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Autistic Tidbits & Tangents

Kara Dymond, Bruce Petherick, and Maja Toudal

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Candid conversations between autistic off-hour professionals! Autistic Tidbits & Tangents is a biweekly podcast, co-hosted by Kara Dymond, Maja Toudal, and Bruce Petherick. It is centered around topics relevant to autism and the lives of autistic people. We are autistic professionals with a passion for broadening and advancing accessibility for autistic people and understanding of autism and neurodiversity. We approach our work with the combination of our personal and professional experiences.
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At Project Purpose our overarching mandate is to renew and rebuild family, community and relationships. Our social media platforms, like YouTube and Spotify, provide us with a space to have discussions and debates that center around the institutions that have, and have had, a large impact on our sense of self, largely within the arenas of Mental Wellness, Mental Health, and Education. Join in and weigh in on the discussion, with knowledge we are better equipped to be the #GameChangers that t ...
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Your Ex-Boyfriend’s Podcast is a critical look into being human, centered on one man’s journey to be healthy, happy, and fulfilled, led by Justis Tena, your local jack-of-all-trades. Each week on Sunday, we’ll discuss a different topic related to personal growth and navigating life, ranging from fear and shame, to finding purpose and joy, to critical thinking and setting boundaries. Solo episodes by Justis will be alternated with special guests, including nurses, police officers, sex coaches ...
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Millennials Are Killing Capitalism

Millennials Are Killing Capitalism

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We created this podcast in recognition that there are a number of podcasts for the American “left,” but many of them focus heavily on the organizing of social democrats, progressives, and liberal democrats. Aside from that, on the left we are always fighting a war of ideas and if we do not continue to build platforms to share those ideas and the stories of their implementation from a leftist perspective, they will continue to be ignored, misrepresented, and dismissed by the capitalist media ...
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The Difference Between Thinking Deeply & Thinking Critically | When Higher Quantity = Higher QualityThe quality of our contribution often depends on the quantity of information we are leveraging, prior to joining the discussion.In the digital era where knowledge is currency, we will be evaluated on the quality of our contribution. How do we set our…
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History is in the Making & For the Taking | There's Always More to Know Than Wait We Know, So Learn!Since primary school we've been taught that it is our responsibility to know our history so that we can hold ourselves accountable to not repeat it.But what defines the scope of the history that we should be aware of? In what ways do our personal, so…
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Why Reset & Level Set? | Making Space for New, in Letting Go of the Energy that No Longer Serves YouOur overall state of wellness is the sum of the habits and rituals that we partake in. From how we sleep, to what we eat, to how we treat our bodies... every choice counts ✅Often, we are so caught up in the grind of doing and expending energy, we for…
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To Live & Let Live | How Allowing Others to be Themselves Helps You Embrace Your Own IndividualitySimilarity is overrated.If each of us lost the unique aspects of ourselves, that no one else has, the world would feel a little greyer.Knowing this, that the variety among us is often what brings colour to our lives, why not be less particular about th…
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Finding Safety in Self-Disclosure | Guiding Others in Learning How to Treat Our Sharing with CaringTaking about significant experiences can be daunting.Whether it's a high or a low, we never know how people might respond.Many of us have stopped taking the opportunity to be vulnerable because we've been burned. In that, we chose to self-disclosure a…
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Choosing to go No Contact | Remove the Social Taboo When Exercising Personal Agency in Cutting TiesSome of us are born in toxic dynamics.Though we recognize and articulate that these relationships are not good for us - many feel a sense of obligation to maintaining familial ties.Specifically, maintaining abusive relationships simply because we shar…
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Removing Public Opinion when Exercising Personal Agency | Maintaining Inner Alignment in ControversyNot everyone is going to agree with the decisions you make in your life.You may even find yourself dealing with vehement disagreement in how you choose to exercise your personal agency.Make no apologies.While everyone is allowed their personal opinio…
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Having the Confidence to do Things Alone | How to Cultivate a Sense of Self-Efficacy & Inner-BeliefHow many of us hold off, or hold back, on the things we want because we're afraid to do it alone?Or despite how much, or how strongly, we desire to do something we fear to do it at all?Much of this sense of angst and self-doubt comes from not developi…
