The White Lotus actor Aimee Lou Wood, Marina Hyde on Daddy Musk, and are we over-diagnosing illness?
About this episode
The episode discusses parenting in the context of Elon Musk's pronatalism, the pressures of acting in The White Lotus, and the potential over-diagnosis of normal life experiences.
With the mothers of Elon’s kids begging for his attention on social media, he makes much of ‘pronatalism’ – but is that just a fancy word for bad parenting? ‘I don’t know whether I’d describe it as fun,’ says Aimee Lou Wood on the intensity of making The White Lotus. And are ordinary life experiences, bodily imperfections and normal differences being unnecessarily pathologised? Neurologist and author Suzanne O’Sullivan argues just that
People in this episode
Host: Marina Hyde
Guest: Aimee Lou Wood
Topics covered
- Elon Musk
- parenting
- mental health
- diagnosis
- The White Lotus
- social media
Keywords
- Elon Musk
- Aimee Lou Wood
- The White Lotus
- over-diagnosing
- parenting
- mental health
- social media
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: The White Lotus
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