Eva VennariMaking the Unconscious Conscious for Longevity and Healing at The Elevate Institute, The Elevate Institute · Industry Leading Consultant in True Holistic Healing

Unlocking the Mystery Understanding Autism in Adults #elevateyourlife #news

2 May 2024 · 1 min

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In this YouTube segment, Eva Vennari, presenting herself as a healer and advocate, explores how autism manifests in adults, with a particular focus on women later in life. She shares vivid personal anecdotes from her childhood—hair twirling, placing hair in her mouth, and other repetitive actions—illustrating classic stimming behaviors. Vennari explains that such stims (e.g., rubbing hands, feet, or thighs) serve to calm an over‑stimulated nervous system, providing self‑soothing regulation. The monologue frames stimming as a natural neuro‑regulatory response and highlights the often‑overlooked presentation of autism in adult women.

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That's why I can't choose one particular path. But I have found being a healer allows me for all of these types of curiosity. So what does autism look like in adults, especially women later in life? And these are just a few of the things that I had. As a kid, I used to always twirl my hair, you know, or I'd find a soft little piece of hair and it would end up in my mouth and I just wanted it there. That was a thing my mom used to tell me. I'm gonna cut your hair off if you don't stop that. So anyways, we had a list of things. Hair twirling being one, that's called stimming, right? So that could be one. You could rub your hands, you could rub your feet, you could find yourself rubbing the palms of your hands against your top of your thighs. All of those things are meant to kind of calm that neuro system when it's kicked off and triggered.