Stuart Shanker
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first heard Oct 2022
last heard 3 Jul
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Which turns off the stress.
And the answer is pretty much touch.
Touch.
Being caressed, we have little receptors in our skin, oxytocin receptors.
And when we're touched,
soothed, cuddled, even even a caregiver's gentle voice, which is also a form of touch.
It's caressing the eardrum.
All of these
turn on the neurons, the oxytocin neurons that restore balance, that turn off the stress response.
Okay.
Now you can begin to see why for a kid on the spectrum.
It's pretty maladaptive to go to block yourself.
from your caregiver because of the stress.
Because what you're doing is you're depriving yourself of what nature designed.
You're depriving yourself of oxytocin.
The stress levels are staying very high in you.
So what we did in our clinic was, okay, we've got to figure out why this kid avoiding.
say interacting with mum and dad or whoever.
What are the stresses?
How can we reduce those stresses?
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