ANTI-SOCIAL BUTTERFLY: The neurodivergent urge to never leave the house
LATE BLOOMERS
Rich & Rox Pink
5.0 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 20 August 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Rich admits to dodging small talk, pulling Irish Goodbyes, and choosing the dog over most invites unless it’s Green Day. Together they explore the exhaustion of parties that feel like performances, the guilt of cancelling plans, and why home feels like the safest place.
If you have ever cheered when plans fell through or left a gathering completely drained, this episode is for you.
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| 0:00.0 | Are you an anti-social butterfly, aka do you find it hard to just go out and do normal things and have friendships and socialise? |
| 0:08.7 | Maybe your brain is getting in the way. |
| 0:11.0 | We're going to talk about being ADHD and autistic-ish and see if that might have something to do with the fact that we don't like leaving the house. |
| 0:19.1 | Welcome to late bloomers where we are getting our lives together we don't like leaving the house. Welcome to late blooms, where we are getting our lives together. Eventually, and never leaving the house, apparently. I'm fine with that, though. I'm so fine with that. So how are we going to do this? I don't think this is the episode of, like, neurodivergence is getting in the way of you leaving the house. Here's how to fix it. It's probably we're more the people that are like just stay home. Yeah, big time. I'm happy. |
| 0:43.4 | So if you're looking to be encouraged for reasons to go out and socialise this. This isn't for you. |
| 0:49.6 | This might not be for you. So what we're going to do is talk about my perspective of how ADHD just |
| 0:55.1 | absolutely messes with my ability to be normal and have friends and go out. And we'll talk about |
| 0:59.6 | my quirkiness. Your quirkiness. That's what I'm going to call it in this episode. So I'll |
| 1:04.9 | start. Go on then. Obviously. Obviously. Straight in there. Impulsive. |
| 1:12.9 | ADHD. |
| 1:15.9 | Scheduling chaos. |
| 1:18.1 | I don't leave the house because I can't arrange times and plans and stick to them. |
| 1:25.6 | No, you can't. |
| 1:28.3 | I don't know. Right, I don't know how you coped before me in this specific topic. |
| 1:38.1 | Like, because I look at your diary and hear you say, yeah, I'll be there and whatever. |
| 1:43.4 | And I'm just like, there's no way, one, she's going to remember it, |
| 1:46.7 | too, she's going to double book. |
| 1:47.9 | Like, I don't know how you coped. |
| 1:50.1 | It's really bold of you to assume that I was coping. |
| 1:54.1 | Yeah, okay. |
| 1:54.8 | I was double booking, not showing up, letting people down, |
| 1:58.0 | then drinking to numb the shame of doing, like chaos. |
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