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- Dustin's Dynasty
417: Emotional Fading: Holding on Too Long
In this week's vlog, I share about how I learned the term emotional fading, and how autistic individuals often struggle with letting the past fade away…
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416: Being the Hero, Not the Victim
In this week's vlog, I share about how I learned that anxiety can sometimes make us want to be the victim to others, especially when we feel like we are up…
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415: Having Joy in What I Do & Where I Go
In this week's vlog, I share about how I choose to go to day services and work part time, while also understanding that it is not by force or coercion but…
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414: Growth from the Past
In this week's vlog, I share about I am beginning to see the growth from things in the past that I found to be difficult to manage by learning to grow from the…
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413: Autism vs. Everything Else
In this week's vlog, I share about my how I am starting to discover that some things that affect me are genuinely based on autism. This is a big shift of…
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412: He Believed He Could So He Did
In this week's vlog, I share about my personal growth over the past two decades to where I am today, by being resilient, keeping the faith, believing those…
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410: Three Years Turnaround
In this week's vlog, I share about turning myself around the past three years after hitting rock bottom after making a pointless and destructive decision to…
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410: Finding My Place in the World
In this week's vlog, I share about learning to accept the challenges that life presents me in learning to accept them and myself wholly as I am, continue to…
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409: A Complete Turnaround
In this week's vlog, I share about the hurdles I have overcome the past three years of changes from being in a state of recovering from relapse and…
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408: Bravery Over Anxiety
In this week's vlog, I share the importance of choosing the act of being brave instead of letting your anxiety control you in order to do the right thing as is…
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407: MANaging My BIG Emotions
In this week's vlog, I share the importance of managing your BIG emotions by understanding the need to protect your peace, being the better person you can be…
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406: Accessibility vs. Ability
In this week's vlog, I share as part of July being Disability Pride Month how I balance my need to use accessibility features versus having the ability to do…
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405: Throwback: From Relapse to Resilience
This week, we look back to a vlog I did in early 2024 where I shared how much I progressed in the six months after I had a manic episode from relapsing from my…
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404: Beyond Selfishness and Judgment
In this week's vlog, I share as part of July being Disability Pride Month how it was important to not judge or shame others for their challenges and that not…
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403: Why the Disabled Card Matters
In this week's vlog, I share as part of July being Disability Pride Month how it was important to accept the need to admit that I have a disability when it…
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402: Just As I Am
In this week's vlog, I share the value of seeing people where they are and that I am not better than them. It takes being willing to share that even though I…
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406: Throwback: Pointless and Destructive; Knowing My Why
This week, we'll take a look back where I explained how I discovered how over the past several years not taking my medication as prescribed was noted as…
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401: Acceptance
In this week's vlog, I share the ways in which I have accepted my life needs, what must be done to have stability and understanding that there even must be…
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400: Still Learning and Growing in the Middle Ages
In this week's vlog, I share the ways in which I have overcome from some of my most difficult moments in life and continue to make strides and understand how…
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399: It Gets Better
In this week's vlog, I share the ways in which I have overcome from some of my most difficult moments in life by realizing that it does get better and no…
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398: Managing My Challenges
In this week's vlog, I share the ways in which I have realized the need to manage the challenges that come with caring for my mental health after accepting it…
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397: Being the Evidence
In this week's vlog, I share the ways in which I have realized the need to accept the challenges that come with caring for my mental health and how being…
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396: The Acceptance Within
In this week's vlog, I share the ways in which I have realized the need to accept the challenges that come with caring for my mental health and how being…
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395: Seeing Why My Mental Health Matters
In this week's vlog, I share the ways in which I have realized the need to improve my mental health and why caring about it is important for the best quality…
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394: Go Through What You Go Through
In this week's vlog, I share that how I have grown through my mental health struggles the past few years understanding how important to keep the care of my…
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393: Autism, Food and Mood
In this week's vlog, I share that through my life I have struggled with my weight yet understanding that it comes from some factors that can't be prevented…
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392: Autism through the Good and Bad
In this week's vlog, I share that through my life I have seen the good and bad of autism. What is not always seen by the outside world does not always paint a…
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391: Managing Differences
In this week's vlog, I share how I have learned the importance in learning to manage my ability to coexist in a world where there everyone has their different…
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390: Stopping from 'Going South'
In this week's vlog, I share how it's important to recognize ways to prevent yourself from wallowing in negativity and working your best to find the positives…
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389: Behaviors Have Consequences
In this week's vlog, I share how it's important to understand the reality that autism cannot be used as an excuse when it comes to getting out of things that…
