Understanding Interoception and Exteroception
Have you ever noticed how your heart races before a big test or how a loud noise makes you jump? That’s your body giving you important information. Our brains constantly take in signals from two main sources—inside our body and outside in the world. These signals help us understand what’s going on and how to respond.
If you open the DSM-5, the diagnostic manual used by mental health professionals worldwide, you will find autism described largely through a lens of lack. Specifically, it highlights "deficits in social communication." For decades, the medical community has used the non-autistic (neurotypical) majority as the undisputed
This is the new home of GlisZEN, moving into our own home. You will see that all of the previous GlisZENing with Swift Mind Care (Substack Site) content should be here, and likely unlocked...and the hope is to make this so it is less cumbersome to read, and to
You’ve probably seen a headline claiming scientists found a drug that “treats autism.” It happens every few years, with a different molecule each time. Oxytocin. Psychedelics. The gut microbiome. Most recently, a drug called rapamycin. I’m not going to spend much time on the drug itself, because the
...your instinct to believe people and assume good faith is not a bug
