July 7, 2025 • 37 mins
What happens when 11 billion views collide with the human need for recognition? This episode explores the unprecedented phenomenon of social media-driven autism and ADHD self-discovery, why millions of adults are finding themselves in TikTok videos and YouTube testimonials.
Host Anita takes us from Atlanta to Buenos Aires, Mexico City to Manila, revealing how algorithms accidentally became therapists. We unpack research showing only 27% of viral autism content is accurate, yet these platforms are saving lives by providing a community to the historically invisible.
Key insights:
- Why people turn to 60-second videos when healthcare systems fail
- The $3,000-$5,000 cost of creating "diagnosis deserts"
- How 27-month wait times in Mexico drive online self-discovery
- Dr. Katzenstein's research on algorithm echo chambers
- The validation revolution is transforming lives globally
This isn't about social media trends—it's about the largest act of collective self-recognition in human history.
Featured: Real stories from across continents, cutting-edge research from Johns Hopkins and Drexel University, and the truth about why algorithms became accidental therapists.
"Every revolution starts with recognition"—join us for this deep dive into how millions are rewriting their stories.
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Content includes discussion of medical trauma, diagnostic barriers, and identity exploration.
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Anita English (00:00):
there's something happening at 2:00 AM across the
world in Toronto.
A 34-year-old marketing manager,PA's mid scroll, her thumb
frozen over the phone screen.
In Mexico City, a teacher sitsup in bed, suddenly wide awake.
In Los Angeles, a softwaredeveloper screenshots a video
(00:22):
for the seventh time This week,they're all watching the same
thing.
Someone dancing while listingtraits they recognize in
themselves.
Someone explaining why certainsounds feel like physical pain.
Someone describing theexhaustion of pretending to be
someone you are not every singleday.
(00:47):
The autism hashtag on TikTok has11 billion views, not million,
billion with a B.
That's more than the populationof planet Earth.
Think about that, but this isn'ta story about social media
trends or generational panic.
This is a story about whathappens when millions of people
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simultaneously realize they'vebeen living with the wrong
instruction manual for their ownminds.
What you're about to hear isn'tjust about autism or TikTok, or
even diagnosis.
It's about the largest act ofcollective self-recognition in
human history, and it'shappening right now.
(01:29):
One scroll at a time for thosejust joining our community, I'm
Anita, your host.
Autistic gifted, late diagnosed,and someone who spent decades
thinking she was failing atbeing human before realizing she
was succeeding at beingneurodivergent.
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I'm also a researcher, a formerlaw professor, and someone who
believes that rigorous inquiryand lived experience aren't
opposites.
They're dance partners.
Neuro rebel exists because theconversations about
neurodivergence happening inacademic journals, clinical
settings and mainstream mediaoften miss the most important
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voices.
Ours.
We're here to bridge the gap, tobring research informed
perspectives to real humanexperiences, and to challenge
every assumption about what itmeans to have a different kind
of mind.
We're not here to romanticize,neurodivergence, or pathologize
it.
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We're here to understand it.
To honor its complexity and tobuild a world where every kind
of mind can thrive.
Because when we understandourselves better, we don't just
change our own lives, we changethe systems around us.
This is the Neuro Rebel Podcast.
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Today we're talking about socialmedia and self-diagnosis, what
it means, why it matters, thetruth, the ugly and the beauty
of millions of peoplediscovering themselves.
Through algorithms.
We're exploring how TikTokbecame an accidental therapist,
why YouTube turned into a wisdomlibrary, and what happens when
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people who've been invisiblefinally make themselves seen?
Every revolution starts withrecognition.
That moment when what wasinvisible becomes undeniable.
When what was whispered becomesspoken, when what was
pathologized becomes understood.
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For most of recorded history, ifyou were autistic and didn't fit
the narrow stereotype of a whiteboy obsessed with trains, you
were invisible.
You were quirky, you weredifficult.
You were too sensitive or toointense, or trying too hard, or
not trying hard enough, but youwere never autistic because
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autistic people, according tothe textbooks, didn't look like
you.
Then something unprecedentedhappened.
The people who had beeninvisible started making
themselves seem not in medicaljournals or research papers.
On the platforms where real lifehappens, where authenticity gets
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rewarded with hearts and sharesand that most precious currency
of all recognition.
Today we're exploring threeinterconnected stories about
what happens when the internetaccidentally becomes therapy
community and mirror all atonce.
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Stories that reveal why millionsof adults are saying, wait, is
that me?
why?
The answer to that question isreshaping everything we thought
we knew about human minds.
Let me tell you about Sarah.
She's 42 lives in Atlanta, worksin tech, and has spent her
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entire life being told she's toosmart to be autistic.
As if intelligence and autismwere mutually exclusive somehow,
as if being articulate,disqualified you from having a
neurodevelopmental difference.
Sarah is black, which addsanother layer of invisibility.
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The diagnostic criteria forautism were essentially written
about white boys in the 1940s.
They're still largely based onobservations of white boys.
So when a black woman presentswith autism traits, the system
often doesn't know what to dowith her.
Sarah found autism TikTok duringthe pandemic.
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She wasn't looking for it.
She was probably watching othervideos about her interests, but
then this woman appeared on herfeet talking about masking, no,
not COVID masking, but socialmasking the way you learn to
hide parts of yourself in orderto fit in.
This creator described somethingthat made Sarah's heart race
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with recognition, watching otherpeople to figure out how you're
supposed to act in socialsituations like you're an
anthropologist studying aforeign culture, always
observing, always adapting,always performing.
Later Sarah, said that she juststarted crying right there in
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her bed at two o'clock in themorning.
Because that's exactly whatshe'd been doing her whole life.
Sarah spent the next six monthsin what she calls her autism
research phase.
She wasn't casually browsing,.
She was conducting a full scaleinvestigation into her own life.
She made spreadsheets comparingher childhood experiences to
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autism criteria.
She took every online quiz shecould find, she reached out to
other autistic people.
She read research papers.
Even her partner had startedjoking that she had obtained a
PhD on autism by the time shewas done.
Now, some people hear this andthink, see, social media is
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making everyone think they'reautistic, but that misses
something crucial.
Neurotypical people don'tusually spend six months
obsessively researchingneurodevelopmental conditions.
