This is a place to learn to read the nervous system.
Reading the Nervous System grew from years of clinical observation, lived experience, study, and questions that are still open.
Here I share what I am learning about how nervous systems organize across time; how conditions participate in what becomes more or less available; and how communication, learning, relationship, and participation can look different when we stop observing them as isolated events.
Some ideas rest on established research. Others are theoretical integrations and inferences the framework proposes. And some remain open questions.
I want those differences to stay visible.
This space does not exist to present a finished system. It exists so we can learn to read it together.
You can begin by exploring the nervous system as a human system, or enter through autistic experience — the place where this work began. Both paths share the same framework and meet again further along.
Understanding how conditions, organization, access, and participation change and relate across time.
Explore the framework → AutismExploring what becomes visible when this same way of reading is brought to autistic experience — the place where the work began.
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