From the Spectrum: Finding Superpowers with Autism

By Ryan Sumner

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This is a podcast about autism.

I do this because I love it. Everything here comes from the Autism DOJO.

Thank you for your retinas.

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Episode Date
Autism & the Structure of Reality part 18: What Autism Reveals About Everyone Else
Sep 08, 2026
Autism & the Structure of Reality part 17: The Battle Before the Harvest
Aug 23, 2026
Autism & the Structure of Reality part 16: Weeds, Humility, & Human Limitations
Aug 12, 2026
Autism & the Structure of Reality part 15: You Don't Pull the Weeds
Aug 05, 2026
Autism & the Structure of Reality part 14: The Weeds & What Are We Growing Into?
Jul 29, 2026
Autism & the Structure of Reality part 13: The Sower & God versus Evil's Battle for the Human Heart
Jul 22, 2026
Autism & the Structure of Reality part 12: The Lord's Prayer & Orientation, Attention, & Order
Jul 15, 2026
Autism & the Structure of Reality part 11: Every Transformation Contains a Funeral
Jul 08, 2026
Autism & the Structure of Reality (part 10): The Weight of the Self
Jul 01, 2026
Autism & the Structure of Reality part 9: Kierkegaard, Despair & Becoming Yourself
Jun 24, 2026
Autism & the Structure of Reality (part 8): Repetition Builds Character
Jun 17, 2026
Whiteboard Series (audio): What Frees You? The Beatitudes & the Transformation of the Self
Jun 13, 2026
Autism & the Structure of Reality (part 7) What Frees You? The Beatitudes & the Transformation of the Self
Jun 10, 2026
Autism & the Structure of Reality (part 6): What Owns You? The Three Temptations & Get Behind Me, Satan
Jun 03, 2026
Whiteboard Series (audio version): What Owns You? The Three Temptations & Get Behind Me, Satan
Jun 03, 2026
Autism & the Structure of Reality (part 5): Why Schools & Systems Break on Difference
May 27, 2026
Autism & the Structure of Reality (part 4): Illusion & Reality
May 20, 2026
Autism & the Structure of Reality (part 3): The Mind, Perception, & Reality
May 14, 2026
Autism & the Structure of Reality (part 2): The Self v. Social Norms (Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, & Dostoevsky)
May 08, 2026
Autism & the Structure of Reality (Part 1): The Self — Jung, Individuation, & the Cost of Fitting In
May 01, 2026
White Board Series (Audio): White Board Series: Internal Calculators (Pt. 4): Why You Persist or Quit?
Apr 05, 2026
Re-Release of Nicole Rincon's first episode and her expansive Autism experience and knowledge
Apr 03, 2026
Dr. Kyle Daigle, DC, FIBFN-CND: Cracking the Autism Code
Mar 27, 2026
White Board Series (Audio): Anxiety, Why the Brain Hates Change & Chooses Habits
Mar 21, 2026
White Board Series (audio): Autism & Motivation: Why the Brain Repeats, Avoids, Persists, or Quits
Mar 16, 2026
White Board Series (Audio): Autism & Motivation: The Brain’s Internal Calculators
Mar 10, 2026
Autism & Intuition: How Autistic Minds Turn Iteration into Insight
Feb 23, 2026
White Board Series (Audio Version): Corollary Discharge & Visual Processing
Feb 14, 2026
White Board Series (Audio Version): Basal Ganglia (Go/No-GO), Neural Correlates, & "Motivation"
Feb 06, 2026
Dr. Jeff Knight, D.C.: The Brain–Body Connection & Root-Cause Healing
Feb 02, 2026
Tyler Sansom — Learning You & the Sandcastle Moment: An Honest Film About Autism
Jan 27, 2026
White Board Series (Audio Version): Basal Ganglia, Habits, & the Powers of OCD
Jan 23, 2026
White Board Series (Audio Version): Hypothyroidism, Serotonin & T3: Hidden Biomarkers in Autism & Parkinson’s
Jan 18, 2026
White Board Series (Audio Version): Serotonin's Role in Development for Sensory Maps
Jan 15, 2026
Dr. Robert Melillo: Upstream Healing for Autism Through Retained Reflexes & Brain Balance
Jan 12, 2026
White Board Series (Audio Version): Autism & Auditory: Low Inhibition + High Excitation = Sensory Overload
Jan 09, 2026
White Board Series (Audio Version): Superior Colliculus & Eye Movements
Jan 06, 2026
White Broad Series (Audio Version): Thalamic Reticular Nucleus, Sensory Gating, & Inhibition with Autism
Dec 28, 2025