They might watch a video andthink, huh, that's interesting,
and then move on to cat videosor something.
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The tip of engagement, theresonance, the way it
reorganizes your entireunderstanding of yourself.
That is not casual curiosity.
That's recognition.
Seeking recognition.
Meanwhile, 5,000 miles away inBuenos Aires, Claudia is having
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her own moment of recognition.
She's 28, a software engineer,and has always been the weird
smart girl in her family.
In Argentine culture, especiallyfor women, being different isn't
really an option.
You're supposed to be social,family oriented, intuitively
good at reading people'semotions.
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Claudia was none of thosethings.
She was the girl who had to beforced to attend family
functions, who couldn'tunderstand why everyone was
always so indirect about whatthey really meant.
Her family just said she wasbeing too westernized, as if her
struggles with socialinteraction were a cultural
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failing and not a neurologicaldifference.
Claudia discovered autismcontent through YouTube, not tip
TikTok.
The longer form videos allowedfor a more nuanced discussion of
how autism might look like indifferent cultures.
She found a woman talking aboutautism in South American
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families, describing thepressure to be the good daughter
to intuitively understand familydynamics and to be naturally
social and how devastating itfeels when your brain just
doesn't work that way.
It was the first time Claudiahad ever heard anyone describe
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her exact experience.
The first time someone said thatmaybe the problem wasn't her
being deficient at being who shewas.
Maybe she was just autistic anda woman, and those two things
could coexist perfectly well.
Here's what the research tellsus about this phenomenon.
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Dr.
Scaffold's 2024 study publishedin the Journal of Autism,
interviewed autistic adultsabout their social media
experiences.
They found somethingfascinating.
People weren't turning to socialmedia because they preferred it
to professional resources.
They were turning to socialmedia because professional
resources had failed them.
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One participant put itperfectly.
Official health pages are likeinstruction manuals written in a
language.
I don't speak for a device Idon't own, but here's where it
gets complicated.
The Drexel University analysisof 133 top performing autism
tiktoks found that only 27%contained accurate information.
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41% were completely wrong, and32% were so over generalized
that they were essentiallyuseless.
So we have this paradox.
Social media is simultaneouslythe most accessible source of
autism information and the leastreliable.
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It's like having a library wherethree quarters of the books are
fiction, but they're filed inthe nonfiction section.
But accuracy isn't the wholestory.
Sometimes even incompleteinformation can be life changing
when you've had no informationat all.
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Let me tell you about Marcus, a34-year-old teacher in Manila.
He grew up in a culture wheremental health discussions are
still emerging, whereNeurodivergence is often
misunderstood as simply beingdifferent and dismissed.
Marcus saw this video of a guyexplaining executive
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dysfunction.
The creator described it as yourbrain knowing what you need to
do, but being unable to makeyourself do it.
Like there's a disconnectbetween intention and action.
Marcus had been calling himselflazy for 35 years.
His family had been calling himlazy.
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He thought he was just morallydeficient somehow that he lacked
willpower or discipline.
But this video suggested itmight be neurological, that his
brain might literally processtasks differently.
It wasn't entirely accurate.
Executive dysfunction can happenfor lots of reasons, not just
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because of autism, but it gaveMarcus a starting point.
It gave him language.
It gave him a differentframework for the first time in
his life.
He had words that weren't lazyor unmotivated or lacking
discipline.
Executive dysfunction opened upa new world for him.
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This is what philosophers mightcall the hermeneutics of
recognition, the process bywhich we come to understand
ourselves through the languageand frameworks available to us
for decades.
The available frameworks forpeople like Sarah or Claudia and
Marcus were pathologizing.
You're broken, you're deficient,you're failing at being human.
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Social media offered differentframeworks.
You're artistic, you'reneurodivergent.
You're playing at life on adifferent difficulty setting,
but with different abilitiesunlocked.
The question isn't whether everyviral autism video is accurate.
They're not.
The question is, what does itmean when millions of people
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find more recognition in 62ndvideos than in decades of
medical encounters?
It means our systems have beenfailing people, and when systems
fail, people createalternatives.
To understand why people turn tosocial media for autism
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information, you need tounderstand what I call the
diagnosis desert.
The vast wasteland betweenneeding answers and getting
them, let me paint you a picturewith numbers that should disturb
us all in the United States.
A comprehensive autismevaluation costs between 3000
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and$5,000.
Most insurance companies treatadult autism assessment like
cosmetic surgery.
Nice to have, but not medicallynecessary.
The waiting lists stretchbetween six to 18 months in
major cities, in rural areas.
You might as well be waiting forgado, but it gets worse.
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Let's say you navigate thefinancial barriers.
Wait the months and finally getan appointment.
You might encounter a clinicianwhose knowledge of autism
crystallized around 1994, whothinks you can't be autistic if
you make eye contact, whobelieves autism doesn't affect
women, people of color, oranyone whose learned to mask
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their traits for survival.
I experienced this myself.
One psychiatrist told me therewas no way I could be autistic
as I was speaking eloquently andlooking at him in the eyes, I
was a tenured law professor,someone who could advocate for
myself in multiple languages.
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And I was still told I was,quote, too successful to be
autistic as if autism andachievement were mutually
exclusive, as if decades ofexhaustion from masking didn't
count as evidence.
if someone with my privilegesstruggled to get taken
seriously, imagine what it'slike for other people.
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the barriers multiply.
Across cultures and continents.
In Mexico, autism prevalence isreported as in one in 115
compared to one in 32 in theUnited States, and that's not
because Mexican brains aremagically less autistic.
It's because the diagnosticinfrastructure barely exists.
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Research from Mexico's nationalhealth system reveals a stark
reality.
Only 13% of primary healthcarecenters have trained personnel
for autism interventions.
The average time to diagnoses is27 months, requiring contact
with three differentprofessionals.
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The diagnostic tools arepredominantly in English,
calibrated for Americanpopulations.
When families do seek help, theyoften encounter professionals
operating with outdatedknowledge.
A 2018 government reportdocumented these massive
infrastructure gaps.
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What are families supposed to dowhile navigating these barriers?
Of course, they turn to theinternet.
Of course, they seek communitywherever they can find it.
