The Matt Walsh Show - November 03, 2026


Ep. 1867 - How 'Neurodivergence' Became An Insanely Popular New Trend

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00:00:30.000 Well, it's election day, which means regardless of your politics, you're being bombarded with a lot of very negative, frankly, depressing messages right now.
00:00:38.100 And if you're a conservative, of course, you're told that the midterms are going to be a blowout.
00:00:41.860 But even on the left, where they're expecting a massive victory today, the mood still is not optimistic or uplifting in any way.
00:00:49.100 And that makes sense because it's hard for anyone to be truly enthusiastic about anything the left is promoting when you get down to it.
00:00:55.080 the whole ideology is about bringing the rest of civilization down to their level,
00:00:59.140 not about creating anything new and inspiring. And the end result is that,
00:01:02.260 although I haven't checked any studies on this, and in fact, I'm simply just making it up on the
00:01:06.000 spot, Americans are more depressed right now than they've been during any midterm election
00:01:10.480 in the history of the country. And that fake, but maybe mostly true statistic is troubling enough
00:01:17.320 that I've decided to do something a little different today. Instead of talking about
00:01:21.280 exit polls and, you know, making wild guesses about how the election is going to turn out,
00:01:25.960 because frankly, I don't know. And my election predictions have been remarkably consistent in
00:01:31.640 how terrible they've been throughout my entire career. We're going to lighten the mood a little
00:01:35.320 bit, sort of. And specifically for reasons that may never become clear, we're not even going to
00:01:40.920 talk about current events or anything with a news hook. That'd be too easy. It'd make too much
00:01:46.040 sense. Instead, we're going to talk about a fictional made-up term that's very fashionable
00:01:50.400 lately, and that term is neurodivergence. In fact, neurodivergence is a current event,
00:01:56.640 as it turns out, and it's linked very closely to what we're watching unfold politically in
00:02:00.780 our country and across the entire Western world. It's more than just a trendy buzzword,
00:02:05.860 as we will see. So I think it's worth talking about. And in case you're not familiar with
00:02:10.200 neurodivergence, what's happened is that the left has become so weird and erratic that they
00:02:16.760 invented a new word to describe it, and it's catching on. And by one estimate, neurodiversity
00:02:21.700 mentions in U.S. job postings have nearly tripled in recent years. And additionally,
00:02:26.880 according to one nonprofit, social media mentions of neurodivergence more than quadrupled between
00:02:32.940 2021 and 2025, and they're still climbing. Now, we could try to define neurodivergence for you,
00:02:40.500 but there's no way that we could match the eloquent, brilliant, practically Churchillian
00:02:46.960 definition provided by these neurodivergent Canadians talking to a public access TV show
00:02:52.900 in Saskatoon. And for our audio podcast listeners, the person who's speaking in this clip appears to
00:02:59.220 be dressed as maybe the villain from the Rocky and Bullwinkle show, whose name is Snidely Whiplash,
00:03:05.000 by the way, in case you aren't up on your 1960s cartoon lore. And the host of the program appears
00:03:09.740 to be kind of an oversized version of Jason Rance, who you might have seen on Fox News.
00:03:14.920 So these are some pretty relevant, widely recognizable references we're giving you
00:03:18.560 today. Jason Rance and Snidely Whiplash. Anyway, here it is. Watch.
00:03:25.960 Neurodivergence is a numerous amount of different types of disabilities. All of those are,
00:03:31.900 most of, a majority of those are invisible ones. So you have your autism, you have your ADHD,
00:03:36.660 people could have dyslexia so it falls under that obscure weird little space
00:03:43.560 there so you have like so many different types of things it's hard to list them
00:03:47.580 all because there's so many out there but it affects different the way that a
00:03:52.560 person learns and the way they can remember things the way they read things
00:03:57.720 it affects their language so you got to feel a little bad for that woman you
00:04:03.240 know she was apparently told that everyone would be wearing their Halloween
00:04:05.820 costumes for the interview. So she got dressed up in her glitter shirt and her Salvador Dolly
00:04:10.900 mustache, only to arrive and find out that she was the only one participating. That's always
00:04:15.440 embarrassing. Or maybe not, because I think the person next to her is a man dressed as a woman.
00:04:21.240 So she's a woman dressed as a man. He's a man dressed as a woman. It's hard to know what exactly
00:04:25.260 is going on there. And as for the substance of their discussion, if I heard it correctly,
00:04:30.180 neurodivergence consists of, quote, a numerous amount of types of disabilities, including
00:04:35.360 autism, ADHD, dyslexia, and that obscure, weird little space there. It's actually hard to list
00:04:42.720 all the various elements of neurodivergence, we're told, because it's such an expansive
00:04:47.240 category. Neurodivergence affects learning, reading, language. It's all under the umbrella
00:04:52.860 of neurodivergence, so says Snidely. Now, according to a Canadian named John Connor,
00:04:58.200 and that is his real name, I think, this footage is indeed authentic. This is not like a skit.
