. Already half-built into the Monotropy Protocol's checkpoint cadence.
Metacognitive scaffolding
The agent acts as scaffold, not oracle: it asks the questions that keep your executive function in the driver's seat, instead of answering everything and outsourcing the thinking along with the typing.
Radical transparency
The domain is young and the refund is honor-based — so instead of testimonials, here is the merchandise: the complete Professional Kit file tree (names, not contents) and the DAY1.md table of contents. This audience buys what it can audit.
# every file in the kit, by name AGENTS.md # agent discovery router CLAUDE.md # global guardrails + @-imports CONTEXT-MAP.md # every surface mapped context.json # injection order + rules DAY1.md # 90-minute guided setup fix_plan.md # repair-runbook template index.html # printable kit overview PATTERNS.md # advanced architectural patterns README.md # what this is, how to install .cursor/rules/ # 4 deterministic Cursor rules antidote-context-lock.mdc antidote-external-memory.mdc antidote-surgical-changes.mdc antidote-time-anchors.mdc docs/_registry/ # doc_index.json docs/4-explanation/ # ARCHITECTURE.md · THEORY.md memory/ # brand-spec.md · decisions.md · todos.md skills/ # 11 model-agnostic SKILL.md files context-lock/SKILL.md dual-mandate-audhd/SKILL.md external-memory/SKILL.md focus-rails/SKILL.md goal-driven-loop/SKILL.md hold-the-thread/SKILL.md surgical-changes/SKILL.md think-before-code/SKILL.md time-anchors/SKILL.md what-to-test/SKILL.md work-truth-control-plane/SKILL.md templates/ # instance.control-plane.md
# Day 1 — A 90-minute setup Your one default path 0–10 minutes — orient 10–25 minutes — make the work record real 25–45 minutes — add the smallest useful context 45–65 minutes — choose an accessibility lens 65–80 minutes — complete one small loop 80–90 minutes — leave a soft landing Recovery path
The citation chain
The full source chain behind the AuDHD×LLM thesis and the behavioral guidelines, as compiled in the Divergent Harness outline (2026-07-16). Community sources (Reddit, blogs) are marked as such and backstop only the claims they actually support; the peer-reviewed anchors carry the numbers.
The very traits pathologized as clinical deficits — hyper-systemizing, literal communication, monotropic focus, divergent association — are the exact competencies required to control the most advanced computational systems in human history.