My goal for this podcast is to educate all people to help them understand the autistic experience. I share my experiences living as an autistic woman in order to help people of all neurotypes understand what it's like to be autistic, and to create a world where all neurotypes are respected and understood.
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My goal for this podcast is to educate all people to help them understand the autistic experience. I share my experiences living as an autistic woman in order to help people of all neurotypes understand what it's like to be autistic, and to create a world where all neurotypes are respected and understood.
How Glutamate EAAT2 Enzyme Affects Autism - I am NOT Separate from Autism
Autism Advocate
31 minutes 31 seconds
2 weeks ago
How Glutamate EAAT2 Enzyme Affects Autism - I am NOT Separate from Autism
Who I am - my personality - are not separate. I share a short anecdote about how I'm not separate from being autistic, and share the HUGE news released in 2025 that impacts all autistics every day.
I discuss the neuroscience behind how autism involves increased glutamate from reduced activity in an enzyme called EAAT2, reduced GABA, reduced GABA sensitivity, and reduced vitamin D, this study here:
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychiatry/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2025.1562631/full
Autism Advocate
My goal for this podcast is to educate all people to help them understand the autistic experience. I share my experiences living as an autistic woman in order to help people of all neurotypes understand what it's like to be autistic, and to create a world where all neurotypes are respected and understood.