Atypical: The Podcast
Episodes
The numbers we need to discuss
12 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textContent warning: There is a discussion of suicide and self-harm during this episode. It is important and contextualised but this is a co...
Treat a headache, get autism
28 Nov 2025
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Send us a textSigh. Ok, paracetamol DOES NOT cause autism. Here is why it's dangerous to say so.https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38592388/https://...
IQ Testing & Eugenics
11 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textSimon got annoyed and took to the mic to talk about IQ testing. Health warning, it's not a great subject. IQ testing has been used ...
Is it empathy or is it evil?
18 Apr 2025
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Send us a textWhat happens when a psychologist tries to do philosophy? Usually nothing good. Happily, we have a philosopher on hand to explain why thi...
Autistic people and rapport
28 Mar 2025
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Send us a textSimon has been reading again, this time a paper on autistic and non-autistic rapport: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.1177/1362...
Not a Priority
21 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textJoin Simon, returning champion Georgia and guest Susie as Georgia tells us all about doing FoI requests for every NHS trust in England a...
ADHD and New Years Resolutions (Project keep ADHD people on track)
24 Jan 2025
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Send us a textA mere two weeks late... Look, I got distracted ok?Anyway, Simon is joined once again by Filip and Sam and we take a *very* ADHD ramble ...
An Autistic is for Life, not just for Christmas
24 Dec 2024
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Send us a textJoin Simon, Filip and Georgia as we consider Christmas, a quick discussion of where it came from and the modern experience for neurodive...
International Day of People with Disabilities
03 Dec 2024
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Send us a textWell it's the 3rd of December so join Alexander and Simon for a brief* discussion of disability and what it means in society. *Bri...
Grateful (Honourary Autist) Deadhead
14 Sep 2024
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Send us a textjoin the gang as we discuss the late Steve Silberman, his impact on neurodiversity education and on being a record producer and mega fan...
Now you Sia, now you don't - An Atypical Film Review
18 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textJoin Simon and Alexander as they slowly loose their minds watching the 2021 film "Music" by Sia. A film apparently about a non...
Non-Binary Day and Neuroqueer Theories
19 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textIt's that time of the week/month/phase of the moons of Jupiter again when Simon actually gets round to delivering on a podcast. Thi...
Autism Pride and Masking: The Good, the Bad and the Exhausting
21 Jun 2024
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Send us a textSimon is joined this week by Georgia (@mind the flap) to discuss Autism Pride Day, masking and some of the work she is doing on autism c...
A summer of events and the inevitable crash
07 Jun 2024
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Send us a textJoin Simon as this week we explore the concept of post festival slump, that crash you get after a great event. Fresh from only their sec...
Zebrafish, dopamine and autism
23 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textSimon returns with another paper of interest and only a mild case of crushing guilt at loosing an entire episode and having an existenti...
The Mystery of Creativity & the Myth of Normality
22 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textThis week, join Simon on a deep dive through time into the evolution and possible origins of neurodiversity. From the ancient wisdom of ...
Travelling whilst autistic, doom scrolling and a new K-Pop band?
08 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textWith the return of the erstwhile Kim we discuss travelling as a neurodivergent person, using social media and, in true ADHD style, we di...
Phones don't cause ADHD
23 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textSimon is back with season three of the Atypical podcast. A litle lonley in the recording suite, because neurodivergent people have a lot...
The Bumpy Road of Reading: Dyslexia's Lexical Labyrinth
15 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textJoin Simon and some coffee friends as we explore dyslexia in a little more detail. A brief exploration of it's history, the impacts...
University, disability and do ND people pick up accents more quickly?
01 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textJoin Simon and special guest Danny for a discussion of autism, ADHD, the International Day of People with Disabilities and a moment for ...
Awareness, history and crumble (custard optional)
18 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textJoin Simon and San as we discuss being trans allies, the disability history month and crumble. Also, don't ask Sam about hot thermo...
Halloween, what happens at parties and is all television imaginary?
07 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textThere are a few things in this weeks episodes - silly voice changers, some history, the wheel of privilege and dress up parties. Editin...
