{"id":1196,"date":"2021-09-10T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autismwish.org\/?post_type=podcast&#038;p=1196"},"modified":"2022-12-10T16:07:29","modified_gmt":"2022-12-10T21:07:29","slug":"201","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/autismwish.org\/podcast\/201\/","title":{"rendered":"EP 201 &#8211; Senses &#038; Sensibilities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Welcome to Season 2 of the Embracing Autism Podcast! In the premiering episode, we introduce this season&#8217;s theme of Senses &amp; Sensibilities and tease some of the topics we will be covering in the next few episodes with a fun, lighthearted tone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-create-block-castos-transcript\"><div class=\"ssp-transcript\"><div class=\"row\"><div class=\"col\"><div class=\"tabs\"><div class=\"tab\"><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"chck1\"\/><label class=\"tab-label ssp-transcript-title\" for=\"chck1\">Transcript<\/label><div class=\"tab-content ssp-transcript-content\"><strong>Senses &amp; Sensibilities<\/strong><br>Show Notes for\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/autismwish.org\/podcast-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Embracing Autism Podcast\u00a0<\/a>\u2014\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/autismwish.org\/podcast\/201\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ep. 201<\/a><br><br><strong>Introduction:<\/strong><br><strong>Lia:<\/strong>\u00a0This season on the Embracing Autism podcast we explore our \u2018Senses and Sensibilities\u2019 and their relationship to autism spectrum disorder. We will discuss how senses and behaviors are affected in autism and the scientific theories on potential reasons why.<br><br><strong>Lia:<\/strong>\u00a0Welcome to\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/autismwish.org\/podcast-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Embracing Autism<\/a>, a podcast for parents of autistic children seeking advice and support while spreading awareness and acceptance of autism spectrum disorder.<br><br><strong>Lia:<\/strong>\u00a0I\u2019m Lia!<br><br><strong>Matt:<\/strong>\u00a0And I\u2019m Matt!<br><br><strong>Lia:<\/strong>\u00a0And Each week, we\u2019ll discuss our journey with autism and talk about how to embrace your child\u2019s individuality while providing guidance, tips, resources and sharing our personal stories.<br><br><strong>Lia:<\/strong>\u00a0This is \u2014<br><br><strong>Lia &amp; Matt:<\/strong>\u00a0Embracing Autism!<br><br><strong>Discussion:<\/strong><br><strong>Lia:<\/strong>\u00a0Hello everyone and welcome to Season Two of Embracing Autism the podcast.<br><br><strong>Matt:<\/strong>\u00a0We\u2019re back with vengeance!<br><br><strong>Lia:<\/strong>\u00a0Or love.<br><br><strong>Matt:<\/strong>\u00a0Oh, boy.<br><br><strong>Lia:<\/strong>\u00a0So we realized after doing an entire season of this that we never really mentioned in our podcasts that this podcast is brought to you by\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.autismwish.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Autismwish<\/a>? Yeah, So I don\u2019t think we did that.<br><br><strong>Matt:<\/strong>\u00a0So for anyone who\u2019s wondering, this podcast is brought to you by AutismWish.<br><br><strong>Lia:<\/strong>\u00a0If any of you have never heard of AutismWish this is our little charity, I think we mentioned it briefly at the end of the last season.<br><br><strong>Matt:<\/strong>\u00a0I think I reference it at least once or twice.<br><br><strong>Lia:\u00a0<\/strong>We never really made it clear. And our podcast cover says it and everything. I don\u2019t know why we didn\u2019t think of that. I\u2019m so sorry, guys, we are dropping the ball here. But anyway, totally off-topic this season.<br><br><strong>Matt:<\/strong>\u00a0Season two \u2014<br><br><strong>Lia:\u00a0<\/strong>This season, we are talking about \u2018Senses and Sensibilities\u2019. That is the theme. So season one was \u2018From Weathering the Storm to Embracing Autism\u2019. And we feel like we brought you guys from the beginning of the journey when you just suspect that there are red flags through the diagnosis process, how to process the diagnosis, and then going towards.<br><br><strong>Matt:<\/strong>\u00a0All the different therapies and financial institutions and such.