In this episode of Unlabelled and Limitless, Lois explores the growing belief that “the world wasn’t built for neurodivergent people” and gently challenges what that statement really means.

Drawing on lived experience, cultural shifts, and the rise of neurodivergent content online, she reflects on how visibility has increased while understanding often lags. From simplified social media narratives to overstimulating systems of work, education, and productivity, this episode asks whether the problem is truly neurodivergence or whether the systems we’ve built are failing far more people than we want to admit.

Lois looks at how institutions designed for standardization, obedience, and speed are colliding with a world that has become technologically immersive, emotionally demanding, and cognitively exhausting. As more people, neurodivergent and neurotypical alike, struggle to keep up, the conversation shifts away from labels and toward shared responsibility.

This episode isn’t about removing chaos or blaming individuals. It’s about recognizing that many of today’s struggles are manmade, systemic, and changeable. And it’s about learning how to move within a world that isn’t slowing down, without losing ourselves in the process.

Key themes include:

✨ Neurodivergence, visibility, and oversimplification ✨ Social media, attention economics, and distorted understanding ✨ Systems of work, education, and institutional pressure ✨ Labels, limitation narratives, and identity ✨ Burnout, overwhelm, and collective strain ✨ Personal responsibility versus systemic compassion ✨ Learning to adapt without self-erasure

In this episode of Unlabelled and Limitless, Lois and Kay start with a simple but revealing question: why does eating with your hands feel like an absolute dealbreaker for some people?

What unfolds is a funny, thoughtful conversation about sensory sensitivities, hygiene, neurodivergence, and the unspoken rules we navigate in shared spaces. Kay reflects on growing up in a culture where hand-eating is common and why it has never felt comfortable for her. Lois draws on years of healthcare experience to explain how sanitation protocols, lived experience, and awareness of germs can permanently shape boundaries around food and touch.

From Kamayan meals and movie theater snacks to New York street etiquette and knowing when to mind your business, the episode explores how personal boundaries are often misunderstood or dismissed as being “difficult.” Along the way, they highlight how comfort, safety, and dignity can look radically different depending on a person’s nervous system and experiences.

This episode isn’t about criticizing cultural practices or policing behavior. It’s about normalizing difference, respecting sensory limits, and allowing people to eat, move, and exist in ways that work for them.

Key themes include:

✨ Sensory sensitivities and food-related aversions ✨ Neurodivergence, hygiene anxiety, and lived experience ✨ Cultural norms versus personal boundaries ✨ Healthcare, sanitation, and boundary formation ✨ Public behavior, mental health, and social awareness ✨ Letting people have preferences without judgment

Content Notice: This episode includes open discussion of drugs, alcohol, addiction, and substance use. These topics are explored from a personal, psychological, and educational perspective. This podcast does not provide medical advice and does not encourage illegal activity or substance misuse. Listener discretion is advised.

In this episode of Unlabelled and Limitless, Lois and Krisana have a candid, nuanced conversation about neurodivergence, substance use, and the ways many people unconsciously self-medicate long before they understand how their brains actually work. What begins as a personal reflection on sobriety and past experiences opens into a deeper exploration of ADHD, brain chemistry, stigma, and the limits of a deficit-focused approach to mental health.

Lois shares insights from psychology, neuroscience, and positive psychology to unpack why substances like alcohol, cannabis, stimulants, and even nicotine can feel regulating for neurodivergent nervous systems. Rather than framing this solely as addiction or moral failure, the conversation looks at what these coping strategies are trying to solve, and how better diagnosis, support, and education might reduce harm over time.

Krisana reflects on identity, creativity, career uncertainty, and what it means to reset in midlife without collapsing into shame. Together, they explore the difference between fixed traits and learnable skills, the pressure to monetize passions, and how scarcity thinking can push people into unsustainable choices. The episode also introduces key concepts from positive psychology, including resilience, agency, hopefulness, and sustainable goal-setting.

This conversation is not about promoting substance use or offering easy answers. It’s about curiosity, compassion, and reframing discovery as something grounded, supported, and human.

Key themes include:

✨ Neurodivergence, brain chemistry, and self-medication ✨ Addiction, stigma, and harm reduction perspectives ✨ Positive psychology versus deficit-based mental health models ✨ Identity, creativity, and career sustainability ✨ Agency, hopefulness, and rebuilding resilience ✨ Setting realistic goals without shame or burnout