The Neurospicy Author Podcast
What does it mean to see the world differently — and to write about it honestly? Hosted by Ptim Pellerin, neurodivergent author and optical scientist, each episode features a conversation about one of Ptim's books — exploring the ideas, experiences, and neurodivergent intelligence behind the work. From stimming as neurological wisdom to creativity in waves, from cosmic patterns to the shadows that reveal what light can't — these conversations go beneath the surface and into the mind that wrote them. For neurodivergent minds, and everyone who loves them.
Episodes
Silence doesn't create what it reveals. It just removes the noise that was covering it.
This episode explores what becomes audible when we stop staying busy — and why what silence shows you was always already there. Full post at neurospicyauthor.com
Someone told me once that I needed to pick a lane.
This episode explores what it means to be more than one thing — fully, completely, without apology. The butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker are not different people. They are the same person, looking at the world from different angles. Full post at neurospicyauthor.com
The wind will return. It always does. But the toad will trill again.
This episode explores what a Gulf Coast toad and a garden full of wet roses know about chaos, continuity, and finding the calm between the gusts. Full post at neurospicyauthor.com
A shadow is not the absence of light. It is the proof of it.
This episode explores what darkness carries, what shadow work actually means for neurodivergent people, and why the sensitivity that makes hard things harder is the same sensitivity that makes everything else matter so much. Full post at neurospicyauthor.com
There is a word for the feeling that isn't quite sadness.
This episode explores hüzün — a Turkish concept for the collective ache of paying close attention to a world that doesn't hold still. You've felt it. Now you have a name for it. Full post at neurospicyauthor.com
A shadow is not a thing. It has no mass, no energy, no physical substance of its own. And because it is not a thing, it does not have to obey the rules that govern things.
This episode explores what shadows are, what they carry, and why sometimes the shadow arrives before the object that cast it. Full post at neurospicyauthor.com
You can only spill what you're already carrying.
This episode explores a Zen teaching about what actually comes out of us when life bumps into us — and what it reveals about what we've been quietly accumulating all along. Full post at neurospicyauthor.com
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Something good happened. And then, without warning, something dropped.
This episode explores sub-drop — the neurochemical crash that follows intense experience — and why neurodivergent nervous systems feel it more deeply than most. Full post at neurospicyauthor.com
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A young vine, given the choice, will grow toward the darkest corner of the room. Not away from it. Toward it. This episode explores skototropism — and what it reveals about the minds that have always moved toward the shadow. Full post at neurospicyauthor.com
What does it mean to sweep the path? In this episode, I explore the philosophy behind my free manual — a neurodivergent-affirming mindfulness practice built around presence, not performance. For anyone who's ever felt like traditional mindfulness wasn't made for their brain
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