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Dustin's DynastyAdulting: What Adulting Really Is
As I am getting older in life and life becomes more real, I am slowly understanding what the term adulting is and that as long as I am able I must do the…
Dustin's DynastyVlog #244: Grow Up!
In this vlog, I share how it is important to just be an adult and do the things that are needed to maintaint the adult lifestyle you want as an autistic person…
Dustin's DynastyThe World Does Not Revolve Around Me
Being autistic, the brain can only think in finding comfort in the ways that we seek rigidity or regimented behavior because it is predictable and comes many…
Dustin's DynastyWellness Wednesday: It Takes All Dimensions for A Perfect Balance
Sometimes when working on our wellness goals, it can be an all-or-nothing way of thinking, but it is important to realize that it takes all dimensions of one’s…
Dustin's DynastyReflection: Seeing Past Negativity
As one who has had years of seeing things in a negative manner, it can many times be hard to see past the negative of a situation and allow my heart to be…
Dustin's DynastyAdulting: Coping Signals
Being an autistic adult, you can have all coping skills at your disposal, but until your brain gets the signal to employ them, they are useless. The brain will…
Dustin's DynastyVLOG #243: Do It Anyway!
In this vlog, I share how it is important to just get up and do what you need to do despite the inner voices telling you not to or creating excuses because of…
Dustin's DynastyManaging My Feelings
Feelings for me as an autistic person can at times be challenging to manage. My brain is flawed in a sense to continually see the wrong if I am not occupied or…
Dustin's DynastyWellness Wednesday: Not Everyhing is Perfect
When embarking on a journey of trying to do better for yourself, such as I am, you want things to go just right and not backslide or become challenging. As my…
Dustin's DynastyReflections: Happiness and Joy
A few weeks ago, I wrote a post on my platform about not being happy all the time. This stemmed from the fact that I have my moments as everyone does. But in…
Dustin's DynastyAdulting: Pride and Ownership in Mundane Tasks
Throughout life living in my parents’ home, I can remember being told to have a sense of pride and ownership in the tasks I was responsible for to take care of…
Dustin's DynastyVLOG #242: Seeing Through The Clouds
In this vlog, I share how it can be hard to see through negative instances or when things do not go according to plan and how to focus on the positive things…
Dustin's DynastyThat was Then, This is Now.
Being through all I have been through in life as an autistic adult, it can be hard to put away the things that were in our past. While they can be used as…
Dustin's DynastyWellness Wednesday: A Better Relationship with my Health
For many years my relationship with being healthy has been quite skewed. I understood that I had a bad relationship with it, but it never registered and I…
Dustin's DynastyReflections: Three Years Better
It is hard to imagine three years ago that I was participating in my first Telehealth Psychotherapy session laying in my childhood bed in a room that was also…
Dustin's DynastyAdulting: Routine, Regimen and Purpose
In recent weeks, with the systems and the world resuming some state of normalcy in my neck of the woods, I have also gotten back to some sense of normalcy and…
Dustin's DynastyVLOG #241: Community & Inclusion
In this vlog, I share my expereince and views about being a member of the community and being a part of the inclusion movement in the school, program and…
Dustin's DynastyRecognizing Faults
Sometimes as autistics we have to recognize that we are only causing our own damage because what we are thinking is in our head. Sometimes we have to be told…
Dustin's DynastyWellness Wednesday: Making the Right Choices
Life is all about choices. When we are adults, and especially with challenges where our brain is wired differently, it can cause the brain to be skewed in…
Dustin's DynastyReflections: Live as if Your Life Counts On It
Sometimes we need a wake-up call to understand how life is and that you need to stop flirting with disaster and just do what is right for once. That was me a…
Dustin's DynastyAdulting: Fighting Immaturity
Being an autistic adult in my late-thirties, it can be hard to realize just that. Oftentimes, I want to bring my challenges and concerns to the spotlight and…
Dustin's DynastyVLOG #240: CHANGE: Awareness, Desire, Behavior
In this vlog, I share the effects of what was needed to help me Change by having an awareness that I needed to, a desire to do it and craft behaviors to make a…
Dustin's DynastyGetting Through Life’s Challenges
It can be hard to say that I get through Life’s Challenges quite easily especially in a world that is many times not built to meet my needs. Whatever life…
Dustin's DynastyWellness Wednesday: Making That First Move
Last week, I had mentioned that the week before I switched to a more convenient gym closer to my home. Last week was also my first visit there and just making…
Dustin's DynastyReflections: Leading More By Example
Many times, I disregard the fact that I am a well-liked person and am often seen as an example of someone who faces their challenges. While I do my best, it is…
Dustin's DynastyAdulting: Being the Adult
One of the hardest things when it comes to living my life is having to do things that adults do. While these sometimes may have a more intensive degree of…
Dustin's DynastyVLOG #239: Being Resilient in the BIG Picture
In this vlog, I share examples of how I practice resiliency in my life and some examples of how I fight my struggles daily Buy the shirt I am wearing: (A…
Dustin's Dynasty13 Years of Work
Today, I celebrate 13 years of being employed at my current employer and while 13 seems like a superstitious number, I am proud of that number as I know I am…
Dustin's DynastyBalancing Engagement
As a fellow advocate says, life ebbs and flows. Many times when we are at our worst it can be difficult to see the positive in a situation. It can be hard to…
Dustin's DynastyWellness Wednesday: Following Through and Breaking the Fear Factor
