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What If We Had Chosen the Commons?

Episode 289: Silencing Autistic Inquiry

Silencing the Questions: How U.S. Education Policy Threatens Autistic Quality of Life Research

Episode 288: After Mahmoud - The Collapse of Inclusive Public Education

After Mahmoud: The Coming Collapse of Inclusion in Public Education

Episode 287: Slowed-Down Love

Slowed-Down Love: On Plushies, Loss, and the Consciousness of Matter

Episode 286: Autistic Time - A Rhythmic Sovereignty

It takes as long as it takes—and that’s ok.

Episode 285: Psychiatry, Empire, and the Myth of Objectivity

Neutrality Was Never Neutral: Objectivity as Settler Logic, Psychiatry as Empire’s Epistemic Machine

Episode 284: The Silent Symphony of Autistic Embodied Language

When Silence Isn’t Absence: Notes on Autistic Embodied Language

Episode 283: When Resilience Becomes a Cage

When Resilience Becomes a Cage: The Weaponisation of Resilience Discourse Against Multiply Marginalised People

Episode 282: The Market Value of Compliance

The Market Value of Compliance: Queries and References

The Market Value of Compliance: Functioning Labels as Economic Assignments

Episode 281: From Soviet Sun to Capitalist Lamp - The Politics of Literacy

Glory to the Sun: A Little Conversation About Literacy, Agitprop, and Oligarchs

Episode 280: Sanism and Cis-Heteronormativity in Professional Gatekeeping

Sane-Heteroprofessionalism in Practice: A Reflexive Annotated Engagement with Davies et al. (2024)

Episode 279: Autistic Empaths - A Systems View of Chronic Anxiety

Interdependence Is Not a Crutch: We Were Never Meant to Hold It All Alone

Episode 278: AI Brain Study - Cognitive Debt or Systemic Burden?

The MIT AI Brain Study Didn’t Measure What It Thinks It Measured

Episode 277: Unseen Language - A Letter to Parents of GLP Younglings

The Long Archive: A Letter to Parents of GLP Younglings

Episode 276: Autistic Sensory Overload - The Lights Were Always Brighter

The Lights Were Always Brighter: New Science Confirms Autistic Sensory Overload

Episode 275: Autistic Crashes - Memes as Lived Research and Knowledge

Not a Spiral, But a Crash: How Memes Outpace Academia in Understanding Autistic Emotional Distress

Episode 274: Unwriting Empire - A Queer History of Language

Unwriting Empire: A Queer History of Language and the Feminine Spiral

Episode 273: Luminous Beings - Phosphenes, Biophotons, and Autistic Perception

We Are Luminous Beings: On Phosphenes, Biophotons, and Autistic Perception

Episode 272: We Were Never Lost

We Were Never Lost: Trans Continuity, Folktale Fire, and the Warehouse of Empire

Episode 271: Autistic Critique and the Myth of Neutrality

Just the Facts, Please: On Being Too Autistic for the Annotated Bibliography

Episode 270: A Theatre of Becoming

She/They: Possibly Appearing, Time Permitting

Episode 269: The Autistic Question - Rewriting the American Dream

“For Nothing:" Baldwin, Buckley, and the Autistic Question

Episode 268: Sub-minimum Expectations - Special Education's Gig Future

Subminimum Expectations: A Cautionary Tale from the Gig-ified Future of Special Education

Episode 267: The Unspeakable Truths of an Autistic Body

When Kindness Feels Like Intrusion: Why Time Doesn’t March for Me

Episode 266: Literacy as Political Smokescreen - Weaponising Education

Literacy as Smokescreen: How the Trump Administration’s “Science of Reading” Weaponises Education

Episode 265: Training in Public

Welcome. You Found Us.

