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¿Sabías que las personas neurotípicas forman juicios negativos sobre individuos autistas, con TDAH y superdotados en solo siete segundos: antes de cualquier interacción significativa?

En este episodio revolucionario examinamos la ciencia del sesgo neurotípico instantáneo. Basándonos en investigación de la Universidad de Nottingham y estudios seminales, revelamos cómo juicios rápidos escalan hacia exclusión sistemática en empleo, educación y relaciones sociales.

Exploramos el "Problema de la Doble Empatía" de Damian Milton: las acusaciones de que personas autistas "carecen de empatía" son proyecciones de fallas empáticas neurotípicas. La investigación es clara—la comunicación autista-a-autista fluye naturalmente. El problema no somos nosotros.

Descubre:
• Cómo juicios instantáneos operan más rápido que la conciencia
• Por qué eliminar señales audiovisuales elimina el sesgo completamente
• Cómo un sesgo de siete segundos se convierte en opresión estructural
• Qué es la injusticia epistémica y cómo se descuenta el testimonio neurodivergente

Pero hay esperanza: cuando personas neurotípicas reciben educación sobre neurodivergencia, los juicios negativos desaparecen—o se revierten. Examinamos tres casos exitosos: desmedicalización de homosexualidad, Movimiento de Derechos de Discapacidad y colapso de eugenesia.

Para neurodivergentes que necesitan validación: y para aliados comprometidos a desmantelar sesgos automáticos.

No lo imaginas. No eres responsable de prejuicios ajenos. Tu cerebro neurodivergente no está roto: el mundo que no puede acomodarte lo está.

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Research shows neurotypical people form negative judgments about autistic, ADHD, and gifted individuals in seven seconds: snap judgments that scale into lifetime systematic exclusion.

Drawing on University of Nottingham studies, we reveal how thin-slice judgments operate faster than consciousness. When audio-visual cues are removed, negative bias disappears, proving neurotypical prejudice targets communication style, not substance.

We investigate the Double Empathy Problem: accusations that autistic people "lack empathy" are projections of neurotypical failures. Research proves neurotypical people struggle to read autistic emotions, yet blame autistic people for communication breakdown.

Learn how seven-second cognitive bias becomes institutional oppression through "epistemic injustice:" systematic devaluation of neurodivergent testimony. From job interviews to healthcare to criminal justice, thin-slice judgments prevent contact needed to challenge prejudice.

But there's hope: Education works. When neurotypical people learn about neurodivergence before judging, negative bias disappears or reverses. Knowledge interventions override automatic prejudice.

We examine how marginalized communities defeated conceptual strongholds: demedicalization of homosexuality, disability rights Social Model, eugenics collapse. The neurodiversity movement deploys these strategies now.

For neurodivergent listeners: You're not imagining it. Documented bias.
For neurotypical listeners: You have unconscious prejudice. Here's how to override it.

Full citations, transcript, extended bibliography at www.neurorebelpodcast.com

Content warnings: discrimination, social rejection, systemic bias.

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¿Por qué puedes escribir durante 11 horas sin parar el jueves, pero el martes no puedes levantarte del sofá a pesar de quererlo desesperadamente? No es pereza. No es falta de disciplina. Es inercia autista: un fenómeno neurológico que personas autistas identifican como una de sus experiencias más discapacitantes, pero que el DSM-5 nunca menciona.

En este episodio rigurosamente investigado, Anita examina la ciencia emergente sobre inercia autista de universidades internacionales. Exploraremos las cuatro dimensiones documentadas de la inercia, desde cobijas que se sienten como 227 kilos hasta estados de hiperconcentración que producen trabajo extraordinario.

Aprenderás: ✅ Por qué la psiquiatría ignora sistemáticamente esta experiencia y qué revela sobre el sesgo del DSM ✅ Cómo la teoría de atención monotrópica explica tanto la "parálisis" como los estados de flujo profundo ✅ Estrategias prácticas basadas en evidencia: hacer cuerpo doble, estructura ambiental, protección de hiperfoco ✅ Scripts para educar a clínicos que nunca han escuchado el término ✅ El vacío cultural: por qué no sabemos cómo se manifiesta en comunidades autistas latinoamericanas

Esto no es contenido simplificado. Es neurociencia rigurosa encontrando experiencia vivida sin disculpas.

