Dr. Megan Anna Neff

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That would be an example of, okay, this person's sensory profile, AKA their nervous system is kind of on flames right now.

Also more emotional meltdowns as well.

So more emotional reactivity or sensitivity would also be common.

More of that fatigue, so difficulty waking up or more school refusal or school avoidance, if that is part of the baseline experience.

In general, a withdrawal because of the fatigue.

And then that loss of skill as well.

Maybe you'll see there were things they were able to do that they're no longer able to do.

And I think that's really important because as parents, sometimes we might interpret that as defiance if we don't understand these things.

And it could be a genuine loss of skills.

Maybe it's not PDA.

Maybe it's not defiance.

Maybe it is the child literally can't do that at this moment.

Yeah, absolutely.

So and this metaphor is not unique to me, it comes from stress literature, it just felt even more appropriate here.

Because when we think about building in accommodations, it's like, that's a way to expand our bucket.

But essentially, the idea, again, for any nervous system, you

It has a capacity.

It has some true capacity.

And it can only take in so much before it overflows and it's too much.

So if we think about a faucet and then a bucket, there's going to be two factors there.

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