The Autism Experience

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Hi, everyone! Welcome back to another episode from "The Autism Experience".

In this episode, I talk about how I prefer to have a small amount of quality friendships over an abundance of fun, but shallow interactions; I relate this thought to my sensory needs as I personally struggle with keeping track of multiple friendships and maintaining them.

In addition, I relate these themes to how society sometimes has an obsession with avoiding loneliness and why loneliness (in reasonable amount) is helpful to me. While being single seems frightening, I find that it gives people the opportunity to focus on personal joy and self-development more - key aspects of life from which the steps to better friendships, personal happiness, and so on are possible.

It's a hard pill to swallow for sure, but it's one that reminds us that there's more to life than just relationships and that we can still be happy, even if we're alone.

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Hi, everyone! Welcome back to another episode from "The Autism Experience". This episode is a lot darker and more personal than my other ones so there'll be a more discussions of some mature themes here FYI.

In this episode, I'll open up about some of the darker aspects of my life, particularly in regards to parts of myself I've began to uncover. One of these things involve reframing a lot of my own personal struggles with my insecurities as they relate to my own life experiences, including sexual harassment in high school.

While I've gone through trauma myself, I feel that I still have a responsibility to myself to decide how I move forward with it. Otherwise, I would not only enable the cycle of insecurity for years to come, but end up passing on my own pain onto others (i.e. a common cause of intergenerational trauma). After all, despite what I've experienced growing up, I still feel that I'm more than my own past, however hard it may be to accept and work through.

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Hi, everyone! Welcome back to another episode from "The Autism Experience". It's been a while since I last posted on this podcast, partyl as I took a four-month break from the podcast to focus more on school, mental health, and my personal life.

Given that I'm going to be on my holiday break for the most part, I want to share with you all three things I plan to work on spenting my time and energy in for the holidays - journaling, spirituality (i.e. meditation, spiritual healing), and connecting with others as well as myself. Lately, due to my commitment to schoolwork, I haven't had much time to do any form of self-care and human connection.

Thus, this podcast is a way for me to describe how journaling, spirituality, and human connection are all equally valuable to my mental health and well-being and what they each mean to me.

With that said, Merry Chirstmas, Happy New Year, and stay tuned for more from "The Autism Experience next year in January 2022!

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As an important announcement, I'll be taking a break from the podcast until December 2021 or even January 2022 to focus more on my studies in graduate school and build my career. I'll still post on my Instagram account @theautismexperience, although not as frequently (weekly or bi-weekly depending on my work/school schedule).

Thank you all for listening to this podcast for all these past couple of months! While I still have a lot to learn moving forward about autism and life in general, I've gained so much from interacting with the autism community and sharing my experiences with them!


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Hey, everyone! In this podcast, I reflected on my experiences with a summer fellowship I finished recently that involved addressing environmental and social issues through community work. I related this fellowship to my overall interest in connecting with people above all else and serving something greater than myself.

While I understand not all of you are religious or spiritual, I find non-profit work and community service work to be a great way for me to serve God and the spiritual forces at work that traverse and move this world and bind the universe and humanity together.
Hear more now on my latest podcast!


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Hey, everyone! In this special podcast, I'm sharing with you my interview with the one and only Ben Bluemond! He's currently a Special Olympics athlete who's competing as a runner, which he did ever since he was in high school. He currently has an Instagram account @bengettingaround where he posts about his achievements as a competitive runner as well as share inspiring stories about his life and journey as an autistic athlete!

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In this bonus podcast, I'll be reading and reflecting on a letter I sent myself through FutureMe.com, a website where you can send letters to yourself in the future.  Just sign up using your email address, write up a message, set a date in which you want to receive your letter, and watch it hold onto it until that date!