May the Fourth Be With You, dear listeners! In this very special episode of The Neurodivergent Polyamorist, we use May The Fourth as a jumping off point to explore our relationships with our fandoms (both individual and shared) and why nerdiness appears to be so important to the neurodivergent community. Spoiler alert: the venn diagram of nerdiness vs neurospiciness is really more of a complete circle! 

So if this sounds like your kind of episode, then sit back, relax, hit play, and prepare to be taken on a wild ride down the neurospicy fandom rabbit hole. We promise we won't get TOO lost along the way...

Star Wars, and all related visual and auditory representations are the property of Disney and Lucasfilm. All rights reserved. 

Hey everyone! This is it! The one we've been excitedly talking up for weeks now - the 420 Friendly Episode! It's a short, wild, meandering, and random little bonus one but we had a blast doing it. So in honour of 420, click that play button, sit back, relax, and prepare to soar the multiverse with us.

...and there are plenty of Space Koalas too. Enjoy!

CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains references to drug use and so may not be safe for all ears to listen to. It's all completely legal in Canada where we're recording, however we recognize this is a sensitive topic with many different opinions out there, so we wanted to give you a heads up. We here at The Neurodivergent Polyamorist fully believe in the safe, responsible, use of any mind-altering substance (alcohol, weed, etc.) and remind you that if you are going to partake today or any other time, please do so safely and abide by the laws and safety regulations of your local area. DON'T DO IT UNDERAGE! Also, this episode was conducted and recorded with the full prior (sober) consent of all those involved. If this one isn't for you though, no worries - just skip on over it and join us again in a few weeks for the next one!

I like cheese...do you...like cheese? Even if you don't, if you're neurospicy and feel like you're terrible at flirting, this is an episode you won't want to miss! Join us this week as we take a deep dive into how neurodivergent folks flirt, and how it tends to differ from the norm. Because contrary to popular belief, we Spicies CAN flirt...just not when we TRY to! Seriously...don't ask us to consciously attempt it...its painful for everyone around us. 

So if this sounds like an episode for you, give that Play button a click, sit back, and relax - we promise this will be a really fun one!

Guys, gals, and nonbinary pals? We're going to level with you all this week - we're EXHAUSTED! Real life caught up with both of us in a massive way last week and we're both still feeling the burnout from it. That's why we're late in bringing this one to you...but its also why we decided to take this episode as an opportunity to talk all about our personal experiences of burnout, what we've learned from it over the years, and how we muddle through it when it happens. The internet even decided to join in on the fun, cutting out halfway through the episode and forcing us to go to bed so that we could continue recording the next day while (slightly) less tired - so don't mind the interstitial in the middle! The end result is a rather disjointed episode, albeit one we both still think is hilarious, entertaining, informative, and worth listening to. So sit back, relax, grab a snack, and follow along as best you can as we take you all through the wild world of 'Adam and Becca burnout!'

"We don't talk about Bruno...no...no...no"...but Autistics and neurospicy folks in general sure do! In this really special episode of The Neurodivergent Polyamorist Podcast, we got silly, talked all about how Encanto is officially our new favourite Disney movie, and what it has to teach us about breaking cycles, generational trauma, neurodiversity, and mental health. Plus, we rambled a lot, burst into spontaneous song on more than one occasion, and talked over each other constantly. Because would you honestly expect anything less from us?

So join us for this one if you can - we had a TON of fun making it, and we hope you have just as much fun listening to it!

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This week's episode is all about nothing. No, seriously! We promise it's not LITERALLY about nothing. We mean nothing more in the 'Seinfeldian' sense of the word, because this week, we didn't have a topic in mind at all, nor a script to follow. But that's okay! We figured after all the heavy topics we've done since the very beginning of this podcast, it would be fun to hang out off the cuff, talk, joke around, and just give all of you listening a chance to get to know a bit more of the real us this time around. We hope you enjoy listening to this one as much as we enjoyed making it!

Oh, and before we forget - Seinfeld and all things related to it are the registered property of NBC and Columbia Pictures Television, and we used the bits we did from it under the legal defense of fair use/fair dealing. The Canadian Copyright Act allows for the usage of small bits of copyrighted work like this for the purposes of research, private study, education, parody, satire, criticism, review, and news reporting. We think we did so in a respectful way that follows that law and doesn't harm sales of Seinfeld anywhere else (and in fact, we're fairly certain our usage comes across as a love letter to the series), but we're also small time upstart podcasters and wanted to include this here so that we don't get sued. So please, evil capitalist overlords, don't sue us mmmkay? 

Another Wednesday, another episode of The Neurodivergent Polyamorist - and this time, it's the one we've been promising for a few weeks now. That's right; we've finally rustled up the spoons to talk about Rejection Sensitivity. This episode is really open and raw for us as we discuss how deeply Rejection Sensitivity has affected both of us our whole lives. We hope you will come along on the journey with us - especially if you are someone who struggles with this horrible neurospicy 'phenomenon' - but we understand if it's too heavy of a topic for you.  We love you either way, so grab a bottle of water and scroll on until next week if so; we'll be back with something a little lighter!

We did a ton of research on this topic. If you are struggling with RSD and looking for some insight into it, we recommend the following articles:

www.additudemag.com/rejection-sensitive-dysphoria-and-adhd/

www.goodtherapy.org/blog/more-than-thin-skinned-rejection-sensitive-dysphoria-1130197

www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/adhd-rejection-sensitive-dysphoria#symptoms-of-rsd

Hey all! Yes, you read that right - this episode is all about "seggs!" Specifically, the intersection of sex and neurodiversity and all the hilarity that can arise when those two mix. Naturally, that means this episode may not be everyone's cup of tea, so if you are uncomfortable and don't like this subject matter, feel free to skip this one and rejoin us next week (no hard feelings, we promise!). If you're still here though, join us as we take a deep dive into the wild and wacky world of neurodivergent sexuality!

In this episode of The Neurodivergent Polyamorist, join us as we finally draw attention to the second half of our podcast name and talk all about - you guessed it - Polyamory! This isn't an exhaustive analysis by far (the ethically nonmonogamous world is way too expansive for that), but we tried our best to explore the kinds of polyam we'd experienced and to offer our thoughts on what has worked for us in our own lives, what hasn't, and why. Enjoy!