Training in Public: Why I Write So Much

Episode 264: What the Skin Remembers

What the Skin Remembers: Transition, Nourishment, and the Refusal to Perform

Episode 263: Pride: Unlicensed Joy, Ungoverned Love

Pride: Unlicensed Joy, Ungoverned Love

Episode 262: The Erasure of Autistic Voice

If You Can’t Make Sense of Us, You Silence Us: Vocal Stereotypy, Behavioural Science, and the Erasure of Autistic Voice

Episode 261: The Architecture of Sensory Safety in Classrooms

Everything Was Too Something: the Shape of Safety

Episode 260: Diagnostic Frameworks and AuDHD Recognition

When the Traits Don’t Fit the Frame: How 'Lack' and 'Disruption' Distort AuDHD Diagnosis

Episode 259: A Radiant Refusal

Queer as In: A Love Letter to Joy, to Us, to Now

Episode 258: A Frequency I Never Asked to Tune Into

A Frequency I Never Asked to Tune Into

Episode 257: Ableism as Colonial Mind: Unlearning and Decolonising

Ableism as a Colonial Condition: A Reframing

Episode 256: Autism, the DSM, and Eugenic Statistics

Quantified and Contained: Autism, the DSM, and the Eugenic Roots of Statistical Authority

Episode 255: The Cartographer’s Return - GLP Minds in the Classroom

The Cartographer’s Return: GLP Minds in the Classroom

Episode 254: Refusing the Elevator Pitch - Understanding GLP Minds

Refusing the Elevator Pitch: On Reciprocity, Resonance, and the Ethics of Understanding GLP Minds

Episode 253: Ein Augenblick - Theatre of Gestalts

Ein Augenblick: A Theatre of Gestalts

Episode 252: The Coin and the Collar - The GENIUS Act

The Coin and the Collar: The GENIUS Act Is a Trap, Not a Reform

Episode 251: Unmasking America's Autism Therapy Obsession

Sunday Musings: On Asymmetry, Empathy, and the Curious Absence of Autistic Voice in ABA Research

Episode 250: The Frequency of Belonging

The Frequency of Belonging: On Autistic Memory, Refusal, and Kinship

Episode 249: Autistic Solitude and Trauma as Strategy

When Solitude Becomes Strategy – Reframing Hyper-Individualism in Autistic Lives

Episode 248: Heights of Theory, Horizons of Socialism

Only from the Heights of Theory: On the Crumbs of Reform, the Poison of Power, and the Climb Still Ahead

Episode 247: Plain Language Unlocks Grade-Level Content

When Words Get in the Way: How Plain Language Unlocks Grade-Level Content

Episode 246: The Autistic Heroine's Journey

Untranslated: The Autistic Heroine’s Journey

Episode 245: Legacy of Normalisation - Paperclip to HHS and Autism

The System Was Built This Way: From Operation Paperclip to HHS

Episode 244: Neurodivergent Voices Reshape Journalism's Future

The Em Dash Is Not AI: On Neurodivergent Voice and the Policing of Online Language

Episode 243: A Slow Homecoming

A Slow Homecoming: Through Fire, Through Water, Through Flame

Episode 242: Autistic Reading of AJT v Osseo

What the Courts Refuse to See: an Autistic Reading of A.J.T. v. Osseo

Episode 241: Expert Reports - A Pattern of Institutional Containment

Not the First, Not the Last: How Institutions Manufacture Legitimacy Through Expert-Led Containment

Episode 240: Becoming the Receiver

On Time, Transition, and the Spiral of Noticing

Becoming the Receiver: A Celebration of Autistic Emergence

Episode 239: Artefacts from Værensland: A Constellation in a Message

Artefacts from Værensland: A Constellation in a Message

Episode 238: The Future the Curriculum Forgot

Preparing for Yesterday’s Problems Whilst Tomorrow Burns

Episode 237: Not a Deficit - Living the DSM from the Inside

Not a Deficit: Living the DSM from the Inside

Episode 236: Sometimes Understanding Is Enough

Sometimes Understanding Is Enough

Episode 235: The Familiar Monster - Swedish Dracula and American Authoritarianism

The Vampire Within: What a Forgotten Swedish Dracula Tells Us About American Authoritarianism

Episode 234: A GLP's Guide to Decoding Financial Fear-Mail

Decode the Panic: A Neurodivergent Guide to Financial Fear-Mail

Episode 233: Why Teach When Teachers Aren't Valued?