00:05:03.700 Quote,
00:05:33.700 appearing as a guest. The show is funded by Rogers Media, who are mandated to run
00:05:37.920 this type of nonsense by the Canadian government. Now, I couldn't resist, so I went looking for
00:05:43.040 more episodes of inclusive YXE. Perhaps the only time in my life that I've deliberately
00:05:47.700 sought out content that was created by the Canadian government, and I don't think I'll
00:05:51.640 ever do it again. But on this special occasion, with this great new trend underway that's sweeping
00:05:56.080 the Anglo world, I thought a deep dive would be appropriate. And to get it, we need to talk to
00:06:01.120 the real experts, and really explore all the content they have to offer.
00:06:04.200 And I have to say, after spending multiple minutes researching, upwards of five, even
00:06:11.000 six minutes, I believe that Inclusive YXE is probably, probably the greatest public
00:06:18.360 access TV show in all of Saskatoon.
00:06:22.380 When Rolling Stone unveils its top 100 public access shows in Saskatoon, Saskatoon list,
00:06:28.520 I'll be shocked and appalled
00:06:31.180 if this program is not at least
00:06:33.100 in the top three. And to prove that
00:06:35.060 point, I came across this episode of
00:06:36.960 Inclusive YXE, which was actually shot on
00:06:39.020 location. So there's apparently enough money in the
00:06:40.980 budget to leave the studio, do some
00:06:42.940 original reporting in the field.
00:06:45.480 And in this case, the footage was shot
00:06:47.060 on location at an
00:06:48.960 alleged church of some kind, which was hosting
00:06:51.060 an all-ages drag show.
00:06:53.360 And you already know that this church is not a real
00:06:55.100 church, first of all, because it's hosting a drag show.
00:06:56.940 But second, because it hasn't been burned down.
00:06:59.460 Typically, Canada likes to burn down its churches.
00:07:02.720 That's usually their approach.
00:07:05.060 Unless the church isn't actually a church, in which case it'll be safe.
00:07:08.040 So as you watch this, keep in mind, it's a demonstration of neurodivergence in action.
00:07:13.480 When people talk about neurodivergence, this is what they're referring to.
00:07:18.000 Watch.
00:07:20.100 I'm on location at the Wigdelt All Ages Drag Show at Grosvenor Park United Church.
00:07:26.380 and with me i have missy divine how are you missy good thank you for having me this is honestly like
00:07:33.240 i'm really happy to work with you guys again i was very excited when i got that dm from you
00:07:37.740 since the parade so yeah yeah for sure the pride parade was extremely fun and we're glad to have
00:07:44.180 done coverage with rogers tv on it yeah so for those viewers who don't know what exactly is drag
00:07:52.600 Drag. It's sort of basically kind of a, it's kind of an art form that expresses, I guess, like gender, well, I guess gender expression, whether it's male, female, or kind of somewhere in between. It can be almost anything, so.
00:08:09.240 so you've been a performer with wig dealt for a while what have you found really enjoyable and is
00:08:16.580 there a lot of feedback positive or negative that you get from oh my goodness the audience
00:08:22.980 I'm like how much time do we have um okay so yeah I've kind of found like I really enjoy doing it
00:08:30.500 more so technically well also for the community and plus I can put all of like my talents into
00:08:35.360 the kind of one which is all my passions in the one which is like makeup and like performing and
00:08:40.660 kind of fashion so yeah i haven't seen enough of that uh right so in case you didn't catch the
00:08:47.000 definition uh from ursula from the little mermaid there so she tells us that uh drag is quote sort
00:08:54.140 of basically kind of an art form that expresses i guess gender like gender expression now you don't
00:09:01.200 expect a Canadian LGBT activist to know very much or really anything about anything or to be able
00:09:07.060 to offer coherent definitions of very many words or any, but you would expect at the very least
00:09:13.840 they could tell you what drag is. If there's one subject they should be able to speak coherently
00:09:19.160 about, you would think it would be that. If there's one question that won't stump this brain
00:09:25.300 trust, you would think it would be the question, what is drag? And yet this drag performer is
00:09:31.100 helpless to explain what it is. It's sort of basically kind of an expression that expresses
00:09:37.620 gender expression, I guess. With that kind of circular logic and panicky equivocating,
00:09:44.940 you'd think she was asked something really difficult, like what is a woman? But no,
00:09:48.920 just what is drag? In any case, this is how indoctrination works in Canada. This is why
00:09:53.240 the country is weak, embarrassing, and passive, allowing itself to be conquered while they obsess
00:09:57.420 over climate change and transgenderism and all the rest of it. It starts at a very young age.