<br><br><strong>Lia:<\/strong>\u00a0So we\u2019re hoping that we got you through, you know, the roughest part there at the beginning, where you don\u2019t really know what\u2019s going on. And we kind of gave you a little bit of a lifesaver for hopefully a little bit there. So now the theme for this season, we decided to focus on \u2018Senses and Sensibilities\u2019. And the reason that we call it that is because we\u2019re going to be focusing on the five different senses due to the fact that a lot of autistic kids struggle with sensory input, and then sensibilities, we are using that as a way to describe pretty much everything else.<br><br><strong>Matt:<\/strong>\u00a0I\u2019m actually excited for this season because the first season was very \u2014 it was kind of rough stuff as far as like day one trying to figure out okay, where do I go from here, I might have a diagnosis on my hands, some red flags. But at least with this season, I think that this is kind of changing the perspective a little bit. So now you\u2019re looking at the world through the lens of your son or daughter and how they\u2019re experiencing the world through the different senses, being under sensitive or over sensitive, just how that world is impacting them. So I\u2019m actually really excited just to kind of get into some of the discussions and flesh out some of these ideas.<br><br><strong>Lia:<\/strong>\u00a0And the other thing that we want to kind of touch onto is a little bit of some life experience examples for each of these senses. So we are going to go into each sense, I think we\u2019re going to try to aim for basically an episode per sense just to get you guys really well rounded with that. And we\u2019re going to give you examples on how that area can be impacted or affected in children and adults with autism spectrum disorder. So we\u2019ll give you some examples from our experience with our kids. I can even give you a few examples personally, because I do have some sensitivities that I can also share with you guys, and just some insight so that we can get a little bit better of a perspective on how our kiddos are feeling and also give some tips on ways to kind of mitigate some over sensitivities or under sensitivities.<br><br><strong>Matt:<\/strong>\u00a0I think you\u2019re also going to go into a little bit about the psychology, neuroscience, whatever, yeah, there is science behind it. And that\u2019s for each of the senses that you\u2019re going to kind of dive into a little bit right?<br><br><strong>Lia:<\/strong>\u00a0My background is more in neuroscience and psychology areas. So I\u2019m going to lightly touch on a little bit of the neuroscience on each of these senses during these episodes, but I\u2019m not going to get too deep, because I know that it can get really complicated and it can get very confusing. So I\u2019m just gonna, you know, lightly season it with a little bit of science to the point where it\u2019s kind of interesting, and you know, like a fun fact. But I\u2019m not going to overwhelm you guys, because we don\u2019t need our own overloads.<br><br><strong>Matt:<\/strong>\u00a0Right. And I\u2019m probably going to chime in a bit when we cover taste because that\u2019s kind of my expertise. I\u2019m kind of a food person. So, I love food. So your expertise and mine.<br><br><strong>Lia:<\/strong>\u00a0Let me guess, sensory overload?<br><br><strong>Matt:<\/strong>\u00a0I just love food so much.<br><br><strong>Lia:\u00a0<\/strong>Yeah, that\u2019s not quite what that means. But, yeah, don\u2019t worry. He\u2019s our food expert. I don\u2019t know how that\u2019s relevant. But it If anyone needs a food expert, we have one.<br><br><strong>Matt:<\/strong>\u00a0You\u2019ll thank me after that episode.<br><br><strong>Lia:<\/strong>\u00a0So we will go over all of those. And then we\u2019re going to touch on a few other topics in the sensibilities category that are not quite, they\u2019re not quite all sensibilities, but it\u2019s kind of things that are more behavioral related. So we\u2019ll touch on things like tantrums and meltdowns, and how to try to determine whether one is a tantrum versus a meltdown. We\u2019ll talk a little bit about synesthesia, which is actually kind of, actually you could explain this, you\u2019ve actually experienced synesthesia.<br><br><strong>Matt:<\/strong>\u00a0So yeah, I\u2019m not sure this is the technical way to describe synesthesia, but it\u2019s kind of the blending of the senses. And it\u2019s kind of a weird situation. But we can definitely dive a little bit deeper into that when we cover that episode.