Dustin's Dynasty

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 doing what is needed to be done to stay well and healthy while recognizing that I can never go back to the old habits and behaviors after understanding and knowing that doing what I used to do is a bad idea for many reasons. Li...

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" going forward into 2026 working to have a better year. Links: Visit my linktree Weekly E-Blast Sign-up Website & Blog Social: Facebook X / Twitter Instagram Pinterest Podcast Platforms: Spotify Anchor Google Podcasts Amazon M...

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 in the past. Links: Visit my linktree Weekly E-Blast Sign-up Website & Blog Social: Facebook X / Twitter Instagram Pinterest Podcast Platforms: Spotify Anchor Google Podcasts Amazon Music Pocketcasts Radio Public

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 known I have made mistakes. Links: Visit my linktree Weekly E-Blast Sign-up Website & Blog Social: Facebook X / Twitter Instagram Pinterest Podcast Platforms: Spotify Anchor Google Podcasts Amazon Music Pocketcasts Radio Public

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 hard times to overcome these issues. Links: Visit my linktree Weekly E-Blast Sign-up Website & Blog Social: Facebook X / Twitter Instagram Pinterest Podcast Platforms: Spotify Anchor Google Podcasts Amazon Music Pocketcasts Radio Public

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 linktree Weekly E-Blast Sign-up Website & Blog Social: Facebook X / Twitter Instagram Pinterest Podcast Platforms: Spotify Anchor Google Podcasts Amazon Music Pocketcasts Radio Public

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: Visit my linktree Weekly E-Blast Sign-up Website & Blog Social: Facebook X / Twitter Instagram Pinterest Podcast Platforms: Spotify Anchor Google Podcasts Amazon Music Pocketcasts Radio Public

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 anxiety can keep you from doing things that can be good for you, that you need to find a way to get out of the rough and find what brings you joy into your life. Links : Visit my linktree Weekly E-Blast Sign-up Website & Blog Social: Faceb...

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 person so you can properly cope and make life manageable for those around you. Links: Visit my linktree Weekly E-Blast Sign-up Website & Blog Social: Facebook X / Twitter Instagram Pinterest Podcast Platforms: Spotify Anchor Google Podc...

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 issues including rumination, echolalia and anxiety among others. Links: Visit my linktree Weekly E-Blast Sign-up Website & Blog Social: Facebook X / Twitter Instagram Pinterest Podcast Platforms: Spotify Anchor Google Podcasts Amazon Musi...

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 decades since I have been diagnosed that we have had plenty of awareness and more of a shift towards autism acceptance. Links: Visit my linktree Weekly E-Blast Sign-up Website & Blog Social: Facebook X / Twitter Instagram Pinterest Podca...

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 for what life is despite the many changes and challenges in the past few years. Links: Visit my linktree Weekly E-Blast Sign-up Website & Blog Social: Facebook X / Twitter Instagram Pinterest Podcast Platforms: Spotify Anchor Google...

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. Links: Visit my linktree Weekly E-Blast Sign-up Website & Blog Social: Facebook X / Twitter Instagram Pinterest Podcast Platforms: Spotify Anchor Google Podcasts Amazon Music Pocketcasts Radio Public

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 how beneficial life can be when doing so. Links: Visit my linktree Weekly E-Blast Sign-up Website & Blog Social: Facebook X / Twitter Instagram Pinterest Podcast Platforms: Spotify Anchor Google Podcasts Amazon Music Pocketcasts Radio...

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 have the best quality of life possible. Links: Visit my linktree Weekly E-Blast Sign-up Website & Blog Social: Facebook X / Twitter Instagram Pinterest Podcast Platforms: Spotify Anchor Google Podcasts Amazon Music Pocketcasts Radio Pub...

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 manageable along with tips and strategies that are known to help and how some of them have helped me. Vlog Notes: Not Your Average Autism Mom Interview on News Nation Now Unintentional Humor (Brent Anderson) Links: Visit my linktree Weekly E-...

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 part of living for some autisitic individuals in of which there needs to be not only awareness but accpetance of stimming as part of being autistic as long as it is done in a safe and appropriate manner but does not interfere with one&#...

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 along with the challenges when interacting with first responders or facing psychiatric hospitalization or imprisonment. Resources for this vlog: 988 Lifeline Mental Health Crisis Resources Visit my linktree Weekly E-Blast Sign-up Website...

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 things matter to not only ourselves as autistic folk but those that love, care and are around us too. Visit my linktree Weekly E-Blast Sign-up Website & Blog Social: Facebook X / Twitter Instagram Pinterest Podcast Platforms: Spotify...

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 Website & Blog Social: Facebook X / Twitter Instagram Pinterest Podcast Platforms: Spotify Anchor Google Podcasts Amazon Music Pocketcasts Radio Public

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 my linktree Weekly E-Blast Sign-up Website & Blog Social: Facebook X / Twitter Instagram Pinterest Podcast Platforms: Spotify Anchor Google Podcasts Amazon Music Pocketcasts Radio Public

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 world that is often not made for us. It is fighting through our immaturity complexes and doing what is needed even when we do not want to. Visit my linktree Weekly E-Blast Sign-up Website & Blog Social: Facebook X / Twitter Instagram Pin...

In this week's vlog, I explain how difficult it can be for autistic people to admit that they need help or Accommodations for things that come natural to others or even admit that they fall under the protections of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Visit my linktree Weekly E-Blast Sign-up Website & Blog Social: Facebook X / Twitter Instagram Pinterest Podcast Platforms: Spotify Anchor...

In this week's vlog, I explain how remembering my past meltdowns shaped me into understanding that there are expectations for when we are in the outside world and how to cope with the challenges we face as autistic people. Visit my linktree Weekly E-Blast Sign-up Website & Blog Social: Facebook X / Twitter Instagram Pinterest Podcast Platforms: Spotify Anchor Google Podcasts Amazon Music P...

In this week's vlog, I continue to explain how it is important to take care of your mental health each and every day in order to be your best self every day. Visit my linktree Weekly E-Blast Sign-up Website & Blog Social: Facebook X / Twitter Instagram Pinterest Podcast Platforms: Spotify Anchor Google Podcasts Amazon Music Pocketcasts Radio Public