Voices at the Margins: Podcasting as Neuroqueer Collaborative Autoethnography and Epistemic Healing

This article introduces podcasting as a methodological advancement within critical neurodiversity studies, positioning it as a form of neuroqueer collaborative autoethnography that enables epistemic healing. Through a collaborative podcast episode featuring seven neurodivergent podcasters, we demonstrate how voice-centered, relational knowledge-making can disrupt traditional academic gatekeeping while affirming neurodivergent ways of knowing. Our approach combines neuroqueer theory's challenge to neuronormative research practices with collaborative autoethnography's emphasis on shared meaning-making, using podcasting as both method and medium. Guided by five open-ended questions rather than rigid scripts, our conversation exemplifies how podcasting can function as epistemic repair by restoring silenced ways of knowing through accessible, community-rooted dialogue. We argue that podcasting offers critical neurodiversity studies a participatory methodology that honors complexity, embraces messiness, and builds community while generating rigorous cultural critique. This work contributes to growing calls for neurodivergent-led research methodologies that serve communities rather than studying them.