🎤 Live show news! Kate and Nic are bringing Neurotypicals Don’t Juggle Chainsaws to the stage for a live podcast recording at Gosforth Civic Theatre on Thursday 21 May 2026. ⁠You can book your tickets here!⁠

After spotting a Department for Education video claiming to show an “inclusive classroom”, Kate and Nic unpack what inclusive education actually looks like versus what systems say it looks like.

From SEND funding structures and EHCP realities to home education fears, tribunal delays and impossible academic expectations, this episode explores the gap between policy language and lived experience for neurodivergent young people and their families.

This isn’t a doom-and-gloom episode though. Alongside the realities, they also explore what is within people’s control: community, knowledge, self-understanding and support networks and why those things may matter more than any official system.

Moving house has sent Kate into a deep, all-consuming hyperfocus on getting rid of stuff. Not the moving part – the chucking part.

In this episode, Kate and Nic talk about why letting go of objects can be surprisingly hard for neurodivergent people, from sentimentality and anthropomorphising things, to executive function, recycling rules, inherited scarcity thinking and the sheer logistics of “doing the thing”.

They explore hoarding versus minimalism, ADHD deadlines, Swedish death cleaning, archive boxes (yes, archive boxes), and why knowing something is there can be just as stressful as seeing it.

Along the way, they share practical reflections, gentle validation, and a few new mantras for life, including:

If in doubt, hoy it out.
If you don’t know, let it go.

As ever, this isn’t about doing decluttering “right”. It’s about being kind to yourself while navigating change, overwhelm, and the complicated emotional lives of objects.

It’s 2026, Kate is in a teddy bear onesie, and we are asking a big question: am I actually ill, or is this burnout in disguise?

In this episode, Nic and Kate talk about that fuzzy overlap between being physically unwell and being completely out of spoons. Kate shares how a virus forced her to confront her own ideas about rest, why staying in bed with comfort TV can still feel like a battle, and how Claude the AI ended up giving very sensible sick day advice.

If you have ever wondered whether you are allowed to stop, or felt guilty for not being “ill enough”, this one is for you.