And this is where social mediabecomes not just an alternative,
but a necessity.
When official channels offeronly silence.
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When professional help is eitherunavailable or unaffordable.
When cultural barriers makediscussion impossible, the
algorithm becomes accidentallytherapeutic.
Let me tell you about Elena, acomposite of dozens of real
experiences from across LatinAmerica.
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She's 33, a teacher inGuadalajara and has spent her
life being called the weird one.
Elena's family loves her, butthey've never understood her.
Why she needs the house to bequiet when she gets home from
work.
Why certain textures make herfeel physically ill.
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Why?
She can teach 30 children allday, but struggles to make small
talk with one colleague.
Elena found autism content onInstagram through Spanish
language accounts.
Suddenly she was seeing womenwho looked like her, who spoke
like her, describing her exactexperiences.
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Not just the struggles, thestrengths as well, the way they
notice patterns others miss thedeep empathy that people mistake
for being too sensitive.
The intense focus that can solvecomplex problems, but gets
overwhelmed by simple socialinteractions.
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Elena's story illustratessomething crucial.
Representation matters in waysthat transcend accuracy.
When you've never seen yourselfreflected in medical literature,
even an imperfect mirror can berevolutionary.
the research bears this out.
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A 2021 study found thatself-diagnostic tools can be
quite accurate and specific forautism identification.
Another study showed thatself-identified autistic
individuals.
Strongly resembled theirformally diagnosed counterparts
on measures of autism traits,quality of life, and identity
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formation.
But here's what's reallyinteresting.
The study also found thatlearning about autism through
social media advocatescorrelates with stronger
autistic identity formation thanthat of learning through parents
or professionals alone.
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Think about what that means.
The people creating content onsocial media, mostly autistic
individuals sharing their livedexperiences are more effective
at helping others understandautism.
Then the clinical establishmentthat's been studying it for
decades.
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Of course, there is a dark sideto this democratization of
information.
The same algorithms that helppeople find community also
create echo chambers that canamplify misinformation.
Dr.
Jennifer Katzenstein from JohnHopkins describes what she's
been seeing in her practice.
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Adolescents arriving alreadyconvinced they have autism
bipolar disorder, A DHD,sometimes all three.
They've watched hundreds ofvideos, taken dozens of online
quizzes join multiplecommunities, and they use this
clinical language, but notalways in clinically accurate
ways.
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The challenge isn't that they'rewrong about struggling.
They're clearly struggling.
The challenge is that they haveself-diagnosed based on content
that's often over generalized orsimply inaccurate.
This tension between access andaccuracy between community
wisdom and clinical expertisesits at the heart of the social
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media diagnosis phenomenon..
It's not that people preferTikTok to medical care.
It's that TikTok is availablewhen medical care isn't.
Which brings us to perhaps themost important question.
What happens when people do findcommunity and recognition
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online?
What does that mean for theirlives, their relationships,
their understanding ofthemselves?
Community doesn't form aroundshared confusion.
I.
It forms around sharedrecognition and what we are
witnessing across social mediaplatforms isn't mass delusion.
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It's mass awakening to realitiesthat have always existed but
rarely have been named.
The Autistic Self-AdvocacyNetwork, which is the leading
organization of autistic peopleby autistic people, puts it
beautifully.
When we say autistic community,we mean everyone.
Diagnosis or not.
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This isn't permissiveness, it'spragmatism.
Born from understanding thatformal diagnosis is often a
privilege, not a given.
Let me tell you about thetransformation that happens when
people find their tribe online.
Before Sarah found autism,TikTok, she thought she was
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broken she thought everyone elsehad received some manual for how
to be human that she had somehowmissed.
She was constantly exhaustedfrom trying to figure out the
rules of social interaction fromforcing herself to make eye
contact, and from pretendingthat small talk was enjoyable.
Instead of torturous findingother people who described her
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exact experiences, Sarah said itwas like suddenly realizing
you've been speaking a secondlanguage your whole life, no
wonder your jaw hurt at the endof the day.
From all of that translation,research validates what Sarah
experienced.
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Studies show that connectingwith autistic communities online
or offline correlates withbetter mental health outcomes,
stronger identity formation, andreduced feelings of isolation.
It's not just nice to have, it'spsychologically necessary, but
let's be honest about thecomplexity here.
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Not all online content iscreated equal, and not all
community connections areuniformly positive.
YouTube emerges as an unexpectedhero in this story.
While TikTok gets the headlinesand criticism, YouTube quietly
hosts the most accurate autismcontent.
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Research shows that only 2% ofautism YouTube videos contain
stigmatizing content compared tothe much higher rates of
misinformation on TikTok.
Claudia found her salvation onYouTube.
She discovered these long formvideos by autistic women from
different backgrounds.
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They talked about masking aboutsensory issues, about the way
autism intersects with culturalexpectations for women.
For the first time, Claudiaheard someone say that you could
be autistic and successfulautistic and empathetic autistic
and interested in people.
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The clinical descriptions she'dread made autism sound like a
complete inability to connectwith others, but these women
were describing a different kindof connection, deeper but more
effortful, genuine, butexhausting.
What Claudia found representssomething revolutionary.
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Autistic people defining autismfor themselves rather than being
defined by external observationsof their behavior.
This is what scholars call anepistemological shift, a
fundamental change in howknowledge is created and
validated for generations.
Autism research followed apredictable pattern.
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Non-autistic researchers studiedautistic people, usually
children, usually boys, usuallythrough the lens of deficit and
problems.
Autistic people were the objectsof study, not subjects with
expertise about their ownexperiences, but social media
has inverted this hierarchy.
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Now, autistic adults createcontent about their own
experiences.
They define the terms, theyshare strategies that no
researcher has studied becauseno researcher thought to ask.
They've created what might becalled a wisdom commons,
collectively generated knowledgethat's both deeply personal and
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broadly applicable.
Now we need to talk about thepuppet master behind all of
this, and that's the algorithmitself.
Because understanding howcontent reaches people is
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crucial to understanding whythis phenomenon has exploded in
the way it has.
Algorithms are desire mappingmachines.
They are designed to figure outwhat keeps you engaged, and
they've discovered somethingprofound.
Nothing captivates quite likethe possibility of
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self-understanding.
