Joe Rogan

If you transcend all of our weird biological needs, like all the things that are attached to being a human being, ego, lust, greed, desire to conquer, desire to control resources, all those things are territorial primate instincts.

And one of the conversations I had yesterday with my friend Theo, we were talking about what's happening to people's bodies, is that people are slowly consuming microplastics and phthalates and all these things that are reducing our reproductive system, our testosterone's dropping.

All this stuff leads you to say, well, where does this go ultimately?

Like, how many more people are autistic now than were before?

It's one out of 12 boys in California now.

It used to be one out of 10,000 just a few decades ago.

Like, we're moving into this very weird direction without us recognizing it.

One out of 12 boys in California are diagnosed autistic now.

No.

No, I think it's exposure.

I think it's exposure to chemicals, vaccines, environmental toxins.

I think that.

It's not just me.

There's tons of studies and a lot of buried studies too.

Okay.

Well, it can't be just diagnosed because, I mean, I know so many people that have nonverbal autistic kids where I didn't know anybody that had nonverbal autistic kids when I was younger.

I think that's still the case.

I don't think ADHD is a real diagnosis.

I think it's a real excuse to give people medication.

I think ADHD is essentially a superpower.