Diagnosed With Autism At 40: Professor Green’s Story
On The Mend
High Performance
4.9 • 566 Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2026
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
This week’s guest is Professor Green, who opens up about his journey of self-discovery, healing, and growth, and the ongoing process of learning from past mistakes.
Professor Green shares his struggles with shame and addiction, discussing how he broke free from the cycle of destructive behavior by rejecting the people who kept him stuck. He talks about his late diagnosis of ADHD and autism, which helped him understand his challenges and stop masking his true self.
He also discusses the power of taking ownership of his actions, the role of medication in his recovery, and his near-death experience with substance misuse. This episode covers the following themes: identity, shame, addiction, ADHD, autism, vulnerability, recovery, and transformation.
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| 0:00.0 | Want to know who's coming up next? |
| 0:01.6 | Hit follow wherever you get your podcast and you'll be the first to find out. |
| 0:06.6 | Today's guest is Professor Green. |
| 0:08.8 | The symptoms of my ADHD were invisible for a long time. |
| 0:11.6 | So I got referred to a psychiatrist, just gave him all the details of everything that I've done. |
| 0:17.3 | I can't keep putting myself in the same situations and going, oh, I'm autistic. |
| 0:21.9 | Oh, I'm ADHD. It's about now building support in the same situations and going, oh, I'm autistic, oh, I'm ADHD. |
| 0:25.2 | It's about now building support in the places where I need it. |
| 0:30.3 | Hi, everybody, welcome back to On the Mend. |
| 0:31.4 | This is Matt Willis. |
| 0:34.8 | And this show, we look back to move forward, right? |
| 0:36.7 | And today we have Professor Green. |
| 0:37.8 | I've just seen you introduce yourself as Stephen's people. Yeah, always. So I'm like, so you're Stephen. Yeah, with a pH. Don't call me Steve. Don't call you Steve. Because I'm like, do I call you Stephen? Do I call you Professor Green? Because I've even messaged you on Instagram in the past. And I'm like, do I write Stephen, always Stephen. Prof? I've never, you know what? Skinny Man calls me prof. I don't think anyone else has ever called me that. |
| 0:57.3 | My pals who I've known since I've I'm like, do I write Stephen? Always, Stephen. Proff. You know what? |
| 0:55.4 | Skinny Man calls me prof. |
| 0:56.9 | I don't think anyone else has ever called me that. |
| 1:09.6 | My pals who I've known since I was Yehai, I called me pro, which is weird. Yeah. Or green. And then people I don't know, I think because I always introduce myself as Stephen. Whatever TV I'm doing, it's always Stephen. and people I don't know will call me Stephen when I'm walking down the road and I still get that thing where I'm like, what have I done? |
| 1:12.5 | It doesn't ever disappear, doesn't it? |
| 1:13.9 | Steven! Stephen. People I don't know will call me Stephen when I'm walking down the road and I still get that thing when I'm like, what have I done? It doesn't ever disappear, doesn't he? Stephen! |
| 1:14.7 | Do you think of it like, is it almost like an alter ego, Professor Green? Is it like another |
| 1:18.7 | little character that you can go into? Do you know what? It wasn't. I feel like now there's |
| 1:22.9 | an element of that. It's, Professor Green allows me to be free in the studio and creatively. I can delve |
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