Dr.
Katzenstein describes what she'switnessing as confirmation bias
on steroids.
You watch one video aboutexecutive dysfunction and
suddenly your entire feedbecomes a graduate seminar On
neurodivergent traits, thealgorithm doesn't care about
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accuracy, it cares aboutengagement, and nothing drives
engagement like content thatmakes you think, Hey, that's me.
Facebook's algorithm createswhat researchers call the
strongest eco chambers among allmajor platforms.
It's like an overprotectiveparent constantly saying, oh,
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you like that?
Here are 47.
More like it.
No, don't look at thatcontradictory information over
there.
Stay here in your little cozybubble of confirmation.
TikTok operates differently.
It's more like throwingeverything at the wall to see
what makes you stop scrolling.
But when you do pause onneurodivergent content, it
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notices and suddenly your foryou page becomes a
neurodiversity conference thatyou never signed up for.
And this creates a paradox.
The same system that helpspeople find life-changing
community also amplifiesdangerous misinformation videos
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claiming that likingorganization or having a strong
sense of justice.
Our definitive autism signs rackup millions of views leading to
what critics call the diagnosticinflation.
But here's what those criticsoften miss.
The neurotypical responses toneurodivergent content is
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fundamentally different from theneurodivergent response.
Sarah's neurotypical friendsmight watch an autism video and
think, oh, I do that toosometimes, and then move on to
cooking videos.
They don't spend the next sixmonths researching sensory
processing differences.
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They don't make spreadsheetscomparing their childhood
experiences to the GSM criteria,and they definitely don't lie
awake at three o'clock in themorning reexamining their entire
life through this new lens.
The people who fall down theserabbit holes who spend hundreds
of hours consumingneurodivergent content, that is
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not casual curiosity, that'srecognition.
Seeking recognition, and thisdistinction is crucial.
When critics say everyone thinksthey're autistic now because of
TikTok, they're revealing theirown neurotypical privilege.
They can't imagine why someonewould obsessively research
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neurodevelopmental conditionsunless they were following a
trend.
But obsessive research isn't abug in the autistic operating
system.
It's a feature when autisticpeople encounter information
that explains their experiences,they don't casually browse.
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They investigate.
They cross-reference.
They seek multiple perspectives.
They build a comprehensiveunderstanding.
This is why the TikTok madeeveryone autistic narrative
misses the point.
TikTok didn't create autism.
It revealed autism that wasalready there, but had been
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invisible to systems designed torecognize only the most obvious
presentations.
Marcus said somethingfascinating about his algorithm
experience he had never searchedfor the term autism or
neurodivergent, but afterwatching one video about why
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some people find small talkexhausting, the platform started
showing him more and morecontent about social
communication differences.
At first, he thought it wasrandom.
Then he realized the algorithmhad detected something in his
viewing pattern that he hadn'tdetected himself.
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It saw that he was lingering oncontent about sensory
differences, about socialmasking, about executive
function challenges.
It was reading him before helearned to read himself and this
raises Fascinating questionsabout the role of artificial
intelligence in self-discovery.
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Can algorithms detect patternsin our preferences that reveal
things about ourselves that wedon't consciously know yet?
Are they helping people discoverhidden aspects of their
neurology, or are they creatingfalse patterns that feel
meaningful but really aren't?
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The answer appears to be bothresearch shows that algorithm
curation can indeed help peopleidentify meaningful patterns in
their experiences, but it canalso create what psychologists
called illusory correlation, theperception of patterns where
none actually exist.
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The key is developing whatdigital literacy experts called
algorithmic awareness,understanding how these systems
work so you can engage with themmore critically and
intentionally So where does thisleave us?
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In a place both messy andmagnificent, where millions of
people are rewriting their lifestories with new vocabulary, new
understanding, and newcommunity.
And the numbers tell part of thestory.
11 billion views, 27% accuracyrate, 5,000 diagnostic costs, 18
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month waiting lists.
But the human stories tell ussomething deeper.
When systems fail, people createalternatives.
So what is the future of thisrecognition revolution?
It's being written right now inthe millions of small moments
when someone finds theircommunity, claims their identity
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and advocates for their needs.
It's imperfect, it'scomplicated.
It will always involve balancingcommunity wisdom with clinical
expertise, algorithmicconnection with human
discernment, accessibility withaccuracy.
But it's ours created by and forthe people it serves.
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And that makes all thedifference.
Now we have come full circle.
If you're listening to this at2:00 AM thumb hovering over your
phone, wondering is that me knowthis, your search for
understanding is sacred.
Whether it leads to formaldiagnosis, community
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identification, or simply betterself-knowledge, it is valid.
Your brain isn't broken, yourdifferences are real.
Your struggles matter, and yoursearch for your people is not
just justified.
It is necessary.
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This has been Neuro Rebel, andI'm Anita, your host, fellow
traveler and believer in therevolutionary power of
recognition.
Thank you for spending this timewith me, for listening with open
minds and hearts, and for beingpart of a conversation that's
reshaping how we understandhuman minds.
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You know, Virginia Wolf oncewrote.
Yet it is in our idleness, inour dreams that the submerged
truth sometimes comes to thetop.
Today we've explored how thatsubmerged truth, the reality of
millions of neurodivergent mindshas surfaced.
Not in clinical journals, not inmedical conferences, but in the
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idle scrolling of late nightsocial media feeds.
Sometimes the most profounddiscoveries happen in the most
unexpected places.
If this episode resonated withyou, if it opened doors you
didn't know existed, or if itsimply made you feel less alone
in your journey, please shareit.
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Subscribe wherever you get yourpodcasts because every
subscription helps otherseekers.
Find us in the algorithmicwilderness.
Tell your friends, your family,your online communities, word of
mouth is still the most powerfulalgorithm of all.
But most importantly, we want tohear from you.
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Your voice matters, not justyour questions or your
struggles, but your insights,your discoveries, your aha
moments.
Write to us at Neuro Rebelpodcast@gmail.com.
Tell us what keeps you up atnight, wondering about your
mind.
Share the moments when youfinally feel seen.
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Ask the questions that no oneelse seems to be asking.
This conversation continues tobe because you continue it.
Until next time, keepquestioning, keep seeking.