Why Teach in a Country That Doesn’t Value Teachers?

Episode 232: Capitalism's Dystopia - Harari, Lutnick, and the New Serfdom

The Head Fake: From Harari to Lutnick, and the Capitalist Lie Behind the New Serfdom

Episode 231: The High Cost of Autistic Masking

The Cost of Passing: Autism, Masking, and the Gendered Disappearance from Diagnosis

Episode 230: DSM Changes, Autism, and Place

The Line We Carry: A Mother’s Day Reflection

Sunday Opinion: A Functional Society Doesn’t Look Like This

Episode 229: Capitalism, Wheelchairs, and the Politics of Mobility

The Market Decides Who Moves: Wheelchairs, Capital, and the Bipartisan Betrayal of Disabled People

Episode 228: Theory and Practice Converge in Language Education

Converging Paths: Dialogic Literacy and Linguistic Agency in Newman’s Research and Holistic Language Instruction

Episode 227: The Diagnostic Cage

The Diagnostic Cage: When “Support” Is a Strategy of Containment

Episode 226: The Cailleach Returns

The Cailleach Returns: Trans Femininity, Dangerous Wisdom, and the Terror of Unwritten Womanhood

Episode 225: Screams, Softness, and Seeing Patriarchy

Screams and Softness: Why Andrea Dworkin Must Be Read Now

Episode 224: Returning to Moominvalley - A Radical Education

The Valley That Held Me: Returning to Moominland

Episode 223: The Softness That Resists

The Shape of Softness: A Femmeness Unseen

Episode 222: Decoding RFK Jr.'s Capitalist Autism Rhetoric

Capitalist Dictionary: Decoding RFK Jr.’s Autism Rhetoric

Episode 221: Not Here to Perform - Autistic Communication and Connection

We Are Not Here to Perform: A GLP’s Reflection on Communication, Connection, and Respect

Episode 220: Accountability and Transparency in Behavior Analysis

If You Wanted an OSAC for ABA: Why Radical Transparency Terrifies the Behaviour Analysis Industry

Episode 219: ABA Critique - Policing Dissent as Reputation Management

A Review of the "Review": How the ABA Industry Uses Peer-Reviewed Journals to Police Dissent

Episode 218: RFK Jr., Geier, and the Betrayal of Autism Advocacy

First Thought, Worst Thought: Why David Geier Was RFK Jr.’s Pick to Lead His Autism Study

Episode 217: Bealltainn Fire and Unconditional Belonging

Bealltainn Fire: What Endures When Power Fades

Episode 216: Beyond Biology: Reclaiming Womanhood's Fluid History

Before the Cage: How "Woman" Was a Social Location — and How Biological Essentialism Stole It

Episode 215: Wohlig - Queer Journeys of Exile, Survival, and Truth

Wohlig: The Quiet Comfort of Finished Words

Episode 214: Echoes of Harm - Autism Research Still Blaming Mothers

Echoes of Harm: How Autism Research Still Blames Mothers

Episode 213: Designing for Difference - A UDL Week Audio Companion

No Script, Just Truth: One Year After I Came Out

Episode 212: The Joy That Lives in My Skin

The Joy That Lives in My Skin

Episode 211: The Long Memory of Stone - Relational Knowledge and Ancient Maths

The Long Memory of Stone

Episode 210: Let the Traces Speak

Let the Traces Speak: Against the Erasure of Autistic Presence

Episode 209: Autism - a Systemic Mismatch, Not Individual Defect

Not an Answer, Just a Trace

Episode 208: When Struggle Isn't Growth

When Struggle Isn’t Growth: How 'Productive Struggle' Became Institutional Neglect