<br><br><strong>Lia:<\/strong>\u00a0Yeah, you definitely have a funny story there. So you guys will hear about that in that episode. And we will also be touching a few other topics as well. So again, the theme is \u2018Senses and Sensibilities\u2019. And I\u2019m sure some of you are wondering, where did that come from? That doesn\u2019t sound like a familiar name at all, you probably will get a good hint of what type of books I like to read when I was young, or still like to read. And then for those of you who are like Matt, just staring at me blankly, you\u2019re either a male, or you have no idea. No idea what these types of books are, I guarantee you half our audience knows what I\u2019m talking about.<br><br><strong>Matt:<\/strong>\u00a0And we\u2019ll just leave it at that. But I think another key area that we\u2019ll also touch on is kind of the idea of transitions. So Lia mentioned before that we\u2019re going to talk about meltdowns versus tantrums, which I think there is a big importance to actually reference the two and try and tell when you\u2019re having one versus the other because it can make a world of difference. But then also the transitions as well, which I think is key. We use transitions, what a dozen times a day?<br><br><strong>Lia:<\/strong>\u00a0Yeah. And I mean, the two are closely linked, if the transitions aren\u2019t done, well, it leads to meltdown, right?<br><br><strong>Matt:<\/strong>\u00a0Right, I just think of when I tried to do a transition and it doesn\u2019t work. And you\u2019re like, No, you didn\u2019t do the transition right. There\u2019s multiple versions of the transition.<br><br><strong>Lia:<\/strong>\u00a0There\u2019s just one version. But then there\u2019s the versions of the steps we missed. But there\u2019s only one correct version.<br><br><strong>Matt:<\/strong>\u00a0Right, so there, there is a right way, I guess, in our family to do the transition. And then there\u2019s also the wrong way to do the transition.<br><br><strong>Lia:<\/strong>\u00a0Which, again, everything that we tell you guys in this podcast, please just take that as our personal advice from our personal experience. Always, always, always consult your doctors, your therapists, especially occupational therapist, and your developmental pediatrician, because everything that we\u2019re telling you guys are things that have worked for us and our kids. But we have these things specifically tailored to them through the occupational therapist, and all the other therapists. So if you feel like these things, either aren\u2019t working for your kid, or you have some concerns, run it by your therapist or your doctor first, like don\u2019t just take our word for it, just run it by them first, right?<br><br><strong>Matt:<\/strong>\u00a0Right, and if you do try them, and they don\u2019t work, don\u2019t shoot the messenger.<br><br><strong>Lia:<\/strong>\u00a0It wasn\u2019t us, we put the disclaimer in.<br><br><strong>Matt:\u00a0<\/strong>We\u2019re not professionals, we\u2019re just trying to figure this out together.<br><br><strong>Lia:<\/strong>\u00a0So yeah, but I will say this stuff has worked really well for us, which is why we\u2019re such huge advocates for them especially with occupational therapy. And a lot of the tips and resources that we\u2019ve gotten has been through that. So again, we highly encourage that you guys work really closely to your children\u2019s therapists and make sure that you are having conversations with them about any concerns you have or anything like that. Because these tips, you can get custom tailored by going to your child\u2019s therapist.<br><br><strong>Matt:\u00a0<\/strong>Right. And I mean, definitely get their input and their recommendations and try it at home. And then I mean, I think you\u2019ll be in a much better situation. And \u2014<br><br><strong>Lia:<\/strong>\u00a0And hey, refer them to our podcast and be like, \u2018Hey, I heard this on this podcast. What do you think? Are they legit? Are they just making this up?\u2019<br><br><strong>Matt:<\/strong>\u00a0And that\u2019s when they\u2019re gonna be like, \u2018these people are totally off their rocker.\u2019<br><br><strong>Lia:<\/strong>\u00a0But I guarantee you that we have had all these things at least run by our occupational therapists and speech therapists. So we at least have it cleared on our end.<br><br><strong>Matt:<\/strong>\u00a0Right. And then I think another area that we wanted to also focus on was eloping a little bit. Yeah.