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Do you have any simple steps i can try to make my non verbal daughter from peeing in her diaper.

Monotropism is misunderstood, people just see the mono thinking, but they don't quite grasp how non-mono life is. So I can concentrate on coordinating my body or I can worry about picking up my kid, I can't do both, so most of the time I walk, standstill and do the thinking about picking up the kid, then walk and that is an INSANE limit of your daily life, the loss of efficiency is gigantic. Hyperfocus just make it go to catastrophic levels, I can't change focus enough to live a normal 24 hour life, as I just don't have enough focus shift in a day, to deal with the number of items life requires.

Yes! I was lectured, yelled at, called lazy etc, by teachers and family. I’m sure many can relate. Thank you. ❤

Yes! I think there is so much sensory trauma that autistic people need to work through in order to even feel safe communicating and understanding their interoceptive state. Schools are by far the least safe space to do this in. Educators need to do better. Address bias and work to accommodate sensory needs first.

wonderfully articulated 😌

I'm looking for effective strategies for potty training my 4-year-old son, who is autistic. He struggles with being comfortable in the bathroom and sitting on the potty. If possible, could you create a video addressing this? I believe it would be incredibly helpful.

I couldn’t do well in school unless I was one on one because of this

Holy vocal fry! Cant finish

Hi Kelly do you have research articles about interception and masking?

What are personal boundaries?

4 years after first finding this video I’m still finding myself seeking it out to share with others. It’s such helpful information, haven’t found a better short introduction video about interoception. Cudos to the creator!

O.M.G!!!!! Minute 50!!! I really appreciate how passionate you are and willing to show it! I feel really alone with my passion, because no one else seems to give that much of a damn! Thank you for giving that much of a damn with big body movements and emotions!!!

I love love love learning from people that experience and learn from what it is that you are teaching! I love learning about Autism from Autistics. I love learning from ADHA-ers and other Trauma'ed people. I"m watching the recording and it is amazing!!! I used to teach in a Life Skills classroom in public education. Now I provide personal care ( whatever that looks like) to kids through DDA. I love to learn more ways to be 'there' for my clients. I want to continue to be my best provider self. Thank you! Minutes 36-40 are hilarious and perfect!!! And so me! LOL

Is there a link to the study mentioned regarding Autism and connecting emotions?

Thank you ❤ this understanding has helped me with my son

I feel concern about the emphasis upon a fixed vocabulary. If only to my mind, homogeneity would limit rather than expand or deepen awareness of any kind.

I had a traumatic brain injury 23 years ago and I had a catastrophic brain injury that I am continuing to recover from to this day. For some reason, I developed a “superpower “in my body in a very active interception. …(at the same time, my proprioception was greatly injured. My physiotherapist, osteopath chiropractor and massage therapist are all amazed at how aware I am of my internal organs. I can even described what area is injured or inflamed .. plus I can describe what it should feel like rather than the pain that I’m feeling upon their touch ..I even knew that my heart was off its axis. Presently I am struggling with an injury to my C3 and C4. As a prenatal educator I noticed that it is becoming a challenge to do diaphragmatic breathing…… which I have practised over the last 40 years. It feels like my diaphragm is struggling to activate and then to relax. I recently asked my medical professionals if that part of the spine could affect the diaphragm It turns out that the phrenic nerve passes through C3 C4 and C5. The phrenic nerve controls the diaphragm I actually can feel that the diaphragm is not as mobile as it used to be and I can feel which side is more injured than the other. Have you ever heard of a person with a brain injury who gained this “superpower “

Thank you

Thank you

Monotropism is my current special interest. People here will be able to relate to "hitting the bottom of the well" on TH-cam where people's information starts to repeat each other on our special interest. After about 4 videos that don't bring new information it is time to start more active research.

I've just ordered this! And can't wait for it to arrive (though it will understandably take a while to get to me in Australia). Can't wait to use this with some of my clients!

This video is going to be very confusing to the people who have no idea what interoception is. Without that understanding the parallels have little meaning.