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Nurturing Our Curious Minds | Developing the Muscle of Self-Directedness & Blazing Your Own Path 🔆🔅Developing the drive to pursue what interests you:1) When it's hard2) When you feel tired, and 3) When the only person you risk letting down is you... that's a challenge.Many of us are accustomed with letting ourselves down. Whether it's short-term, m…
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Harnessing the Power in Curiosity | How Asking Questions (Unapologetically), Ignites Your CreativityThere is power in asking, "Why?"While for many of us, it can feel risky to make our lack of knowledge in a given area known.Whether we feel like we are competing, being evaluated for our know how, it's hard to see the end justifying the means in aski…
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Why Time Management Requires an Energy Strategy | Playing to the Natural Ebbs and Flows of Each DayGetting the most out of your day is less about time you have and more about the energy you dedicate to each task.Time is static. We will always have the same hours in a day to do with what we will. Energy, depends on so many different factors. How muc…
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Addressing Jealousy at its Root | Learning to Manage Feelings of Inadequacy & Admiration, AdaptivelyJealousy is a human emotion.Feeling jealous, however frequently or infrequently, is not problematic in and of itself. It's the behaviours that we engage in because we feel jealous that create serious issues. For whatever reason, jealousy can override…
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Learn to Dig Deeper | Understanding the Weight of Others' Intentions & Practicing ConscientiousnessKindness goes a long way.An act of kindness can be the spark of a new connection and it nourishes the soul.We give to ourselves with the acts of kindness we engage in with others, no harm no foul.But behaviour is driven by more than what we can percei…
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In Addressing Our Fatal Flaws | Using Your Discretion When Receiving Feedback About Your PersonalityHow people decide how they feel about you, is relative.Much of what informs someone's opinion about you has to do with how they see themselves.Whether it's personal or professional, people's perceptions are influenced by previous experiences, beliefs…
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Charting New Territory & Opportunities with Learning | When We Know Differently, We Do Differently 🤓There is so much untapped potential on the other side of curiosity. Many of us discount the impact exploring our own unanswered questions can have on our entire life's trajectory - and that's no hyperbole.It all starts by giving yourself permission t…
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Why Learning Should Align with Our Passions & Interests | The Importance of Avoiding the Career TrapMany of us find ourselves doing things we are very good at, but don't particularly like.This is what I personally like the consider the "misplaced duty" muscle.The muscle that some of us have developed, that enable us to pursue excellence in areas wh…
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How to Challenge Thoughts of Inadequacy by Focusing on Adaptation | Being the Catalyst for Change ✅Every day we step out into the world we make the choice to stand out or to blend in.If we are all being honest, most of us would choose to blend in and try to minimize any spotlight or attention, whatsoever. Totally understandable! Being the centre of…
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In this episode we discuss the role of Black liberalism in the US political landscape, particularly its relationship with the Democratic Party. And how Black liberalism often neglects the interests of the black working poor in service of the ruling class. We contemplate the influence of social media on political discourse and the Black elite’s capt…
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Developing Decisiveness | Tenaciously Maintaining the Path Least Travel if You Find Inner AlignmentThere's often so much to choose from, it's figuring out what choice to make that often trumps the quality of choice we end up making.Sometimes we feel like choosing something is better than choosing nothing at all. But that line of thought often leads…
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3 Healthy Strategies to Counteract Feelings of Helplessness | Grow through What You're Going throughA lot can happen in a day that we have no control over. This can be especially challenging when we ourselves are impacted by the outcome, and the outcome is largely outside our realm of control. With a focus on the end result we're looking for, and t…
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Knowing Where to Turn to in Difficulty | The Power of Social Participation in Eco-Systems of SupportThere's so much more to the world we live in, than the corner that our lives occupy.Oftentimes, we find ourselves so busy in the routines that we've established, we forget that there are other ways we can spend our time. There are eco-systems of diff…
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Ep. 36 - Changing the Normative Narrative with NuanceKara and Bruce dream of better ways of talking about autism, including autistic voices, and embracing our differences. We specifically examine the notion of black and white thinking and consider its broader implications. Tangents include: time machines, DnD, and postmodernity. Thing of the Day: A…
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Let Go of What Was Never in Your Realm of Control | Leveraging the Power Inherent In Your ReactionsExtreme situations will teach you that not a lot is within your control. Often times we nourish this sense of control, and reinforce the belief that we're in control, because much of life tends to go as planned.What if I told you the best thing you ca…
