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Hi, and welcome to the In The Cortex podcast.

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We are your hosts.

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I'm Paloma Garcia.

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And I am Danny Paraconi.

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And we're the founders of In The Cortex, an online community with programs that show

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people the tools that they need to change their lives through brain reorganization.

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No medication, just movement.

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When you get your brain out of survival mode and regulate your nervous system, you start

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to live in the fun, logical part of the brain, the cortex.

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Subscribe today and learn how to live your best in the cortex life.

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And now, on to today's episode.

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Welcome back to another podcast within the Cortex Gurlies.

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I'm Danny and I'm here with Paloma.

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And we are really excited because, well, we're always excited to talk because we love talking.

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And we love that you want to listen to us.

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So thank you for being here, first of all.

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We're going to unpack a pretty big topic today, which is neurodiversity.

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It's something we get asked about all the time on our Instagram, our TikTok channels.

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So many people are just trying to make sense of how our work makes sense with neurodiversity

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and does it have a connection.

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So we're going to break that down today.

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We're going to share some cool facts that are happening all over the world with neurodiversity.

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And we're going to just have a conversation of just reframing this concept of neurodiversity.

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And we're always doing it from the brain perspective.

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That's our focus here at in the cortex.

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We look at the primitive reflexes.

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We look at the lower centers of the brain, the ponson midbrain, and of course, those

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subconscious beliefs.

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So we're going to bring all that in together.

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And we're going to just have a conversation to hopefully help you see our perspective

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on all of this.

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And again, this is not to shame anybody.

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This is not to make anyone feel bad.

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If you have a label diagnosis or if neurodivergence is something that is existing in your life,

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we get you.

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And that's what we really want this to come through as, as we understand what you're experiencing.

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And yeah, so let's have that conversation.

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Ploma, what is neurodivergence?

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Neurodivergence is, well, neurodiversity is a term that was coined by Judy Sanger in

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She started to see the way that people were being diagnosed with deficits, with disabilities,

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or with all this, this language that was kind of making it framing in a very negative way.

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And what she noticed were two things.

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One is that more people than not are neurodivergent, right?

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That neurodiversity is a reality.

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And so just really quick neurodivergence means that there are, that you're diverging,

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you're going away from the norm, right?

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So your brain is different from the neurotypical.

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But neurodiversity is the concept that there actually is diversity in people's brains in

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the world.

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It's like there's gender diversity, just like there's racial diversity, just like there's

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language diversity.

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There's so much diversity in our world, right?

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And so this is just another type of that.

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And so what she said, and what she started to notice was that there was all kind of

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framed in a very negative way.

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She's like, disabilities, disorders, disabled.

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I don't like that.

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I want people to feel like this is just part of a difference.

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It's not, there's nothing wrong with it.

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So that's where she came up with this term of neurodiversity, neurodivergence.

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There's a lot that goes back and forth because then she coined it, but then somebody else

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wrote about it for the first time.

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So there's a lot kind of like a back and forth of who really started it, but it started

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in the nineties and it started to help people just reframe the way that they were looking

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at themselves and at others.

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And understanding that there truly are so many different ways that the brain is connected,

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that the brain processes things, that the brain works in this world, right?

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And that's, that's a reality that nowadays we really much, very much live with.

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But think about how groundbreaking this was when she started to bring this to the, to

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the masses of like, hey guys, it's not a bad thing if you have some sort of diagnosis.

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It's not a bad thing if your brain works differently.

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It's just being a human.

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And that's where you and I come in, right?

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That's where you and I look at it as, listen, you can put as many names on it as you want.

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You're still just a person.

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We're all just humans and we're trying to do the best with what we have and what's going

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So neurodiversity is exactly what Pauline said.

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It's just the differences that we're all experiencing in our brain function.

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If we go onto the internet and we Google, these are my behaviors of what I'm experiencing.

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Let's say it's lack of eye contact.

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I have a hard time regulating myself and I have explosive meltdowns.

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You're going to probably show up with possibly seeing on Google that you have disorder.

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And so that's going to be like the overarching umbrellas, neurodiversity.

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And then within neurodiversity, you can kind of figure out what your label and diagnosis

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is and it gives you a direction, right?

