My goal for this podcast is to educate all people to help them understand the autistic experience. I share my experiences living as an autistic woman in order to help people of all neurotypes understand what it's like to be autistic, and to create a world where all neurotypes are respected and understood.
Autism Advocate
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Podcast Overview
My goal for this podcast is to educate all people to help them understand the autistic experience. I share my experiences living as an autistic woman in order to help people of all neurotypes understand what it's like to be autistic, and to create a world where all neurotypes are respected and understood.
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5/19/2022
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Recent Episodes
June 13, 2026
Borderline Personality Disorder - The Criteria and Subtypes
This episode is a guided walkthrough of borderline personality disorder (BPD), aimed at listeners who want to understand what it actually is rather than the caricature. It opens by clearing up one of the most common confusions in mental health conversations, the mix-up between borderline and bipolar disorder, and explains why the shared "BPD" shorthand makes things worse before settling in to focus entirely on borderline. From there, the episode lays out the nine DSM-5 criteria one at a time: fear of abandonment (real or imagined), unstable relationships that swing between idealizing and devaluing people, an unstable sense of self, self-damaging impulsivity, recurrent self-harm or suicidal behavior, intense mood swings, chronic emptiness, difficulty controlling anger, and stress-related paranoia or dissociation. Each criterion comes with real-world examples to make it concrete. What sets this episode apart is the lens it uses. Rather than describing BPD as a set of behaviors or character flaws, it grounds everything in neurobiology and Internal Family Systems (IFS). Listeners learn how a "thinking brain" that struggles to integrate opposing emotional states can drive the idealization–devaluation cycle, and how a hyperreactive fear center (the amygdala) that the brain can't fully calm down can fuel emotional overwhelm. Throughout, the episode reframes nearly every symptom as a protective coping response to deep pain, like survival programs that often formed in childhood, which reshapes how you hear behaviors that might otherwise look like manipulation. The second half explores the four subtypes of BPD: impulsive, quiet/discouraged, petulant, and self-destructive, showing how the same diagnosis can look completely different from one person to the next, and tying each to a distinct picture of what's happening in the brain.
March 20, 2026
Alcoholism - Why People Turn to It and How It Destroys the Brain
Many people, especially autistic people, or people with bipolar disorder, or ADHD, have a neurological baseline where glutamate (the brain's "go" signal) runs high and GABA (the "brake") runs low. Alcohol temporarily patches that imbalance, which is why vulnerable populations are drawn to it at disproportionate rates. The catch: alcohol is a neurotoxin. When it wears off, GABA crashes even lower, glutamate spikes even higher, and every symptom gets worse. Repeat this enough and you're looking at hippocampal atrophy, suppressed neurogenesis, blunted reward circuits, and memories that simply never encode, which is why being around heavy drinkers can feel like being gaslit. Addiction isn't a willpower problem. It's a nervous system trying to fill a real neurochemical void. Movement, nature, and other GABA-supporting habits can build new neural pathways over time, but the alternative has to come before the substance is taken away.
February 5, 2026
The Problems With Spanking Children, Corporal Punishment, Shame Avoidance
This episode explains the systemic effects of spanking - not just that it's harmful, but how it creates lasting patterns. I'll show you what happens in the nervous system when a child is spanked, the dysfunctional beliefs children develop from these experiences, how shame avoidance perpetuates the pattern across generations, why protective behaviors formed in response to spanking show up differently across contexts but stem from the same root cause, and the pathway to breaking the cycle. Key statistics: 94% of 3-4 year olds in the US are spanked. Spanking in childhood is associated with moderate to heavy drinking, drug use, and suicide attempts in adulthood, even after controlling for other forms of abuse. Sources: Fragile Families study on spanking prevalence: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3114638/ Long-term mental health outcomes: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0145213423000030
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