A Neurodivergent Life: Recent Episodes
Travis Breeding
Have you ever wondered what it is like to be a neurodivergent autistic person? Now's your chance to sit down, listen, and learn. Whether you are a neurodivergent person yourself, or you love someone who is neurodivergent this podcast will open your eyes to the daily life of individuals living with autism and other neurodivergent traits.
Travis takes the listener along a journey through his ups and downs of life with autism. You will learn how Travis uses applied behavior analysis to teach himself many life skills to help him live his best life and behavior analysis will be disseminated right here on the air.
So sit down, grab some popcorn or chips and salsa and enjoy the episodes.
Travis talks about how his new medication is helping him to have thought responses to initial thoughts that are generally negative. Those thought responses help him replace negative thoughts with positive thoughts. This improves his overall quality of life and is helping him to live his best life.
Impulse control is something autistic people can find challenging. Add Obsessive Compulsive Disorder to the mix and it makes for a very challenging day for someone having negative thought patterns.
Travis spent ten years having negative thoughts with no thought response or impulse control. Now he shares with you how his fluvoxamine extended release medication is helping him to create thought responses to initial thoughts that help him to have better impulse control.
Travis walks the listener through how his brain is working to create thought responses with social thinking in this amazing episode.
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This is a presentation about autism and obsessive compulsive disorder. You will learn about Travis's life living with dual diagnosis of autism and OCD. Travis shares tips and strategies with the listener on how to best cope with co-morbid mental health conditions like OCD.
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What is avoidant reinforcement in behavior analysis? What is your MO for seeking positive reinforcement from avoidance? Listen to this episode to learn more about why we avoid challenging and uncomfortable situations in our daily lives. Have you ever wondered why people ghost you instead of being honest with you? Is reinforcement from ourselves more of a primary reinforcer for us than reinforcement from others?
Travis shares about avoidance being a positive reinforcer for him in his life that caused him to quit many jobs because they made him anxious and uncomfortable. You will also learn how he is learning to self-reinforce his own positive behaviors so that he can keep his new job.
Travis teaches the listener about "context" of reinforcement. We want to match our positive reinforcement with the level of the behavior we are reinforcing and don't want to provide reinforcement that is out of context.
This is a great episode to learn how someone with autism processes social behavior.
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3 little monkeys live within us. Which monkey will we listen to? Come along as Travis' special guest Clinton Fuller discusses the three little monkeys that live within our minds. Which monkey will we choose to listen to? Do we have the power to listen to the right monkey? How do we know which monkey is the right monkey?
There is so much to analyze and behavior is always occurring in the present moment. Each moment is like a new page in a book. Will you stop reading at page 32 or will you continue onto the next page and read page 33?
Travis and Clinton analyze the sky's behavior as they are both sitting outside on their porch recording this podcast. We can observe the sky but we cannot touch it.
Listen as Travis and Clinton get into a philosophical discussion about the sky's behavior and relate it to their own lives.
Travis and Clinton geek out on behavior analysis for over an hour of intriguing conversation that any behavior nerd will enjoy.
Which monkeys will you tell thanks and no thanks to?
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Travis landed a new job and tells you all about it in this episode. He also talks about a lot of deep autism content. He introduces the friendship acquaintance ratio, social thinking, black and white thinking versus gray thinking, and a whole lot more.
Travis shares how his black or white thinking gets him into trouble on occasion with stalking. Travis exhibits odd, weird, and creepy behavior that makes girls feel uncomfortable and feel as if they are being stalked.
Typically struggling to understand the gray area, Travis finds it ironic that he is good at being creepy. Creepy is a gray area which is why he doesn't understand how or why he is being creepy but yet he is good at being creepy.
Travis shares that there are five different levels of social relationships. Being a black and white thinker Travis' brain is either at level 1 or level 5 in social relationships meaning he is missing out on getting to know a lot of interesting people.
Travis talks about how he generalizes up and down on the friendship circle to place people either in level 1 or level 5 and doesn't understand how to place people in levels 2 through 4.
Travis also makes the point that the autism spectrum is like a math line segment with two arrows on it. It's a never ending spectrum and we are all on the spectrum somewhere.
Sit back, grab some popcorn, and enjoy the show.
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In this episode Travis introduces the listener to some of the more common co-morbid mental health conditions often associated with autism spectrum disorder. He shares his personal struggle with anxiety and obsessive compulsive disorder as it relates to his autism.
Travis talks about the differences between obsessions, fixations, and special interests in relationship to autism and OCD. He explains that positive special interests lead to good mental health and vise versa, and negative special interests lead to poor mental health, and vise versa.
Travis teaches the listener about perseverative thinking as it relates to autism. He shares there is a difference between the perseverative thinking in autism compared to the perseverative thinking with OCD.
Travis shares what some of his deepest obsessions are and how he is learning coping skills to help him overcome his obsessions so he can lead his best life.
Learn about deep breathing exercises, the dive technique he uses, and much more in this exciting episode.
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