Episode 207: The Long Memory of Gestalts - An Autistic Multilingual Experience

Bis ans Ende der Welt: The Long Memory of Gestalts

Episode 206: Reading the System - Critical Autism Studies and Power

Reading the System: Autism, Power, and the Politics of Knowing

Episode 205: Solving for Belonging- Reclaiming Maths with Story and Clarity

Solving for Belonging: A GLP’s Guide to Teaching Math with Story and Sense

Episode 204: Tartan Day - Memory, Genocide, and the Scottish Diaspora

What Empire Erases, We Remember

Episode 203: The Digital Oubliette

Unboosted: Autism, Identity, and the Silence of Systems

Episode 202: The Grammar of Control

The Grammar of Control: Why They Won’t Learn Your Name

Episode 201: Invisible Twice - Masking Autism and Gender

Invisible Twice: The Mental Health Toll of Camouflaging Autism and Gender

Episode 200: Autistic Picky Eaters and the Peculiar Effects of a Restricted Diet

The Edge and the Mirror: On Tala Brandeis, Trans Womanhood, and Erotic Truth

Episode 199: Fading Whose Voice? ABA, Scripting, and Gestalt Language

Please Say or Press One

Fading Whose Script? ABA, Misrecognition, and the Erasure of Gestalt Language Processing

Episode 198: Scripting is Speech

Scripting Is Not a Symptom—It’s Speech: What This ABA Study Gets Dangerously Wrong

Episode 197: The Three Body Problem

Unsolvable by Design: Living the Three-Body Problem

Episode 196: House Red

They Call Me Bitter: On the Mistranslation of Autistic Emotion

Episode 195: Narrative Control - Dismantling Education Oversight

MacFarlane’s Lantern: For the Scatterlings of Alba

Narrative Control by Design: Why the First Victim of Ed Department Cuts Is the Truth

Episode 194: Autism, Psychoanalysis, and Neurodivergent Affirming Therapy

What Psychoanalysis Gets Right—and Still Misses—About Autism: A Plain-Language Reflection from the Margins

Episode 193: Masking Autism - the Invisibility of High-Masking Girls of Colour

Too High-Functioning to Help, Too Brown to Belong: How the ‘Impairment’ Clause Excludes Autistic Girls of Colour

Episode 192: Beyond Relationship-Centered: Systemic Harm and Authentic Creation

When “Relationship-Centred” Isn’t Enough

Episode 191: Beyond Binary - Autism, Gender, and Trans Inclusion

Who Gets to Be an Autistic Woman?

Episode 190: Creating Beyond Compliance - a Teacher's Journey of Innovation

The Hand in the Framework: Reflections on Creation, Compliance, and the Future of Teacher Professional Development

Episode 189: Neuroqueer Becoming - Goals Beyond Arrival

No One Ever Told Me Transition Would Give Me Goals: A Neuroqueer Reflection on Becoming

Episode 188: The Shock Doctrine Comes Home

From Prague to Peoria: The Shock Doctrine Comes Home

Episode 187: Knowledge as Wonder

Knowledge as Wonder: A Journey Beyond Rationalism

Episode 186: The Failure of "Evidence-Based" Education

The Verdict Is In: ‘Evidence-Based’ Education Fails the Test of Real Science

Episode 185: Echoes of Eugenics: Autism, Research, and Erasure

What We Choose to Fund: Echoes of Eugenics in Modern Autism “Research”

Episode 184: Unchosen - a Memoir of Defiance and Self-Belonging

Blast Radius: Epicentre of a Thousand Memories

Episode 183: Autism, Mental Health, and the Trap of Capitalist Control

The Master's Tools: Why Affirming Care Can’t Exist in a System Built to Control

Episode 182: Sorting the Future - Education, Exclusion, and Authoritarian Logic

Sorting the Future: Memory, Education, and the Quiet Return of Authoritarian Logic

Episode 181: Autism Research - Ignoring Autistic Adults for Medicalisation

Where’s the Support? Autism Research in 2025 Still Ignores Autistic Adulthood

Episode 180: The Betrayal of Trans Liberation - on the Aftermath of Trust

Episode 179: The Far-Right War on Public Education and the Demonisation of Care

Commodified, Then Cast Aside: The Betrayal of Trans Liberation

Radicals, Zealots, and Marxists: The Far-Right War on Public Education and the Demonisation of Care

Episode 178: Sabotaging Education - Stupidification for Class Control

The Deliberate Sabotage of Public Education: Who Benefits from Stupidification?

