To Be Read Correctly: Autism, ADHD, and the Architecture of Misrecognition

The Deeper Thinking Podcast

For listeners drawn to neurodivergence, diagnostic ethics, and the redesign of perception itself.

What happens when a diagnosis comes not as revelation, but as restitution? In this episode, we explore the late discovery of Autism and ADHD—not as deficits to be managed, but as architectures of experience long misinterpreted by the systems meant to support them. Drawing from narrative medicine, disability studies, and the philosophy of epistemic injustice, we ask what it means to finally be read correctly—and what it costs to have been misread for so long.

This is not an episode about coping mechanisms or late-blooming self-discovery. It is a meditation on masking as critique, burnout as design failure, and joy as diagnostic signal. With quiet nods to thinkers like Devon Price, Gabor Maté, and Damian Milton, we explore how diagnostic delay reshapes identity—and how diagnosis, when framed ethically, becomes a blueprint for rebuilding the social contract around different ways of sensing, thinking, and being.

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To be read correctly is not a diagnosis. It is the quiet return of narrative sovereignty.

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