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Neurodivergence, giftedness, sensitivities - excerpt from interview with Nicole A. Tetreault by Imi Lo
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Imi Lo is a consultant, psychotherapist, author on mental health, an art therapist, and trainer to therapists and coaches.This is an excerpt from her interview with Nicole A. Tetreault, PhD, a neuroscientist, psychologist and researcher specializing in the fields of neurodiversity, giftedness, and the brain differences associated with these conditions.See the full podcast interview on Imi Lo's site Eggshell Therapy and Coaching: Neurodivergent traits, giftedness, sensory sensitivities, sharing our personal experiences - Dr. Nicole A. Tetreault and Imi Lo.Note - the transcript excerpt below, and the image (AI-generated in DALL-E) is from that page.Books:Insight Into a Bright Mind: A Neuroscientist's Personal Stories of Unique Thinking by Nicole A. Tetreault.Emotional Sensitivity and Intensity: How to Manage Intense Emotions as a Highly Sensitive Person by Imi Lo.The Gift of Intensity: How to Win at Life and Love as a Highly Sensitive and Emotionally Intense Person by Imi Lo.Understanding Twice-Exceptional Learners: Connecting Research to Practice by C. Matthew Fugate, Wendy Behrens, Cecelia Boswell.Website: nicoletetreault.com.
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TRANSCRIPT:Imi Lo: Thank you for being here. You have one of the most thorough books on giftedness that I’ve ever seen. I love that you touch on … I mean there are not a lot of book out out there for gifted adults anyway, but they don’t usually touch on things in such a thorough and whole-body way. We’ll get into it later, but it actually covers things that I’m personally a geek on, things like microbiota, holistic health. We can get into all of that later, but thank you for being here.Nicole: Thank you so much for having me and the work that you do.Imi Lo: I have your hard copy in the other room. I might grab it later. But in any case, let’s begin. How would you define neurodiversity? I know people have all sorts of debates about the terms and what it should and shouldn’t include. What are some of your thoughts on that?Nicole: Well, neurodiversity is a wide umbrella of basically individuals that have unique brain wiring and unique behaviors, and also unique ways of processing and experiencing in the world. And so, when I think about neurodiversity, it really encompasses usually about one in five people, which is people that are on the autism spectrum, attention hyperactivity giftedness is the way that C. Matthew Fugate likes to talk about it. I would also include giftedness in that as well, people with sensory processing and also alternative forms of speech and communication, so people on the autism spectrum as well.When you think about that … And then in my book, I also added in mental health considerations as well because there’s often co-occurrences that happen where people with anxiety and depression actually are going to be communicating an