🎙 MCAS, Autism, and the Nervous System: My Interview on the Autistic Culture Podcast

We talked histamine, hope, and why neurodivergent bodies might be more sensitive to modern life.

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Angela, Matt, and Me!

This week, I join the brilliant folks at the Autistic Culture Podcast to talk about something I’ve never really unpacked this publicly before — what it’s like to navigate Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS) as a neurodivergent person.

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If you’ve been with me for a while, you know my MCAS diagnosis came after a perfect storm of Covid, mold exposure, and long-standing nervous system overload. What you might not know is that my healing — and my entire understanding of this condition — shifted dramatically when I started looking at it through the lens of neurodivergence.

Here’s the thing:
I don’t think we can fully heal MCAS (or POTS, or Long Covid) without talking about the nervous system.
And I don’t think we can fully regulate the nervous system without understanding how autistic and ADHD brains are wired differently.

That’s the heart of what we explored in this episode.

🎧 Listen to the full episode here:
👉 Navigating MCAS on the Autistic Culture Podcast

We covered:

• What mast cells actually do (hint: they’re like bodyguards… with abandonment issues)

• Why so many autistic folks are now being diagnosed with MCAS

• The connection between sensory overload, adrenaline, and histamine flares

• How trauma and medical gaslighting make symptoms worse

• And practical tools that helped me move from survival to stability

If you’re new to this conversation, or just starting to suspect MCAS might be behind your chronic symptoms, this episode might be a lightbulb moment. And if you’ve been down this road for a while, I hope it reminds you: you’re not imagining it, you’re not alone, and you’re not broken.

We’re just living in a world that’s too loud, too fast, and full of inflammatory inputs.
And our bodies — especially our sensitive, intelligent, neurodivergent bodies — are trying to tell us the truth.

With nuance and nerdiness,
Jess

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