First of all, what's an allele?

An allele is an individual's DNA type.

So we inherit half of our DNA from our mom and half of our DNA from our dad.

We're looking at something called short tandem repeats or STRs.

These are small segments of DNA that repeat themselves over and over again.

We all have those same sections of DNA, but what might differ amongst us is how many times it repeats, and that's actually what we inherit from our parents.

So for example, at one particular location, my mom may give me 14 repeats and my dad may give me 15.

So tell us how you originally looked at this and said there's not two contributors, there's three.

What do I need?" So how do you ground yourself now, knowing that information about yourself? How are you able to ground yourself in those situations?

Well, first step is to get out of those situations.

[both laughing] And to be fair, we're not meant to be escaping.

That's not the point.

Someone once told me you don't heal in the environment that injures you.

That stuck with me because you do require recovery.

We need to be able to recover, and if we're constantly being barraged by the thing that's hard to manage, we're not able to get to that stasis point where we can recover.

But what did actual recovery have to look like for you? Give us the real, the messy version of like what healing a neurodivergent nervous system actually looks like.