00:10:02.140 The Canadian government forces children of all ages to watch horrific, grotesque displays like
00:10:06.220 this, where it looks like the drag performer is having some kind of medical episode. And the
00:10:12.140 children aren't allowed to laugh at any point, to pretend this is all totally normal. And they
00:10:16.820 become adults, and naturally they're extremely confused and very easy to manipulate at that
00:10:20.540 point. They've internalized this idea that freak shows like this are completely normal, and then
00:10:25.200 they elect these people to the government, and insanity becomes the law of the land. So behold,
00:10:30.560 for example, the neurodivergent lawmaker from Manitoba telling residents to let home invaders
00:10:37.040 take whatever they want from their property. Watch. What happens when they go onto the property
00:10:44.640 of someone who is living in fear because they have a politician who's telling them that they
00:10:49.960 need to stand their ground and defend their property. It's fear-mongering that leads to
00:10:55.820 people making really bad decisions in moments where it matters most. Fear does really strange
00:11:02.480 things to people. It makes you like, you can't think rationally in that moment. You're in flight
00:11:08.100 or fight. Why would we want to put people in that position? Why would we want to give people this
00:11:14.080 power. It's absurd. Now it's easy to say, you know, if they want to steal, let them. But what
00:11:21.520 if a right-wing burglar raided the homes of the many neurodivergent lawmakers in Canada and took
00:11:25.960 their home run therapy and their train sets? We all know what happened. They'd be calling for
00:11:30.740 martial law. They'd throw them in a dungeon, in fact. And actually, things are so bad in Canada
00:11:36.700 and they're so terrified of giving anything a name or definition that their confusion is even
00:11:42.240 reflected by their geographical features now. As a reporter with the National Post points out,
00:11:46.880 the Canadian government announced a few weeks ago that the Mackenzie River is a Canadian heritage
00:11:52.760 river. Now, I don't know what that means, and I don't care. The point is that in making this
00:11:57.760 announcement, they did not call the Mackenzie River the Mackenzie River. Instead, they called
00:12:01.980 it officially the Decho Deho Kukpak Nagwichunjik Grand Riviera Fluve Mackenzie River.
00:12:11.540 The slashes are between all those.
00:12:13.660 That's evidently the official name of this river.
00:12:15.980 Its official name is seven different names, lest any indigenous group be excluded.
00:12:20.080 Now, you might think, you know, the argument that it, you know, you might make the argument
00:12:24.700 that it kind of makes a certain kind of sense for a river to be gender fluid.
00:12:28.460 You might also make the argument that I'm only wedging the story into the monologue simply
00:12:32.080 to make that gender fluid pun that I just made, which was lame, but I did it.
00:12:37.160 We can't go back now.
00:12:38.060 And both of those arguments might be correct, but I do want to show you this from the Parks Canada press release concerning the Decho-slash-Dejo-slash-Kukpak-slash-Nagwich-Unjik-slash-Grand-Riviera-slash-Floeve-McKenzie-slash-McKenzie-River.
00:12:54.420 It says, quote, including its tributaries, the river expands over 4,200 kilometers in length.
00:13:00.660 Its significance is reflected in its names and the indigenous languages and dialects that are spoken along its length.
00:13:07.180 The English interpretation of each of these names,
00:13:10.400 Decho, slash Dejo, slash Grand Riviera, slash Kukpak, slash Nagwicz-Unjik,
00:13:15.080 slash Fluewe Mackenzie, is simply Big River.
00:13:19.700 So to be clear, they've given the river seven names,
00:13:23.480 but each name actually just means Big River.
00:13:27.140 Which means that the official name of this river in Canada
00:13:30.220 is Big River, slash Big River, slash Big River, slash Big River, slash Big River, slash Big River, slash Big River River.
00:13:36.780 So if you're ever confused about the size of this particular river,
00:13:39.900 well, hopefully that confusion has now been cleared up.
00:13:41.720 It's a big river.
00:13:42.720 They want you to know this is a big river.
00:13:45.660 Although, frankly, I think the river is a little full of itself.
00:13:47.680 I looked it up on a map.
00:13:48.960 After all this big river hype, I looked like, how big is this river?
00:13:51.520 It's not that big.
00:13:52.200 All things good.
00:13:52.600 The Mississippi River is bigger, you know,
00:13:54.040 so Canada couldn't even manage to have the biggest river in North America,
00:13:56.960 which is pretty embarrassing.
00:13:58.520 The internet seems incapable of discussing college normally.
00:14:02.400 Every 18-year-old needs a four-year degree at any cost,
00:14:05.740 or all higher education is a scam invented to sell sweatshirts.
00:14:10.120 Both positions are lazy.
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00:14:19.380 GCU offers more than 100 online undergraduate degrees,
00:14:22.760 giving students the flexibility to begin college or return and finish what they started
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00:14:28.880 GCU also works to make private higher education accessible.
00:14:32.740 In addition to federal grants and aid,
00:14:34.840 its online students received nearly $200 million in institutional scholarships in 2025.
