Neurodivergents are often discouraged from contributing in the ways they actually contribute: sideways, in bursts, over decades, outside the criteria.

When a project needs space for nonlinear development, full focus, or autonomy, and the institution around it cannot hold that shape, the project is not judged unfinished: the person is judged unwell.

A garden once in progress of bloom, becomes instead a costly managed symptom, inside a pathologised narrative.

The potential however does not disappear. It goes dormant, its seeds and root systems still viable in the dark, much like the lifecycle of the ghost orchid.

This archive collects evidence of both: interrupted gardens, contrasted to the communities that do let ghost orchids flourish.

It sets each one beside the cost of the psychiatric narrative that replaced bloom, or the gained qualitative community value rising from patience.

Every entry is deposited by the person it belongs to, or recorded with them in conversation. The cost figures are theirs: years spent in day programmes, therapy, or medication reviews — the spend that a pathology narrative authorises, while the contribution it displaced remained unseen and unfunded.