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We all want direction in life.

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We all are searching for certainty.

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We're searching for belonging.

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We're searching for all these basic human needs.

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And so when you get onto social media, when you get onto the internet, you start to self-diagnose.

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I finally have a direction and where I need to go with all of this.

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So that is neurodiversity is considered the idea that people experience and interact with

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the world around them in many different ways.

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And there's no right way of thinking, learning and behaving in differences.

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They're not viewed as deficits.

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And we love that definition because that gives such hope that like, yeah, we're all human.

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There's no normal brain really anywhere.

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And neuro typical, right?

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And if you think about it, that's really a societal shift that we're seeing nowadays

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where everybody is more like embracing what makes them different, right?

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And we'll talk about that in a second because sometimes we take it a little too far, right?

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But that's where we're actually allowing ourselves to be ourselves and to not have to fit into

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these molds that society has put on top of us because we used to think that everybody

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had to act the same way, be the same way, react the same way, whatever it is.

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And that's where we have older generations that are like just riddled with all these

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like things that they've been hiding and just holding in for so long, right?

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And so that's where this awareness just brings a different level of understanding to ourselves

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and to others.

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And that's where it's amazing.

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And we love that part of this movement.

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And that's why we always say we embrace neurodivergence, we embrace neurodiversity.

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I know they're different concepts, but we like to, we're using them a little bit interchangeably

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now because we don't want to get into the details, but it's really the reality, right?

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And so that's where it takes a little bit of a turn where we say, okay, if you have these

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differences, some of them are great.

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Some of them are like, you have a really great memory.

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Some of them you have an amazing ability with music or with math or with something else

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that you're just like so good at, or you have the ability to hyper focus.

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Some people will say like they're, they're hyper focused.

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They can't focus on anything else.

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They can't do, you know, pay attention to the world around them.

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You can see it as a negative, but you can also see it as a positive.

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Like how I love when I'm hyper focused and it doesn't happen that often, but when it

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happens, I'm like, I'm a machine.

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I love it so much.

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It's such a great thing.

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So these are things that we also can put a positive spin on, right?

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It doesn't all have to be about what makes you different.

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What makes you like, let your life harder.

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What is challenging?

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And at the same time, where we come in as we say, okay, but have you looked at the primitive

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brain because a lot of the actual challenges associated with a lot of these, with these

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diagnoses and with these labels can be very much diminished if you look at the primitive

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brain.

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For example, auditory processing challenges.

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A lot of people that are on the spectrum have auditory processing challenges and they

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have also tactile sensory processing challenges, right?

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That's where we say, is it making your life harder?

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Let's look at what's going on in the brain.

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do all the other approaches.

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And you've heard of say this on every single episode of the podcast, but that's where we

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can get a little bit more of an explanation instead of just putting a name on it.

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So that's why we kind of advocate for looking at that primitive piece before we go put a

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label on something.

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And before we go and put medication or put other approaches and that's fine.

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But the importance of looking at the brain work first at the primitive brain first is

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that you really need to look at the imbalance that's there and address it so that things,

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these characteristics can diminish and your life can get a lot easier, right?

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It's not about having this label for the rest of your life, having this diagnosis for the

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rest of your life.

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And we also wanted to talk today here about why people are looking at these diagnoses,

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right?

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Like, why are we truly identifying so much with these differences?

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And there's so much to say with that.

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And that's important to know that we're not trying to say that what you're experiencing

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isn't real.

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And we're just trying to share that there is an easier way to go about living and that's

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not who you really are.

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You're not really a person who needs to be constantly focused on your tags and your shirt

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or being overwhelmed by sounds outside.

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That makes life harder.

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And that's what we always say it in the cortex is life can be easier.

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And the cool part is you do address all that primitive brain and you address all, you know,

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the primitive reflexes, the lower centers of the brain.

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All of a sudden, your brain just starts processing the world differently.

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And it doesn't mean that now you're not a human anymore.

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It doesn't mean you're not going to still have your human moments.

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It just means there's more ease.

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There's more grace.

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There's more compassionate understanding.

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And then there's regulation because we all get dysregulated.

