Episodes

  • Interchanges Between Autism and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

    Interchanges Between Autism and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
    Jun 20 2021

    Travis talks about how Autism combines and interchanges with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder to magnify the perseverative thinking that autistic people typically have. When combining OCD with autism people can become hyper-focused on one particular subject or person. This hyper-focus can either be healthy if it is a positive special interest or it can be unhealthy if it is a negative special interests.


    Travis discusses the differences between obsessions, fixations, and special interests. He talks about how positive special interests lead to good mental health and negative special interests lead to poor mental health. The opposite is true that poor mental health leads to negative special interests and good mental health leads to positive special interests.


    Travis shares personal stories and provides practical advice on dealing with co-morbid OCD with autism spectrum disorder. Travis introduces you top deep breathing exercises and discusses the technique called "dive" which is meant to reduce anxiety and OCD thinking.


    Tune into this podcast to learn more about OCD mixing with autism spectrum disorder

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    1 hr and 6 mins
  • Episode 4 - A Neurodivergent Life: A New Job

    Episode 4 - A Neurodivergent Life: A New Job
    Jun 19 2021

    Travis landed a new job and starts work on Monday. He talks about the job and why work is so challenging for him with all of his ocd and anxiety.



    Travis hopes this job will be different and last longer than any other job he has ever had. He shares some coping strategies he has been working on in counseling to help him manage some of the anxiety and keep employment for the long term.



    Checkout the podcast to learn what working a job is like for a neuridivergent autistic person.

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    42 mins
  • Neurodivergent Beginning Part II

    Neurodivergent Beginning Part II
    Jun 19 2021
    In part II Travis discusses his adult life on the spectrum and talks about how applied behavior analysis and the medication of fluvoxamine is changing his life by helping with his obsessive compulsive disorder.

    Travis shares personal dating stories of how he paid people to provide companionship and like him because he was so desperate.

    Learn how a person with autism tried to navigate the social world and find help for himself without supports because he had aged out of the system before ever being diagnosed.

    Travis shares why keeping a job is so difficult and it’s not for the reasons you might think it is.

    Travis let’s you into his world in this insightful episode of A Neurodivergent Life.

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    43 mins
  • Neurdivergent Beginning Part I

    Neurdivergent Beginning Part I
    Jun 19 2021
    A Neurodivergent Begnning details the life of Travis Breeding. In part I Travis talks about his experiences in elementary school, middle school, high school, and college. He will talk about how socialization rules changed when he hit seventh grade and went into middle school.

    In elementary school girls nurtured Travis and loved to take care of him. This all changed in middle school once puberty set in. Travis lost his close connections with a lot of his girl friends and felt lost in middle school.

    Travis had a best friend named Eric in elementary school who moved away to Iowa in the fifth grade. Travis never had another best friend all throughout his school years. until he was 25 and met his other best friend Heather.

    Travis talks about how he went down to Indiana University in Bloomington and felt overwhelmed by the size of the campus and number of students on campus. He shares that he withdrew from courses at Indiana University after only two weeks there.

    Travis took his musical talents to Indiana Wesleyan University in Marion, Indiana where he ended up being accused of coming on too strong in social relationships and stalking women. He was asked to take a medical withdraw from IWU and ended up going to Indiana Purdue University in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

    Travis talks about how he used his financial aid money to pay people to like him. He shares that he ended up withdrawing from a lot of classes without getting credit.

    Travis' life was a train wreck before he finally got a diagnosis of Asperger Syndrome on October 30th, 2007. Follow him on his journey in this podcast.

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    32 mins
  • A Neurodivergent Life Introduction

    A Neurodivergent Life Introduction
    Jun 19 2021
    Checkout the trailer for a neurodivergent life. We will be launching this podcast next week and have all sorts of fun planned for you the listener. Sit back, grab some popcorn, and enjoy the trailer to learn more about A Neurodivergent Life.

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    2 mins