IQ Testing & Eugenics
11 Jul 2025
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Send us a textSimon got annoyed and took to the mic to talk about IQ testing. Health warning, it&apo...
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...
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: ...
Not a Priority
21 Feb 2025
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Send us a textJoin Simon, returning champion Georgia and guest Susie as Georgia tells us all about d...
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 ...
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...
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...
Grateful (Honourary Autist) Deadhead
14 Sep 2024
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Now you Sia, now you don't - An Atypical Film Review
18 Aug 2024
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Non-Binary Day and Neuroqueer Theories
19 Jul 2024
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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, mas...
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 ...
Zebrafish, dopamine and autism
23 May 2024
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Send us a textSimon returns with another paper of interest and only a mild case of crushing guilt at...
The Mystery of Creativity & the Myth of Normality
22 Mar 2024
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Send us a textThis week, join Simon on a deep dive through time into the evolution and possible orig...
Travelling whilst autistic, doom scrolling and a new K-Pop band?
08 Mar 2024
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Send us a textWith the return of the erstwhile Kim we discuss travelling as a neurodivergent person,...
Phones don't cause ADHD
23 Feb 2024
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Send us a textSimon is back with season three of the Atypical podcast. A litle lonley in the recordi...
The Bumpy Road of Reading: Dyslexia's Lexical Labyrinth
15 Dec 2023
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Send us a textJoin Simon and some coffee friends as we explore dyslexia in a little more detail. A b...
University, disability and do ND people pick up accents more quickly?
01 Dec 2023
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Send us a textJoin Simon and special guest Danny for a discussion of autism, ADHD, the International...
Awareness, history and crumble (custard optional)
18 Nov 2023
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Halloween, what happens at parties and is all television imaginary?
07 Nov 2023
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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 Comin...
Dyslexia Awareness Week
04 Oct 2023
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Inclusive Demons and the Unions that Defeat Them!
26 Sep 2023
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Send us a textWelcome to another exciting episode of Atypical. This week join Sam and Simon as the...
Alexithymia and me
05 Sep 2023
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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...
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...
Female and autistic? Nah mate, only boys have it
21 Jul 2023
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Send us a textIn this intriguing episode of Atypical, we're thrilled to welcome back our co-hos...
Imaginary friends, conspiracies and stimming
07 Jul 2023
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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 demis...
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-even...
ADHD and Private Clinics - or - "Why Panorama Caused Upset"
19 May 2023
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Send us a textIn this week's episode, hosts Watt, Kuro, and Simon delve into the recent BBC Pan...
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 au...
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 ...
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...
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! Ala...
The Legacy of Hans Asperger
24 Mar 2023
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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 ...
Labels and a place for everything
10 Mar 2023
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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...
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 a...
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 th...
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 al...
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,...
Luddites and Podcasts
30 Sep 2022
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Inner voice, metathoughts and dreaming of lakes
16 Sep 2022
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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 Thur...
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...
Bonus Episode - So, what's with all the cutlery?
12 Aug 2022
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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 her...
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 wit...
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 th...
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 re...
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! Joinin...
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...
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 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 ...
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...
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 a...
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...
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 th...
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 ...