Framing this divide as a neurotypical/neurodivergent thing is perhaps a bit narrow. Consider "The Hollywood Ending" vs "The French Ending". People used to Holl

Framing this divide as a neurotypical/neurodivergent thing is perhaps a bit narrow. Consider "The Hollywood Ending" vs "The French Ending". People used to Hollywood, where all the details[0] get wrapped up in a definite ending, often complain about the artier side of french cinema that their films "don't end". When you're used to it, however, which is a more satisfying experience? A film with a canonical ending, where you're spoon-fed the resolution, or one which sets up a world, and a story, and stops at the crucial moment, so after watching you can go to a café and have a glass or two and argue with your friends about what would have/should have happened next? (it's possible to come up with alternative narratives for Hollywood fare as well, but too strong a canon pretty much impedes most fanon) I believe I've even noticed this tendency in the concluding speech in anglophone vs francophone conferences: anglophones tend to summarise the proceedings ("conclusion"), kind of putting a ribbon around all the previous presentations and tying a bow on it, while francophones tend to hilight how to go beyond the proceedings ("future work"), kind of putting up signposts to all the areas that next years' conferences might be exploring. (tennis/ping-pong, etc. also have a weaving/concluding dichotomy. In competitive games, the goal is to score points, to avoid having a serve returned[1], but in entertainment games, the goal is to keep the rally going; to dance, not duel, with the counterparty) In academic writing, the footnote provides a way to bridge both worlds: the main body can be a more (or less) taut line from introduction to conclusion, but the footnotes[2] can provide portals to all the side excursions that were cut from the main body in the interest of concluder communication. Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eiY4EiOhmQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eiY4EiOhmQ [0] unless deliberately leaving the franchise open. [1] contrast hacky-sack, where the goal is that all players touch the ball during a play. [2] and, in textbooks, exercises. (Consider also the potential of parentheticals; inveterate weavers have also been known to leave a few warps and wefts in the index)