HealthyGamerGG Growing up with Autism, Finding Love, and Identity ft. DesMephisto
Aug 5, 2021
02:05:21
Childhood Masking
- Des masked autistic traits after witnessing his uncle's negative treatment.
- He suppressed stimming and sensory sensitivities to avoid similar reactions.
Uncle's Behaviors
- Des's uncle stimmed by rocking and had sensory sensitivities.
- Des also masked his excitement to avoid being treated differently.
The Fork
- Des vividly remembers his uncle being reprimanded for holding a fork differently.
- Witnessing this reinforced Des's masking behaviors.
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Introduction
00:00 • 2min
Is It OK to Ask You Personal Questions About Your Experience With Autism?
02:07 • 2min
Are You Using Your Life as a Kind of Open Book to Help Others?
04:08 • 2min
A Melt Down Is a Meltdown in a Nertypical Individual
05:53 • 2min
How Do You Feel When You're Down?
07:24 • 2min
How Do You Know When You're in a Melt Down?
08:58 • 3min
How Did You Get Diagnosed With Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder?
11:52 • 2min
What Is a B A?
13:52 • 2min
Having a Coller's Spectrum Disorder, I'm Learning a Lot, I Think.
15:36 • 3min
Is It Ok if I Ask You One or Two More Questions About Your Uncle?
18:27 • 2min
Autistic Kids - What Do You Think About Mesophoni?
20:20 • 3min
What Was Growing Up Like for You?
23:03 • 2min
You Know, It's What It Is. It Happened. It Sucks.
24:54 • 2min
Streaming Is Reality
26:56 • 2min
I've Struggled to Maintain Full Time Employment
28:27 • 3min
Is It a Darkest Dungeon Analogy?
31:45 • 2min
I Want This So Much, but I May Not Be Able to Get It
34:11 • 2min
You Can Colate Your Way Through a Wall, Right?
36:01 • 4min
How Did You Get Diagnosed With Autism?
40:08 • 3min
Do You Have an Autism Diagnosis?
43:18 • 2min
How to Make Social Connections, Is It Easier Than You Think?
45:28 • 2min
How to Get the Most Out of Outism
47:15 • 2min
I'm So Conflicking a Chat Fro.
49:18 • 2min
I'm on a Roll When You're Socially Awkarded
51:09 • 2min
Sex and Love
53:11 • 3min
How Did You Meet Your Ouse of Relationship?
56:19 • 2min
You Shouldn't Ignore Women, Right?
58:20 • 3min
Are You Bringing Value to a Relationship?
01:01:02 • 5min
What's Going on With Autistics?
01:06:08 • 4min
Mesaphonia
01:09:45 • 5min
I've Learned How to Listen to What People Say
01:14:31 • 3min
Is There a Power of Authority in Mental Health?
01:17:41 • 2min
I've Never Heard of Invading Your Personal Space
01:19:59 • 3min
Do You Need Formal Training to Be Informed About Medication?
01:23:14 • 3min
I'm Hatly Yourye, You're Skilled With Words
01:26:22 • 3min
Is Oism a Disability Because It's a Disability?
01:29:40 • 2min
Do You Have a Dhd?
01:32:00 • 2min
I Don't Like You It's So Much of Who I Am
01:33:35 • 2min
Transgenerated People - I'm Not What's Right or Wrong
01:35:10 • 2min
Is Changing Yourself a Bad Thing?
01:36:50 • 2min
I Think the Ethics of the Artistic Treatment Provider Is the Most Important Thing, Right?
01:39:11 • 2min
I've Been Diagnosed With a Schizophrenia, Right?
01:41:33 • 3min
Artistic Self Advocacy
01:44:12 • 2min
Is the Term Artist Offensive?
01:46:23 • 2min
Is There a Technique That Increases Your Sympathetic Nervous System?
01:48:21 • 3min
Meditation
01:51:10 • 3min
How Do You Breathe Out Hard?
01:54:03 • 2min
Rapid Breathing Increases Respiratory Rate
01:55:49 • 1min
The Artistic Meltdown Technique for Panic Attacks
01:57:08 • 4min
Is There Something Going on With Autism?
02:00:41 • 3min
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