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Dustin's DynastyWellness Wednesday: Having Better Habits
As 2023 arrived, I realized that I needed to do a reality check on all things on the wellness front. I had to realize that in 2023 I needed to get real about…
Dustin's DynastyRelections: Letting Go of What I Cannot Change
As I started 2023 a few weeks ago, I am working to be a better me. One of those things I did that I didn’t even know that I would be doing would be letting go…
Dustin's DynastyAdulting: Keeping Positive Energy
For the majority of my life, I could never see the positive of a situation. No matter what was presumed of a situation, I would bring up some sort of negative…
Dustin's DynastyVLOG #232: Concrete Thinking
In this video, I explain my recent and past expereinces with concrete thinking and the need to advocate for better knowledge among the systems to bring…
Dustin's DynastyStruggling With Transitions
Recently, I have realized and accepted that much of my moments regarding increased anxiety and anger result from struggling with the fact that I need to…
Dustin's DynastyWe Must Do Better
I know that I need to advocate for my recent struggle and want to get my words across, but I feel that this is the best way to do it. Being autistic, I take…
Dustin's DynastyWellness Wednesday: Recognizing Wellness
My brain is often wired to see the bad in my life. There are however many good things in my life and one focal point of being well is seeing that my wellness…
Dustin's DynastyReflections: Moving On
Sometimes in life as a person in general, we need to realize that we need to move on beyond the points that we think we can defend ground in a reason of why…
Dustin's DynastyAdulting: Masking Autistically
I had always practiced what is known today as masking for autistic individuals before the term was coined in modern years. Bringing the term to light ensures…
Dustin's DynastyVLOG #231: Struggling With Transitions
In this video, I explain my recent discovery of struggling with transitions, of which has been the catalyst for anxiety for many years. Reaching this discovery…
Dustin's DynastyDoing Better & Moving Forward
As I started the new year, I mutually made the decision to discharge from a mental health service that felt that I am at a point of wellness that it has become…
Dustin's DynastyWellness Wednesday: Managing Adulting
Part of being well is having the understanding that there are things in life that must be endured. Even though I am an adult, it can be hard at times to play…
Dustin's DynastyReflections: Understanding Traits
While understanding my own autism in recent months, I have begun to learn to be more accepting and understanding of the traits of my autistic peers. While…
Dustin's DynastyAdulting: Understanding Life Obligations
Being an adult means that there are obligations in life that must be endured. Whether or not, there are just some things in life that we as adults cannot get…
Dustin's DynastyVLOG #230: New Year. New Me. In 2023.
In this video, I explain about the promises and changes for my 2023 Originally Uploaded to YouTube Visit my linktree Weekly E-Blast Sign-up Website & Blog…
Dustin's DynastyUnderstanding Your Body
As a neurodiverse person, it can be hard to understand your body. This can be hard in knowing what you can manage versus what you cannot. It can be challenging…
Dustin's DynastyWellness Wednesday: Taking A Break
Being autistic, my brain is constantly overthinking. It can be a wonder sometimes when I know I need to take a break. It can be the fact of having to fight…
Dustin's DynastyReflections: Knowing I Am Not Alone
Since the onset of social media, I am learning more and more about others from their experiences. It is knowing which sources are reliable and valid. Overall…
Dustin's DynastyAdulting: Calling It A Night
One of my biggest struggles that I have had in my time being on my own is when I have to “call it a night.” My brain is always flowing with ideas of things to…
Dustin's DynastyVlog #229: The Price and Responsibility That Comes With Freedom As an Autistic Person
In this video, I explain about having freedom and understanding that as an autistic person, it comes at a price and with responsibility. Mentioned Resources My…
Dustin's DynastyDefining Yourself
When you enter life on your own, having freedom can either be good for you or bite you in the tail. Over the past four years, it spun me into rock bottom and I…
Dustin's DynastyWellness Wednesday: Doing What YOU need to Do
As we near the end of the year and work our way to ringing in 2023 in a few days, a few weeks ago I have accepted the fact that doing what I need to do in…
Dustin's DynastyReflections: 2022 Was A Better Year
With today being the last Reflections Post of the Year, I find it necessary to give a wrap of the year and realize that I am in a better place at the end of…
Dustin's DynastyAdulting: Setting Your Schedule
One common trait of autism is the fact that many thrive off of routine and some can be very rigid to it as they can be to many things in life. While over the…
Dustin's DynastyVLOG #228: Breaking the Cycle
In this video, I explain my continual battle with my mental health and not falling into negative behavior while feeling optimistic about the future. Visit my…
Dustin's DynastyDefining the Holidays
Most of my life as a neurodivergent person, the holidays have been a struggle for me to muddle my way through because of all the factors that it involves. Yet…
Dustin's DynastyWellness Wednesday: Creating Better Habits
As we approach the holiday season and near the end of the year, I often think of making new habits. Notice that I said habits and not resolutions, those are…
Dustin's DynastyReflections: Being Considered Lazy
To my loved ones throughout my life, I was often considered lazy. This continually-fed train of thought led me into the current chapter of my life thinking…
Dustin's DynastyAdulting: Responsibilities of Living
As any adult, there are responsibilities that must be endured if you want to survive. Granted, if you are autistic or have other challenges, they can be…
Dustin's DynastyVLOG #227: Gullibility & Related Bias
In this video, I explain how autistic indivdiduals can be gullable to believing things, particuarly others along with being bias withouth verification of…
Dustin's DynastyRadical Acceptance
We’ve talked some on radical acceptance in both the Adulting and Reflections columns of my blog, but what I had to understand recently is the fact that radical…
Dustin's DynastyWellness Wednesday: There Are Bad Days Too
When people think of being autistic, they often think of it as this profound way of thinking we are unable to do things that neurotypicals can do. We can and…
Dustin's DynastyReflections: Robbed of Time
In the past few weeks, I have witnessed the loss of many and the point has been made to not take anything for granted because we are not guaranteed it forever…
Dustin's DynastyAdulting: Purpose
I am not surprised that I haven’t written about having a purpose as the topic for the weekly adulting post of my blog. Sometimes, you just have the epiphany to…
Dustin's DynastyVLOG #226:Having Purpose and The Willingness To Do It!
