Alex Partridge: Neurodiversity, masking, and workplace inclusion
Happy Place
Fearne Cotton
4.6 • 15.2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 September 2024
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Do you A) assume everyone probably hates you? B) react impulsively to criticism? C) feel intense shame about the way your brain works? These are all things UNILAD founder Alex Partridge has felt across his life, but at 34 he was diagnosed with ADHD and his character started to make a little more sense...
In this chat with Fearne, live from the Happy Place Festival, Alex explains how his diagnosis allowed him to reframe the characteristics he had previously been troubled by, turning shame into compassion.
If you personally don’t have a neurodivergent brain, you probably work with someone, have a family member, or are in a relationship with someone who does, so Alex talks through ways you can help create an environment for them to thrive in.
Plus, there are loads of really practical coping mechanisms you can enact yourself if you’re the anxious one, or the one with ADHD.
Listen to Alex’s podcast, ADHD Chatter.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and a huge welcome to Happy Place I'm Fern Cotton and this is the show that helps |
| 0:05.8 | you be that little bit kinder to yourself. Today live from the Happy Place Festival |
| 0:11.6 | I'm chatting to Alex Partridge. |
| 0:14.0 | So many of us in the neurodivergent community |
| 0:16.0 | we're burdened by this shame, this guilt of, oh, I've messed up again. |
| 0:22.0 | Why can't I just do what everyone else seems to be able to do? |
| 0:26.6 | Everyone else seems to just be gliding by, I just seem to be stuck. You have that |
| 0:31.2 | realization that you're just living in a |
| 0:33.8 | neurotyp divergent then you can be so much kinder to yourself the knock-on |
| 0:39.6 | effects of that is less anxiety. It is less stress and less shame. So guys how are you? I hope you're well. As I said at the very very start, this is the |
| 0:50.9 | podcast where we just try and be a bit kinder to ourselves. Today I've practiced that I'm not very good at it normally |
| 0:57.0 | But today I did something I've been wanting to do for ages. I had a morning off work and I painted and it was so nice. I painted all |
| 1:06.4 | morning I had music playing, bit Jimmy Hendrix, bit of Nick Mulvey, bit of |
| 1:11.7 | Fleetwood Mac eating loads of snacks painting away I was absolutely happy as a |
| 1:16.9 | pig in shit and sometimes I forget to do stuff like that for myself just be |
| 1:22.0 | kind and rather than to think no I must |
| 1:24.8 | work I must do a chore I must empty the dishwasher just to do something I really |
| 1:29.0 | wanted to do it was so nice so we're going to talk more about that in today's episode. |
| 1:35.4 | Alex is one of the real pioneers of social media content as we know it today. |
| 1:40.0 | He's the guy who at just 21 years old founded Uni Lad and Lad Bible. |
| 1:45.4 | Basically, they're two of the most popular social news and entertainment brands on the |
| 1:50.3 | entire internet. But, and this is often the case when we talk to really successful |
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