Thanks Kelly ive enjoyed your presentation. I just completed reading The Keeps Score that among other issues along masking

Absolutely wonderful. I was told about you by my daughters OT when I couldn’t understand and map her reactions to certain people and situations. I unknowingly have been using your 3rd tip. When I accepted my daughters neurodiversity, I became curious myself and try to understand and gently ask her to explain her feelings. This has definitely helped her and will surely do for both neurotypical and neurodiverse children who are facing confusion. Keep posting. Thank you and God bless you x

“You’re there to coach them through that, you’re not there to tell them how to feel” I love that!

Holy smokes. Subscribed 🔥 cptsd self healing and chronic pain is priority 1 and its HUGE issue to wrap my mind around. Thankyou 🙏

This is a great video! Thanks for sharing!

I was just talking with a friend about this recently. She has a friend who masked so heavily growing up that she’s very shut down and has no idea how to process how she’s feeling now as an adult.

I hate not being able to figure out if I'm hungry, stressed or anxious, cold, withdrawing from weed, need carbs, if I'm caffinated, tired, overwhelmed, energized. It's all the same intense feeling, like a pit in my stomach. I can't tell what I'm feeling when it matters it seems. Can anybody relate to this?

Where can we get the cards?

This is very good. How do you help caregivers, who may be well intentioneed, stop gaslighting, "fixing" and "helping" instead of holding space around neurodivergent kids and their asynchronous/atypical development?

interoception is not a 6th sense. It's a combination of senses

Wow great Thanks Kelly Trying to find the right ways to advocate for my daughter while she’s struggling with the classroom and her problems not recognised by teachers because she achieves highly academically Thanks for putting these ideas into a simplified style for us I don’t want her to miss out and struggle the way I did at school due to me being dyspraxic

You are one of the best people I've heard talk about this, in that you seem to be trying to do more than give a simple definition. One problem can be that the person is in so much sensory or emotional pain that these may override other sensations. For instance, if I connect with my emotions, that also means acknowledging that my body may be in scream pain. That's a real deterrent! Also, our (autism) emotions may not fit into the neat "emotion" terms that exist in our language. (I had a college-level voc by 10, and have a master's degree and am a writer, so vocabulary isn't the problem). I've found that making up my own compound words for what I'm feeling is helping. Some emotions, for me, come in amorphous shapes; like balls of tangled yarn that have to be consciously addressed and then picked apart. Once the emotions/reasons for the emotions have been identified, then I can assign that complex emotion a name. That has actually helped.

Exactly, that's so different than your first animation about interoception. This is exactly what Lisa Feldman Barrett is telling us about so many topics and for sure feelings and emotions: variation is the norm, population thinking. Watch het excellent lecture about this, which I translated also in Dutch.

*promosm*

Hi! Such helpful info. Wondering what you’d suggest when neurodivergence/interoception AND depression cause the difficulties in feeding? Would an OT and therapist combo work best?

thank you, yes; compliance can be trauma, in itself, as well as teach us to allow others to expect our lack of personal safety for the benefit of others. this causes huge life traumas, as well as CPTSD. thank you for your work, i am grateful.

Identifying emotions, or feelings ? Regulation?

How do you sign up for this live group training?

How do you sign up for this life group training?

This was so helpful, thank you! I am an OTD student working on a captsone project related to Autism and employment, but it is great to learn about some of these emerging concepts and I'm happy that I'll be graduating at a time where it seems like so much great research is being done to provide better services for this population.

Yay! Cannot wait for this course. I love Naureen's work. When is it likely to be?

Thank you! Such an amazing resource!

Interesting!!!

It is so important to validate children’s expressions of interoceptive feelings, such as tummy aches or any chronic pain. Often adults, including doctors and educators, dismiss children’s expressions of pain and discomfort as anxiety or avoidance. This can lead to an individual dismissing their own feelings and developing a sense of distrust in their own ability to judge how they feel, in my experience as an educator and mom to an adult who suffered from painful chronic conditions.

Thank you Anna! I am teaching it in a school on Vancouver Island. I would love to talk to you about your work!

Thank you for sharing. I think you planted a seed that as years go by will have an impact. You are changing culture!

Fantastic video, so clear, informative, concise. One of the best explanations I've heard about interoception. Thank you so much. It summarised many key concepts for me.