Kelly Mahler

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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children · TPP 352: Occupational Therapist Kelly Mahler on the Power in Understanding & Supporting Neurodivergent Kids' Interoception Experience · 5 Dec 2023 podcast

But more importantly, like my work is a lot is m largely based on lived experience and reports of lived experience.

And I know a lot of my clients, my neurodivergent colleagues, friends, etc., they do talk very widely about these and the impact of these interceptive differences and

We know loosely, and again, this is another area that we need more research that there are.

people born into this world, including neurodivergent people, that just are wired interceptively differently.

Like they might just be born with IA extremes, like a muted or an intense inner experience.

But what we also know is that the interception experience can be derailed through lived experience.

So whether someone's experiencing trauma, and that can even be neurodivergent trauma.

Which we talk a lot about is a little bit an expanded version of the traditional causes of trauma that we might talk about.

Also neurodivergent people

tend to have higher exposure to things like gaslighting and misunderstandings and invalidation of their inner experience.

And I have to say, like I am guilty of some of these things.

Like I was trained to label my clients' emotions that will help them understand how they're feeling.

So I would walk around saying like, oh, it looks like you're getting frustrated right now right now.

How can I help?

What we're finding is that when we label someone else's experience,

We're at high risk of being wrong.

So if you are a neurodivergent person where someone is continually labeling your emotions and you're like, wait, that's not like what I'm feeling, you start to doubt yourself.

You start to like develop this body mistrust.

You you're like, Well, my inner experience must be wrong if all these other people are saying it's one thing and I feel like it's another.

Or people say things like, and again, I think it's out of love and

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