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And then how do we regulate ourselves?

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So it just, it just, what we do is we just, we just, we just, we just, we just, we just

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what we say is it just builds your bandwidth.

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So you can do more, you can do it more efficiently.

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And I do think that we need to have this conversation because we see so many times that people identify

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with whatever they've discovered is making sense to them.

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And when you over identify with anything you're searching for, what you were just about to

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lead into is what we're all searching for is that connection is belonging as being a

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part of something.

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And the problem with over identifying with saying, you know, I just have a neurodivergent

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brain or I just have ADD or I just am ADHD, it then kind of just puts you in this box

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that you're never going to get out of.

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And we are not against the labels.

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We're against the labels, then not taking you further to get you to the roots.

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Having this fulfilling life.

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So against the labels that make you feel like you're stuck in a box for the rest of your

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life, and that's the way that unfortunately a lot of people, a lot of mental health professionals

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do it, right?

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They are going to, you know, at least from what I've seen and a lot of the people that

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I've worked with and you have to these parents are going to a neurologist at when their kid

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is four or five years old and they're saying, oh, yeah, they're never going to talk.

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They're never going to look at you in the eye.

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They're never going to socialize or probably always going to help with going to the bathroom.

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And the parents brain is going, wait, why?

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And the kids brain is going, okay, that's the box that I'm in, right?

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And so that's where the subconscious piece comes in.

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We're going to talk about that in a second, but that's also where we, it's not about like

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the name is going to give you one thing, right?

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It's going to give you that belonging.

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It's going to help you identify.

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Okay, there, it's not just all in my head, right?

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I did have something that's different, but it's all about what you do with that label

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or with that diagnosis, whatever you want to call it.

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If you don't do anything with it and you stay in it, that's where we feel that a lot of people

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don't lose hope.

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And then they just kind of keep themselves in that box.

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That's why we always advocate for looking at the other pieces of it, right?

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What's behind all of these behaviors?

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Because that's what all these diagnoses are.

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A conglomeration of symptoms and challenges and behaviors and characteristics.

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That's all that it is because there's no way we can look, open up the brain and say, oh,

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there's the ADHD.

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Oh, there's the ODD.

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It's all behavior based.

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So why don't we look at the other part of the behaviors where it's coming from and then

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we can see what this label really means for each one of us.

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of us humans to really start looking at because the numbers are quite alarming.

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And if we don't start as a society waking up, we're going to be going down a path where

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we're just taking care of the majority of the population because we're just, we have

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no tools and resources to help them because if you think about it, in 2023, one in 36

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children was diagnosed with ASD, Autism Spectrum Disorder, one in 36.

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Only 20 years ago or 23 years ago, it was 150, one out of 150 kids.

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smaller.

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So I think about my kids and their generation and what's that going to look like?

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What's that going to look like when all these parents age out and they can't take it on?

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This looks like a bigger issue and we're not saying that there's something wrong with these

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kids, but we're saying that the approach is obviously not working.

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In 2008 to 2018, we spent $2.5 billion on ASD research.

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We spent in 10 years, $2.5 billion on research and the numbers have gone worse.

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What does that tell you?

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It's not working.

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So the system we have, and if you think about this too, Judy, back in 1999, she coined the

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term neurodivergent or neurodiversity and now all of a sudden it's picking up steam

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25 years later.

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There's a serious thing going on right now.

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We're just not able to connect how we used to.

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There's a multiple, like people always ask us, well, why?

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And we're like, well, we have a million reasons why definitely living different lives than

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we ever have in human history.

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And you can point it at technology.

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You can point it at toxins coming into the body.

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You can point it at literally anything that's going on right now.

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And there could be some sort of an effect of it for sure.

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But we have to do something different now.

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And what we are telling you is movement, the absolute key.

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We are not moving as much as we ever did in the past.

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Like we've let we're living such sedentary lifestyles.

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The technology has put our kids to sit in front of a screen.

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Can you imagine?

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Imagine when we were kids, like you had to know when the show was going to be on.

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And our parents say, you didn't have a remote and the TV was black and white or we didn't

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have the cable.

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for hours on end and never have to get up.

