Executive FunctionING, Neuro-Diversity and the NeeDS to Both Learn & TEACH

This can be very hard for Neuro-Diverse People --- because we often don't understand our differences and neither does anybody else.

That is starting to CHANGE.

Understanding Our Own "Unreasonable" Limits & That of Others

& NOT Ignoring Them

Executive Functioning is pretty boring in a lot of ways and I think that is why we are just now getting to it.

BUT . . .  It has a BIG IMPACT.

• Short Term Memory
• Organization
• Planning
• Emotional Regulation
• etc.

 

• If YOU don't know and the people around you, including professionals, don't know or don't understand that YOU have EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING DIFFERENCES
  • And you are unknowingly MASKING in a Neuro-Typical World
    • You could be headed for BURNOUTS or EVEN BREAK-DOWNS

 

• For a lot of people PSYCHIATRIC LABELS can be a BIG IRRITANT --- and I don't think they are accurate ---
  • I think that is a big reason why we are MISSING SO MANY PEOPLE ---
    • UNTIL THE CRISIS.

On the other hand, a lot of LATE DIAGNOSIS Neuro-Diverse people are quite GRATEFUL for that "DIAGNOSIS"  ---

• Even if we may have gone through HELL to get it.
• I would knowingly and personally say that a DANGEROUS PSYCHOTIC EPISODE is HELL.

How we get out of this is GETTING TO THE UNDERLYING BIOLOGY and moving beyond VAGUE and OFTEN MISLEADING SYMPTOM CLUSTERS.

Strength-Based Approach

Employment Index

AAAS = American Academy of Arts & Sciences

The integrated stress response:
From mechanism to disease (2020)

Affiliations

• 1 Department of Neuroscience, Memory and Brain Research Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.
• 2 Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA

Abstract

Protein quality control is essential for the proper function of cells and the organisms that they make up.

The resulting loss of proteostasis, the processes by which the health of the cell's proteins is monitored and maintained at homeostasis, is associated with a wide range of age-related human diseases.

Here, we highlight how the integrated stress response (ISR), a central signaling network that responds to proteostasis defects by tuning protein synthesis rates, impedes the formation of long-term memory.

In addition, we address how dysregulated ISR [Integrated Stress Response] signaling contributes to the pathogenesis of complex diseases, including cognitive disorders, neurodegeneration, cancer, diabetes, and metabolic disorders.

The development of tools through which the ISR can be modulated promises to uncover new avenues to diminish pathologies resulting from it for clinical benefit.

I think the confusing thing about STRESS and Neuro-Developmental & Psychiatric Disorders:

• the Stress is often going to one or more aspects of Executive Functioning ---
• NOT TO SUBSTANTIVE KNOWLEDGE which may be quite high
  • I think the Sensory Processing Load is sometimes to often driving both:
    • EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING CHALLENGES, and
    • HIGH SUBSTANTIVE KNOWLEDGE in one or more areas

[See also Why Orchid?]

So I think people need to work at WHATEVER LEVEL THEY ARE AT for THEIR OWN MENTAL HEALTH --- and that level may be quite high.

The ACCOMMODATIONS or WORK-AROUNDS often need to go to one or more aspects of EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING.