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Newton's first L of motion states that an object at rest stays at rest, and an object in motion stays in motion unless acted upon by an external force.

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It's physics, elementary physics at that, the kind of physics you teach to undergraduates in their first semester.

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So why on a Tuesday morning in my 16th year as a tenured law professor did I sit frozen at my desk for six hours, unable to type a single word about constitutional doctrine I could recite in my sleep.

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While my psychiatrist cycled through depression, anxiety, A DHD diagnosis and others, but never once mentioning that the answer was in the physics that day, my brain knew exactly what needed to happen, but my body simply would not comply.

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The highway between intention and action had collapsed, and when I finally found the research I discovered something staggering.

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32 autistic adults told researchers that this phenomenon, autistic inertia, was their most disabling experience.

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More limiting than sensory overwhelm.

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More challenging than social navigation.

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The single most significant barrier to their functioning and psychiatry collectively shrugged.

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The DSM five doesn't mention it, not once.

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And clinical training programs don't teach it.

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And mainstream autism discourse barely acknowledges it.

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So today we're doing what this podcast does best examining what happens when lived autistic experience collides with research that conventional medicine ignores and why?

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Understanding the physics, of how your brain actually works matters more than any productivity hack ever will.

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This is Neuro Rebel.

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I'm Anita, and we're talking about the Law of Motion that psychiatry forgot.

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Welcome to Neuro Rebel, where we examine Neurodivergence through the dual lens of rigorous research and unapologetic lived experience.

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I'm Anita, your host, a retired tenured law professor, a Fulbright scholar and late diagnosed autistic researcher who spent the last decade interrogating why clinical psychology keeps getting us wrong.

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If you're new here, understand this.

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We don't do inspiration porn, we don't oversimplify, we examine peer reviewed literature, challenge, medical model assumptions, and center autistic scholarship.

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If you're returning, thank you for trusting me with 30 minutes of your intellectual life.

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Autistic inertia.

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The term itself is borrowed from Newtonian physics, but the phenomenon predates its formal naming by decades, probably centuries, we've always known this experience.

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We just didn't have the language that's separated it from laziness, depression, or moral failure.

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Dr.

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Dora R aymaker herself, an autistic researcher at Portland State University and Dr.

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Michelle Mawbrey published the first peer review study examining autistic inertia in March of 2021.

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Their qualitative research with 32 autistic adults revealed something clinicians had been systematically missing.

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Participants described inertia as having two primary manifestations, first rest, inertia, and that is the inability to initiate action.

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Despite clear intention and motivation, one participant Described it as being stranded in the middle of the sea with no way out except with external intervention.

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Not a metaphorical paralysis, an actual inability to move from intention to execution.

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And the second group described motion inertia.

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The inability to stop or shift activities once momentum is established.

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Another participant explained, I can't stop what I'm doing even though I desperately need to.

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The research revealed a third critical dimension, and that is profound inconsistency.

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That is the same person might shower effortlessly one day and remain frozen for hours.

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The next, with no discernible pattern.

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This unpredictability compounds the disability because neither the individual nor the support systems can predict when inertia will strike.

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Now here's what should enrage you.

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Participants overwhelmingly identified inertia as their most disabling autistic trait, more than sensory sensitivity More than social communication differences, indeed more than any characteristic that the DSM five actually measures for an autism diagnosis.

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and yet the DSM five has zero mentions of autistic inertia.

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Clinical psychology textbooks don't discuss it, and most psychiatrists I've talked to have never even heard of the term.

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The medical establishment that claims to understand autism has no framework for the experience.

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Autistic people themselves identify as the most disabling.

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This isn't an oversight.

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This is what happens when diagnostic criteria are built by observing autistic children in clinical settings.

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Rather than listening to autistic adults describe their internal experiences, this is what happens when psychiatry privileges, behavioral observation over phenomenological reality, no intellectual honesty requires me to say this clearly.

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The research based on autistic inertia is thin.

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Rainmaker and Mare's 2021 study is groundbreaking precisely because almost nothing preceded it.

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We have one major qualitative study community generated descriptions on platforms like autistic inertia.com and scattered references in broader executive function literature.

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We don't have neuroimaging studies.

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We don't have large scale quantitative research.

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We don't have longitudinal data tracking inertia across a lifespan, and we don't have comparative studies examining how inertia manifests across different cultural contexts.

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Which matters enormously for a supposedly bilingual podcast.

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What we do have is 32 autistic adults saying, Hey, this is real.

