Show Notes
This week's guest is comedian and podcaster, Anders Lee. Anders opens up about his childhood diagnosis of autism. He then explains his adulthood rejection of that label. Anders and John also discuss the super creepy eugenic underpinnings of historical mental illness diagnoses.
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