Episode Details

Disability reveal parties are the new gender reveal — and they’re even more unhinged.Simone fell down the rabbit hole after an autism reveal cake-cutting video went viral on X. What started as one awkward TikTok turned into a full cultural phenomenon: color-coded diagnosis guessing games, AuDHD parties, autism cupcake toppers at Walmart, Oriental Trading disability party favors, and people treating their mental health diagnoses like a baby to nurture and celebrate.

We watch the videos (including the “my brain is bad” one and the completely unhinged joke-diagnosis party that ends in pure Adderall cheers), dig into the Reddit posts from people who actually have autism and hate the idea, talk about why so many people suddenly want disabilities they don’t have, and connect it to identity collapse, tax-advantaged ABLE accounts, and the pure Darwinian spectacle of watching people turn their diagnoses into their entire personality.

Also: the tubes, Octavian’s perfect reaction to a dystopian AI video, Malcolm’s personal “collect the whole set” of diagnoses (dysgraphia is the real one), face blindness, and why your disabilities don’t actually define you.

Show Notes

@OliviaSorbo posted someone’s autism reveal party video on X and one of our friends shared it with us.

* Our friend (as well as many others) observed this woman is not acting very autistic (very sloppy cake cutting)

* Our friend said this has ADHD written all over it

* @Americanime noted: “Pointing out the obvious, but an autist would cut the cake more perfectly than anyone. Failing to cut the cake is the reveal that she’s NOT autistic. Pic related.” (he posted architectural drawings of a tank)

* @Penny_bigred commented: As a mother of someone who was born with autism, she isn’t Autistic she’s just a f*****g moron. Why do so many genz and millenials WANT & NEED to have disabilities they don’t actually have? Stealing resources, medical care and funding from the 1s that do.

The Etiquette of Disability Reveal Parties

* They almost always involve some sort of cake cutting / cake reveal

* Though some have suggested piñatas instead

* Before the reveal, guests are often invited to guess what the person has

* After the reveal, guests are expected to affirm the disabled person

You don’t need to handmake everything, you can get autism cupcake toppers on Walmart.com (various types, actually) and buy autism awareness party favors from Oriental Trading Company (not cheap at $54.99—they used to be so affordable!!)

Go to Tiktok,