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This is disabling, and nobody is listening.

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Sometimes that's where the best science starts.

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Not with brain scans, but with people insisting their experience needs to be taken seriously.

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Let me show you what inertia actually looks like.

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Not abstractions.

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Not metaphors, but lived phenomenology.

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Picture this, you're sitting on your couch and you want, you desperately want to shower before meeting your closest friend at the cafe you've been looking forward to all week.

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You can visualize every step, stand up, walk 15 feet to the bathroom, turn the dial feel the hot water on your skin, and you can practically smell the soap, but you can't move, not won't, but can't.

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Your mind is active, aware, and increasingly frantic.

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You're making mental lists.

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You're problem solving.

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You're experiencing mounting anxiety about being late, but there's this a barrier between your intention and your body's compliance.

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It is not depression, though.

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Everyone assumes that in depression.

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You often don't want to do things here, you desperately want to, you're mentally engaged.

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Your motivation is intact.

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It's not paralysis in any conventional neurological sense.

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You can move your breathing.

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Your heart is beating.

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You could move if the building caught fire.

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The system isn't broken.

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It's just not responding to the usual commands.

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One of rainmaker's participants described it perfectly, like being trapped behind glass, watching your life happen without you.

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Now, here's where this gets neurologically interesting research on interoception.

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That is our sense of our body's internal state suggests that autistic people often process bodily signals differently.

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Work by Rebecca Brewer and others show many autistic individuals have difficulty detecting or interpreting internal cues like hunger, fatigue or the urge to use the bathroom.

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Couple that with additional research that suggests that action initiation requires accurate predictive modelism.

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If your brain cannot accurately predict the sensory consequences of movement.

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That is can't model what standing up will feel like it might fail to generate the motor commands required to execute that movement.

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Let's bring this into reality.

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What this means is that in my Tuesday morning paralysis, my brain couldn't predict what typing would feel like.

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It couldn't model the sensory feedback of fingers and keys, so the action never initiated, not because I didn't want to write, but because my brain could not generate the predictive model required to start.

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Now the other side motion inertia.

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It's 10:00 PM You sat down after dinner to quickly organize last month's photos, just a 15 minute task, and instead what you ended up doing is reorganize your entire library.

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I.

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Your entire digital archive going back seven years.

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You've created three new taxonomic systems.

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You've color coded, tagged cross reference and more.

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Your back aches you haven't eaten.

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You desperately need to sleep and you have to go to work in four hours, but you cannot stop.

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It is not that you're having trouble stopping, you're actually unable to disengage.

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Your brain has momentum, the task has captured you, and finding the off ramp requires a force you don't currently possess.

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This is where mono attention theory becomes useful.

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Dyna Marie, when Lawson and Mike lesser proposed that autistic cognition operates mono tropically, meaning we tend to have fewer, more intensely focused attention tunnels rather than the diffuse, multitasking attention, typical in AIC cognition.

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The superpower version, we can achieve extraordinary depth of focus and expertise, but the collision with reality version, once we are in that focus state switching requires enormous cognitive force.

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It's not stubbornness.

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It's not a special interest obsession.

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It's that our attentional architecture operates according to different physics.

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Newton's first law, again, an object in motion, stays in motion unless acted upon by an external force.

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When your attentional system has momentum stopping it requires intervention.

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Your own neurology might not be able to generate but here's what makes inertia particularly destabilizing.

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It's unpredictable.

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Monday I shower.

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I dress, I eat breakfast.

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I write for four hours, Attend meetings, cook dinner, respond to emails.

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Highly functional by anyone's measure, but on Tuesday I sit frozen for six hours, staring at a blank document.

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On Wednesday I shower effortlessly, but then hyperfocus on reorganizing my bookshelf until it's 2:00 AM despite having a 9:00 AM class.

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Same brain, same responsibilities, same intentions, completely different physics.

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This inconsistency is what makes inertia nearly impossible to explain to neurotypical people they see how you function well one day and assume you are choosing not to function the next.

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They don't see that your neurological operating system is fundamentally variable in ways their experience doesn't prepare them to understand.

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And clinicians, clinicians are trained to identify consistent patterns for diagnoses, often dismissed variable presentation as inconsistent with a real disability, Which tells you everything about who gets to define disability and whose lived experience gets discredited when it doesn't match clinical expectations.

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I.

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So let's talk about why the DSM five, supposedly the authoritative text on autism does not mention the experience 32 autistic adults identified as their most disabling trait.