Being autistic, you constantly second guess yourself and whether you are doing the right thing. I am always wondering whether or not it was a “good move” to do…
Dustin's DynastyReflections: More Optimistic, Less Pessimistic
As I continue down the road of bettering myself and my journey continues, I am better understanding the value of being more optimistic about what the future…
Dustin's DynastyVLOG #238 Letting Go of the Past, Being At Peace, Happy and Grateful
In this vlog, I share my recent journey with being angry about past situations and how I am slowly letting go, at peace, happy and grateful for being in the…
Dustin's DynastyAdulting: Defining Your Identity
As an autistic person who spent a great deal of their adulthood living under the same roof as their parents, I was never able to have a sense of who I was…
Dustin's DynastyBeing Prepared: Power Outages
In this current age, we rely on electricity for so much to function in our daily lives. Being autistic, it can be the thing if we let us tear us apart and…
Dustin's DynastyGetting Moving About
Being autistic there is a great deal about balancing what you can do versus what you cannot. However, there is a point that you have to realize that it is…
Dustin's DynastyWellness Wednesday: Systematic Organizing
Always with my mind focusing on the need to lose weight on my obese body, I had the opportunity recently to attend a webinar to learn how to organize the food…
Dustin's DynastyReflections: Being Happy With Life Now
After working to let go of what was over the past few weeks, I am beginning to learn to accept that I need to be thankful for where I am and that I am in a…
Dustin's DynastyAdulting: Deflecting
A few weeks ago, while watching TV, I discovered the term deflection. It is a defense mechanism that people use to take the blame off of themselves. When they…
Dustin's DynastyVLOG #237: Individuality
In this vlog, I explain the importance of an autistic adult having their own life choices in preferences from my own experience and that of those that care for…
Dustin's DynastyBecause of Being Autistic
Growing up, I was always told never to use my challenges as an excuse or rely on others to solve my problems as a “crutch.” However as the evolution of autism…
Dustin's DynastyWellness Wednesday: Knowing the Culprits
Recently, being more agitated and defensive than normal, it was conveyed to me that I may have been doing something to aid that process. I then looked back and…
Dustin's DynastyReflections: Everyone Else is Moving On, So Why Can’t I?
A few weeks ago in my Reflections blog, I wrote about letting go of the past. And as time moves and others move on with life, it somehow seems that I cannot…
Dustin's DynastyAdulting: Normal Tasks
As I am learning more and more what is the culprit of my being autistic, I am learning that things that many neurotypicals consider as “normal tasks” like…
Dustin's DynastyVLOG #236: Happy & Busy
In this video, I explain the importance of keeping up and enaged through the day by keeping happy and busy about life, especialy during alone times. Social…
Dustin's DynastyMeltdown Epiphanies
It has been some time since my last meltdown, but I have improved significantly since then. There are many factors that made me realize that I want to avoid…
Dustin's DynastyWellness Wednesday: Understanding Your Limits
Sometimes being autistic, it can be hard to understand that your body has a limit on what it can do. As such I have learned the hard way that things have to…
Dustin's DynastyReflections: What Is Love?
Today is Valentine’s Day and for me I see very little value to it. While I am not the one to shoot down the fact that there is no love in the world. In fact it…
Dustin's DynastyAdulting: Rumination
For a majority of my life I have had periods of ruminating thoughts enter my headspace. Like last week’s adulting blog post on Intrusive thoughts, the…
Dustin's DynastyVLOG #235: Autistic Intensity
In this video, I explain the intensity of the senses that autistic people face and how impactful it can be in the daily life in comparison to our neurotypical…
Dustin's DynastyNot Falling Back
Sometimes as autistic people, we are gullible to believe everything we hear and think something may work for us. In reality, it can be more damaging than you…
Dustin's DynastyWellness Wednesday: Mood’s Role in Wellness
I will have to admit for the better part of four years, not being coherent with my medication regimen has wreaked havoc with my mood stability constantly. This…
Dustin's DynastyReflections: Four Years…Much Growth
With the new developments in the new year, I have been reflecting deeply on where I was four years ago as the bottom was starting to fall out on my mental…
Dustin's DynastyAdulting: Intrusive Thoughts
Having the comorbidity of Anxiety alongside being autistic can provide many challenges for me. One of those challenges I constantly battle is intrusive…
Dustin's DynastyVLOG #234: 3 Years Since Crisis
In this video, I explain my expereince and recovery in the three years since my last mental health crisis. Visit my linktree Weekly E-Blast Sign-up Website &…
Dustin's DynastyMindfully Resting
As an autistic person, our brains can constantly be in overdrive. It can be constantly brewing thoughts that can sometimes be negative and if they are allowed…
Dustin's DynastyWellness Wednesday: New Year…New Mindset
As we start the second month of 2023, I am continuing the journey of having a positive mindset in 2023. I am making so many changes for the better, letting go…
Dustin's DynastyReflections: Being More Regulated
As we end the first month of 2023, it can be proven that I have been more regulated. This started in 2022 and was made steadfast in 2023. It has taken hard…
Dustin's DynastyAdulting: Sense of Mood
Being an autistic adult, it can be hard to recognize that you have to know how you are regulating your mood. This can play a part in having a sense of it when…
Dustin's DynastyVLOG #233: Anger, Meltdown and Rage
In this video, I explain my expereinces with meltdown and fits of anger / rage and how I have greatly lessened them over time. Originally uploaded to YouTube…
Dustin's DynastyDoing What’s Right
Whether we like to hear things or not, it can sometimes be a struggle to accept them for what they are. Having to follow through with things because it is…