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It's kind of mind blowing of where we're going.

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So we're still in the alarm.

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We need to get out and start moving more.

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And the no, absolutely.

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Is that if 1% of the population, that's the entire world, that's 75 million people in

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today's world have ASD labels.

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Imagine if we could give every single person this little tool kit of like, Hey, let's all

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just get on the floor and creep because the way you creep will show us what's going on

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with your brain and shows us what automatic functions you have access to.

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And then all of a sudden, if you don't creep in a very efficient pattern that was coded

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into you, every single baby is supposed to go through a certain series of ways that they

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evolve into this pattern.

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If it was interrupted, then that's going to show up later in life.

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And the behaviors of connected to an underdeveloped pawns is very strikingly similar to those

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that have the ASD spectrum label.

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And it's crazy the overlap.

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And again, like Paul said, there's no like ASD, there's no ADHD part in the brain.

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We're looking at the behavior.

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And so we have found, and this is what brought me on this journey was because I was on a

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path when I came home from Ecuador, I was like, what am I doing with my life?

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So I found ABA therapy, which is called applied behavioral analysis.

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It's to help kids with autism learn skills and less than problematic behavior.

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So obviously there's a spectrum when we're talking about ASD, there's definitely more

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of like Asperger's where is less of, you know, you can mask or you can commonly a little

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bit better versus some of them that don't have that ability.

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So there's a spectrum there.

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But I was learning about this about like 16, 17 years ago, I was like, I'm going to sound

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so fascinating.

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I want to help kids that have autism.

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And it wasn't as well known back then.

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And it was just kind of starting to emerge at this whole thing.

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I remember my best friend in high school sharing with me what her job was.

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I was like, that sounds like what I want to do.

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So I remember coming back to San Diego, I found a job doing ABA therapy.

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I was literally trained for like a week or two, two weeks max.

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And then I was thrown into working with kids.

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And I had never really been around kids that had some extreme behaviors like this before,

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like biting and hitting and stuff like that.

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And I was terrified because I was like, I don't know what to do.

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You guys haven't told me what I'm supposed to do.

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I immediately, because that's what we are grown up with in society.

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Oh, something's wrong with you.

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We need to fix you to bring you onto our side.

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And so that's another part we were going to unpack too was like, how messed up that part

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is.

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But I remember being in there and just going, wait a minute, why are we training these kids

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and doing this?

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This makes no sense to me.

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Like this doesn't feel like we're doing anything.

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It feels like we're just like teaching them to act quote unquote normal, which is what

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a BF Skinner used to say, he wanted to normalize children with neurodivergent brains.

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Starting there, that's a red flag.

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And he's the founder of ABA therapy.

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And so anyways, once I was doing that for a little bit, then I was going to people's

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homes and I was like in there trying to help them.

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And these families are just desperate, like give me something and my insurance covers

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this.

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So they're like, I'll do whatever it takes.

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And I'm, I was just like, this is such a waste of time and resources from my experience.

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I cannot say that for all of ABA therapy.

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I'm only talking about my personal experience.

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And then I found brain organization relatively at the same time.

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And I was walking into this place that was, that's where I was being trained.

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And I was watching kids who had an autism spectrum disorder label.

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And all of a sudden they were told they're never talking.

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And all of a sudden they start talking.

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All of a sudden they start, you know, doing the things that doctor said they would never

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do.

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And I was like, what's happening here?

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What we, you're doing these simple movements.

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And now these kids are coming out of that place that they were in before.

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And it doesn't mean they were in a place that wasn't good.

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It just means that they were working really, really hard and it was frustrating.

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It's so frustrating to not be able to talk.

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It's so frustrating to not be able to express yourself and be able to connect with people.

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So we started seeing these kids shift.

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We started seeing families transform.

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And I was like, okay, this, this looks like this is what I need to know.

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What is this?

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What is happening here?

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And now 15 years later.

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We see this every single time that we work with families, whether it be the child who

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can't stay dry all night long, the extreme emotional dysregulation, the kids who can't

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get words out because there's a lot of disluency or the eye tracking or eye teaming or we can't

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make eye contact.

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Reading and writing.

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Any of the things going on.