<br><br><strong>Lia:<\/strong>\u00a0Yeah, so we will be talking about eloping, some people don\u2019t know what eloping is \u2014 eloping is the word that is used for children who are autistic who run away without regard to danger or spatial awareness and can kind of get into harmful situations. Both of our children are elopers. So we thought this would be a really important topic, we will have lots of cool tips on eloping and some ways to get around it and some awesome resources. We\u2019ll be doing that for all of these.<br><br><strong>Matt:<\/strong>\u00a0And I don\u2019t know about you, I find that is one of the most terrifying realities just in general. Our daughter\u2019s therapy was right along like a major highway so just the idea that at any one moment, she could choose to kind of run towards traffic. It\u2019s kind of just a terrifying.<br><br><strong>Lia:<\/strong>\u00a0Yeah, honestly, Matt and I have this conversation all the time. We love our child&#8217;s Therapy\/school but who in their right mind builds an Autism Center on a major highway, like literally within, what three yards of the highway?<br><br><strong>Matt:<\/strong>\u00a0They have had the sidewalk to walk into the building, and then they have the other sidewalk right next to the highway.<br><br><strong>Lia:<\/strong>\u00a0It boggles my mind knowing the fact that autistic kids have such a high rate of elopement that I cannot believe that they build this building right on the highway. Well, that\u2019s, you know, that\u2019s something else, elopement is a big deal. So for us in particular, because again, both of our kids are elopers. So it\u2019s definitely something we want to be talking about this season with you guys.<br><br><strong>Matt:<\/strong>\u00a0But I think it helps that if you have that in your mind, then you\u2019re aware of it constantly. So you are constantly thinking of fear, danger that could happen in all of a split second. So I think it does help being terrified in a sense. I don\u2019t know that\u2019s the right way to phrase it. But I mean, you know what you know, and that kind of helps I think.<br><br><strong>Lia:<\/strong>\u00a0There\u2019s also a delicate balance between being \u2014 yeah, you don\u2019t want to go into like the paranoia territory.<br><br><strong>Matt:<\/strong>\u00a0I guess that\u2019s true.<br><br><strong>Lia:<\/strong>\u00a0So see, in case you guys can\u2019t tell from us talking to each other, we kind of balance each other out. So when I get a little bit too much, he kind of reins me in. And when he gets a little bit too much, I kind of rein him in. And that works out for our kids benefit because we neutralize each other.<br><br><strong>Matt:<\/strong>\u00a0As long as we\u2019re both on opposite sides of the spectrum, where you\u2019re doing one thing, and I\u2019m doing the other thing. If we ever get on the same page, and we\u2019re working in the same direction <br><br><strong>Lia:<\/strong>\u00a0We\u2019ll just be really aggressive at that thing! And that is how you ended up having an AutismWish charity and AutismWish podcast because we\u2019re on the same thing and we go we go full speed ahead.<br><br><strong>Matt:<\/strong>\u00a0And then I think the last thing that we wanted to touch on this season is just kind of body awareness. And I think we touched a little bit on this when we\u2019re talking about the therapies I think in last season. Yeah, I think it was physical therapy a little bit.<br><br><strong>Lia:<\/strong>\u00a0Yeah, we touched it lightly. But we want to get into a little more detail about body awareness and spatial awareness and all of that, and kind of a little bit of the science behind how it\u2019s possible that that may happen and things to do to avoid it. Because we talked about it briefly, we basically just mentioned that it is a thing that happens with our kids and a lot of autistic kiddos, but we didn\u2019t really go into details of how to work with it.<br><br><strong>Matt:<\/strong>\u00a0Right, I think it was mostly our experience that we it was just kind of like a cautionary tale about \u2018Okay, be careful if you\u2019re on the playground, for example, because they might not see the edge and fall right off\u2019. So I mean, it was more of just a personal story that we had encountered. But I think it would be nice to kind of dive a little deeper into that and just kind of analyze, \u2018okay, if this is an issue, is there anything else?