E02: Kill the Executive In Your Head w/ Marta Rose

Is executive function “a set of capitalist values masquerading as skills”? Neurodivergent educator and artist Marta Rose thinks so! We sat down with her to talk about: * her journey from diagnosis to critical disability theory * how creativity research and design thinking can offer us alternatives to the pathologizing framework of executive function * The ADHD Industrial Complex!!! * how much of our “symptoms” are actually just shame & trauma * what it’s like to build community on the internet Plus: a new segment we’re calling What’s Hot in Disorderland , where we talk a little shit about the latest psych news! This week, we discuss a survey that found the richest countries have the worst mental health, take the world’s most depressing personality quiz, and Ayesha explains why the DSM continues to be so damn vague. Timestamps: 2:28 Mad in America report about mental state of the world 4:56 The Mental Well-being Test 12:47 New DSM version 25:09 The vagueness of diagnoses is on purpose 31:00 Interview with Marta 34:30 Creativity research vs executive dysfunction 45:30 Marta’s diagnosis story 53:04 Design thinking 1:02:00 How shame gets pathologized 1:11:00 The ADHD Industrial Complex 1:18:10 Marta’s digital peer support work 1:25:00 The perils of parasocial relationships 1:29:00 Social media is for finding each other Connect With Us: Check out Marta’s livestreams on The Spiral Lab Join Marta’s digital peer support group Divergent Design Studios

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E02: Kill the Executive In Your Head w/ Marta Rose is an episode from Disorderland by By Dr. Ayesha Khan & Jesse Meadows.

This episode is 93:35 long.

This episode was published on Apr 18, 2022.

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