And remember, in a world thatprofits from yourself, doubt,
self-understanding is theultimate rebellion.
there's something happening at 2:00 AM across the
world in Toronto.
A 34-year-old marketing manager,PA's mid scroll, her thumb
frozen over the phone screen.
In Mexico City, a teacher sitsup in bed, suddenly wide awake.
In Los Angeles, a softwaredeveloper screenshots a video
(00:22):
for the seventh time This week,they're all watching the same
thing.
Someone dancing while listingtraits they recognize in
themselves.
Someone explaining why certainsounds feel like physical pain.
Someone describing theexhaustion of pretending to be
someone you are not every singleday.
(00:47):
The autism hashtag on TikTok has11 billion views, not million,
billion with a B.
That's more than the populationof planet Earth.
Think about that, but this isn'ta story about social media
trends or generational panic.
This is a story about whathappens when millions of people
(01:09):
simultaneously realize they'vebeen living with the wrong
instruction manual for their ownminds.
What you're about to hear isn'tjust about autism or TikTok, or
even diagnosis.
It's about the largest act ofcollective self-recognition in
human history, and it'shappening right now.
(01:29):
One scroll at a time for thosejust joining our community, I'm
Anita, your host.
Autistic gifted, late diagnosed,and someone who spent decades
thinking she was failing atbeing human before realizing she
was succeeding at beingneurodivergent.
(01:52):
I'm also a researcher, a formerlaw professor, and someone who
believes that rigorous inquiryand lived experience aren't
opposites.
They're dance partners.
Neuro rebel exists because theconversations about
neurodivergence happening inacademic journals, clinical
settings and mainstream mediaoften miss the most important
(02:14):
voices.
Ours.
We're here to bridge the gap, tobring research informed
perspectives to real humanexperiences, and to challenge
every assumption about what itmeans to have a different kind
of mind.
We're not here to romanticize,neurodivergence, or pathologize
it.
(02:35):
We're here to understand it.
To honor its complexity and tobuild a world where every kind
of mind can thrive.
Because when we understandourselves better, we don't just
change our own lives, we changethe systems around us.
This is the Neuro Rebel Podcast.
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Today we're talking about socialmedia and self-diagnosis, what
it means, why it matters, thetruth, the ugly and the beauty
of millions of peoplediscovering themselves.
Through algorithms.
We're exploring how TikTokbecame an accidental therapist,
why YouTube turned into a wisdomlibrary, and what happens when
(03:27):
people who've been invisiblefinally make themselves seen?
Every revolution starts withrecognition.
That moment when what wasinvisible becomes undeniable.
When what was whispered becomesspoken, when what was
pathologized becomes understood.
(03:49):
For most of recorded history, ifyou were autistic and didn't fit
the narrow stereotype of a whiteboy obsessed with trains, you
were invisible.
You were quirky, you weredifficult.
You were too sensitive or toointense, or trying too hard, or
not trying hard enough, but youwere never autistic because
(04:11):
autistic people, according tothe textbooks, didn't look like
you.
Then something unprecedentedhappened.
The people who had beeninvisible started making
themselves seem not in medicaljournals or research papers.
On the platforms where real lifehappens, where authenticity gets
(04:32):
rewarded with hearts and sharesand that most precious currency
of all recognition.
Today we're exploring threeinterconnected stories about
what happens when the internetaccidentally becomes therapy
community and mirror all atonce.
(04:52):
Stories that reveal why millionsof adults are saying, wait, is
that me?
why?
The answer to that question isreshaping everything we thought
we knew about human minds.
Let me tell you about Sarah.
She's 42 lives in Atlanta, worksin tech, and has spent her
(05:14):
entire life being told she's toosmart to be autistic.
As if intelligence and autismwere mutually exclusive somehow,
as if being articulate,disqualified you from having a
neurodevelopmental difference.
Sarah is black, which addsanother layer of invisibility.
(05:34):
The diagnostic criteria forautism were essentially written
about white boys in the 1940s.
They're still largely based onobservations of white boys.
So when a black woman presentswith autism traits, the system
often doesn't know what to dowith her.
Sarah found autism TikTok duringthe pandemic.
(05:57):
She wasn't looking for it.
She was probably watching othervideos about her interests, but
then this woman appeared on herfeet talking about masking, no,
not COVID masking, but socialmasking the way you learn to
hide parts of yourself in orderto fit in.
This creator described somethingthat made Sarah's heart race
(06:20):
with recognition, watching otherpeople to figure out how you're
supposed to act in socialsituations like you're an
anthropologist studying aforeign culture, always
observing, always adapting,always performing.
Later Sarah, said that she juststarted crying right there in
(06:41):
her bed at two o'clock in themorning.
Because that's exactly whatshe'd been doing her whole life.
Sarah spent the next six monthsin what she calls her autism
research phase.
She wasn't casually browsing,.
She was conducting a full scaleinvestigation into her own life.
She made spreadsheets comparingher childhood experiences to
(07:04):
autism criteria.
She took every online quiz shecould find, she reached out to
other autistic people.
She read research papers.
Even her partner had startedjoking that she had obtained a
PhD on autism by the time shewas done.
Now, some people hear this andthink, see, social media is
(07:25):
making everyone think they'reautistic, but that misses
something crucial.
Neurotypical people don'tusually spend six months
obsessively researchingneurodevelopmental conditions.
They might watch a video andthink, huh, that's interesting,
and then move on to cat videosor something.
(07:48):
The tip of engagement, theresonance, the way it
reorganizes your entireunderstanding of yourself.
That is not casual curiosity.
That's recognition.
Seeking recognition.
Meanwhile, 5,000 miles away inBuenos Aires, Claudia is having
(08:08):
her own moment of recognition.
She's 28, a software engineer,and has always been the weird
smart girl in her family.
In Argentine culture, especiallyfor women, being different isn't
really an option.
You're supposed to be social,family oriented, intuitively
good at reading people'semotions.
(08:31):
Claudia was none of thosethings.
She was the girl who had to beforced to attend family
functions, who couldn'tunderstand why everyone was
always so indirect about whatthey really meant.
Her family just said she wasbeing too westernized, as if her
struggles with socialinteraction were a cultural
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failing and not a neurologicaldifference.