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This isn't accidental.

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This is structural.

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the DSM Five's autism criteria were developed primarily through behavioral observation of autistic children in clinical settings, researchers watched, they coded behaviors the identified patterns that are visible from the outside.

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What's visible from the outside?

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Well, social communication differences, repetitive behaviors, restricted interests and sensory responses.

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You can observe what is not visible from the outside.

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The internal experience of being unable to initiate action despite clear intention.

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The cognitive experience of being unable to stop despite a desperate need to do so.

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This is the phenomenology of inconsistency.

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Inertia is an internal experience.

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It requires listening to autistic people describe what is happening in their minds and bodies.

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It requires taking phenomenological reports seriously as data and not dismissing them as subjective.

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But the DSM framework privileges, behavioral observation over self-report.

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It trusts what clinicians see more than what autistic people say they experience.

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So when autistic adults say, I'm not lazy, I'm experiencing inertia.

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And clinicians who've never heard the term before respond with, have you tried making a schedule?

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We see exactly how this observational bias fails.

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But it's not just diagnostic categories, it's the entire framework of how we understand disability and functionality in a capitalist system that measures human worth by economic output.

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Leard Davis, Rosemary Garland Thompson, and other disability study scholars have extensively documented how medical models of disability serve economic systems.

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If you can't produce consistently, if your output is a variable, you are categorized as dysfunctional regardless of the quality or innovation of what you do produce.

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Autistic inertia is disabling, partly because it's neurological, and partly because we live in a world that requires consistent, predictable, sustained productivity.

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A world that has no room for people whose physics operate differently.

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Differently.

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Imagine for a moment, a work culture that recognized this.

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This person produces brilliantly, but operates according to different laws of motion.

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We need environments structured for our actual neurology, not someone else's idealized notion of consistency.

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We don't have that culture.

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We have a culture that calls you lazy when you can't move and undisciplined when you can't stop.

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And here's where my frustration as a supposedly bilingual podcaster gets sharp.

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Virtually all of the research on autistic inertia is in English conducted in English speaking countries with English speaking participants.

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But we need to ask, how does inertia manifest in cultures with different concepts of time, productivity, or disability?

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How do Spanish speaking autistic communities describe this experience?

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Is their existing terminology we're missing because Anglophone research dominates?

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I don't have answers because the research doesn't exist.

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When I search academic databases for Spanish language research on, I find almost nothing.

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When I ask Latin American clinicians about autistic inertia, most have never even heard of the concept.

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This matters because neurodiversity research that centers only on English speaking research, predominantly white, primarily Western populations, isn't universal science.

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It's culturally specific observation that is being universalized.

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We need research examining how inertia shows up.

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Or doesn't across cultures.

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We need multilingual cross-cultural studies.

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We need to stop pretending that the autistic experience is monolithic.

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It's not, but I don't wanna just critique.

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I want to ask, what do we do with this knowledge?

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So you recognize yourself in these descriptions.

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You understand that what you've been calling laziness or lack of discipline is actually a well-documented neurological phenomenon that research largely ignores.

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So now what?

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I am going to share with you three things.

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What the limited research suggests actually helps what autistic communities have developed through collective experience and how to advocate for yourself with clinicians who have never heard of the term inertia.

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And here's what the research suggests.

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First, be realistic.

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We don't have randomized controlled trials on inertia interventions.

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What we do have is occupational therapy literature on executive function support research on environmental modifications for autistic adults, and emerging work on interoceptive awareness, The external initiation support shows the most consistent evidence.

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Research by Gabrielson Hill and others on structured support for autistic adults suggests that external cues, that is another person being present, schedule check-ins and body doubling can provide the external force.

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Newton's first law requires to overcome rest inertia.

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This isn't about motivation, it's about your brain needing external input to bridge the gap between intention and initiation and environmental predictability matters.

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Work by Hume Loftin and Lance on antecedent based intervention shows that reducing environmental unpredictability can decrease the cognitive load that exacerbates executive dysfunction, not because routine is inherently calming, but because predictable environments reduce the predictive errors your brain has to process.

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And an interoceptive training shows emerging promise.

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Mailers work on body awareness interventions for autistic adults suggests that improving interoceptive accuracy, that is your ability to detect and interpret bodily signals may improve action initiation.

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It's still early research, but it is theoretically sound.

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Now let's move to what autistic people have figured out through lived experiences and which is shared widely on platforms and in community spaces.

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First body doubling works.