Mental Health Day, Coming Out and the Goblin tools we can use to help
20 Oct 2023
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Send us a textJoin Sam, Joey and Simon as we discuss International Mental Health Day, National Coming Out Day and some useful AI tools that could help...
Dyslexia Awareness Week
04 Oct 2023
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Send us a textJoin Joey and Simon as we discuss dyslexia and dyslexia awareness week, bringing some of our own stories and experiences to help try and...
Inclusive Demons and the Unions that Defeat Them!
26 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textWelcome to another exciting episode of Atypical. This week join Sam and Simon as they talk about the world of unions and we explore th...
Alexithymia and me
05 Sep 2023
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Send us a textJoin Simon for a brief discussion of emotional regulation and people who might struggle with expressing or even identifying their own em...
Applied Behaviour Analysis - a.k.a. "Autism Conversion Therapy"
18 Aug 2023
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Send us a textThis week Simon finally gets his papers together and talks at the microphone about ABA. In the exploration of Applied Behaviour Analysis...
Moving whilst autistic
08 Aug 2023
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Send us a textA few days late and the audio has a few... Issues. That's what happens when Simon moves house. But why not join Simon and Wott for ...
Female and autistic? Nah mate, only boys have it
21 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textIn this intriguing episode of Atypical, we're thrilled to welcome back our co-host Marianne, who opens up about her journey through...
Imaginary friends, conspiracies and stimming
07 Jul 2023
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Send us a textYep, we are back, the people only you can hear and see... Or rather heard, because we are definitly real, you can trust me on this. Joi...
Autistic people have better sex
30 Jun 2023
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Send us a textThat got your attention didn't it!Join Simon for a short episode discussing demisexuality and autism. We made reference to several ...
Post event slump and Pride Month!
02 Jun 2023
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Send us a textOn this week's solo episode, join Simon and he navigates the subject of post-event slump, a phenomenon often experienced in the wak...
ADHD and Private Clinics - or - "Why Panorama Caused Upset"
19 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textIn this week's episode, hosts Watt, Kuro, and Simon delve into the recent BBC Panorama documentary, focusing on ADHD and the burgeo...
Autistic Meltdowns and Shutdowns
05 May 2023
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Send us a textJoin Simon this week as we discuss a few news items and then briefly take a look at autistic meltdowns and shutdowns. There is a lot mor...
Off the Rails - Apps, News and Lego
21 Apr 2023
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Send us a textAs we continue in our second season, join Simon, Sam and Watt as we discuss some news articles that caught our eye. From the autism frie...
After Dark - Bicycle Day!
19 Apr 2023
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Send us a textHave you ever heard of Bicycle Day? It's the day that celebrates the discovery of LSD by Swiss chemist Albert Hoffman. In this epis...
Autism Acceptance (Round Two)
07 Apr 2023
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Send us a textWelcome to Season 2! We return to our very first subject, Autism Acceptance Month! Alas Marianne was busy and so Simon called upon regul...
The Legacy of Hans Asperger
24 Mar 2023
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Send us a textAlmost everyone even vageuely aware of autism or neurodiversity in general has heard the term "Aspergers" banded about. But we...
Bonus! Neurodiversity Celebration Week!
13 Mar 2023
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Send us a textIt's a short notice bonus for you today, Simon is joined by Dahlia and Sam as we talk about Neurodiversity Celebration Week and som...
Labels and a place for everything
10 Mar 2023
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Send us a textBack for another week and we have Joey, Dahlia and Simon starting a conversation on labels - are they useful, what do they mean to us an...
Cures, young queers and Plutarch
24 Feb 2023
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Send us a textJoin Simon, Kuro, Joey and guest Sam as we discuss a "cure" for autism, LGBT history and young people coming out, something Si...
After Dark - Sex work and neurodiversity
03 Feb 2023
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Send us a textWell this is it, our first "After Dark" episode. Join regulars Simon, Kuro and Joey as we welcome guest Dahlia to talk about s...
