From the Spectrum: Finding Superpowers with Autism

From June 2024: Catherine Lord, PhD, on Early ABA, Autism Assessment, & the Problem with “Spectrum”

In this episode, we discuss Autism with Dr. Catherine Lord. Dr. Lord is a Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Education at UCLA and one of the foremost researchers

Autism & the Structure of Reality part 19: What Autism Reveals About How We See

Before asking what is wrong with the world or the person in front of us, perhaps we should ask what might be standing between our own eyes and the light. What if the pla

Autism & the Structure of Reality part 18: What Autism Reveals About Everyone Else

The deeper challenge is not simply learning to see other people more clearly, but examining the person through whom the world is being seen. How do you know when you’re

Autism & the Structure of Reality part 17: The Battle Before the Harvest

The parable gives us a final harvest. The Gospel gives us the time before the harvest. Becoming remains possible precisely because we haven't reached the harvest. Until t

Autism & the Structure of Reality part 16: Weeds, Humility, & Human Limitations

In this episode, you can learn: Why success, popularity, and growth do not necessarily reveal truth or goodnessHow the Parable of the Weeds exposes the limits of human j

Autism & the Structure of Reality part 15: You Don't Pull the Weeds

In this episode: Why we imitate the visible “tree” without seeing the seeds, sacrifices, and choices that produced itHow individual values spread through imitation until

Autism & the Structure of Reality part 14: The Weeds & What Are We Growing Into?

You can learn: Why every thought, habit, & decision is shaping the person you are becomingHow parents, culture, institutions, algorithms, & the crowd plant seedsWhy Niet

Autism & the Structure of Reality part 13: The Sower & God versus Evil's Battle for the Human Heart

In this episode, you can learn: Why two people can hear the same truth—yet only one is transformedHow the condition of your heart determines what you're capable of recei

Autism & the Structure of Reality part 12: The Lord's Prayer & Orientation, Attention, & Order

The Lord's Prayer: Relationship (Our Father)Value (Hallowed Be Thy Name)Direction (Thy Kingdom Come)Alignment (Thy Will Be Done)Presence (Daily Bread)Release (Forgivenes

Autism & the Structure of Reality part 11: Every Transformation Contains a Funeral

You can learn: Transformation requires lossMourning is updatingIdentity becomes attached to burdensTransformation requires psychological deathForgiveness is releaseThe R

Autism & the Structure of Reality (part 10): The Weight of the Self

Highlights • Why transformation often requires losing something rather than gaining something • How burdens, fears, and old stories can become part of our identity • W

Autism & the Structure of Reality part 9: Kierkegaard, Despair & Becoming Yourself

You can learn: • Why Kierkegaard believed despair is not simply suffering, but the failure to become yourself • How the gap between your current self and potential self

Autism & the Structure of Reality (part 8): Repetition Builds Character

In this episode, you can learn: • Why repetition—not intention—is what ultimately builds character • How thoughts become patterns, patterns become habits, and habits be

Whiteboard Series (audio): What Frees You? The Beatitudes & the Transformation of the Self

In this episode, you can learn: • Why the Beatitudes may describe a step-by-step process of psychological transformation rather than simply a list of virtues • How humi

Autism & the Structure of Reality (part 7) What Frees You? The Beatitudes & the Transformation of the Self

In this episode, you can learn: • Why the first and last Beatitudes may reveal a hidden psychology of transformation • How humility becomes the gateway to self-awarenes

Autism & the Structure of Reality (part 6): What Owns You? The Three Temptations & Get Behind Me, Satan

Key Highlights: • Why the “Three Temptations” are not ancient stories but modern psychological systems • Why thoughts are not neutral & how repeated thoughts become per

Whiteboard Series (audio version): What Owns You? The Three Temptations & Get Behind Me, Satan

Video Link: https://youtu.be/_dS2ZK-6jJY?si=eoXAqStqBU7yYu8l You can learn: 1) Humans have an infinite capacity for Thoughts; Thoughts are Human Creation, & You DO NOT

Autism & the Structure of Reality (part 5): Why Schools & Systems Break on Difference

What happens when a mind built for depth, precision, and pattern recognition is forced to survive inside systems designed for generalization, compression, and social conf

Autism & the Structure of Reality (part 4): Illusion & Reality

What if reality is not experienced directly, but constructed through prediction, compression, memory, and social agreement? In this episode of Autism & the Structure of R

Autism & the Structure of Reality (part 3): The Mind, Perception, & Reality

In this episode of Autism & the Structure of Reality (Pt. 3), we go deeper into one of the biggest questions in neuroscience, philosophy, and human experience: What is re