In this video, I explain the importance of having purpose as an autistic person along with having the willingness to follow through with those activities that…
Dustin's DynastyHow can I be an Empathetic Empath?
One of the common misconceptions of being autistic is the fact that we don’t show empathy or know how to be kind to others. Oftentimes this is brought to light…
Dustin's DynastyWellness Wednesday: Medication Milestone
Without much ado, many of my followers have withstood me throughout the struggles since literally the writing of my blog with my medication. I am proud to say…
Dustin's DynastyReflections: Better Family Visits
For the majority of the past four years or so of living on my own, I have struggled with making encounters with my family positive. I was mostly trapped in a…
Dustin's DynastyAdulting: Reframing Behavior
I am accepting and learning that in order to stop feeling so miserable about my life that I need to reframe former behaviors that I once had from happening in…
Dustin's DynastyVLOG #225: The Loop, The Trap and Radical Acceptance
I am back in better spirits and learning my stressors of being in the loop (of ruminating thoughts), the trap (of self-pity) and (Radically) Accepting my…
Dustin's DynastyLife Isn’t Perfect
One of the traits of being autistic is the fact that we see things in “black and white” and hardly any “gray” areas of a situation. For the longest time, I…
Dustin's DynastyWellness Wednesday: Being In A Better Place
If you noticed in my feature blog last week, I titled it “Why Can’t I just be happy? It goes without saying that as soon as I wrote that post, I began to feel…
Dustin's DynastyReflections: Three Years Grace
Recently, while in the process of discovering what a better life is for me, understanding things and giving myself grace for the things I have endured over the…
Dustin's DynastyAdulting: Difficulty Adapting to Change
They say it takes 21 days to make a new habit stick to one’s routine. When you are autistic and are used to things always being the same and then being…
Dustin's DynastyVLOG #224: Reacting to Negative Outcomes
CONTENT WARNING: Death of an Autistic Person In this video, I share one example of how an autistic person reacted to being told NO and conseqently resulted in…
Dustin's DynastyReflections: Mind Battles
As I get back to where I left off on my journey and finally being happy in the journey as an independent autistic man, I am learning that the things that were…
Dustin's DynastyWellness Wednesday: Learning A Lifestyle Change
As we reach the midpoint of November, at the end of October I learned that I gained a significant amount of weight back as a result of me having a continuous…
Dustin's DynastyReflections: Making Things Right
Sometimes in an autistic person’s life there are times we don’t realize that we were the person we were and sometimes it can be hard to realize that others…
Dustin's DynastyReflections: A Mother’s Love
A week ago today, it was national son’s day. My mother posted to Facebook a post saying how proud she was of me. At that moment in time, I was feeling really…
Dustin's DynastyThankfully Progressing
I’ve taken some time to come to terms with writing this article in a genuine nature to feel truly thankful in my life for the blessings that I have in my life…
Dustin's DynastyWellness Wednesday: Being In A Better Place
If you noticed in my feature blog last week, I titled it “Why Can’t I just be happy for Once? It goes without saying that as soon as I wrote that post, I began…
Dustin's DynastyAdulting: Unperceived Maturity
As I continue this journey of independence as an autistic adult, It can be frustrating for me to try my best to be an adult when others that have known me…
Dustin's DynastyVLOG #223: Always Asking
In this video, I share how autistics, particularly neurodiverse individyaks coupled with other challenges struggle with always second guessing or…
Dustin's DynastyWhy Can’t I Just Be Happy for Once?
Because of several changes to my schedule over the years, many times my anxiety can play into me being unhappy with my life. It can sometimes run over into…
Dustin's DynastyAdulting: Being Responsible
When you move out of someone that takes care of all your needs, many times it requires you as an independent person to become responsible for being able to…
Dustin's DynastyVLOG #222: Autism & Routines
In this video, I share how autistics thrive off of routines and riutuals, why they are important to autistics and how they are the culprit of behavior in…
Dustin's DynastyTake The Compliments and Be Proud
Recently, I have been greatly complimented about the progress I have made over the past few years. It can be hard to acknowledge the compliments that I am…
Dustin's DynastyWellness Wednesday: Getting Into the Community
As the weather cools and the height of the pandemic season looms again, I know that I need to get back out into the community and be less of a hermit. Being…
Dustin's DynastyReflections: Avoiding Victimization and Vulnerability
As autistics, we are more prone to being vulnerable and as a result can be victimized. We often seek validation from others in the way of being liked and…
Dustin's DynastyAdulting: The Importance of Friendship
One of the common stereotypes of being autistic is the fact that we do not want a friend or have difficulty in maintaining friendships as we struggle socially…