You may have been taught to ignore your needs for much of your life, or you might not have spent a lot of time trying to formulate that into words, but you have years of your actual lived experience doing things, and knowing what works and what doesn’t work for you.

As you start being able to put words to your experiences, your awareness of what’s going on will continue to increase and it will grow.

The Impact Of Internal Awareness On Your Energy Levels

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMpmCe_uv2I

There’s lots of internal states that are very, very different, but they can look the same on the outside and if people are just seeing those outside signals they’re not getting all of the information.

In advance of a situation where you won’t have a lot of energy, it’s good to give general explanations beforehand (when you have the energy), so that in the moment it doesn’t look like you’re making excuses and the other person doesn’t make false assumptions.

When you go through something painful, it really is painful. It is also true that the way we think about those painful experiences can create more pain.

Gotta Go!
To pee or not to pee? That is a question for the bladder — and the brain
https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/health-disease/2024/how-do-we-sense-the-need-to-urinate #pee #urination #urgency #bladder #signals #interoception

Many people unconsciously default to numbing, at least to some degree, so you may not even know how much sensory stuff is affecting you, or alternately, how useful it can be.

From 27 Aug: The SUDS scale and using it as a possible hack around #interoception for #neurodivergent folx - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwIpYYXo630