I have had meltdowns my whole life. I didn't know that's what they were called, but I definitely had them my whole life. And they SUCK! They're uncomfortable, sometimes scary, exhausting, and disabling. But I've also noticed that many, MANY people have no idea of what it's like from a first-person POV.

Of course, this is only my experience, as any person can only talk about their own experience when doing a POV thing, but I describe it here just in case it helps others to understand meltdowns a little more.

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Chapters:
01:23 Episode overview
03:14 Episode outline
04:14 Definitions of terms
10:40 Physiology of survival modes review
15:10 Meltdown stages and my experiences with them
(content warning for descriptions of self-harm from: 23:18 - 25:41)
34:03 Considerations for caregivers or anyone who works with people who have meltdowns

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Recommended resources for meltdown support:

-Managing Meltdowns by Lipsky & Richards

-"Understanding Autism, Aggression, and Self-Injury: Medical Approaches and Best Support Practices" Thinking Person's Guide to Autism article

One consistent aspect of living as a neurodivergent is burnout. Whether it's ADHD, autism, depression, anxiety, OCD, trauma exposure, or literally any other brain difference, we're all burnout from, I suspect, a younger age than most neurotypicals.

But as with workplace/professional burnout, I think there's more than "just burnout" going on; so let's talk about it.

TOPICS COVERED:

1. Defining neurodivergent burnout
2. Parallels to workplace burnout
3. Sources of societal trauma
4. Introduction into deconstructing ableism

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CITATIONS:

• Cieslak et al., 2014
• Mantzalas et al., 2022
• Maslach & Lieter, 2016
• TIP 57
• Shoji et al., 2015

There are many, MANY redflags in this rhetoric, so let's unpack them.

Episode topics include:

• Who are the creators of the podcast?
• The "superpower" flavor of dehumanization
• Alternative explanations for what people see
• Playing Devil's Advocate: If all their claims are true, what does it really change?

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Citations:

Disability tropes in fiction

Eariler Jilani article on the communication methodology

Facilitated Communication information and citations

Inspiration porn

Magical minoritized person trope

Moral model of disability

The Telepathy Tapes: A Dangerous Cornucopia of Pseudoscience

"The Telepathy Tapes" Has Close Ties to Vaccine Skeptic Movement (by Zaid Jilani)

Telepathy Tapes transcripts