This paper presents a novel hypothesis for the locus and mechanism of what is traditionally termed “working memory,” reframed as “distributed core processing.” The genesis and development of this model arise not from conventional laboratory inquiry, but from sustained naturalistic observation and intensive, self-directed thought experiments over a lifetime. The author, an autistic individual, proposes that enhanced pattern management and acute environmental data processing—hallmarks of autistic cognition—confer insight into distributed brain network behaviors. The paper outlines the theory, its foundations, and the scientific literature now converging to validate these intuitions. It concludes with a critique of rhetorical aversion to neurodivergent difference, arguing such aversion diminishes global innovation capacity.