
[Replay] Building Your Emotional Toolkit with Autistic Therapist Kathy Carter
The Neurodiverging Podcast
The Autonomic Nervous System and Regulation
Danielle sees the autonomic nervous system as a sort of three tiered lado is another way to look at it. The red zone is where you would find burnout and shutdown, I think a meltdown would probably occur higher up. Underneath that in the traffic light system would be amber. And for me, amber is my warning sign. If I overdo it when I'm in amber, red zone might follow. Danielle: Do you have any other thoughts or ideas about the nervous system and regulation that folks can kind of take home and use? For many autistic folk, we do struggle to stay up there,. We're often dysregulated, we're triggered by sensory stuff.
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