\u2019 And how would you start to be aware of the world around you a little bit. I mean, that\u2019s kind of an ongoing endeavor that we\u2019ve been kind of working on as well.<br><br><strong>Lia:\u00a0<\/strong>Yeah, and that\u2019s kind of the general trend a little bit with some of these topics that we\u2019ve chosen. There are topics that we may have already kind of touched lightly on in season one but we feel like we didn\u2019t really get to do a deep dive because season one was all about giving you guys kind of like a sampling of everything. Because our focus was really just getting you through as much as possible in a short amount of time through that initial processing of \u2018oh my gosh, my kid is autistic, what do I do\u2019. And now we feel like by this point in time, you\u2019ve had a little more time to digest. So a couple of weeks have gone by, you\u2019re probably more curious and more capable of taking a deeper look into things. So now we want to go a little bit deeper into each of these. And we will be a little more explicit with our examples and get more detailed scenarios and things like that, so that we can cover things at a little bit deeper level than before.<br><br><strong>Matt:<\/strong>\u00a0I think we\u2019re set up for our next episode of focus on sight, I believe, right?<br><br><strong>Lia:<\/strong>\u00a0Yeah. So our very first sense that we\u2019re going to tackle is sight. So we\u2019re going to go over all the senses first. And then after the senses, we\u2019ll go into all those other topics that we put under that sensibilities category.<br><br><strong>Matt:<\/strong>\u00a0And I think from there, we should be all set.<br><br><strong>Lia:\u00a0<\/strong>Yea, so I just wanted to let you guys know, though, just some housekeeping because we seem to have forgotten to do this all season one. But if you guys could just take five seconds if you\u2019re enjoying this podcast, we are so excited to have so many listeners so quickly. This podcast has just totally exploded. We only have season one \u2014 not even. At the time of this recording Season One has not been completely launched in about two months. Yeah, we\u2019ve only been about two months in at the time of this recording. Now, by the time you\u2019re listening to this, that\u2019ll be a different story. But we\u2019ve already broken into the top 100 podcasts in the United States for our category in parenting and we\u2019ve done it a couple times. I think our highest ranking at this point was like 76 place or something like that. So this podcast is doing great, which means I know that you guys are getting good, good information here that\u2019s helpful to you. And I just want to make sure that we continue to bring you helpful information and I want this podcast to be for you guys. I want it to be something thing that continues to be helpful. And I want it to be something that you guys feel comfortable accessing us with. We do a couple of events like we do some live Q&amp;A is on our\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.autismwish.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a>. So if you guys aren\u2019t familiar with that, you can follow us on\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/autismwish\" target=\"_blank\">facebook.com\/autismwish<\/a>. And we also have our website,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/autismwish.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">autismwish.org<\/a>. I host a couple of Live Q&amp;A\u2019s and during those Q&amp;A\u2019s we are happy to answer any of your questions.<br><br><strong>Matt:\u00a0<\/strong>I also want to mention that I was hoping that this podcast will kind of grow organically. So if there\u2019s any particular area that any of you want us to touch on, give a little feedback on message us on\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/autismwish\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>, which Lia what is the URL again?<br><br><strong>Lia:<\/strong>\u00a0Facebook, it\u2019s just Facebook @AutismWish. So you know how you can tag with that app, you just @AutismWish and it\u2019ll come up. Or you can do it the old-fashioned way and go to\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/autismwish\" target=\"_blank\">facebook.com\/autismwish<\/a>.<br><br><strong>Matt:<\/strong>\u00a0And don\u2019t forget to hit the ravishing like button<br><br><strong>Lia:<\/strong>\u00a0The Follow button.