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We start to see that shift.

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And parents are like, oh my gosh, my kids are just wearing clothes that they would have

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never worn before.

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Do you know how life changing that is when you're a parent trying to get out the door?

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You put that clothes, clothes on, let's go.

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You know, so that's what we're trying to help people see is that there's nothing wrong with

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being neuro diverse, but what are you doing about it?

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What are you doing about it?

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And also I think the mainstream approaches are not working.

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Let's be honest.

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They're not working.

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You just told us the numbers and it's increasing and increasing and increasing.

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And we all know somebody who is having these challenges and they're going to the mainstream

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therapies, they're going to the mainstream things and they're not working.

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And we understand that we're on the fringes.

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We understand that what we're saying is completely out of the blue for a lot of people that it's

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totally new and different.

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But at the end of the day, all that we're asking you to do is move.

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And that's the most natural thing that a human can ever do.

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So why not give it a try, right?

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Whether or not you have a diagnosis.

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And that's where, you know, all these things, it's like, we, you know, we say with like

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yoga, right?

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When people start doing yoga, people are like, what are they doing?

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And I feel like now little by little, people are like, okay, I get this.

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I'm going to crawl.

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I'm going to creep.

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I'm going to do these things.

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And once they feel the difference, they're like, oh, I'm never going to stop doing this

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ever in my life because it's amazing.

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And so that's where I think this whole podcast, the message of this whole podcast is, let's

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just shift the way that we're looking at neurodivergence.

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We're not looking at it as something negative.

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We're not looking at it as something that you have to live with for the rest of your

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life.

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And part of it is amazing and part of it is also neurodiversity is the reality.

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Everybody's brain is different.

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But when you look at the challenges associated with certain diagnoses and certain types of

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neurodivergence, that's where life can be really, really, really difficult.

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We don't want your life to be difficult.

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We want your life to be easier.

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And giving your brain the neurological foundation it needs to process the world more efficiently

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is what's going to help you feel better at the end of the day.

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100%.

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And we are so excited to keep sharing this message because think about it, if that took,

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you know, I don't know, in BF Skinner sort of ABA therapy, but if let's look at even

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Judy coming up with that term in 1999, 20 years, we've been doing this now for 15 years.

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It's been on and happening now for a while.

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I mean, this is when Glenn Doeman and Carl Delacato started creeping and crawling and

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doing all that stuff back in the 50s.

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So it's not new stuff.

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We didn't invent any of it and, but the cool part is, is we really feel like we're the

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messengers here to like share this information with the world that your life can change.

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Your life can get so much easier.

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No matter what your label or diagnosis is, whatever you're resonating with in this conversation,

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there's hope for you.

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And there's so much that even Paloma and I, when we work on ourselves because we do it

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daily, we find out so much about our subconscious and our programming and how we're seeing the

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world and our biggest thing this past, I'd say like year and a half is just to having

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more grace for ourselves for being human.

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And I feel like that's a huge thing happening where we're really removing the stigmas of

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you're supposed to be here at this point in your life, doing this at this point in your

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life.

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Like Paloma doesn't have kids.

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I went through a divorce.

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We all have our stuff and there's so much beauty and just embracing the differences

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in all of us and we need to normalize it.

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Not just label it, but just normalize that we are all different and we can make life

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easier.

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And it's something that like, I can imagine my life without it.

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Like having my four year old, almost five year old having her moments where she's just

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completely dysregulated, Danny before brain work would have wanted to do what my parents

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did, yell back at her and just tell her she's too sensitive and knock it off.

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Right.

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Now that I have brain work, I have nurtured revolution in my tool belt.

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I have so many more tools that I'm like, Oh my gosh, she's scared.

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She just needs some emotional attack, like connection.

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But if I would have taken her to a pediatrician and said, Oh, she has ODD.

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She's oppositional defiance disorder.

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Cause anytime I say no, shoot, that's her trigger.

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Right.

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Yeah.

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But it's really that she's scared and it's hitting her subconscious of like, wait, I need

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someone to help me co-regulate.

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I need to borrow your brain.

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I don't know how to do this.

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Help me, help me.

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Yes.

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So I can look for her, I can show her what a calm and regulated adult looks like.

