Danielle RalstonFounder, How Capacity Works · Founder of ND Hive | Building the productivity hub where work actually gets done | Execution spaces, body doubling & community accountability

Why Adults Need Sensory Spaces Too! #sensoryspaces #mentalhealth #ndoutloud

11 Aug 2024 · 1 min

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In this short excerpt from Danielle Ralston’s YouTube video, two speakers discuss the importance of sensory regulation for adults. Speaker A shares a personal story about discovering self‑soothing techniques while supporting her autistic son in an AEA program, and how she now uses those strategies in her own office to stay regulated. Speaker B expands on the idea that the coping skills taught to children—especially neurodivergent children—are often forgotten by adults, both neurodivergent and neurotypical, once they grow up. The dialogue underscores the need for adult sensory spaces and the reclamation of childhood coping tools to support mental health.

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And I know that. So I use that in my office to help keep me regulated. Understanding what your needs are to keep you regulated. You wanna know what? One of, some of those things are really soothing. And where I learned that is when my son was in AEA, cuz my son is autistic. And I was like, found myself when they were teaching him how to self-soothe, I found myself going, oh, I like that. I want that. Why?
See, that's okay. This is a soapbox I would get on. I would die on this mountain. Oh my gosh. Okay. So these things that we teach little kids to do, or these things that we have set up for little kids, it's because, right, they don't have the coping skills to be the— to be adults. But neurodivergent people and neurotypical people, they become adults and then they forget the coping skills they learned.