Depression gets all the stereotyped attention when it comes to diagnosing the goth community, but it is not news that we have higher than average proportion of neuro-spicy members, specifically Autism Spectrum and ADHD (your hosts have a bit of both!) We discuss why people whose brains experience the world differently are drawn to subculture, and more specifically to this one. This can be a desire for routine and repetition, synesthesia, how the baggage of the “gifted child” plays a hand, and what happens to the psyche when your best self feels inaccessible. We also talk about what it means to be “Hautistic” (Vesta thought she coined this but Urban Dictionary says otherwise), meaning how attractive people, especially women, go undiagnosed given access to a different form of masking. Oh, and we end up diagnosing Wednesday and Gomez Addams as on the Autism Spectrum.
