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Dustin's DynastyReflections: Realizing Capacity
As part of experience, a recent journey of self-discovery and acceptance has made me realize the fact that I can only have the physical and mental capability…
Dustin's DynastyAdulting: Sense of Freedom
Being independent comes with a sense of freedom, From how we choose to decorate, buy, wear, our routines, our interactions, our involvement and so much more…
Dustin's DynastyVLOG #175: Wellness Update 5 Weeks to Possible 5K
Sharing a Wellness Update with 5 Weeks until Easter and a Possible 5K Originally Uploaded to YouTube: https://youtu.be/dIxn-5nKlC8
Dustin's DynastyVLOG #174: Being A Part of Your Community
I explain the benefits and importance of being a part of the community in which I reside. Originally Uploaded to YouTube: https://youtu.be/wKfAxbRDcgk
Dustin's Dynasty12-Year Work Anniversary
Today has been 12 years since I walked into the office of my employer. All I knew at that time is that I had a job and who my direct supervisor was. I had no…
Dustin's DynastyWellness Wednesday: Slow Progress Is Best
The past week in the Wellness realm has been more focused on making small changes and realizing that those matter than the number on the scale. While seeing…
Dustin's DynastyReflections: Back On Track
Over the past weekend, we had some nice weather enter Western Pennsylvania and as a result I had the opportunity to get back out of the house. The last time I…
Dustin's DynastyAdulting: Community
As the COVID-19 Pandemic begins to wane and winter weather starts to subside, I am beginning to retrace my steps back to where I left off a little over two…
Dustin's DynastyVLOG #172: Coming To Terms and Accepting Challenges
Rambling on some thoughs as I am continuing down this journey of self-growth about the various challenges I face. Originally uploaded to YouTube…
Dustin's DynastyVLOG #173: Understanding What is Important
Explaining my discovery to adult and realize that we sometimes cannot and don't do everything we want. That we have to take time for ourselves and realzie what…
Dustin's DynastyLife Is How You Make It
Sometimes in life it is the little things that make the difference. It's the moments that you don’t see the bad in everything and look past everything that…
Dustin's DynastyWellness Wednesday: The Blame Game
As we enter the third month of 2022 with intentions of being healthier as I was a few weeks ago, reluctantly I continue to self-sabotage my work with faults…
Dustin's DynastyFinally, The Right Side of the Coin
In spending over three years of this rumspringa of sorts, I think I have finally accepted the fact of what is part of my life and what cannot be changed. I…
Dustin's DynastyAdulting: Maturing and Growing
Last week was a very challenging week. Yet, part of my personal outcome was the result of my need to become an adult and realize my need to mature. As much as…
Dustin's DynastyVLOG #171:2022 Welcoming Wellness Update
Sharing my recent struggles during my journey of self-discovery and the need to focus on my goals. In this video, I particularly share my need to focus on my…
Dustin's DynastyVLOG #170: Getting Real about Mental Health Goals
Sharing my recent struggles during my journey of self-discovery and the need to focus on my goals. In this video, I particularly share my need to focus on some…
Dustin's DynastyGo With The Flow
As autistics, it can be hard many times to go with the flow. In a week that has been anything but the norm in many cases, the energy that it can generate can…
Dustin's DynastyWellness Wednesday: Why I Need to Care
As many know, losing weight has been an ongoing battle for decades. I know that I love my body for what it is, but I need to work on losing weight not from a…
Dustin's DynastyConcentrating On COVID: Sign of Brightness
Recently, some warmer and much more enjoyable weather has been brought upon us in Western Pennsylvania. I am setting a personal goal that in 2022, I am going…
Dustin's DynastyAdulting: Connection
As I continue down the journey of my personal self-discovery. One of the things that has helped me refrain myself from the process is the ability to make…
Dustin's DynastyVLOG #169: Bouncing Back and Making Prorgress
Discussing at length my recent advancing in progress after ending a three year rumspringa of sorts and moving on from things that were negatively affecting my…
Dustin's DynastyVLOG #168: Stigma and Association
Discussing at length about stigma that people face, how people to quick to judge and associate others with similar challenges that they are same when it is…
Dustin's DynastyRecognition Pays
Continuing on this personal growth journey as it ever evolves personally has made me become a well-rounded person in the effects of the many facets that I…
Dustin's DynastyWellness Wednesday: Making Strides
Following up with the explanation of my journey of personal growth has made me realize the need to be well along with acceptance, discovery and growth. While I…
Dustin's DynastySpecial: A Journey of Personal Growth
Lately, I have been on a journey of acceptance, discovery, and growth. It has been astonishing in the past few months how far I have grown into a man and…
Dustin's DynastyAdulting: Consistency
One of the traits that many think autistics have is the need to be consistent. I can honestly say that this is a complete myth because I am definitely not…
Dustin's DynastyVLOG #167: Do You Know How Much You Have Progressed?
Sharing a question that I was asked this week, "Do You Know How Much You Have Progressed?" In this video, I ponder on those thoughts. Originally uploaded to…
Dustin's DynastyVLOG: #166: What Is My Dream Job?
