367: Systems that Work with the Brain, with Angela Kingdon, Ph.D.
About this episode
Angela Kingdon discusses building systems that align with individual brain functions and the implications for parenting.
Angela Kingdon has a system for everything, and for years it never occurred to her that not everyone wants that. Angela is the founder of the Autistic Culture Podcast Network, home to more than thirty shows hosted by autistic and AuDHD creators. She built it after her own burnout, the kind that came after learning to mask so well that she finally got the friends, the relationships, and the career she had always wanted, and then lost all the capacity to keep holding it together. Podcasts were what brought her back. In this episode, we talk about what it really means to build systems that work with your brain instead of against it, and why that is so much bigger than color coded bins and a label maker. Angela walks through her own sensory systems, the loop earplugs she keeps in the car, the three scarves she carries because she cannot regulate her own body temperature, and then we get into the part every parent needs to hear: what happens when the systems we build for our kids turn out to be our systems, dressed up as help. Angela shares the moment she realized her son's messy piles of clothes were a system she simply had not respected, and how a shift she calls sun parenting to…
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