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She's going to get that now.

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Who knows what her future is going to look like, but it's not going to look like mine

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because I still have those feelings of my subconscious getting triggered.

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And so that's really what this is.

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It's like, let's really just get to the root of why we behave the way we do and how can

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we behave in a more cohesive, loving, compassionate way.

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And we see it, how often do you see this moment everywhere?

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Millions of times.

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Everywhere.

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All over the place.

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And so there's a spectrum for everything and everybody and we're just trying to help

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take out that stigma that there's something wrong with you.

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Exactly.

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And there's something you can do about it.

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Yeah.

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And get taking out the idea that that's like the way that you're stuck and you have to

470
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find different compensations for the rest of your life.

471
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That's where I struggle and I'm trying to tell people that you don't have to find those

472
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compensations forever.

473
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You don't have to keep going down this route that is clearly not easy.

474
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And I'm not saying life is ever going to be easy because it's not.

475
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Absolutely not.

476
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But it can be easier when you get those tiny little battles out of the way in your life

477
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when you're able to truly be as efficient as your brain can be.

478
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And like once again, if you do need some other support after you do your brain work, that's

479
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fine.

480
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We do all the different modalities do, right?

481
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We've done our brain work and we do all these different things that we're constantly trying

482
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to improve ourselves with different ways.

483
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The difference is our nervous system is ready to accept these new things.

484
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That's what our last podcast was about, right?

485
00:25:37,320 --> 00:25:42,880
Christy saying, oh my gosh, after I gave my my brain the foundation it needed, I was

486
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able to respond so much better to all the other stuff that I love to do, right?

487
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All the meditations, all the acupuncture, all the whatever she's into.

488
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And that's the whole point is for all of us to just start with that level of baseline

489
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regulation and then we're all going to always need to support ourselves in different ways,

490
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right?

491
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So it's not about not having the diagnosis.

492
00:26:01,680 --> 00:26:02,960
It's about what do you even do with it?

493
00:26:02,960 --> 00:26:05,400
If you want to seek out the diagnosis, good for you.

494
00:26:05,400 --> 00:26:09,840
That's if you want to have like a the peace of mind of like, okay, it's not all, you know,

495
00:26:09,840 --> 00:26:10,840
I'm not imagining it.

496
00:26:10,840 --> 00:26:13,080
There's definitely something that's different about my brain.

497
00:26:13,080 --> 00:26:14,080
Great.

498
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What are you going to do about it afterward?

499
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That's the biggest piece.

500
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And so that's where we don't want people to get caught up in having to seek out these

501
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diagnoses, having to seek out this belonging to that community that might be on, you know,

502
00:26:26,680 --> 00:26:30,160
challenged with this or challenged with that on TikTok, on Instagram or wherever it is.

503
00:26:30,160 --> 00:26:33,960
The point is, what are you going to do about it so you can actually chart, start to live

504
00:26:33,960 --> 00:26:34,960
your best life?

505
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Like, I know it sounds so corny, but that's it.

506
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Like living your best life and being your authentic self is only going to come after

507
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you find regulation.

508
00:26:42,320 --> 00:26:43,320
Yeah.

509
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When you become a member at ITC, you come into a space, a community where we literally

510
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understand you.

511
00:26:48,800 --> 00:26:51,720
You could say, Hey, my daughter is doing this, this and this.

512
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My son does this or I have this or my partner does this, whatever it is.

513
00:26:55,840 --> 00:26:59,600
And we'll pinpoint you to, it's probably this reflects this, this and this.

514
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And then we tell you, here's what you can do.

515
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And we give you that daily guidance to go practice this at home, help yourself understand

516
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how your brain and body are connected.

517
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And then we give you journal prompts.

518
00:27:11,280 --> 00:27:15,880
We have fun assignments for you to dig deeper into, to really expand your awareness as to

519
00:27:15,880 --> 00:27:19,840
like, wait, oh my gosh, I'm shifting my perception on everything.

520
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And now my perspective on the world has completely shifted.

521
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And that's what all of our members experience is just complete eye opening.

522
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And it, when we say change, people get so scared with that word because they're like,

523
00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:33,080
wait, what do you mean I'm going to change?