00:14:40.080 What I respect about GCU is that it combines practical career preparation
00:14:43.360 with a free market system, a welcoming Christian worldview, and free and open discourse.
00:14:49.100 Students are prepared for the workforce without being told to abandon their faith or stop thinking
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00:15:52.960 Anyway, so this lunacy brings us back to neurodivergence, sort of,
00:15:55.720 which is supposed to be the topic at hand. And although you won't hear this on Canadian state
00:16:00.360 media, the truth is that neurodivergent is the latest in a long train of euphemisms that
00:16:05.160 started with retarded and became slow and then became autistic and then became mentally challenged
00:16:11.840 and then handicapped and then handicapable and then autistic again. And then finally it landed
00:16:17.540 on neurodivergent. So it's been a very long journey to this point. We had to run through
00:16:22.480 several different cycles of inclusivity to arrive at neurodivergent. And with the arrival of this
00:16:27.680 latest euphemism, the concept has become more expansive and less coherent and trendier than
00:16:33.680 ever before. Nobody really wanted to be mentally handicapped. Back when we called it mentally
00:16:39.800 handicapped, it really just applied to actually mentally handicapped people because nobody wanted
00:16:45.040 to be mentally handicapped. But lots of people want to be neurodivergent. Every influencer on
00:16:51.100 TikTok wants to be neurodivergent and claims to be. And by the way, if you break down the word
00:16:57.640 neurodivergent, it comes with the prefix neuron from the Greek for nerve, and divergence, of
00:17:04.540 course, which comes from the Latin verb diverge, which together means different than normal.
00:17:10.160 Which, you know, if you're paying attention at home, it applies to basically everyone.
00:17:16.040 Everyone in some aspect of their thinking can be described as different from normal to some degree.
00:17:22.080 No one has the same level of emotional regulation, attention span, memory, language ability, or anything else as everyone else.
00:17:29.800 So there's a fundamental problem here with how we're trying to divide people into normal and neurodivergent.
00:17:35.420 The whole concept of neurodivergent rests on the assumption of some kind of normal baseline mental state, which the divergent are diverging from.
00:17:45.220 But there is no normal baseline mental state.
00:17:48.060 There isn't one single normal brain or normal way of thinking
00:17:51.580 that we can use as our frame of reference.
00:17:55.260 We can't say that anything is diverging unless we know what it's diverging from.
00:18:00.160 If you look into the history of where this word came from,
00:18:02.180 it apparently originated, as all good ideas do,
00:18:04.920 with members of autistic self-advocacy communities
00:18:08.180 that emerged online when many people got access to the internet.
00:18:12.280 That's according to something called the National Autistic Society in the UK.
00:18:15.620 And the basic idea is that a bunch of autistic people discovered had to log on to message boards.
00:18:19.540 And among themselves, they determined that, quote,
00:18:21.580 autistic brains are wired differently from the mainstream on a fundamental level.
00:18:25.840 And the epicenter of this brain trust was something called the NLV mailing list and forum,
00:18:30.920 where this is short for independent living on the autistic spectrum, apparently.
00:18:36.880 And before long, these autistic individuals decided to become more inclusive.
00:18:40.800 And so this is from the National Autistic Society, quote,
00:18:42.960 A 1996 post in the InLev forum by Tony Langdon refers to neurological diversity of people.
00:18:50.480 This may be the first expression of the concept.
00:18:53.260 In a follow-up post, Langdon wrote,
00:18:55.080 A lot of this curing needs to be applied to society at large rather than to autistic people.
00:18:59.560 A key idea in the neurodiversity paradigm.
00:19:02.260 The journalist Harvey Bloom, who was a member of InLev,
00:19:05.580 is often credited with popularizing the concept of neurodiversity in autistic community
00:19:09.000 through two mass media articles.
00:19:11.860 Autistics Are Communicating in Cyberspace, published in the New York Times in 1997.
00:19:17.220 And Neurodiversity on the Neurological Underpinnings of Geekdom, published by The Atlantic in 1998.
00:19:23.500 The sociologist Judy Singer was also a member of InLev in 1998.
00:19:27.600 She wrote both her undergraduate thesis and later a chapter in the book Disability Discourse
00:19:31.460 on the topic of neurological diversity, citing many of the forum members and their contributions.
00:19:36.660 So this is a concept that originated with a bunch of autists on the internet forums.
00:19:42.060 And then a sociologist decided to write an undergraduate thesis about it.
00:19:47.640 The New York Times wrote an article.
00:19:50.400 Autistic people are communicating on the internet was the title of the article.
00:19:54.200 They figured out how to communicate is what the New York Times reported back in the 90s.
00:19:58.340 But anyway, the science is completely fraudulent in that it's non-existent.
00:20:02.360 behind the concept of neurodivergence specifically.
00:20:07.400 This is just a rebranding.
00:20:08.600 It's a new class of victims that broadly applies to anyone willing to seize the title.
