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let's get started. Welcome, Emily, to the Autism, ADHD podcast.

Oh, thank you so much for having me.

I am so excited that you're here, and I'm going to introduce you really quick.

Emily Kircher-Morris, LPC, is the host of the amazing neurodiversity podcast.

She has written two books related to the development of twice exceptional

students, teaching twice exceptional learners in today's classroom, focuses on supporting two e-learners

in the educational setting, and raising twice exceptional children, a handbook for parents of

neurodivergent gifted kids, guides parents to the world of twice

exceptionality. She practices as a mental health counselor outside of St. Louis, Missouri. So today

we're going to talk about Alexa thymia sensory differences and how those two things impact

emotional regulation and how we can help parents and

therapists support children with these differences. So you already get started? Oh, I'm ready.

Let's do this. First, for those who don't know what Alexa thymia is, let's just talk about that

real quick. Yeah. So Alexa thymia is. Let's just talk about that real quick. Yeah. So

Alexa thymia is a term that refers to the difficulty that somebody might have with

identifying their emotions. So it's often associated with autism, but it's not exclusive to autism. People who, you know,

other people can struggle with this. But there's definitely a, there's a sensory component to this

in the fact that a lot of how we identify our emotions is based on our physiological sensations that we experience.

So that is, if somebody has a hyposensitivity to that sensory input, they might have a harder time really

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