Len Arcuri: Root Causes Over Symptoms & Transforming Autism Parenting
Dec 22, 2025
White Board Series (Audio Version): Listening Dissonance
Dec 18, 2025
White Board Series (Audio Version): Neurulation & Mesencephalon
Dec 15, 2025
White Board Series (Audio Version): Spindle Neurons, Salience Network & Autism
Dec 12, 2025
White Board Series (Audio Version): Autism's Sensory Processing & Minicolumns
Dec 10, 2025
Autism & Auditory: Low Inhibition + High Excitation = Sensory Overload
Dec 01, 2025
The Art of Medicine Is Dying: Dr. Sabine Hazan on Transforming Autism & Disease Through the Gut
Nov 23, 2025
Excitatory Neurons: The Brain’s “Go” Signal & Autism
Nov 12, 2025
Thalamic Reticular Nucleus (TRN), Sensory Gating & Autism
Nov 05, 2025
Sonic Hedgehog & Inhibitory Neurons in Autism
Oct 29, 2025
(Re-Release) Autism & Parkinson's
Oct 22, 2025
Ahmad Ammous, MD: Exposing Medicine’s Profit Mills & Embracing Quantum Biology's Healing Powers
Oct 15, 2025
Autism and Speech, Language, & Communication Disorders
Oct 08, 2025
Decoding the Brain: How Reading Works in Autism and Dyslexia
Oct 01, 2025
Visual Thinking part 2: Machine Learning/AI, Catalogs for Categories, & Accelerated Learning
Sep 24, 2025
Visual Thinking part 1: Neurobiology & Autistic's Intense Inner World
Sep 17, 2025
Parvalbumin Interneurons & the Autistic Phenotype
Sep 08, 2025
Tristan Scott & Daylight Computer Company’s Revolution in Human-Friendly Tech
Sep 01, 2025
Dr. Nirosha Murugan: Biophotons Illuminating Life with Energy & Information
Aug 25, 2025
Dr. Kenda Rigdon: The Gut's Microbial Ecosystem, Yeast, Melanin, Birth, & Development
Aug 18, 2025
(Re-Release) Autism & Gastrointestinal Problems
Aug 11, 2025
Relationship of B.2 Strict Schedules & B.3 Fixated Interests: Path, Meaning, & Love
Aug 04, 2025
(Re-Release) Autism and Mitochondria: Biophysics meets Biochemistry
Jul 28, 2025
Part 2: Supplementing Relationships with Self-Directed Communication
Jul 21, 2025
Samantha Fox: M.A., CCC-SLP, S2C: Autism, Apraxia, & Spelling 2 Communicate
Jul 14, 2025
Part 1: Supplementing Relationships with Visual Thinking
Jul 07, 2025
(Re-Release) Autism & Relationships
Jun 30, 2025
John Coates, RF Safe: RF Radiation, Health, & The Need for Change
Jun 23, 2025
Spindle Neurons, Salience Network, & Social Behaviors
Jun 09, 2025
(Re-Release) Dr. Catherine Lord: The Evolution of Autism Assessment, Challenges with Understanding the Spectrum of Autism, and Barriers in the Medical and Education Systems for Autism
Jun 03, 2025
Leptin, Biophotons, & Autism's Development
May 26, 2025
Katie Asher: Understanding Communication, Telepathy, and Spiritual Existence
May 11, 2025
John Coates, RF Safe: The harms of non-native Electromagnetic Fields (nnEMF) and Regulations
May 05, 2025
Dr. Reza Shadmehr: Computational Motor Control & The Cerebellum
Apr 28, 2025
Autism, Sensory Map & Serotonin
Apr 21, 2025
(Re-Release) Autism & Education
Apr 17, 2025
Tryptophan, Microtubulus, & Mitosis
Apr 14, 2025
(Re-Release) The Roles of Oxytocin & Vasopressin in the Autistic Phenotype
Apr 10, 2025
Autism, Circadian Rhythms & Protocols
Apr 07, 2025
Dr. Richard Frye, MD, PhD: All about Leucovorin & Benefits for the Autistic Phenotype
Mar 31, 2025
Nicole Rincon, PA-C: Various Biomarkers including Gastrointestinal Issues & Autism
Mar 24, 2025
Neurulation, Neuroepithelial Cells, & Mesencephalon
Mar 17, 2025
Autism, Neurulation, and Embryogenesis
Mar 10, 2025
Part 2 Autism and Sensory Processing: Scientific Literature
Mar 03, 2025
Part 1 Autism and Sensory Processing: Intro to Senses & Melanin
Feb 24, 2025
Autism and Eye Movements
Feb 17, 2025
Autism and Speech & Language
Feb 10, 2025
Jill Escher: Understanding the Rates and Causes of Autism
Feb 03, 2025
Autism and the Basal Ganglia: Repetition, Sameness, & Habits
Jan 27, 2025
Autism and Parkinson's
Jan 20, 2025
(Re-Release) Cause of Autism: Autism is a Modern Biological Adaptation to a Common Environmental Change- Light.
Jan 16, 2025
Autism and the Basal Ganglia: "Motivations" & Movements from Learning and Habits
Jan 13, 2025
The Autistic Phenotype & How Internal Calculators shape our Preference