00:20:13.680 From train enthusiasts to the socially awkward,
00:20:16.220 to people suffering from entirely made-up mental illnesses like ADHD,
00:20:19.120 to traditional old-fashioned 1990s-style retarded people.
00:20:24.020 All of them get included in this neurodivergent label.
00:20:30.180 This would be like if random people on 4chan got to invent a new diagnosis.
00:20:33.840 You can imagine what that would look like.
00:20:36.800 Probably lose your job if you said it out loud.
00:20:39.440 But just for fun, I went and found that New York Times op-ed that they referenced.
00:20:43.860 And here's part of it.
00:20:44.880 This is how they're defining autism and neurodivergence.
00:20:48.200 Quote, as one man expressed it on an independent living forum,
00:20:51.280 imagine you're surrounded by 10 people rapidly talking to you at the same time.
00:20:55.440 You're a politician answering questions, for instance.
00:20:57.600 This goes on for several hours.
00:20:59.380 I'm sure you'd want to run into a small room and lock the door behind you.
00:21:02.380 Well, this is how I feel when I'm talking to two people or one person sometimes.
00:21:06.940 Email, he concluded, is best for me.
00:21:11.080 So he doesn't like talking to a lot of people.
00:21:13.180 He'd rather do it over email.
00:21:14.880 And now we would say text.
00:21:17.360 So that, well, by that definition, that's like everybody these days, first of all.
00:21:23.840 Nobody wants to talk.
00:21:24.940 Everyone just wants to text.
00:21:25.940 if you want to narrow it down a little bit this is called being introverted there's actually
00:21:30.260 nothing wrong with it it's normal but if you combine introversion and narcissism you get
00:21:36.000 neurodivergence and now we're at the point where these people are getting discounts based on their
00:21:40.840 fake condition this is the rail card website in the uk which is apparently run by the train
00:21:46.460 industry and the website offers a third off of rail travel for so-called disabled passengers
00:21:52.280 and they clarify in their frequently asked questions section
00:21:55.620 that neurodivergence qualifies as a disability
00:21:58.280 that will give you a discount as long as it's long-term,
00:22:01.900 meaning it's lasted or likely to last at least 12 months.
00:22:05.420 And all you need is to see a doctor
00:22:07.140 and get them to sign a letter and you're good to go.
00:22:09.860 Which, to be fair, could take about two years in the UK.
00:22:13.720 But still, you know.
00:22:15.340 And this includes people with ADHD, by the way.
00:22:18.080 So if you're one of the approximately 100% of humans
00:22:20.880 who have ever lived on Earth,
00:22:22.280 who can become distracted when confronted with distractions,
00:22:25.780 then you are neurodivergent and disabled and eligible for a discount.
00:22:30.600 So that's good news for literally any human
00:22:32.860 who for some reason would want to board a train in the UK.
00:22:36.800 And there are similar deals for neurodivergent folks
00:22:39.500 who want to save money on their groceries and utilities as well.
00:22:43.080 We'll put one of those websites on the screen.
00:22:46.800 This is actually a great idea if you think about it.
00:22:49.740 Imagine being a citizen in the UK.
00:22:51.520 You can't get a job.
00:22:52.880 You don't have air conditioning, even though you're burning alive in your apartment.
00:22:56.800 You can't afford to pay your electric bill, so you're not even using your dishwasher or
00:23:00.700 washing machine, which were extravagant expenses, appliances you really had to spring for.
00:23:06.720 There are dirty dishes and clothes all over your apartment, or rather, your flat.
00:23:11.060 But what are you supposed to do in this scenario?
00:23:13.480 Well, neurodivergence offers a way out.
00:23:16.220 Or at the very least, it'll offer you a discount, so you can pretend to be a little less bankrupt,
00:23:20.640 I guess.
00:23:21.220 And what's amazing about this whole trend is that even in the establishment, quote-unquote, scientific community, which ordinarily aligns with left-wing activists on every single issue, there's really not anyone who takes the idea of neurodivergence seriously.
00:23:34.140 This is from the University of Southampton covering a new research paper on the topic.
00:23:37.520 A new paper published in JAMA Psychiatry reviewed 134 studies and found that the term neurodivergence is being used inconsistently in relation to over a dozen different clinical diagnoses across the different studies.
00:23:50.160 These included neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism, ADHD, and dyslexia, but also many other psychiatric diagnoses like depression and anxiety and neurological disorders.
00:24:00.640 One in five studies used the term without referring to any specific clinical diagnosis at all, without defining it.
00:24:05.720 Fifty studies asked participants to self-identify as neurodivergent or neurodiverse rather than using a formal clinical diagnosis, potentially adding further ambiguity.
00:24:15.860 56 studies didn't provide a definition of the term,
00:24:18.540 while in some cases studies used definitions which were inaccurate,
00:24:22.200 especially for neurodivergence.
