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 healthcare can better serve neurodivergent people for the benefit of everyone.Produced for the Autistic Culture Podcast Network.🎧 Clinical Misfits is available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and all major...
Latest episodes
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18 min
Why Is Chronic Pain So Common in Neurodivergent People?
Why does pain sometimes continue long after an injury has healed — and why can chronic pain be such a significant part of neurodivergent life?In this episode of Clinical Misfits, D…
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23 min
What If Your Neurological Symptoms Can’t Be Explained? | Functional Neurological Disorder
What happens when you're experiencing very real neurological symptoms, but medicine can't explain what's causing them?In this episode of Clinical Misfits, Dr Mary explores function…
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19 min
Are We Getting Neurodivergent Accommodations Wrong?
For many neurodivergent people with complex chronic illness, the barriers they experience at school or work aren't only neurological or psychological. So why are accommodations so…
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18 min
Why Are Neurodivergence, Dysautonomia and hEDS So Connected?
Clinical Misfits returns for Season Two with a deeper, more conversational approach to the connections between neurodivergence and complex chronic illness.In this episode, Dr Mary…
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23 min
Collagen Changes Everything
In the final episode of Clinical Misfits, Dr Mary discusses some genetic conditions that account for a lot of the physical, mental, psychological and behavioural characteristics, p…
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20 min
Exaggerated Immune Responses
In Episode Three of Clinical Misfits, Dr Mary explains about how the autonomic nervous system and the immune system provide a protective net over the entire person. As with the end…
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30 min
Endocrine Dysregulation
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 sys…
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31 min
Identifying Clinical Misfits
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 patien…
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2 min
Trailer: Welcome to Clinical Misfits
What if healthcare understood neurodivergence differently?Welcome to Clinical Misfits, a podcast exploring neurodivergent health, medicine, and clinical understanding through an au…