Autistic Culture Podcast Network

Clinical Misfits

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Clinical Misfits is a podcast exploring neurodivergence, burnout, and healthcare through the lens of lived experience and clinical practice. Hosted by Dr Mary Sims, a neurodivergent neurologist, the series examines how medicine often misunderstands neurodivergent people — and how earlier recognition, more holistic approaches, and better-informed care could radically improve outcomes for autistic and otherwise neurodivergent patients. Blending medicine, lived experience, systems-thinking, and unapologetically neurodivergent analysis, Clinical Misfits opens an important conversation about how he...

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Endocrine Dysregulation 01.07.2026 29:36

In Episode Two of Clinical Misfits, Dr. Mary describes each of the major endocrine (hormone) systems of the body and the myriad ways that dysregulation of the autonomic nervous system can affect their function, and vice versa. She explains how the communications among a person's thoughts, senses, emotions and experiences affect and are affected by a person's hormonal balance at any time. When the...

Identifying Clinical Misfits 22.06.2026 30:33

Dr Mary Sims is an AuDHD (autistic with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and some overlap with obsessive compulsive disorder) who has both dealt with neurodivergent patients in crisis and been one herself. In Episode One of Clinical Misfits, Dr Mary describes in detail a unique way to identify neurodivergent people who are approaching or in the middle of burnout, who she calls Clinical Mi...

Trailer: Welcome to Clinical Misfits 17.06.2026 1:57

What if healthcare understood neurodivergence differently? Welcome to Clinical Misfits, a podcast exploring neurodivergent health, medicine, and clinical understanding through an autistic cultural lens. Part of the Autistic Culture Podcast Network. Hosted by Dr Mary Sims, a neurodivergent neurologist who is AuDHD herself, the series combines lived experience and medical expertise to explore the ph...