FOMO
27 Jan 2023
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Send us a textA new year dawns and the team at Atypical have been busy with life. Probably why we thought we ought to talk about FOMO - Fear of Missin...
Christmas chinwag
16 Dec 2022
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Send us a textHi all!It has been a good six weeks since we last spoke to you. After Episode 15 we all needed a little rest and then, well life happens...
Jabs, frauds and even more bad science
14 Oct 2022
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Send us a textWell for episode 15 we thought it might be worth discussing the great Wakefield fraud, the MMR scandal, the lies and damage that were sp...
Luddites and Podcasts
30 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textSimon has been left alone with a microphone, a mostly recovered voice and no co-hosts. So of course they decided to talk about World Pod...
Inner voice, metathoughts and dreaming of lakes
16 Sep 2022
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Send us a textDo you run an inner monologue or is your brain a peaceful and quiet place? Join hosts Simon and Kim and returning guest Kuro as we delve...
Body image, fixing it and why Simon won't have abs
02 Sep 2022
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Send us a textEvening all,Slightly late to publish this weeks episode as we only recorded it on Thursday and then... Yes well. Simon has been given co...
AI, artists and replacing Simon
19 Aug 2022
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Send us a textWe are back with another episode. Episode 11, who'd have thought we might make it this far. In the first of a set of episodes we ho...
Bonus Episode - So, what's with all the cutlery?
12 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textAfter our masking episode, someone asked Simon why we kept talking about spoons. Well dear listener, when someone asks a question like t...
Masking
05 Aug 2022
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Send us a textWho would have beleived we would make it even this far. But we have, Episode 10 is here! And boy was it a whopper. We decided to try and...
Heat, Embarrassing Teams Calls and Office Clothing
22 Jul 2022
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Send us a textYep, it's been a hot old week and we probably don't make much sense. But with the return of the Mysterious Voice, Simon and Ma...
International Non-binary Peoples Day
14 Jul 2022
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Send us a textJust Simon today with a short piece on International Non-Binary Peoples day. I drew the list in the episode from Stonewall here: https:/...
News Overload and Being Out in the Workplace
08 Jul 2022
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Send us a textJust a short one this week with Simon and Joey left alone with a Discord channel, a recording system and avoiding doing work (Boss, if y...
Search engines, Autistic Pride, AI images, neurosicence & armadillos
24 Jun 2022
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Send us a textWell we are back for another week and we see the triumphant return of Marianne! Joining regular cohosts Simon, Kim and Joey we are back ...
Bonus - What happens before the start of the show...
06 Jun 2022
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Send us a textWhen the Mysterious Voice is away and Marianne is busy, there is nobody to control the other hosts. Things take a turn for the surreal i...
Cats, training, video games and Royal pot making
06 Jun 2022
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Send us a textEpisode Six and it's Simon, Kim and Joey again. This week we dive into a couple of news stories on assistance animals and whether o...
Episode 5 - Conversations
27 May 2022
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Send us a textEpisode 5 - ConversationsAs a result of computer gremlins we lost an episode and this has been cut together from other conversations bet...
Episode 4 - Loneliness and knitting patterns
13 May 2022
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Send us a textSo this week we discussed mental health awareness week, loneliness during the pandemic and Tom Daly knitting patterns. Joining me this w...
Episode 3 - Imposter Syndrome
29 Apr 2022
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Send us a textThe regulars are back, having banished the Mysterious Voice and we are joined by the amazing Dr Kim to talk all things imposter syndrome...
Episode 2 - Theory of the Mind, Empathy and some bad science
13 Apr 2022
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Send us a textThis week we discuss a somewhat perverse theory about neurodivergent people and theory of mind. As you might expect, we have som thought...
Episode 1 - Autism Acceptance
01 Apr 2022
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Send us a textWell this is it, our first proper episode and given it is going out on April 1st we thought we ought to tackle Autism Acceptance Month a...
Trailer - Episode 1
25 Mar 2022
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Send us a textWell here we go, a trailer for our first episode of the Atypical Podcast, first up we chat about Autism Acceptance. As ever we thank yo...