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388: You Don't Have to Do It
In this week's vlog, I share how it's important to have autonomy by knowing that you do not have to agree to do everything that you are offered, that as long…
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387: Accepting & Loving Me for Me
In this week's vlog, I share how I have been starting to accept and love for me and what my life brings to the table, continuing to fight adversity and…
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386: Making My Own Life
In this week's vlog, I share how as autistic people get older, those that care for them can no longer be able to do so in the way that they once did and can…
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385: Being Patient in the Process
In carrying on with our "2026: New Year, New Me Series" Series, I have been learning about being patient with things as I progress through accepting the needs…
Dustin's Dynasty384: Living My Best Life
In carrying on with our "2026: New Year, New Me Series" Series, I have been finding and accepting what has to be a part of living my best life while…
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383: Finding and Accepting My Comfort
In carrying on with our "2026: New Year, New Me Series" Series, I have been finding and accepting what I need for my personal comfort, no matter what others…
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382: The Value of Doing the Right Thing
In carrying on with our "2026: New Year, New Me Series" Series, I that getting my mental health under control has now allowed me to see the fruits of my labor…
Dustin's Dynasty381: DoorDash Dangers: Having the Drive to Change
In carrying on with our "2026: New Year, New Me Series" Series, I explain not caring about my well-being led me down a path of having a dangerous addiction…
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380: Being the Catalyst to Being My Best Self
Carrying on from last week's vlog, I am working to find my "new normal" going forward into 2026 working to have a better year by working to be the catalyst to…
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379: Finding My New Normal
In this week's vlog, I share how after many years of living independent and not having stability until later last year, I am working to find my "new normal"…
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378: Self-Advocacy in the Proper Way
In this week's vlog, I share how self-advocacy is understood and has its power when it is done in the proper and effective way, not by the ways that I believed…
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377: Learning to Adapt with Change and Feedback
In this week's vlog, I share how I am learning to adapt when change happens or feedback is given and taking responsibility when mistakes are made when it is…
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376: Fighting Loneliness, Isolation and Ruminating/Looping Thoughts
In this week's vlog, I share how it can be difficult to fight isolation, loneliness, and rumination at times, and how it is important to work through these…
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375: Keep It Going
In this week's vlog, I share how it is important to keep the good spirit going no matter how hard it is and never stop trying or give up! Links: Visit my…
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374: Finding Our Own Way
In this week's vlog, I share how it beomes necessary to find ways to take care of yourself and find solutions for living life as an autistic adult. Links…
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373: Getting out of the Rough
In this week's vlog, I share how it is important to not continually ruminate, loop or obsess on thoughts that bog you down and cause you anxiety and how…
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372: Doing What I Need to Do Matters
In this week's vlog, I share how it is important to take care of your mental health every day and be aware of when things get to be too much as an autistic…
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371: Taking Out the Trash
In this week's vlog, I share how it is important to let go of useless old thoughts that are detremential to my mental health by causing me a multitude of…
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370: Realizing It's Autism
In this week's vlog, I share how I am now discovering that things just happen in life becuase of being autistic. It is also understanding that through the…
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369: Moving Mountains in Me!
In this week's vlog, I share how I have learned and grown in the past few years changing behavior, becoming more mature along with loving and accepting myself…
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368: Mastering Self-Awareness and Having Dignity
In this week's vlog, I share how I began master self-awareness and understand why it is important to have dignity when out and about in the outside world…
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367: Managing My Mental Health Matters Everyday
In this week's vlog, we continue my managing myself series in honor of World Mental Health Day focusing on Why Managing My Mental Health Matters Everyday and…
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366: Managing Mania
In this week's vlog, I share my experiences with mania, how it evolves, some tips for improvement, how I discovered and accepted the need for medication to…
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365: Social Pragmatics
In this week's vlog, inspired by another podcast, I share my experiences with social pragmatics, how I understood what they are, how I cope and make them…
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364: Safely Stimming
In this week's vlog, I explain briefly what stimming is and how it is done safely for me along with the importance of understanding how stimming is a necessary…
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363: Never Give Up
In this week's vlog, I explain some of the challenges that autistic people and those that care for them as it relates to passive thoughts of ending their life…
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362: Being Responsible
In this week's vlog, I explain the importance of being responsible as an autistic person and the challenges that can be faced in doing so and how it and other…
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361:Ramblings in the Life of An Autistic Person
In this week's vlog, I explain some of the struggles faced in the daily life of an autistic person such as myself. Visit my linktree Weekly E-Blast Sign-up…
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360: It's OK to Say NO
In this week's vlog, I explain how it is important and acceptable to say NO to things in life along with accepting the word NO from authorative figures. Visit…
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359: The Necessities of Life
In this week's vlog, I explain how difficult it can be for autistic people to do the the non-preferred adult stuff that is required for us to exist in the…