Claudia discovered autismcontent through YouTube, not tip
TikTok.
The longer form videos allowedfor a more nuanced discussion of
how autism might look like indifferent cultures.
She found a woman talking aboutautism in South American
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families, describing thepressure to be the good daughter
to intuitively understand familydynamics and to be naturally
social and how devastating itfeels when your brain just
doesn't work that way.
It was the first time Claudiahad ever heard anyone describe
(09:34):
her exact experience.
The first time someone said thatmaybe the problem wasn't her
being deficient at being who shewas.
Maybe she was just autistic anda woman, and those two things
could coexist perfectly well.
Here's what the research tellsus about this phenomenon.
(09:55):
Dr.
Scaffold's 2024 study publishedin the Journal of Autism,
interviewed autistic adultsabout their social media
experiences.
They found somethingfascinating.
People weren't turning to socialmedia because they preferred it
to professional resources.
They were turning to socialmedia because professional
resources had failed them.
(10:18):
One participant put itperfectly.
Official health pages are likeinstruction manuals written in a
language.
I don't speak for a device Idon't own, but here's where it
gets complicated.
The Drexel University analysisof 133 top performing autism
tiktoks found that only 27%contained accurate information.
(10:41):
41% were completely wrong, and32% were so over generalized
that they were essentiallyuseless.
So we have this paradox.
Social media is simultaneouslythe most accessible source of
autism information and the leastreliable.
(11:02):
It's like having a library wherethree quarters of the books are
fiction, but they're filed inthe nonfiction section.
But accuracy isn't the wholestory.
Sometimes even incompleteinformation can be life changing
when you've had no informationat all.
(11:23):
Let me tell you about Marcus, a34-year-old teacher in Manila.
He grew up in a culture wheremental health discussions are
still emerging, whereNeurodivergence is often
misunderstood as simply beingdifferent and dismissed.
Marcus saw this video of a guyexplaining executive
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dysfunction.
The creator described it as yourbrain knowing what you need to
do, but being unable to makeyourself do it.
Like there's a disconnectbetween intention and action.
Marcus had been calling himselflazy for 35 years.
His family had been calling himlazy.
(12:06):
He thought he was just morallydeficient somehow that he lacked
willpower or discipline.
But this video suggested itmight be neurological, that his
brain might literally processtasks differently.
It wasn't entirely accurate.
Executive dysfunction can happenfor lots of reasons, not just
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because of autism, but it gaveMarcus a starting point.
It gave him language.
It gave him a differentframework for the first time in
his life.
He had words that weren't lazyor unmotivated or lacking
discipline.
Executive dysfunction opened upa new world for him.
(12:53):
This is what philosophers mightcall the hermeneutics of
recognition, the process bywhich we come to understand
ourselves through the languageand frameworks available to us
for decades.
The available frameworks forpeople like Sarah or Claudia and
Marcus were pathologizing.
You're broken, you're deficient,you're failing at being human.
(13:17):
Social media offered differentframeworks.
You're artistic, you'reneurodivergent.
You're playing at life on adifferent difficulty setting,
but with different abilitiesunlocked.
The question isn't whether everyviral autism video is accurate.
They're not.
The question is, what does itmean when millions of people
(13:41):
find more recognition in 62ndvideos than in decades of
medical encounters?
It means our systems have beenfailing people, and when systems
fail, people createalternatives.
To understand why people turn tosocial media for autism
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information, you need tounderstand what I call the
diagnosis desert.
The vast wasteland betweenneeding answers and getting
them, let me paint you a picturewith numbers that should disturb
us all in the United States.
A comprehensive autismevaluation costs between 3000
(14:24):
and$5,000.
Most insurance companies treatadult autism assessment like
cosmetic surgery.
Nice to have, but not medicallynecessary.
The waiting lists stretchbetween six to 18 months in
major cities, in rural areas.
You might as well be waiting forgado, but it gets worse.
(14:49):
Let's say you navigate thefinancial barriers.
Wait the months and finally getan appointment.
You might encounter a clinicianwhose knowledge of autism
crystallized around 1994, whothinks you can't be autistic if
you make eye contact, whobelieves autism doesn't affect
women, people of color, oranyone whose learned to mask
(15:12):
their traits for survival.
I experienced this myself.
One psychiatrist told me therewas no way I could be autistic
as I was speaking eloquently andlooking at him in the eyes, I
was a tenured law professor,someone who could advocate for
myself in multiple languages.
(15:33):
And I was still told I was,quote, too successful to be
autistic as if autism andachievement were mutually
exclusive, as if decades ofexhaustion from masking didn't
count as evidence.
if someone with my privilegesstruggled to get taken
seriously, imagine what it'slike for other people.
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the barriers multiply.
Across cultures and continents.
In Mexico, autism prevalence isreported as in one in 115
compared to one in 32 in theUnited States, and that's not
because Mexican brains aremagically less autistic.
It's because the diagnosticinfrastructure barely exists.
(16:21):
Research from Mexico's nationalhealth system reveals a stark
reality.
Only 13% of primary healthcarecenters have trained personnel
for autism interventions.
The average time to diagnoses is27 months, requiring contact
with three differentprofessionals.
(16:41):
The diagnostic tools arepredominantly in English,
calibrated for Americanpopulations.
When families do seek help, theyoften encounter professionals
operating with outdatedknowledge.
A 2018 government reportdocumented these massive
infrastructure gaps.
(17:01):
What are families supposed to dowhile navigating these barriers?
Of course, they turn to theinternet.
Of course, they seek communitywherever they can find it.
And this is where social mediabecomes not just an alternative,
but a necessity.
When official channels offeronly silence.
(17:24):
When professional help is eitherunavailable or unaffordable.
When cultural barriers makediscussion impossible, the
algorithm becomes accidentallytherapeutic.
Let me tell you about Elena, acomposite of dozens of real
experiences from across LatinAmerica.
(17:44):
She's 33, a teacher inGuadalajara and has spent her
life being called the weird one.
Elena's family loves her, butthey've never understood her.
Why she needs the house to bequiet when she gets home from
work.
Why certain textures make herfeel physically ill.
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Why?
She can teach 30 children allday, but struggles to make small
talk with one colleague.