Jan 06, 2025
A connection with Autism & Parkinson's: Thyroid
Jan 05, 2025
This is my experience 4: Autism and Others
Jan 02, 2025
A Year in Review
Dec 30, 2024
This is my experience 3: Autism and Eye Contact
Dec 26, 2024
Dr. Kristen Lyall, ScD: Modifiable Risk Factors & Autism
Dec 23, 2024
This is my experience 2: Autism and Education & Social Communication
Dec 19, 2024
Biological Energy: Quantum Mechanisms, Water, DHA, and NF-kB
Dec 16, 2024
This is my experience 1: Autism and Education Problem
Dec 14, 2024
Dr. Hanna Stevens, MD & PhD: The Relationship of the Placenta, Womb, & Development
Dec 09, 2024
Part 2 Origins of Autism: Asperger's Autistic Intelligence ("little professors")
Dec 02, 2024
Part 1 Origins of Autism: Kanner kids
Nov 25, 2024
Dr. Eric Weiss, MD: Umbilical Cord Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine for Autism
Nov 18, 2024
Nicole Rincon, PA-C: Insights into Pregnancy & Managing Autism Risks
Nov 11, 2024
Autism and Relationships
Nov 04, 2024
Dr. Theresa Regan, PhD & CAS: Understanding & Navigating Life as an Adult with Autism
Oct 28, 2024
Nicole Rincon, PA-C: Investigating Autism from a Parental and Functional Medicine Approach
Oct 21, 2024
J.D. Barker on Unlocking Autism's Superpowers: Creativity, Imagination & Intelligence
Oct 14, 2024
Autism and the Default Mode Network
Oct 07, 2024
Dr. Yehezkel Ben-Ari: Early Detection & Treatment of Autism & Questioning the Direction of Research
Sep 30, 2024
Research at UT-Austin using Infrared Light
Sep 25, 2024
Eye-Tracking as an Early Biomarker of Autism
Sep 23, 2024
Dr. Richard Frye, MD, PhD: Understanding the Roles and Sensitivity of Mitochondrial Functioning
Sep 16, 2024
Autism and Mitochondria: Biophysics meets Biochemistry
Sep 09, 2024
An Overlooked Distinction of Autism and ADHD: These are Two Different Conditions
Sep 02, 2024
Jonathan Mitchell: Senior Citizen Autistic, Author, and Advocate Challenging the Status Quo of Research and Neurodiversity
Aug 26, 2024
B.3- This is Autism- Restricted, Fixated INTERESTS that are (Blank) in INTENSITY or FOCUS
Aug 19, 2024
Autism Research- if it is not finding the Cause, what is the purpose?
Aug 12, 2024
Autism and Gastrointestinal Problems, and exploring how changes in Light have major implications
Aug 05, 2024
Autism and the Womb, and expanding Artificial Light as a possible cause of Autism
Jul 29, 2024
Understanding the Rates of Autism: History, Classifications, Symptoms, Assessments, and Vaccines
Jul 22, 2024
Cause of Autism: Autism is a Modern Biological Adaptation to a Common Environmental Change- Light.
Jul 15, 2024
Dr. Leanna Hernandez: Genetic Variation and Brain Connectivity of Autism, the Oxytocin Receptor Gene, and Sex- and Diagnosis-Differences
Jul 08, 2024
Autism and the Salience Network, and topics to prepare for a future episode about Sex-and-Diagnosis Differences and the Nucleus Accumbens (NAc)
Jul 01, 2024
The Roles of Oxytocin and Vasopressin in the Autistic Phenotype
Jun 24, 2024
Dr. Catherine Lord: The Evolution of Autism Assessment, Challenges with Understanding the Spectrum of Autism, and Barriers in the Medical and Education Systems for Autism
Jun 17, 2024
Autism and Adaptive Responses, and exploring the mPFC, ACC, and Insula
Jun 10, 2024
Autism and Anxiety
Jun 03, 2024
Autism and Employment
May 27, 2024
Autism and Education
May 19, 2024
Happy Mother's Day
May 12, 2024
What is Autism: Part 2 of Criteria B: Will the so-called normal people accept our "differences," or Not?
May 10, 2024
What is Autism: Part 2 of Criteria A- Can you fit in, or Not? Are you like the so-called "normal" people, or Not?
May 01, 2024
Part 2: Excitation / Inhibition Imbalance with Autism and Metabolic "Bank" Account and Demands, and Background Biology
Apr 22, 2024
Part 1: Excitation / Inhibition Imbalance with Autism and Development, Melanin, Melanopsin, and BDNF
Apr 13, 2024
Common Genetic and Proteins Associated with Autism, and I play Tug-of-War with Barbed-Wire
Apr 05, 2024
What is Autism: Deficits in Social Communication and Interaction
Apr 01, 2024
What is Autism: Restricted and Repetitive Behaviors
Mar 22, 2024