Perfecto para: adultos autistas diagnosticados tardíamente, padres/madres buscando marcos no patologizantes, terapeutas actualizando conocimiento, empleadores necesitando acomodaciones reales.

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Autistic Inertia: The Physics Problem Psychiatry Forgot

Why can't I start? Why can't I stop? If you've ever been frozen at your desk for hours despite desperately wanting to work, or hyperfocused until 3 AM unable to disengage: you're not lazy. You're experiencing autistic inertia.

In this episode, Anita examines the groundbreaking research that finally gave a name to what autistic people have been experiencing for generations: the neurological inability to start or stop actions despite clear intention. We explore the lived reality of operating according to different physics.

But here's the twist: the same neurology that leaves us frozen on Tuesday enables extraordinary flow states on Thursday, deep focus so profound it produces work neurotypical cognition can't access. This isn't about fixing yourself. It's about understanding your actual cognitive architecture.

You'll learn: → The four documented dimensions of autistic inertia → Why the DSM-5 completely ignores this phenomenon → How monotropic attention creates both barriers and brilliance → The difference between rest inertia (can't start) and motion inertia (can't stop) → Evidence-based strategies: body doubling, environmental scaffolding, protecting flow states → How to educate clinicians who've never heard of this → Why inconsistency doesn't mean you're faking

This episode is for: Late-diagnosed autistic adults finally understanding decades of "laziness." Parents seeking language to support their children without shame. Clinicians ready to decolonize their practice. Anyone interested in neurodivergence.

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¿Qué sucede cuando una profesional de la salud mental debe deconstruir años de formación para trabajar desde la evidencia actual? Teresa Isabel Somoza, Licenciada en Psicopedagogía y especialista en neurodivergencias desde Buenos Aires, nos lleva a través de su transformación del modelo médico del déficit hacia una práctica clínica genuinamente neuroafirmativa.

En este episodio exploramos temas cruciales: el enmascaramiento social que practican el 70% de adultos autistas y su costo devastador en salud mental, el burnout autista como fenómeno distinto que va más allá del agotamiento laboral, y la triple excepcionalidad (autismo, TDAH y altas capacidades) - una combinación que frecuentemente retrasa diagnósticos y enmascara necesidades reales.

Teresa desmonta mitos clínicos con honestidad radical: habla sobre las prácticas que tuvo que replantear, cómo el paradigma de la neurodiversidad no es "moda" sino justicia social respaldada por investigación, y por qué el 80% de mujeres autistas permanecen sin diagnóstico hasta los 18 años. Discutimos el fenómeno de las redes sociales y el autodiagnóstico, la importancia de las prácticas interoceptivas, y las formas sutiles de capacitismo que persisten en consulta.

Este episodio es esencial para profesionales que buscan actualizar su práctica y para personas neurodivergentes que merecen ser vistas desde la presunción de competencia, no desde el déficit.

Contacto Teresa Somoza: YouTube: Psico es Salud: Cerebro Mente y Alma WhatsApp: +54 9 11 5774-8124

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#AutismoAdulto #TripleExcepcionalidad #Neuroafirmativa #Argentina #BurnoutAutista #Enmascaramiento #TDAH #AltasCapacidades

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🔍 What we do:
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¿Por qué estás exhausta todo el tiempo cuando no estás haciendo nada "difícil"? La respuesta no es lo que piensas.

En este episodio exploramos la arquitectura invisible de exclusión que permea cada espacio que navegamos: escuelas, trabajos, sistemas de salud, incluso nuestras propias familias. A través de la historia de Sarah, una ingeniera brillante diagnosticada autista a los 47 años, descubrimos que el agotamiento neurodivergente no es falla personal. Es el resultado predecible de vivir en sistemas diseñados arquitectónicamente para un solo tipo de mente.

La Investigación demuestra algo revolucionario: no es el autismo lo que predice problemas de salud mental: es esconder que eres autista. Confirma que el enmascaramiento se correlaciona fuertemente con ansiedad, depresión, y pérdida del sentido de pertenencia.

Este episodio va más allá de la investigación. Confronta directamente la narrativa capacitista que valora a las personas neurodivergentes solo por lo que pueden "producir". El costo real de la invisibilidad son las infancias robadas, las décadas sin autoaceptación, la alegría arrebatada.