Elena found autism content onInstagram through Spanish
language accounts.
Suddenly she was seeing womenwho looked like her, who spoke
like her, describing her exactexperiences.
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Not just the struggles, thestrengths as well, the way they
notice patterns others miss thedeep empathy that people mistake
for being too sensitive.
The intense focus that can solvecomplex problems, but gets
overwhelmed by simple socialinteractions.
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Elena's story illustratessomething crucial.
Representation matters in waysthat transcend accuracy.
When you've never seen yourselfreflected in medical literature,
even an imperfect mirror can berevolutionary.
the research bears this out.
(19:09):
A 2021 study found thatself-diagnostic tools can be
quite accurate and specific forautism identification.
Another study showed thatself-identified autistic
individuals.
Strongly resembled theirformally diagnosed counterparts
on measures of autism traits,quality of life, and identity
(19:32):
formation.
But here's what's reallyinteresting.
The study also found thatlearning about autism through
social media advocatescorrelates with stronger
autistic identity formation thanthat of learning through parents
or professionals alone.
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Think about what that means.
The people creating content onsocial media, mostly autistic
individuals sharing their livedexperiences are more effective
at helping others understandautism.
Then the clinical establishmentthat's been studying it for
decades.
(20:14):
Of course, there is a dark sideto this democratization of
information.
The same algorithms that helppeople find community also
create echo chambers that canamplify misinformation.
Dr.
Jennifer Katzenstein from JohnHopkins describes what she's
been seeing in her practice.
(20:36):
Adolescents arriving alreadyconvinced they have autism
bipolar disorder, A DHD,sometimes all three.
They've watched hundreds ofvideos, taken dozens of online
quizzes join multiplecommunities, and they use this
clinical language, but notalways in clinically accurate
ways.
(20:58):
The challenge isn't that they'rewrong about struggling.
They're clearly struggling.
The challenge is that they haveself-diagnosed based on content
that's often over generalized orsimply inaccurate.
This tension between access andaccuracy between community
wisdom and clinical expertisesits at the heart of the social
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media diagnosis phenomenon..
It's not that people preferTikTok to medical care.
It's that TikTok is availablewhen medical care isn't.
Which brings us to perhaps themost important question.
What happens when people do findcommunity and recognition
(21:43):
online?
What does that mean for theirlives, their relationships,
their understanding ofthemselves?
Community doesn't form aroundshared confusion.
I.
It forms around sharedrecognition and what we are
witnessing across social mediaplatforms isn't mass delusion.
(22:04):
It's mass awakening to realitiesthat have always existed but
rarely have been named.
The Autistic Self-AdvocacyNetwork, which is the leading
organization of autistic peopleby autistic people, puts it
beautifully.
When we say autistic community,we mean everyone.
Diagnosis or not.
(22:26):
This isn't permissiveness, it'spragmatism.
Born from understanding thatformal diagnosis is often a
privilege, not a given.
Let me tell you about thetransformation that happens when
people find their tribe online.
Before Sarah found autism,TikTok, she thought she was
(22:46):
broken she thought everyone elsehad received some manual for how
to be human that she had somehowmissed.
She was constantly exhaustedfrom trying to figure out the
rules of social interaction fromforcing herself to make eye
contact, and from pretendingthat small talk was enjoyable.
Instead of torturous findingother people who described her
(23:10):
exact experiences, Sarah said itwas like suddenly realizing
you've been speaking a secondlanguage your whole life, no
wonder your jaw hurt at the endof the day.
From all of that translation,research validates what Sarah
experienced.
(23:31):
Studies show that connectingwith autistic communities online
or offline correlates withbetter mental health outcomes,
stronger identity formation, andreduced feelings of isolation.
It's not just nice to have, it'spsychologically necessary, but
let's be honest about thecomplexity here.
(23:53):
Not all online content iscreated equal, and not all
community connections areuniformly positive.
YouTube emerges as an unexpectedhero in this story.
While TikTok gets the headlinesand criticism, YouTube quietly
hosts the most accurate autismcontent.
(24:14):
Research shows that only 2% ofautism YouTube videos contain
stigmatizing content compared tothe much higher rates of
misinformation on TikTok.
Claudia found her salvation onYouTube.
She discovered these long formvideos by autistic women from
different backgrounds.
(24:35):
They talked about masking aboutsensory issues, about the way
autism intersects with culturalexpectations for women.
For the first time, Claudiaheard someone say that you could
be autistic and successfulautistic and empathetic autistic
and interested in people.
(24:56):
The clinical descriptions she'dread made autism sound like a
complete inability to connectwith others, but these women
were describing a different kindof connection, deeper but more
effortful, genuine, butexhausting.
What Claudia found representssomething revolutionary.
(25:19):
Autistic people defining autismfor themselves rather than being
defined by external observationsof their behavior.
This is what scholars call anepistemological shift, a
fundamental change in howknowledge is created and
validated for generations.
Autism research followed apredictable pattern.
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Non-autistic researchers studiedautistic people, usually
children, usually boys, usuallythrough the lens of deficit and
problems.
Autistic people were the objectsof study, not subjects with
expertise about their ownexperiences, but social media
has inverted this hierarchy.
(26:03):
Now, autistic adults createcontent about their own
experiences.
They define the terms, theyshare strategies that no
researcher has studied becauseno researcher thought to ask.
They've created what might becalled a wisdom commons,
collectively generated knowledgethat's both deeply personal and
(26:27):
broadly applicable.
Now we need to talk about thepuppet master behind all of
this, and that's the algorithmitself.
Because understanding howcontent reaches people is
(26:49):
crucial to understanding whythis phenomenon has exploded in
the way it has.
Algorithms are desire mappingmachines.
They are designed to figure outwhat keeps you engaged, and
they've discovered somethingprofound.
Nothing captivates quite likethe possibility of
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self-understanding.
Dr.
Katzenstein describes what she'switnessing as confirmation bias
on steroids.
You watch one video aboutexecutive dysfunction and
suddenly your entire feedbecomes a graduate seminar On
neurodivergent traits, thealgorithm doesn't care about
(27:31):
accuracy, it cares aboutengagement, and nothing drives
engagement like content thatmakes you think, Hey, that's me.
