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Safety as the Foundation for Everything with Dr. Gillian Boudreau

Two Sides of the Spectrum

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The Allostatic Load of Stress

Stress stress for me is either sort of a too soft euphemism for fear or might speak to the experience of allostatic load. Is that another way of saying like chronic fear? Yeah the chronic response to fear exactly and particularly uncertainty which I think in our mammalian brain are pretty close together because we tend not to feel safe unless we really feel like we know what's going to happen. What about trauma and anxiety? Defining them but also talking about maybe how they can be different for autistic people both by virtue of their neurotype and from being autistic in a world that's set up for neurotypicals.Yeah so trauma man I've been working and talking about trauma for a long

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