00:24:24.240 So in other words, whenever there's any research being done on neurodivergence,
00:24:27.400 they're making it up as they go along.
00:24:29.280 They're not even attempting to be consistent about what the word means.
00:24:32.300 And this is supposed to be the whole point of peer review
00:24:34.360 and the scientific method and so on.
00:24:37.200 But they just throw all that out the window
00:24:38.980 because there's a clear incentive to make up fake mental illnesses
00:24:42.180 and lend legitimacy to these illnesses whenever possible.
00:24:47.120 So this is a broader issue than just neurodivergence, of course,
00:24:49.720 but it's especially noticeable with so-called disorders
00:24:53.000 that fall under the umbrella of neurodivergence.
00:24:55.940 Look at the rise of ADHD, for example,
00:24:58.280 which even many experts, quote-unquote, now admit is a fake disease.
00:25:01.700 More than 20% of 14-year-old boys in this country
00:25:04.060 are supposedly afflicted with ADHD,
00:25:07.080 which naturally has led to a massive rise in prescriptions
00:25:09.500 for drugs like Ritalin and Adderall,
00:25:11.940 which are basically speed. The number was around 2% of the 90s. So that's an absurd increase.
00:25:18.600 Pay no attention to the fact that all this was happening, you know, while this was happening,
00:25:21.660 male teachers are basically being forced out of elementary schools. Women took over, and many of
00:25:26.020 them had no idea how to enforce discipline, especially for boys. So we're left with
00:25:31.160 medication. Also, if we're trying to explain the rise of distracted children, we certainly should
00:25:34.980 not consider that as we see the proliferation of distracted children, we're also seeing the
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00:27:59.120 Another explanation for what we're seeing is that in many corners of the left,
00:28:01.940 it's a badge of honor to come down with some kind of fake diagnosis or identity that supposedly
00:28:06.200 distinguishes you from everybody else. Much like the trans phenomenon five years ago, this
00:28:10.720 grievance is in fact a status symbol among leftists who now celebrate neurodivergence
00:28:17.220 reveal parties. So this is a thing now. This is a real thing. This is footage from one of these
00:28:23.300 reveal parties where, so that I guess the idea is it's a, you know, it's like a, it's like a
00:28:28.240 it's a gender reveal party, you know, but it's like that, but you're, it's revealing what kind
00:28:32.860 of mental illness you have. So this is what they do now. And the color of the cake indicates what
00:28:38.100 the woman's diagnosis is, whether it's autism or ADHD. Uh, watch.
00:28:44.520 Are you sure? I can do it. I can do it. I can do it. I can do it. I can do it.
00:28:48.380 I can do it.
00:28:52.140 Oh, she does not have it. I can do it.
00:28:56.440 I'm seeing some color.
00:28:58.240 Holy
00:29:01.820 Okay
00:29:02.520 Oh my god
00:29:05.920 Just smash it with your hand
00:29:08.560 Kick smash
00:29:10.240 What?
00:29:11.420 What?
00:29:12.420 What?
00:29:12.520 Let's go
00:29:17.680 Yeah
00:29:23.940 yes they're singing happy autism to you
00:29:47.740 this is why they make these diseases so hard to define so vague that they could apply to anyone
00:29:53.520 The whole point is to enable unremarkable, despondent, desperate people to feel some
00:29:57.800 semblance of uniqueness, to give them some illusion of having an interesting personality
00:30:01.980 and maybe some kind of future.
00:30:05.360 And as mentioned, TikTok is full of neurodivergent influencers.
00:30:08.660 Every brand of mental illness has its own set of influencers promoting it.
00:30:13.000 The easier a neurodivergence is to fake, and the more performative it is, the more popular.
00:30:19.560 Coincidentally
00:30:21.420 That's why Tourette's syndrome
00:30:23.520 Is very popular on TikTok
00:30:25.500 So is dissociative identity disorder
00:30:29.480 Or split personality disorder
00:30:31.040 And the thing with DID
00:30:33.260 Is that it is of course
00:30:35.700 100% totally fake
00:30:38.460 No one has ever had a split personality
00:30:41.560 That is completely fake
00:30:42.960 Psychiatrists made it up
00:30:45.360 Decades ago
00:30:46.500 And it has been debunked decisively
00:30:48.360 and repeatedly since then.
00:30:50.080 Pretty much every famous case of split personality
00:30:52.100 has been revealed to be a total hoax and fraud.
00:30:55.340 That hasn't stopped TikTokers from, you know,
00:30:58.240 establishing DID as their brand and promoting it.
00:31:02.960 So, and there's plenty of videos like this,
00:31:05.940 but here's just one for example.
00:31:08.420 You have dissociative identity disorder, right?
00:31:11.180 Oh, yeah, I do.
00:31:14.480 Why?
00:31:15.460 So who am I talking to right now?
