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The Moody Divergent.
Burnout. Boundaries. Bullsh*t.
This is the unapologetic podcast for late-diagnosed or silently surviving neurodivergent adults trying to make sense of life in a world that refuses to bend.
I’m Moody — autistic, ADHD, tired, and done performing. This isn’t self-help. This is self-truth.
Episodes alternate between two energies: one week is personal storytelling — grief, healing, realisation. The next, it’s rants, Reddit spirals, political takedowns, or whatever’s screaming in the background.
We talk masking, meltdowns, identity loss, perimenopause, people-pleasing, and all the rules we were forced to follow (and now get to break).
No toxic positivity. No cutesy hacks. Just unfiltered truth for the ones who feel like too much and not enough at the same time.
Let’s unmask, unpack, and say the quiet part out loud.
Welcome to The Moody Divergent.
Have a question/story or want to connect? Email me: contact@themoodydivergent.com
The Moody Divergent.
You Call It Research. We Call It Repetition.
From “idiot schools” to brain scans, from eugenics to modern autism funding—this episode pulls back the curtain on the systems that keep studying us without ever seeing us. Neurodivergence has been labelled, locked away, pathologized, and monetised for centuries. But what happens when we trace the history of that gaze? When we ask why the research keeps repeating itself—genetics, mothers, vaccines, deficits—while our realities remain dismissed?
In this episode, I explore the long timeline of how autism, ADHD, and mental health have been used to control, categorise, and capitalise. And I ask the harder question: who does this research serve? Because while they call it science, to us, it feels like surveillance with better funding.
Links For Further Reading:
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3302834/
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9730396/
https://scispace.com/papers/the-influence-of-maternal-diet-on-gut-microbiota-diversity-2yk752hv8jb0
https://scispace.com/papers/the-gut-brain-connection-investigating-the-correlation-53fijkgndybh
https://scispace.com/papers/research-advances-in-gut-microbes-and-autism-spectrum-f1g2gqfuapos
https://scispace.com/papers/gut-microbiota-in-young-adults-with-high-functioning-autism-58yb4yt1s6ki
https://scispace.com/papers/influential-articles-in-autism-and-gut-microbiota-21zldruilhbq
https://www.autismayurvedam.com/about-ayurveda/
https://www.autism-help.org/points-refrigerator-mothers.htm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ASvEduq5W0 ( Origins Of Autism In Vienna 1941 )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtpR56zJDmw ( Refrigerator Mother Documentary )
https://www.healthline.com/health/adhd/history?c=563153584305
WEBSITES:
https://neuroclastic.com/support-us/
https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/about/
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