Descubrirás:

Por qué las mujeres, personas racializadas y poblaciones marginadas enfrentan retrasos diagnósticos devastadores

La diferencia crucial entre acomodación y rediseño sistémico

Cómo la interseccionalidad multiplica la invisibilidad arquitectónico

Por qué "resilencia" a menudo es solo evidencia de falla sistemática

Sarah descubrió algo transformador: el problema nunca fueron sus hombros. El problema es que alguien construyó las puertas demasiado angostas.

Una vez que ves la arquitectura de la invisibilidad, no puedes dejar de verla. Y es entonces cuando la transformación se vuelve posible.

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🔍 What we do:
Each week, we blend evidence-based deep dives, solo reflections, and candid interviews with researchers and lived-experience experts. Expect English ↔ Español segments, sharp wit, real stories and actionable insights you can share with friends, colleagues, and classrooms.

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The Architecture of Invisibility: Why Neurodivergent Masking Isn't Resilience

For 50 years, I disappeared in plain sight. Tenured law professor, Fulbright scholar, immigrant success story, yet I was invisible, even to myself. At 63, my autism diagnosis revealed a devastating truth: the problem was never my brain. The problem was trying to exist in structures built for someone else.

This episode introduces my original framework: the architecture of invisibility; revealing how social structures systematically render neurodivergent people invisible while celebrating our "resilience" in surviving exclusion.

Through Sarah's story and groundbreaking research, we uncover the hidden cost of masking. A 2024 meta-analysis of 5,897 autistic participants found moderate correlations between camouflaging and anxiety, depression, and poor mental health. The revelation? Being autistic doesn't predict mental health problems. Hiding that you're autistic does.

We expose how this architecture operates across education, workplace, healthcare, and family systems, invisible barriers that force millions to "squeeze through doorways built too narrow."

Key insights:
- Why "resilience" often means successful invisibility
- How minority stress theory explains neurodivergent mental health
- Why inclusion requires redesign, not accommodation
- The intersectional impact on multiply marginalized identities

This isn't about fixing ourselves. It's about dismantling systems that demand we disappear to belong.

If you've ever felt exhausted from performing your own life, this episode will change how you see every institution you've navigated.

Stop squeezing through narrow doorways. Start demanding they be rebuilt.

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What happens when decades of anger finally make sense? Oliver's transformative ADHD diagnosis story reveals how childhood "attention problems" in East Germany led to life-changing therapeutic discovery at 40.

🧠 ADHD affects 2.5-4% of adults, with 75% remaining undiagnosed. Oliver's journey from emotional overwhelm to neurodivergent understanding shows why late diagnosis isn't failure: it's liberation.
In this deeply personal conversation, discover:
✨ How perfectionism masks ADHD struggles
✨ Why simple tasks like showering require intense mental bandwidth
✨ The connection between anger and sensory overwhelm
✨ Relationship dynamics when ADHD goes unrecognized
✨ Cultural barriers to neurodivergent acceptance
Oliver shares breakthrough moments: report cards that always noted "problems paying attention," hyperfocus sessions that completed weeks of work overnight, and learning that fidgeting actually improves listening, revelations that transformed self-criticism into self-compassion.

"I'm not lazy. I'm gifted," Oliver declares, reframing his ADHD as superpower rather than deficit. His advice? "Do therapy like going to the gym," invest in understanding your beautiful, complex brain.

This isn't just another diagnosis story, it's a masterclass in neurological self-acceptance and the radical act of seeing differences as features, not flaws.

Perfect for: Late-diagnosed adults, partners of neurodivergent people, anyone questioning their brain's wiring, mental health advocates.

🎧 NeuroRebel: Where lived experience meets rigorous research. Subscribe for more neurodivergent stories that challenge stereotypes and celebrate cognitive diversity.
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Thank you for listening to Neuro Rebel — the bilingual podcast where we flip the script on what it means to think differently. I’m your host, Anita: autistic, gifted, and a retired law professor on a mission to bring rigor, empathy, and a dash of rebellion to conversations about neurodiversity.

🔍 What we do:
Each week, we blend evidence-based deep dives, solo reflections, and candid interviews with researchers and lived-experience experts. Expect English ↔ Español segments, sharp wit, real stories and actionable insights you can share with friends, colleagues, and classrooms.

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