🎙️ New Podcast Episode – A Critical Look at the DSM-5-TR and Neurodivergent Narratives

“Autism Spectrum Disorder is diagnosed only when characteristic deficits of social communication are accompanied by excessively repetitive behaviour, restricted interests and insistence on sameness.”

– DSM-5-TR, American Psychiatric Association, 2022, p.35

This definition still fails to recognise what so many of us live and know deeply:

🧠 That our minds operate on different frequencies—Theta, for instance—not dysfunction. Within these frequencies lives Telephany, intuitive knowing that goes beyond the accepted clinical narrative.

No surprise that ideas like these are rejected in mainstream psychiatry. Just look at the satire embedded in titles like “The Telephany Tapes” on Spotify—a mockery of Autistic insight and a betrayal of neurodivergent truth.

In this episode, I question why:

📘 There are hundreds of pages diagnosing Autism, ADHD, and AuDHD…

❌ Yet not one comprehensive text exists to diagnose or critique the “Neurotypical Condition.”

Fairness? Equality? Open-mindedness? Still waiting.

We also explore:

• Why “restricted interests” and “insistence on sameness” are far more present in NT culture than acknowledged

• The lack of representation of neurodivergent strengths in the DSM

• The underreported impact of narcissistic behaviour on Neurodivergents—and how ICD-11 buries this in its final pages

• A rare moment of credit: DSM-5-TR’s section on ADHD shows some progress, especially compared to DSM-IV

This is not just critique. It’s a call for better.

📣 Neurodivergent people are not test subjects—we are culture-shapers, visionaries, and seers.

🎧 Listen now wherever you get your podcasts.

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