Episode 177: Too Expensive to Teach - Austerity and the Erosion of Education

Beannachtaí na Cónocht: Blessings from the In-Between

Too Expensive to Teach: The Systemic Push to Drive Out Experienced Educators

Episode 176: Soviet Psychology and Gestalt Language Processing - a Forgotten History

The Forgotten Science of Language: What Vygotsky, Luria, and Leontiev Knew About GLPs

Episode 175: Setun - the Lost Future of Non-Binary Computing and Profit's Price

The Road Not Taken – Setun, the Cold War, and the Lost Future of Non-Binary Computing

Episode 174: Prompts and Cues - Fostering Independence in the Classroom

Prompts vs. Cues in Classroom Management – Supporting Independence, Not Dependence

Episode 173: Still Here, Still Queer - Neuroqueer Futures Beyond Empire

Still Here, Still Queer: Neuroqueerness, Utopia, and the End of Empire

Episode 172: Burnout - a Broken World, Not a Personal Failing

They Call It Burnout—We Call It a Broken World

Episode 171: Corporate Gaslighting - Parental Engagement vs. Systemic Survival

Engagement or Survival? The Corporate Gaslighting of Working-Class Parents

Episode 170: The Theft of Meaning - Literacy as Enclosure

The Theft of Meaning: How Literacy Became Enclosure

Episode 169: Decolonise Your Mind

The Architects of Meaning: GLPs, Retrocausality, and the Cognitive Work of Decolonisation

Episode 168: The Settler's Manifesto

The Settler's Manifesto: How the Heritage Foundation Plans to Colonise Public Education

Episode 167: Autism - Eugenics, Diagnosis, and the Fight for Existence

Episode 166: Autistic Time - History, Memory, and the Fluidity of Becoming

Writing to Be Heard in a World That Won’t Listen

This is Not the Final Version: Autistic Time, Transition, and the Fluidity of History

Episode 165: Decolonising Autism Studies - Language, Identity, and Education

The Colonial Blind Spots in Multilingual Autism Research: A Case for Decolonising Language Education

Episode 164: Before and After Gender - Speculations on Time and Identity

The Last Person Before Gender, the Fractured One, and the First Child of the Next World

Episode 163: Capitalist Collapse - Neofeudalism, Socialist Resistance, and the Future

Nowhere Left to Run: Capitalist Collapse, the Rise of Neofeudalism, and the Need for Socialist Resistance

Episode 162: ChatGPT, Translation, and the Power of Language

Tha obair a' moladh a' bhan-cheàrd

Episode 161: The Reserve Army of Labour

The Reserve Army of Labour, Autistic Exclusion, and the Illusion of Full Employment

Episode 160: Learned Helplessness in Autistic Students - Breaking the Cycle

Breaking the Cycle of Learned Helplessness in Autistic Students

Episode 159: AI-Driven Autism Detection - Eugenics, Surveillance, and Control

“We Missed Some”: The Eugenicist Logic Behind AI-Driven Autism Detection

Episode 158: Florida - a Corporate Dystopia in the Making

Manifest Destiny Ventures’ Florida Experiment: The Corporate Takeover of a State and the Death of Democracy

Episode 157: The Far-Right's War on 'Wokeness' is a Rejection of History

The Forgotten Histories of Gender Fluidity: How MAGA-Bros Reject Their Own Ancestral Myths in Their War on "Wokeness"

Episode 156: Alienation - Capitalism, Mental Health, and the Path to Liberation

Alienation and Mental Health: How Capitalism Manufactures Suffering and Suppresses Its Cure

Episode 155: The Tangerine Regime's War on Neurodivergence

The New Regime’s War on Neurodivergence

Episode 154: The Broken Contract - Literacy, Dyslexia, and the Legal Obligation

The Broken Contract: Dyslexia, Literacy, and the Legal Obligation to Educate

Episode 153: The MAHA Commission - Privatising Public Health for Corporate Profit

