DeVELOPMENT, the Microbiome --- Education/Educational Psychology & Medicine

More and more psychiatric disorders are being associated with Developmental Differences/Disorders that produce:

• Ramped Up Sensory Processing, and
• Ramped Up Stress Responses

Further, it appears that the "EXCEPTIONALITIES" in EDUCATION may be more at risk.

I think a lot of people with RAMPED UP STRESS RESPONSES from Neuro-Developmental Differences, Adverse Childhood Experiences, and/or Adult PTSD

• Struggle to maintain a healthy Microbiome.

They may be a "PICKY" eater 

But even if they aren't --- that STRESS appears to be killing off good bacteria.

• www.dermveda.com/articles/the-connection-between-stress-and-the-gut-microbiome
  • Affects of Stress on Microbiome | Dermveda
  • Stress can increase the permeability of the intestinal lining, allowing gut bacteria to cross the intestinal barrier and activate an immune response. There appears to be a direct relationship between our stress and the health and diversity of our gut microbiome , which will be revealed further as research expands. 

In Education, we might think of the "EXCEPTIONALITIES" --- needing specialized education (UNC is expert on this)

• Special Education
• Gifted Education
  • "Straight" Gifted and
  • Twice Exceptional
    

Now, in 2022 --- YouTube is FLOODED with Gifted ADULTS that got a LATE DIAGNOSIS of a Developmental Difference or Disorder such as ADHD or Autism.

• Those Developmental Differences/Disorders are often associated with RAMPED UP SENSORY PROCESSING, and
• RAMPED UP --- Stress Responses
  

University of Michigan --- Bipolar Disorder as a Developmental Disorder --- THAT HAS  A LIFE OF ITS OWN.

Cells that are more REACTIVE.

Bipolar Disorder linked to the Exceptionalities in the Humanities:
Above Average, Below Average --- the main thing NOT AVERAGE 

On a related note, I think some people need not only SPECIALIZED EDUCATION but SPECIALIZED EMPLOYMENT --- and that may not be our classic idea of SUPPORTED LOW LEVEL EMPLOYMENT.

• I think the Homeless and Incarcerated Populations are NOT FITTING IN to current MOLDS & MODELS
  • and they are often ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED.
  • Further, one of the big problems for jails:  a lot of the people there are not physically and/or mentally healthy.
• Further, there are a lot of MIDDLE CLASS NEURO-DIVERSE people who are not really fitting in either -- or putting their PHYSICAL and or MENTAL HEALTH at risk to do it.
  

Michael Specter is an American journalist who has been a staff writer, focusing on science and technology, and global public health at The New Yorker since September 1998. He has also written for The Washington Post and The New York Times. ---Wikipedia

I think if we really know "OURSELVES" --- it's going to be a lot different than we thought.

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