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Having another person present even silently, even virtually provides an external structure that bridges inertia.

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This isn't about accountability or supervision, but it's about borrowing someone else's momentum.

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And momentum matters.

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Momentum hacking matters.

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Some people find that starting with tiny, almost laughably small actions like put one foot on the floor stand for five seconds Can sometimes generate enough movement to overcome rest inertia.

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Not always, but sometimes the physics of starting anything carries over.

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And hyperfocused boundaries are essential for motion inertia, like external alarms, timers, or scheduled interruptions from others.

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These provide the external force required to stop.

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It's not self-discipline, but a structural intervention and naming changes everything.

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When you can say to a partner, I am experiencing inertia and I need external support to transition.

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Instead of apologizing for laziness, the entire interaction shifts.

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Let's talk about how to educate your clinician.

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If your therapist or psychiatrist has never heard of the term autistic inertia, you have three options.

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Option one, direct them to the research.

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Dr.

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Dora Ray Maker and Dr.

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Michelle Mawbrey, published the foundational study in 2021, and I've linked the full citation in our show notes@neurorebelpodcast.com, along with several supporting papers on executive function and interceptive processing.

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You can also point them to autistic inertia.com, which compiles both peer reviewed research and community knowledge in an accessible format.

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Option two explained it in terms that they already understand.

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Try something like this.

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I am experiencing severe executive dysfunction, specifically with action initiation and task switching, and it doesn't respond to typical A DHD interventions.

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And there's emerging research suggesting this is common in autistic adults and requires a different set of support strategies.

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Frame it in language that bridges their existing knowledge to the newer research they should be reading.

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And option three, find a clinician who already knows the autism counseling directory, neurodivergent therapists and similar directories increasingly list professionals who are themselves neurodivergent or specialize in autistic adult support.

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You deserve a clinician who doesn't dismiss your lived experience because it's not in the DSM five You deserve someone who treats you as the expert on your own neurology and partners with you rather than pathologizing you.

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So here's where I want to leave you.

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Not with neat answers, but with questions.

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This raises because the best science generates new questions.

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Question one.

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If autistic inertia is as disabling as the research suggests, then why isn't it in the diagnostic criteria?

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And what does that tell us about who gets to define autism and whose experiences get erased in clinical frameworks?

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Question two does recognizing inertia as a neurological difference, risk pathologizing, natural cognitive variation, and where's the line between?

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My brain operates differently and needs accommodation, and my brain is broken and needs fixing.

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Question three.

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How do we build a world that makes room for different laws of motion without simply demanding that autistic people adapt to neurological productivity standards?

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What would genuine accommodation?

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Question four, what happens when we examine inertia through non-Western non anglophone cultural frameworks?

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What are we missing by centering English language research?

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I don't have definitive answers.

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I have a framework that explains why I couldn't write that Tuesday, why I couldn't teach class on Wednesday.

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And I have research that validates experiences I've been taught to be ashamed of.

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I have a way of understanding myself that doesn't begin with what's wrong with me, but with what loss of motion am I operating under?

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you're not lazy.

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You're not unmotivated, and you are not broken.

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You are operating according to different physics.

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And the world's failure to accommodate that says everything about the world and nothing about your worth.

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Demand that our clinicians know the research.

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Share this with the people who've misunderstood you And build the knowledge base that psychiatry has failed to provide.

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And when inertia strikes, because it will.

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Remember, this isn't a moral failure.

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This is neurology.

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And neurology can be worked with even when it can't be changed.

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You've been listening to Neuro Rebel.

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I'm Anita, researcher, former law professor and your fellow traveler in demanding better from neuroscience and clinical psychology.

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You can find full citations in transcripts, in English, in Spanish On my website, neuro rebel podcast.com, follow us on social media and if this analysis helped you understand yourself better or someone you love more clearly, please share it.

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Not because we need algorithmic visibility, though We do, but because someone in your network desperately needs to hear that they're not lazy, but they're experiencing documented neurology.

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And if this research add values to your life, you can support my work by buying me a cup of coffee on my website.

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We're listener funded because we refuse to compromise intellectual honesty for sponsorship dollars.

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And remember, your autistic brain is in malfunctioning machinery requiring repair.

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It's a complex system operating according to different laws and demanding the world recognize those laws is the most radical thing you can do.

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Until next time, question everything.

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Trust autistic voices and never apologize for your physics.

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This has been Neuro Rebel.

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Thank you so much for listening.

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Until next time.

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