00:31:17.440 you're talking to Luca I'm the host of our system what is it like well I can tell you what it's like
00:31:22.760 for other systems I can't even really tell you what it's like for other alters in my system I can
00:31:28.380 only really tell you what it's like for me that makes sense but then you know what is it like for
00:31:33.840 you I think the best analogy for me is a house so think of a big house with lots and lots of rooms
00:31:38.900 and that represents our brain or our body and in this house is a living room and on the one end of
00:31:44.460 this living room is a door on the opposite end is a tv with some controllers and the tv basically
00:31:49.800 represents the outside world we can look outside through the eyes through this tv and if you have
00:31:56.220 the controller you can control the body and in the middle of the room is a couch and i'm stuck in
00:32:03.360 this room i'm stuck in the living room i can't leave and i usually spend my time either being
00:32:07.200 the one in control or sometimes i sit on the couch and i can watch someone else be in control
00:32:12.340 And then sometimes I fall asleep and I have no idea what happens around.
00:32:16.960 You know, I've seen a number of these videos of these split personality TikTok people.
00:32:23.880 And it's a shame.
00:32:24.980 It's like it's a tough break for them because, you know, they have multiple personalities.
00:32:29.840 And what you find is that they have multiple personalities and all of their personalities are boring and dumb.
00:32:37.720 That's bad luck.
00:32:38.740 I mean, it's one thing to have one boring, dumb personality.
00:32:42.800 To have 20 of them in the same person?
00:32:45.980 You got 20 personalities, none of them are interesting?
00:32:49.920 What are the odds of that?
00:32:52.260 So in influencer vocabulary, a person with DID has a host,
00:32:56.940 which is the main character out of all their split personalities,
00:33:00.160 the protagonist, essentially.
00:33:02.360 And then there are a bunch of side characters,
00:33:04.060 like bit parts, supporting roles, played by various character actors.
00:33:10.360 And you've got one split personality played by Danny DeVito or something.
00:33:16.020 And those are the alters.
00:33:17.540 And all of these identities live inside this one person's head.
00:33:21.160 And the whole thing, all of the characters together, is called the system.
00:33:26.380 This, again, is, I can't stress enough, totally fake.
00:33:29.760 I don't mean to imply that these people have no mental issues at all.
00:33:34.280 They clearly do.
00:33:35.900 Just looking at that person, you can see the mental problems leaping out of the screen.
00:33:41.120 She is, I think it's a she, like a walking, talking DSM manual.
00:33:46.140 But the real overarching mental issue she's suffering from is not so much a mental issue as a spiritual and moral one.
00:33:52.280 She is intensely, obsessively, single-mindedly narcissistic.
00:33:55.760 narcissistic. This is someone so absorbed in herself, so obsessed with the inner workings
00:34:00.280 of her own shallow, uninteresting mind, that she's invented this entire psychological stage
00:34:06.140 play. And this is what explains most of the fake neurodivergent stuff. It's just narcissism.
00:34:12.420 It's narcissism in slightly different forms, wearing different shades of neon hair dye,
00:34:17.420 basically. Let's take a look at this footage, which is once again out of Canada. Left-wing
00:34:22.520 activists are now openly demanding government jobs because they can't find work with their
00:34:27.220 fake degrees. It used to be this kind of thing would happen under the table. I mean, it wouldn't
00:34:32.520 be discussed in polite company. The government would hire these people and give them make work
00:34:36.980 jobs and they'd feel productive. But in Canada right now, the government is out of money. They're
00:34:41.740 badly in debt and they're even more vulnerable than the U.S. because their currency is worthless.
00:34:47.120 So they've been having to conduct layoffs in the public sector. And as a result, this is what the
00:34:51.560 leftist, the true believers are reduced to, which is groveling. Watch. My name is Malaika Collette,
00:34:58.900 and I'm a recent environmental studies grad. I have spent much of the last two years working on
00:35:05.160 and leading the Youth Climate Corps campaign, pouring hundreds of hours into it. The YCC,
00:35:11.720 as we envision it, would be a two-year federally funded training and employment program for those
00:35:19.260 35 and under. Empowering them to work on low carbon and climate mitigation and adaptation work.
00:35:28.080 My friend, I'm considering a job that goes against our values, taking crumb just to get by.
00:35:33.680 All of this against a backdrop of a growing climate crisis. Growing, living downtown Ottawa,
00:35:40.120 I've witnessed a massive storm on Canada Day and it's a devastation on my neighbourhood.
00:35:44.860 This summer, forest fires, smoke was so bad, I couldn't even open my windows on a really hot day.
00:35:51.440 I've known the threat of climate change all my life, and I'm ready to get to work addressing this crisis.
00:35:59.880 But instead, the government continues to sideline young people like me.
00:36:04.120 So far, Carney has not demonstrated to young people that he cares about us.
00:36:09.380 Thank you.
00:36:10.140 Hi, my name is Mila Pai.
00:36:11.840 I'm a caretaker of Earth and a climate organizer.