Facebook's algorithm createswhat researchers call the
strongest eco chambers among allmajor platforms.
It's like an overprotectiveparent constantly saying, oh,
(27:55):
you like that?
Here are 47.
More like it.
No, don't look at thatcontradictory information over
there.
Stay here in your little cozybubble of confirmation.
TikTok operates differently.
It's more like throwingeverything at the wall to see
what makes you stop scrolling.
But when you do pause onneurodivergent content, it
(28:18):
notices and suddenly your foryou page becomes a
neurodiversity conference thatyou never signed up for.
And this creates a paradox.
The same system that helpspeople find life-changing
community also amplifiesdangerous misinformation videos
(28:39):
claiming that likingorganization or having a strong
sense of justice.
Our definitive autism signs rackup millions of views leading to
what critics call the diagnosticinflation.
But here's what those criticsoften miss.
The neurotypical responses toneurodivergent content is
(29:00):
fundamentally different from theneurodivergent response.
Sarah's neurotypical friendsmight watch an autism video and
think, oh, I do that toosometimes, and then move on to
cooking videos.
They don't spend the next sixmonths researching sensory
processing differences.
(29:20):
They don't make spreadsheetscomparing their childhood
experiences to the GSM criteria,and they definitely don't lie
awake at three o'clock in themorning reexamining their entire
life through this new lens.
The people who fall down theserabbit holes who spend hundreds
of hours consumingneurodivergent content, that is
(29:45):
not casual curiosity, that'srecognition.
Seeking recognition, and thisdistinction is crucial.
When critics say everyone thinksthey're autistic now because of
TikTok, they're revealing theirown neurotypical privilege.
They can't imagine why someonewould obsessively research
(30:08):
neurodevelopmental conditionsunless they were following a
trend.
But obsessive research isn't abug in the autistic operating
system.
It's a feature when autisticpeople encounter information
that explains their experiences,they don't casually browse.
(30:28):
They investigate.
They cross-reference.
They seek multiple perspectives.
They build a comprehensiveunderstanding.
This is why the TikTok madeeveryone autistic narrative
misses the point.
TikTok didn't create autism.
It revealed autism that wasalready there, but had been
(30:52):
invisible to systems designed torecognize only the most obvious
presentations.
Marcus said somethingfascinating about his algorithm
experience he had never searchedfor the term autism or
neurodivergent, but afterwatching one video about why
(31:12):
some people find small talkexhausting, the platform started
showing him more and morecontent about social
communication differences.
At first, he thought it wasrandom.
Then he realized the algorithmhad detected something in his
viewing pattern that he hadn'tdetected himself.
(31:33):
It saw that he was lingering oncontent about sensory
differences, about socialmasking, about executive
function challenges.
It was reading him before helearned to read himself and this
raises Fascinating questionsabout the role of artificial
intelligence in self-discovery.
(31:55):
Can algorithms detect patternsin our preferences that reveal
things about ourselves that wedon't consciously know yet?
Are they helping people discoverhidden aspects of their
neurology, or are they creatingfalse patterns that feel
meaningful but really aren't?
(32:17):
The answer appears to be bothresearch shows that algorithm
curation can indeed help peopleidentify meaningful patterns in
their experiences, but it canalso create what psychologists
called illusory correlation, theperception of patterns where
none actually exist.
(32:38):
The key is developing whatdigital literacy experts called
algorithmic awareness,understanding how these systems
work so you can engage with themmore critically and
intentionally So where does thisleave us?
(32:58):
In a place both messy andmagnificent, where millions of
people are rewriting their lifestories with new vocabulary, new
understanding, and newcommunity.
And the numbers tell part of thestory.
11 billion views, 27% accuracyrate, 5,000 diagnostic costs, 18
(33:21):
month waiting lists.
But the human stories tell ussomething deeper.
When systems fail, people createalternatives.
So what is the future of thisrecognition revolution?
It's being written right now inthe millions of small moments
when someone finds theircommunity, claims their identity
(33:44):
and advocates for their needs.
It's imperfect, it'scomplicated.
It will always involve balancingcommunity wisdom with clinical
expertise, algorithmicconnection with human
discernment, accessibility withaccuracy.
But it's ours created by and forthe people it serves.
(34:06):
And that makes all thedifference.
Now we have come full circle.
If you're listening to this at2:00 AM thumb hovering over your
phone, wondering is that me knowthis, your search for
understanding is sacred.
Whether it leads to formaldiagnosis, community
(34:27):
identification, or simply betterself-knowledge, it is valid.
Your brain isn't broken, yourdifferences are real.
Your struggles matter, and yoursearch for your people is not
just justified.
It is necessary.
(34:48):
This has been Neuro Rebel, andI'm Anita, your host, fellow
traveler and believer in therevolutionary power of
recognition.
Thank you for spending this timewith me, for listening with open
minds and hearts, and for beingpart of a conversation that's
reshaping how we understandhuman minds.
(35:10):
You know, Virginia Wolf oncewrote.
Yet it is in our idleness, inour dreams that the submerged
truth sometimes comes to thetop.
Today we've explored how thatsubmerged truth, the reality of
millions of neurodivergent mindshas surfaced.
Not in clinical journals, not inmedical conferences, but in the
(35:33):
idle scrolling of late nightsocial media feeds.
Sometimes the most profounddiscoveries happen in the most
unexpected places.
If this episode resonated withyou, if it opened doors you
didn't know existed, or if itsimply made you feel less alone
in your journey, please shareit.
(35:54):
Subscribe wherever you get yourpodcasts because every
subscription helps otherseekers.
Find us in the algorithmicwilderness.
Tell your friends, your family,your online communities, word of
mouth is still the most powerfulalgorithm of all.
But most importantly, we want tohear from you.
(36:15):
Your voice matters, not justyour questions or your
struggles, but your insights,your discoveries, your aha
moments.
Write to us at Neuro Rebelpodcast@gmail.com.
Tell us what keeps you up atnight, wondering about your
mind.
Share the moments when youfinally feel seen.
(36:36):
Ask the questions that no oneelse seems to be asking.
This conversation continues tobe because you continue it.
Until next time, keepquestioning, keep seeking.
And remember, in a world thatprofits from yourself, doubt,
self-understanding is theultimate rebellion.
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