<br><br><strong>Matt:<\/strong>\u00a0Oh, I\u2019m sorry<br><br><strong>Lia:<\/strong>\u00a0You can do like or follow \u2014 either one. And also, I just want to let you guys know, if you aren\u2019t familiar with AutismWish and our mission, we mentioned it a little bit before, but we really focus on gifting autistic kids with sensory therapeutic items, we get a lot of our sponsorships through reviews and Facebook page likes. So if you guys could take five seconds to just give us a Facebook follow or page like and just leave us a review on Apple podcasts or Spotify, that goes a long way for us and getting sponsors so that we can continue to gift a lot of autistic little kids and older kids because we gift them up to age 17. So, as I was mentioning briefly before, so we do a lot of like Q&amp;A\u2019 s and other live events on our Facebook page. So if you follow us there, you\u2019ll see those events when they\u2019re coming. And we also do have a\u00a0parenting group, which was linked in our show notes. That\u2019s another thing that I\u2019d like just to mention to you guys really quickly as the season begins, each of our episodes has show notes linked to the episodes. And in those show notes, we have a transcript of everything we talked about in these episodes. And we also have linkable content to the things that we\u2019ve mentioned. So if you ever feel like you\u2019re missing content, or you know, you can\u2019t remember what we mentioned in this in the show, and you really want to remember some of those resources we mentioned, you can always go to our website. And again,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/autismwish.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">autismwish.org<\/a>. You click on podcast under there you go to the season that you\u2019re interested in, and then the episode that you want. There\u2019s a Show Notes button, and that\u2019ll bring you to all that information right there.<br><br><strong>Matt:<\/strong>\u00a0Definitely a shorter route if you needed to get any useful information versus hitting the rewind 15 or rewind 10 seconds \u2014 15 times.<br><br><strong>Lia:<\/strong>\u00a0And then take out your pencil, start writing it down.<br><br><strong>Matt:<\/strong>\u00a0Definitely, definitely go to the show notes so you don\u2019t drive yourself crazy having to listen to the same phrase from us over and over again.<br><br><strong>Lia:<\/strong>\u00a0Yeah, although, again, if you want to loop this podcast, we\u2019re totally okay with that. I don\u2019t mind. I don\u2019t mind the extra listens.<br><br><strong>Matt:<\/strong>\u00a0But this is for the people, for the people for us.<br><br><strong>Lia:<\/strong>\u00a0Alright. And so that\u2019s pretty much all the housekeeping I have for you guys. I just want to let you guys know that again. We do do those live Q&amp;As. So if you guys are interested, get up on our Facebook, join the live Q&amp;A, always ask us any questions that you like, shoot us a message anytime let us know what topics you would like for us to discuss in future episodes. We\u2019ll be happy to try to accommodate those into our future seasons. We are always planning future seasons out. So it\u2019s never too late to give us some feedback. And I know, we didn\u2019t give you too much autism specific information in this episode. This was really just an episode to kind of prep up the season so you guys know what to expect. I promise you the future episodes will be jam packed full of information just like season one was.<br><br><strong>Matt:<\/strong>\u00a0So stay tuned for \u2018Senses and Sensibilities\u2019. Yes, I got it.<br><br><strong>Lia:<\/strong>\u00a0Do you get the reference now?<br><br><strong>Matt:<\/strong>\u00a0Yes.<br><br><strong>Lia:<\/strong>\u00a0Do you?<br><br><strong>Matt:<\/strong>\u00a0Yes.<br><br><strong>Lia:<\/strong>\u00a0Awesome! look, there\u2019s a win.<br><br><strong>Lia:<\/strong>\u00a0Alright, everybody, thank you so much, and I hope you guys tune into our next episode of Embracing Autism.<br><br><strong>Outro<\/strong>:<br><strong>Lia:<\/strong>\u00a0To review, in this episode we discussed the theme of season two as Senses and Sensibilities. We give an introduction to topics that we will cover the season to include the five senses, behaviors and possible connections to autism within neuroscience. Tune in next time as we answer questions such as How is vision affected in autism? What are some common vision comorbidities? And what is visual stimming? 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