It's Wednesday, April 8th, 2026 from Peachfish Productions.

It's The Gist.

I'm Mike Peska.

One guy I used to read a lot, who I've read a little bit less, is Freddie DeBore.

He is a great arguer on the page, just pretty much a genius, a genius of the written word. He is also

what he wouldn't call neurodivergent. He has severe mental illness. But I was thinking about

this term neurodivergent. In fact, I was thinking about it many years ago. And I was thinking

about Freddie and I was thinking about the people who were using the term

more frequently.

And so what I decided to do in the next couple of shows are going to feature this format,

I had a debate.

You know, it wasn't knocked down, drag out.

But it was a debate between Freddie, who didn't like this overly subscribed use of

neurodivergent and a guy named

Devin Price, who is in the activist neurodivergent sphere, shall we say.

You know, I think most innovations when it comes to language are in fact not innovative,

innovative, innovative, I like saying it that way. It's fun to say., innovative, innovative.

I like saying it that way.

It's fun to say.

We love saying innovative.

I think they mostly set us back.

I think they mostly take the one or two syllables and add four or five syllables.

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