Meet the MAHA Commission: The Architects of America’s Next Great Looting

Episode 152: Capitalism - Myths, Machinery, Exploitation, and Colonialism

Capitalism 101: Beyond the Myths, Into the Machinery

Episode 151: AGP and Ethical Research for Autistic Lives

Able Grounded Phenomenology: Ethical Research for Autistic Lives

Episode 150: Bridging Reform and Revolution for Systemic Change

Reform or Revolution? Bridging the Divide in Neurodiversity Advocacy

Episode 149: Texas v. Becerra - Disability Rights, Trans Liberation, and Solidarity

The Trojan Horse of Texas v. Becerra: A Fight for Disability Rights, Trans Liberation, and Solidarity

Episode 148: The Assault on Section 504 and the Systemic Erosion of Disability Rights

POSIWID: The Assault on Section 504 and the True Purpose of American Governance

Episode 147: Autism and Sleep

Welcome to My Space: Writing, Advocacy, and Discovery

Episode 146: Autism, Technology, and the Exhaustion of Modern Life

No Place for Me: Autism, Technology, and the Exhaustion of Modern Life

Episode 145: Ditch the SAVE Act

The SAVE Act and Patriarchy Unmasked: James Barry, Feminism, and the Eternal Fight for Autonomy

Episode 144: Red Clydeside Today

Between the Lines: The Life and Liberation Behind The AutSide

Episode 143: a Tale of Two Approaches to Neurodiversity

Erasure, Eugenics, and the Quest to Control Autism

Episode 142: Autism, Neurodivergence, and the Case Against Capitalism

From Diagnosis to Liberation: Autism Advocacy and the Case Against Capitalism

Episode 141: Academic Neurodiversity vs. Autistic Reality - A Critical Divide

The Great Divide: Academic Neurodiversity vs. Autistic Lived Reality

Episode 140: Goodbye HRC

When the Going Gets Tough, They Move On: HRC’s Layoffs and the Abandonment of Trans People

Episode 139: Hayek's Road to Serfdom, a Neoliberal Inversion

The Real Road to Serfdom: How Hayek’s Disciples Built the System He Feared

Episode 138: The Corporate Takeover of Housing and the Case for Socialism

The Corporate Takeover of Housing—A Manufactured Crisis and the Case for Socialism

Episode 137: Trans Erasure-A History of Abandonment and the Fight for Liberation

Why Are Trans People Being Abandoned? The Truth About LGB ‘Allies’ and the Fight for Liberation

Episode 136: Stop Studying Autism and Do Something Already

Exhibit A: The Autism Research Centre, Simon Baron-Cohen, and the Feckless Waste of Autism Research Funding

Episode 135: A Takedown of Christian Nationalism

New US Tax Code Reflects Biblical Values, Adjusts Deductions Based on Gender

Episode 134: The War on Neurodivergence

The War on Neurodivergence: How Misinformation Shapes Policy and Endangers Lives

Episode 133: Embracing the Beautiful Beast - Anxiety, Autism, and the Art of Transformation

Embracing the Beautiful Beast: Anxiety, Autism, and the Art of Transformation

Episode 132: Financial Colonialism - The Great American Grift

Financial Colonialism: The Next Phase of the Great American Grift

Episode 131: What can we learn from DeepSeek?

DeepSeek and the Folly of Neoliberal AI: How the Global South Out-Innovated Silicon Valley

Episode 130: Where are the autistic women?

