NACHOS: Neuro-Affirming Conversation Hour for Outreach and Support
A Neuro-affirming space where we cover the latest humanities-based research in a way the celebrates human difference.
Episodes
Welcome to NACHOS: The Neuro-Affirming Conversation Hour for Outreach and Support. In this episode, recorded during Pride Month, Dr. Adam Hazlett explores the radical roots of Pride—not just as a celebration, but as an act of resistance. Through the lens of neurodivergence, disability, and community care, we ask: What does it mean to take a side? And how do we stay close to our people in a world that often demands we fall in line?
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Bias hides in plain sight—from the data sets that train our AI to the tiny sighs that shut neurodivergent voices down. In this NACHOS episode, Dr. Adam Hazlett traces that thread through a whirlwind of stories: AI experiments that amplify prejudice, orangutans whose recursive alarm calls upend what we call “language,” the neuroscience of why tickling works only when someone else does it, a nostalgia study that shows memory as emoti...
What if your brain wasn’t broken (like my audio setup was this week)—but beautifully built for a different kind of brilliance?
In this Memorial Day episode of NACHOS: The Neuro-Affirming Conversation Hour for Outreach and Support, we explore what it means to be human in a world increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence and neurotypical norms.
From the hidden grooves of the brain to the simulated emotional intelligence of large l...
In this special Malcolm X Day episode of NACHOS: Neuro-Affirming Conversation Hour for Outreach and Support, we explore the intersection of rhythm, resonance, accountability, and growth through a neurodivergent lens.
This episode invites listeners to sit with discomfort, engage in radical self-reflection, and deepen their understanding of how science, music, memory, and justice intertwine in our everyday lives.
Topics include:
Rejecti...
What if aging isn’t a decline… but a deepening?
In this special birthday reflection, we invite you into a heartfelt and science-infused conversation about what makes a good life.
Not productivity.
Not perfection.
Not resisting change.
But softness.
Connection.
Self-care.
And the quiet, radical choice to belong — to yourself, exactly as you are, through every season of life.
Join us as we explore:
🍎 The surprising science behind flavo...
This week’s NACHOS episode, "Lions, Landlords, and the Lie of Performance," is all about that quiet shift.
We explore how ancient inequalities, societal expectations, and modern productivity culture still pressure us to perform for our worth — and why stepping out of that arena is radical, necessary, and healing.
If you’ve ever felt like you’re on a stage you didn’t audition for — masking, pushing, burning out just to be “enough”...
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