S1: E105: We NEED to Talk About NeuroDivergent Energy Regulation – My Autistic ADHD Perspective

A Neurodivergent Rebel's Ramblings

First off, there are various types of energy a person can feel, or experience, in one’s body.

There is emotional energy, when you get really excited, happy, angry, or scared, energy rises in your body… or if you are feeling down and depressed, you may have energy drained out of your body. Those are emotional energy fields.

There is also sensory energy. For example, when I feel sensory overload, my brain feels like electric static is erupting out of it, and I have way too much electric current flowing through my body, and I need to slow that pulsing energy field down to stop the sensory overload.

There’s emotional energy, and there’s sensory energy… as an Autistic ADHDer, there is also inertia, Autistic Inertia, or just the struggle to get energy moving, and slow energy down, once it is moving.

As an Autistic Person, with the Autistic Inertia, and as an ADHDer, I struggle to get myself going in the morning, struggle to get myself started, but then also struggling to stop myself, once I get going.

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://neurodivergentrebel.com/2022/11/23/we-need-to-talk-about-neurodivergent-energy-regulation-my-autistic-adhd-perspective/

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