524
00:27:33,080 --> 00:27:37,080
And that's such a scary thing when you think of like a nervous system changing, but it's

525
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changed for the better.

526
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You now things don't rattle you.

527
00:27:40,760 --> 00:27:44,000
Instead of getting really upset, you just stay calm.

528
00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:47,680
We have so many kids that just one of our members just shared today.

529
00:27:47,680 --> 00:27:52,320
She's like, she had a scene about, you know, her daughter said something about not wanting

530
00:27:52,320 --> 00:27:56,320
to go to school because this might happen and the son overheard it.

531
00:27:56,320 --> 00:27:59,520
Then they went and did their brain work and then the son completely left that thought

532
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and he's like, okay, I'm ready for school now.

533
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So it's stuff like that.

534
00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:07,360
That's what changes life just gets in the flow easier and you can just roll with things.

535
00:28:07,360 --> 00:28:10,680
You don't get so scared and fearful of life anymore.

536
00:28:10,680 --> 00:28:14,440
And so that is what we support you with at our community here in the cortex.

537
00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:20,360
We give you that space to just be human, have your ups and downs because we all have them.

538
00:28:20,360 --> 00:28:25,400
Here are some tools to ease that up and down and you know, just a place where we can all

539
00:28:25,400 --> 00:28:28,680
be positive and help uplift each other, but then also support the human.

540
00:28:28,680 --> 00:28:33,360
So it's a very like, I don't know, it's my favorite place to be because it's like, okay,

541
00:28:33,360 --> 00:28:38,320
we fall apart, but there's so much we can do to put it back together.

542
00:28:38,320 --> 00:28:42,080
And so that sounds like a awesome place that you want to be.

543
00:28:42,080 --> 00:28:44,320
We hope you want to join us.

544
00:28:44,320 --> 00:28:49,440
And we have so much to share with you right now about where to find all that.

545
00:28:49,440 --> 00:28:52,680
So Instagram is in the cortex underscore us.

546
00:28:52,680 --> 00:28:55,520
Tiktok is in underscore the underscore cortex.

547
00:28:55,520 --> 00:28:57,920
Facebook is in the cortex us.

548
00:28:57,920 --> 00:29:01,240
YouTube is in the cortex us as well.

549
00:29:01,240 --> 00:29:03,320
Website in the cortex.com.

550
00:29:03,320 --> 00:29:05,120
And we've been having a little bit of challenges with that.

551
00:29:05,120 --> 00:29:08,200
So if you see, you go to the website and there's nothing there.

552
00:29:08,200 --> 00:29:12,000
Just DM us on Instagram or email us at hello it in the cortex.com cause we've been having

553
00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:13,640
some challenges with that.

554
00:29:13,640 --> 00:29:18,520
And if you want to get 10 bucks off your first payment of our program, use promo code brainiac

555
00:29:18,520 --> 00:29:22,280
of our nurtured parenting through brain reorganization program.

556
00:29:22,280 --> 00:29:25,080
It is an amazing program with neuroscientists.

557
00:29:25,080 --> 00:29:27,560
Dr. Greer Kirschenbaum, we're talking about nurture.

558
00:29:27,560 --> 00:29:31,600
We're looking at all the research behind it and how to support your own nervous system

559
00:29:31,600 --> 00:29:36,000
as a parent before you even approach your children and start to guide them in their

560
00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:39,040
own nervous system development and regulations.

561
00:29:39,040 --> 00:29:43,720
So if you still want to sign up, you can sign up, but all the links are in our bio again.

562
00:29:43,720 --> 00:29:48,440
If that's not working, please DM us and we'll send you the info to sign up and let us know

563
00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:49,440
what questions you have.

564
00:29:49,440 --> 00:29:50,440
We're always here.

565
00:29:50,440 --> 00:29:53,840
And you know, if you have any ideas for episodes of the podcast, send them over because we

566
00:29:53,840 --> 00:29:55,840
really do use them.

567
00:29:55,840 --> 00:29:56,840
Thank you.

568
00:29:56,840 --> 00:29:57,840
Thank you.

569
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Thank you.