Neurodivergence, Trauma, and Somatic Experiencing with Sarah Schlote, MA, RP, CCC, SEP 

I can't believe I just got this lecture randomly recommended. It makes sense, on one hand, because I recently discovered I am autistic as hell, and I am compiling the best resources available on RU-vid in a playlist form, for both my family and friends, but also to all autistic people out there who could benefit to be actually informed on the subject. So this video was uploaded two days ago, exactly when I began to curate the list. It makes sense right, but I'm surprised the RU-vid algorithm worked so... magnificently. This one... this is absolutely great. There are a lot of lectures out there, given by entitled, neurotypical doctors, trying to find cures in order to fix what is wrong with us, all while using functioning labels and calling us individual with/who suffer from/ autism, instead of simply calling us autistic. Like if people had the gayness or something. So thank you, from the bottom of my heart. This one is a heavy hitter on my playlist. Greetings from a small town in Mexico.

Love this talk! Thank you Sarah for diving into this. I've been looking for something like this in the SE space for years now

Thank you so much Sarah, profound. Received with great appreciation and respect. Very very supportive to my work and YES, the need for social justice, changing the environment to support neurodivergence. THANK YOU.

36 minutes in, discussion on empathy and the neurodivergent person, possible overwhelm leading to what "appears " to be lack of empathy - spot on! Also like your use and inclusion of the term ableism throughout the presentation.

This is an *excellent* talk, and every SE practitioner should be watching and absorbing it.

Such incredibly valuable information, Thank you to Sarah and SEI for making this publically available!

This tutorial was fascinating! Thank you for sharing!

Thanks, this was great!

Thnak you. Not only autistic and ADHD peole are neurodivergent, but also gifted and higly sensitive people, people with OCD etc. I would like to ask - my neurodivergence means that I have emotional hyperexcitability (it is normal for me to flow in peaks of high emotional arousal that feels comfortable, reasonable and not overwhelming). It was confused with trauma signs by psychoterapists and SE didn't worked for me, because the practitioner gave me very confusing instructions to titrate, when I was not feeling anything strong or overwhelming. It happened all the time when I tried to let my normal emotional intensity out (eg. cry) I was redirected to look out the window or something else, cut in the middle of process - things were unfolding - but I needed to stop my inner process by my will in the middle. And I was said all the time that it is dangerous for me to feel so intensely. It felt really unsafe, stressful, as I cannot be authentic with the practitioner, after a while I decided to rather mask to feel safe with them and I left session with confusion. It felt like gasligting, as you described here. After that sessions I had abnormal anxiety and muscle freeze issues that continued. How do you work with people with innate higtened emotional reactions? Is there a way how to unfreeze after such a session if there is no way to find a nerodiveregnce informed SE practitioner in our area?

Thanks. This was very informative. Any tips on how to find an SE pactitioner in Germany that is aware of special challenges of people on the spectrum?