Joe Wells and Abigoliah Schamaun on Neurodivergent Moments - Book Club
About this episode
Richard Herring chats with Joe Wells and Abigoliah Schamaun about their book of humorous essays, Neurodivergent Moments, exploring the intersection of neurodivergence and comedy.
RHLSTP Book Club #187 - Neurodivergent Moments - Richard chats to Joe and Abigoliah about their book of humorous essays, Neurodivergent Moments. They discuss whether neurodivergence is an advantage as a comedian, why you can hate being in crowds, but love performing in front of crowds, how comedy remains the best way to educate people without them noticing, why this book is nonetheless primarily about making jokes rather than teaching lessons (but still does both jobs), what masking involves and why it is necessary, how risk taking can present itself in having loads of sex with strangers and why it’s OK to make mistakes about this kind of stuff, as long as you’re genuinely interested in learning about it. Here’s all the places you can buy the book https://linktr.ee/ndm_book SUPPORT THE SHOW! See details of the RHLSTP LIVE DATES Watch our TWITCH CHANNEL Become a badger and see extra content at our WEBSITE Buy DVDs and books from GO FASTER STRIPE Audio mix by Ben Evans (NTO) Thanks to Chris Evans (NTO) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
People in this episode
Host: Richard Herring
Guests: Joe Wells, Abigoliah Schamaun
Topics covered
- neurodivergence
- comedy
- humorous essays
- performing
- education
- risk taking
Keywords
- neurodivergent
- comedy education
- humor
- performing arts
- crowds
- masking
- risk taking
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: RHLSTP, Go Faster Stripe, Fuzz Productions, Acast
Books & works: Neurodivergent Moments
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