Ep. 59: An AuDHDer's Guide to Regulation
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Who is Bettina and what is her background as an AuDHDer SLP and entrepreneur?
What's up everyone and welcome to Making the Shift for Autistic Kids.
We're an SLP couple from California with four boys.
And we're here every week to bring you neuroaffirming tips, tricks, and tools. Are
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the shift? Let's do this!
Hello and welcome everyone to Making the Shift. Today we are so excited to introduce you to our special guest. She is an SLP. She is the private practice owner of Milk and Honey, where she does therapy and consulting. She is also a proud DHDer, which, if you are not familiar with that term, that is an autistic ADHDer. And mom to a beautiful five-year-old autistic son. So I'm so excited to welcome you here. This is Betina Lopez Lamb. Welcome. Hi
guys. So I have to add also a beautiful two year old little toddler. Can't forget him, right? We can't leave him out. Okay. I I don't
even know if I knew that.
Yeah. I try to squeeze him in there too, you know. I don't want 'em to feel that whole like Glass child stories, you know, things like that. But Yeah, story
of our lives trying to give enough of like the same amount of attention to all four children.
Yes. Well boy life, right? You've got boy mom life, boy dad.
But we are so excited to have you here today. I will say this is just Such a long time coming. This conversation is so overdue. I mean, I first met you when you enrolled in the sensory course as an SLP. And I don't even know how long ago that was now, but I just
Twenty twenty one, I guess. Yeah, 'cause right after yeah, twenty twenty one. Exactly when Brandon was we were going through the diagnosis journey and everything. So yeah.
Amazing. So it's been so long and you know, we love watching everything that you do and how you've been taking everything you've learned. And I mean, you're going above and beyond because just diving into neurodiversity affirming therapy in general and being able to talk about it on your social.
Oh
yeah,
that's what I'm feeling now. Now that I'm fully 'cause I I officially left my hospital position, like I'm fully private now and that's where I'm feeling all the energy of the the private practice life and it's It's now it's like I'm fully in it.
Yeah, well I would love if you could maybe take us back to before you knew about sensory or before you knew knew about ND affirming practices, what was life like? Like what were what was hard and You know, before you were in the know.
Oh yeah, so I avoided all things autism, that's for sure. I was straight like, I'm gonna be medical SLP, hospital acute face forever. Like who can I don't wanna work with well, that was the thing. I didn't want to work with kids because in our fields, if you work with kids, you're gonna work with kids on the spectrum. But the way that we were always taught in like grad school, at least in my program, which I think was common, so it was twenty eleven, I graduated. It was that compliance based sitting at I mean, I keep mentioning the Riften chair because people don't even know what that is. And it's like it was always put 'em against the wall in the corner, don't let them s sit in front of them so they don't see the door.
Like Strap 'em in with the table. So it was it just never felt right. So I think and I never knew what well now I know 'cause I'm autistic too, but I just felt like everything about it just felt so like arcade. Oh, I just I hated it. Um so then it pushed me away and I was like, Okay, like I love medical Filipino background. All Filipinos are nurses. I don't know if you know this. So I was like, Okay, I can be a medical and please call so that's a whole big thing of my side too. It's a lot of the cultural aspects of being like Filipino American, immigrant child, expectations to have that. Job. Um so ja before All of it was just, yeah, I just wanted to be an adult therapist and want nothing to do with it. So sensory wise didn't really know much.
We had like the O T, you know, that came in once in a while. On uh to swing someone. In the uh therapy gym and that was about it. But uh yeah, a totally different trajectory that my life is on now is literally because of Brandon.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Who is Bettina and what is her background as an AuDHDer SLP and entrepreneur?
0:08–4:52
2
What was Bettina’s life like before she discovered sensory‑friendly and neurodiversity‑affirming practices?
4:52–9:41
3
How did Bettina’s son Brandon’s diagnosis and sensory needs change her career path?
9:41–14:21
4
What sensory challenges does Bettina face personally and how does she manage them?
14:21–18:19
5
How does Bettina help her family (husband, son, and herself) regulate sensory overload at home?
18:19–22:56
6
What tools and strategies (e.g., loop ears, ADHD chair, noise‑cancelling headphones) does Bettina recommend for sound sensitivity?
22:56–27:13
7
What advice does Bettina give to SLPs and therapists who are new to neurodiversity‑affirming therapy?
27:13–31:34
8
How does Bettina envision the future of sensory‑focused, neurodiverse‑affirming practice and community support?
31:34–35:13
Speakers
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