00:36:14.860 I have felt called to protect the earth since I saw a tornado rip through a place I love, showing me the devastating power of a natural disaster.
00:36:22.400 I could not understand how we would knowingly cause disasters like this to worsen.
00:36:26.320 So, yeah, okay, shut up.
00:36:27.640 So this is the culture, if you can call it that, which produces historic sky-high rates of documented mental illness, including neurodivergence.
00:36:37.180 Desperate people will seek out any available opportunity to feel better about themselves or to find some explanation for their circumstances in life.
00:36:44.900 They don't care if it's incoherent.
00:36:46.560 They don't care if they have no principles.
00:36:48.140 When people feel cornered and when they've been indoctrinated their entire lives,
00:36:52.580 they'll believe anything, especially if it gives them an excuse for their behavior.
00:36:56.560 This is a belief system that's been internalized at every level of left-wing activism,
00:37:00.320 from the foot soldiers in Canada to the leaders of the Democrat Party in the United States.
00:37:04.460 They have transcended reality.
00:37:07.020 Now, take a look at this post from the governor of Virginia,
00:37:09.640 the former CIA operative Abigail Spanberger.
00:37:12.160 says, quote, I'm proud to have the most talented, hardest-working cabinet in Virginia's history.
00:37:17.920 They're also the most diverse cabinet Virginia's ever seen. Every single one of our cabinet
00:37:22.500 secretaries were selected because they're the best of the best in their respective fields.
00:37:26.960 They also bring in individual perspectives from across the Commonwealth, from Danville, Hampton,
00:37:30.740 Rhodes, Richmond, Nova, and more. I'm grateful to get to work with these incredibly dedicated,
00:37:34.800 hardworking, and talented cabinet officials, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Okay.
00:37:37.640 Okay. And then there's, so more importantly, look at the picture. You've got the white female
00:37:45.440 governor of Virginia, Abigail Spanberger, surrounded by seven people. It's supposed
00:37:50.180 to be the most diverse cabinet ever. Not a single white man there. There's one other white woman
00:37:55.860 plus three black men and three black women. And now we've always known that diverse just means
00:38:02.180 no white men, but it's nice to have Spanberger come out and illustrate that point so explicitly.
00:38:08.640 By this definition, six black people and two middle-aged white women
00:38:11.740 is the most diverse cabinet ever seen in the state of Virginia.
00:38:16.020 It's crazy, but when your party is completely insane, it kind of works.
00:38:19.820 I saw a post on X yesterday that explained the issue very well.
00:38:22.600 It's from an account called Coddled Affluent Professional.
00:38:26.260 And it says, quote,
00:38:26.900 Mental illness and certain forms of politics are now indistinguishable.
00:38:30.360 One of the many purposes of progressive ideology is to identify an external locus
00:38:33.960 for confusion, disappointment, and psychological discomfort.
00:38:37.560 The leftists are post-Marxist, as Paul Gottfried said,
00:38:40.880 and so it's reasonable for all involved to understand this behavior,
00:38:44.500 as disordered as it may be, as an ideological, coherent form of praxis.
00:38:50.000 In other words, mental illness and left-wing politics have become one in the same.
00:38:56.040 Instead of focusing solely on economic grievances,
00:38:58.440 although those grievances are still an important part of their politics at some level,
00:39:02.960 leftists have learned to externalize their mental problems.
00:39:07.000 real and imagined. This is why it's natural for a politician like Spanberger to claim that
00:39:11.620 diversity means no white men. I mean, it's delusional, but so has our entire party at this
00:39:16.340 point. And today we'll get a much better sense of how widespread this has become and how much
00:39:22.800 it's corrupted our political system. But if we're going to defeat these people, which ultimately we
00:39:27.960 must do, we have to understand what we're up against. You know, we're not competing against
00:39:32.160 an ideology that's based on coherence or principles or anything like that. We are instead in a battle
00:39:38.020 with the party of the neurodivergent, which means whatever they want it to mean. We're fighting a
00:39:43.400 movement that's daring every American to call them out on their insanity. The moment we lose our
00:39:49.540 ability to do that, we become Canada, the worst possible fate. And that is their goal. They might
00:39:58.040 get closer to achieving it today. But if we're going to truly help the so-called neurodivergent
00:40:03.760 community, by which I mean everyone in the country, we can never let them win. Don't forget to vote
00:40:10.920 today. We'll see you later tonight for election coverage on Daily Wire, where I'll be joined by
00:40:15.360 all the other hosts breaking down the results as they come in. See you then. Godspeed.
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00:40:33.420 I cannot feel anything here.
00:40:46.360 They take me out of my bed, and they brought me here, and they tell me nothing.
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00:40:52.340 Article 58, counter-revolutionary activity.
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00:41:27.860 I'd like to know why I'm here.
00:41:29.860 Of course.
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00:41:34.860 You must believe in something greater than the party.
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