Why the Diagnosis Debate Misses the Point: Autism, Patriarchy, and the Erasure of Women, Girls, and Gender-Diverse Voices

Episode 129: Penny Schwinn and the Neoliberal Looting of Public Education

Penny Schwinn and the Myth of Market-Driven Solutions: A Blueprint for Neoliberal Looting

Episode 128: Whimsy as Rebellion

The Quiet Rebellion: Nature, Whimsy, and a World Gone Mad

Episode 127: True Partnerships in Education

From Co-Creation to True Partnership: Building Inclusive Educational Spaces

Episode 126: Decolonising Classroom UX - Co-Creation in Education

Decolonising Classroom UX: From Mandated Learning to Co-Creation

Episode 125: Autistic Employment in a Rigged Economy

The Orange Emperor’s War on Trans Lives: Policies of Cruelty and Distraction

Episode 124: Full Inclusion Classrooms

The Illusion of Inclusion: Systemic Failures Hidden Beneath Flawed Evidence

Episode 123: financial literacy - reclaiming economics from exploitation

Revolutionary Financial Literacy: Reclaiming Economics from Exploitation

Episode 122: Trans Identity as Both Origin and Destination

From Grey to Light: Trans as Origin and Destination

Episode 121: Dude, where's my Prado?

Freedom on the Road: What Mexican Cars Reveal About Innovation and Capitalism

Episode 120: The Lexicographer and the Fae

The Lexicographer and the Fae: Decoding the Myth of Autism

Episode 119: Capitalism, Neurodivergence, and Matristic Alternatives

Episode 118a: A Coronation Day Lament - Imperial Power and the Illusion of Democracy

A New Emperor Ascends: Executive Orders and the Illusion of Democracy

Coaching Grift and Capitalism’s Commodification of Neurodivergence: A Call for Matristic Spaces and Systemic Change

Episode 118: TikTok is dead. Long live TikTok.

Cyber Enclosures: How the Forced Sale of TikTok Mirrors Imperialism and Fuels the Surveillance State

Episode 117: Wear 'em down ...

Public Schools Under Siege: Corporate Messaging Masquerades as Journalism

Episode 116: Don't Panic!

Breaking the Narrative: How Parental Expectations Turn Neurodiversity and Gender Diversity Into “Problems”

Episode 115: What Slide Rules Can Teach Today's Students

Precision and Patience: What Slide Rules Can Teach Today’s Students

Episode 114: Lost in Translation

Lost in Translation: What an ABA Study from China Really Tells Us About Autism and Generalisation

Episode 113: He Who Shrank

Infinite Worlds Within: AuDHD Resonance in 'He Who Shrank'

Episode 112: Systemic Gaslighting Obscures the Facts About the Financialisation of Colleges

The College Debt Trap: How Autistic Students Are Exploited by the Financialisation of Education

Episode 111: IQ Scales and Reductive Autism Research

Who Does This Serve? Challenging the IQ Model in Autism Research

Episode 110: The Glass Bead Game of Life

Das Glasperlenspiel and the Spiral of Time: An Autistic Journey Through Language, Identity, and Discovery

Episode 109: Reserve Army of Labour

STEM Worker Surplus: A Capitalist Strategy to Suppress Wages?

Episode 108: How to counsel neurodivergent students about college and careers

Counsellor, Advocate, Realist: Guiding Neurodivergent Students in a System Pushing Them Toward STEM Careers

Episode 107: Fossil Capitalism

Fossil Capital and the Profitable Apocalypse: Why Capitalism Won’t Solve the Climate Crisis it Created

Episode 106: Liberation, Self-Definition, and the Fight for Authenticity

Who Defines Us? Liberation, Identity, and the Fight for Authenticity

Episode 105: Dystopia is Here

From Fiction to Reality: When Dystopia Meets Autism Research

Episode 104: Dude Where's My Dopamine?

Dude, Where’s My Dopamine?

Episode 103: Alexithymia in Classrooms

Emotions Unspoken: Why Behaviour Challenges Persist in Classrooms

Episode 102: The ECCA and the Privatising of American Education

Education for Sale: How the ECCA Empowers Corporations and Weakens Public Schools

Episode 101: Undreaming Wetiko

100 Episodes Later: Celebrating NotebookLM as a Game-Changer

Episode 100: Decolonising Mental Healthcare, Reclaiming Ancestral Wisdom

The Master’s Tools and the Therapist’s House: Decolonising Mental Health Care

Episode 99: Rest as a Revolutionary Act