Sharing a question that I was asked this week, "What Is My Dream Job?" In this video, I ponder on those thoughts. Originally uploaded to YouTube…
Dustin's DynastyDon’t Doubt The Possibilities
Many times when anyone is given a lifelong diagnosis, they or those that care for them think of all the things they will miss out on in life and if they will…
Dustin's DynastyWellness Wednesday: Trying My Best
On Monday, I shared with you my burnout. It got to me and I realized the need to be more on point with my need to reset and recharge sometimes. It also made me…
Dustin's DynastyConcentrating On COVID: Trying to Normalize
We are getting closer to the two year mark of when the world here shut down. Case numbers have decreased some and while we cannot put the thought of COVID away…
Dustin's DynastyAdulting: Realizing Burnout
Last week was a different week for sure. My schedule was anything but what it normally was. While I can easily adapt, by the end of the week, I had realized…
Dustin's DynastyVLOG #165: Self Care and Why it is important
Discussing the need for self-care, why it is important and the effects of not doing so. Originally uploaded to YouTube: https://youtu.be/yrh9HNgpGJI
Dustin's DynastyVLOG: #164: Sudden/Unknown Plans and Changes
Discussing the effects of sudden and abrupt changes in autistics and the struggles that I and others face in the sudden or unknown plans or changes alongside…
Dustin's DynastyLife Isn’t Perfect
As much as we want it to be, life doesn’t go exactly as we plan it to be. The world is not a perfect place and life is going to throw wrenches in it. We are…
Dustin's DynastyWellness Wednesday: 2022 Rededication
So with the winter being the way it has been along with the COVID spikes. I have not had the opportunity to visit my weekly weight loss support group for over…
Dustin's DynastyConcentrating On COVID: It Gets Better
It gets better. Those three words are what I can say to anyone that has been struggling with the onset of anything since the world has been in a broken world…
Dustin's DynastyAdulting: Being Who You Truly Want to Be
Spending over three years being an independent autistic man, and now being at the point I can finally say that after a three year rumspringa of sorts of…
Dustin's DynastyVLOG #163 Autism and the Struggle to Sleep
Discussing the struggle to sleep for autistics, some of my struggles and successes with sleep and some ideas to better sleep for autistics. Originally Uploaded…
Dustin's DynastyVLOG #162: Forging Friendships: Relationship Barometer
Welcome to #14 in my Forging Friendships Vlog Series. While I am certainly no expert, being in my mid-thirties, I do have some insight to share about…
Dustin's DynastyA Different Approach In An Ever-Changing World
In an ever-changing world, life presents challenges for everyone. In an autistic world, these challenges can be amplified because in the big scheme of things…
Dustin's DynastyWellness Wednesday: Trying My Best
I am at a place now where I am more content and can learn from experience. Compared to even a few months ago when you could see small signs by me masking when…
Dustin's DynastyAdulting Special: Driver’s LIcense 3-Year Anniversary
A little fact known about me is the fact that I am a licensed driver. It was something that over three years ago decided to do on a whim. While many autistics…
Dustin's DynastyConcentrating On COVID: Being Flexible
In the two years we have been fighting COVID-19, the first thing, while it can be very hard to autistics is the need to be flexible and adapt to situations…
Dustin's DynastyAdulting: Lucky
As many that are involved in the autism community know, Amazon’s new series As We See It premiered at the end of last week. I feel that it had an effect on me…
Dustin's DynastyVlog #161: Forging Friendships: Building Trust
Welcome to #13 in my Forging Friendships Vlog Series. While I am certainly no expert, being in my mid-thirties, I do have some insight to share about…
Dustin's DynastyVLOG #160: Men's Mental Health
Discussing the effects of mental health in men, the causes linked to it and the need to normalize mental health treatment for the men who want and need it…
Dustin's DynastyThe Power of Advocating For Yourself
Living with my parents for most of 33 years of my life or being under some sort of supervisory control has always made me feel as if I have to go along with…
Dustin's DynastyWellness Wednesday: Learning To Savor
As many know, I had a good start to losing weight in 2022, however it came with a setback this past week into this current week. I am hoping to get back on…
Dustin's DynastyConcentrating On COVID: The Effects Of Our Mental Health
We are nearing the two year point from when the first COVID-19 case was discovered in the United States. Throughout the highs and lows of the pandemic, the…
Dustin's DynastyAdulting: Accepting Presumed Immaturity By Others
Many times people can perceive that we have something “wrong” with us. This is just not for autistics alone, but for many with invisible disabilities and…
Dustin's DynastyVLOG: #159: Forging Friendships: Rejection
Welcome to #13 in my Forging Relationships Vlog Series. While I am certainly no expert, being in my mid-thirties, I do have some insight to share about…
Dustin's DynastyVLOG: #158: COVID 19 and Mental Health
Discussing the effects of Mental Health as a result of COVID-19 and some stategies to maintain or improve one's mental health as a result of the looming…
Dustin's DynastyYou Can’t Get There By Staying Here
2022 has been an exciting year. I feel in a really good place mentally and seem to be grounded really well in many ways that I haven’t been since my first…
Dustin's DynastyWellness Wednesday: You Can Give Me All The Tools, But I Must Use Them
As many start off 2022 with a resolution to lose weight, I have that plan too asI have had 2 decades ago when I weighed 100 pounds less than I do now. I know I…
Dustin's DynastyConcentrating On COVID: What COVID Has Made Me Discover About Myself
As much as we have learned about COVID as the virus has evolved over the near past two years, it also taught me alot about myself. While the world shut down…
Dustin's DynastyAdulting: Investing in Life’s Essentials
Being an autistic adult, one may have difficulty understanding that life’s essentials are in fact essentials and require investment before that device or book…
Dustin's DynastyVLOG #157: Forging Friendships: 9 Types of Attraction
Welcome to #11 in my Forging Relationships Vlog Series. While I am certainly no expert, being in my mid-thirties, I do have some insight to share about…
Dustin's DynastyVLOG #156: The Benefits of Social Media For Autistics
Discussing the benefits of Social Media for Autistic Individuals and how it can provide them with a connection to the outisde world. Orignially Uploaded to…
Dustin's DynastyAdapting To the New Environment
One of the key points of being autistic is knowing that we don’t like to change the way we do things. Autistics are very regimented about ourselves and we…