This podcast offers new perspectives and is worth listening to

A friend of mine recommended episode 2, which is long, and worth every second. One of the most amazing, insightful, revolutionary, necessary things I’ve ever heard.

Both of the hosts are such smart, thoughtful people (with very good podcast voices). Their takes are on point - intersectional, current, and nuanced. I can’t wait to see where the season and show go, and I hope more people listen to it and start to rethink their relationship to disability and neurodivergence, both of others and within themselves. Thank you for creating this show!

Thank you so much for dedicating your time to sharing such an important message. I have been struggling since graduating high school to find out what is “wrong” with me because, while I am academically inclined, I struggle so hard to produce work at a pace and quality that the world expects of me. I’ve never had the financial resources to consider even searching for a formal diagnosis but have come to self identify as autistic and having ADHD and you finally have brought clarity to my confusion about why these symptoms overlap so neatly. I’ve also been grappling with the fact that none of the support that is offered is genuinely helpful or working towards an actual solution but rather making me dependent on the psychiatric industry which I feel would never even have been allowed to develop as it has without big pharma realizing they can make a pretty penny off of it. All of my adverse experiences have been leading me to capitalism as the root of the suffering and this podcast has allowed me to fully deny whatever “authority” psychiatry claims to have over the public. I finally feel I can stop blaming myself for all this suffering and work to find others interested in finding community-driven solutions. Thank you again! 🙏🏻💜

As a mental health professional with over 10 years in the field and as a psychiatric survivor more recently, this podcast has been so important to hear. To give some perspective on the negative review from September, I have to say that holding a doctoral degree in microbiology and understanding abolition, social justice, and other current social movements as well having lived experience, are far more important to this conversation than a mental health degree. Mental health degrees in America are generally rooted in capitalist mental health and rarely teach accurate and/or new scientific theory even though they push the biopsychosocial model and the chemical imbalance theory. Most clinicians rely on this information taught in school, “public knowledge” about “chemical imbalances,” and the DSM, never realizing that the science might not add up or that diagnoses are social conventions derived from white supremacist, American, patriarchal (and goes without saying, capitalist) values. As far as I can tell, a critical and/or historical view of the field and the DSM are rarely taught. So yes, they are qualified and no a mental health professional would not be more qualified to discuss this. Even the thoughtful, social justice oriented clinicians are not always aware of the issues at hand because nobody has time to think critically in this overworked, underpaid field.

They would get a lot farther with sharing their knowledge if they didn’t speak arrogantly, like they know everything. Mind you, neither of them are mental health professionals so I’m unsure on what qualifies them to make this podcast.

Into this from the first minutes of the first episode! Incredible hosts (love their realness and their humor!) and super helpful content, all talked about through a critical social justice lens. 10/10 will be recommending to my entire community, neuron-divergent and typical alike!!!

I haven't had the experience in a while of wanting to immediately repeat an episode I just finished. I've listened to two episodes and learned so much in a way that I think will actually shift the way I move in the world. I came to the realization not too long ago that I in general feel quite mentally fine when I'm not committed to a long term job. I heard this reflected for the first time in the experience of one of the hosts and feel so much less shame about this.

I feel unable to verbalize how deeply this resonates. The conversations had on this podcast are ESSENTIAL, NECESSARY, and needs to be part of how we actually educate on mental health. I don’t know how to have these conversations with hardly anyone though, because i understand how the nuances tend to overwhelm or offend people. Thank you for your labor. -Amberly M

Such a powerful podcast! Thank you!