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Learning to Sit in Uncomfortable Truths | Develop the Capacity to Hold Space for Traumatic RealitiesMany of us have had specific experiences, whether our own or of those that we know personally, that have shaken us to our core.Whether it was coming to terms with an illness, a violent occurrence, or a death -- proximity to these situations has the p…
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How the Culture (Status Quo) Sustains Environments that are not Conducive to Diversity & Inclusion With reference to the blog that I shared earlier this week, I want to take a moment to talk about the influence of culture.Many of us make choices as to where we spend our time when we feel that the spoken culture aligns with our inherent values and b…
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How I Discovered I was Being Stalked and Managed to Stay a Few Steps Ahead | Tips on Digital HygieneIt has been two weeks since I posted my first video. In these videos, I've been speaking up about being stalked for the last four years by my professor at UofT and senior leader at McKinsey & Co Canada, Scott Rutherford. By progress, I mean:1) No one…
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Creating a Safe Space to Share Our Experiences on Violence & Trauma | Baseline Tenets of EmpathyI want to start off by thanking everyone who has taken the time to listen to my experience, and for holding space for me while I spoke vulnerably, about my experience being stalked for the last four years.As we continue to engage in dialogue, I just ask …
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Speaking Up & Speaking Out About My 4-Year Strong Stalking Nightmare: UofT Professor & RCMP OfficerI spoke out about how I've spent the last four years to-date getting stalked by my professor University of Toronto's Rotman's School of Management, Scott Rutherford.I was also vocal about meeting an RCMP officer who contributed to the silencing campai…
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When those Who Serve & Protect, Seek to Smear and Silence Your Voice | My 4-Year Stalking NightmareIn the same year, fateful 2020, I made the choice to go no contact with abusive family members, and ended up needing to go on the run because of a stalker.While most people will speak on being stalked by a stranger or a romantic partner -- the stalker…
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Silence Doesn't Support Your Well-Being | My UofT Professor Continues to Get Away with Stalking MeDoes anyone else hope that if they say nothing and do nothing, that problems might magically disappear?That was my hope. All to say, 4 years later and I've come to the realization that I was wrong. When it comes to matters of safety - silence is never …
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How Gender, Attractiveness & Intelligence (Mis)Inform Our Expectations of Each Other's AgreeabilityEveryday we navigate a sea of strangers.If any of them are lucky enough to catch your attention, one of the first narratives you'll craft about the unsuspecting stranger speaks to your estimation of how agreeable they might be. Which serves to inform …
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Learning to Say "No" Without Apologizing | Developing the Muscle to Decline & Honour Your BoundariesA lot of people struggle with the word no.Whether it's to say no, when they're not in the mood - or even more alarming, the individuals who take issue with hearing no. Much of culture & society has provided so many different vehicles to teach us the …
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How Inner Alignment Increases the Quality of Our Choices | Decisions that Shield Us from Undue HarmYou know that saying, short-term pain long-term gain? Well, what they didn't tell you is that it does not work well in reverse. That is when your focus is on short-term gain... it almost always results in long-term pain - and who wants that?Many of us…
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Understanding your Relationship with Learning | Trusting the Process If/When Mastery Isn't a GivenIt feels good to be knowledgeable in a given area 😊. Being the subject matter expert in a given topic is an opportunity to lend insight, support, and perspective for ongoing developments within your area of expertise.Many of us have such deep knowledge…
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3 Tendencies to Remove from Our Self-Care Toolkit | Power in Aligning Our Decisions to Our BeliefsMany of us engage in self-sacrificing behaviours because we've been taught that we'll be held in higher esteem if we do so.So for the sake of the whole we tolerate mistreatment, we allow our feelings to be invalidated, and we stay quiet. We are silent …
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3 Ways to Incorporate Self-Care Into Your Day | Treating Self-Care as a Lifestyle and Not a RewardA lot of times we think of self-care and we think about those moments where we spoil ourselves once in a while. It's time we stop thinking of self-care within the frame of treating ourselves to something special, or spoiling ourselves. Self-care needs …
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Understanding Trauma-Informed Conscientiousness | How Survival Changes the Way We Choose to Show UpAn instant has the power to change someone.Surviving trauma, regardless of your survivor's story, will shift the way you view the people, places, and situations in your life.Most importantly, surviving trauma will change the way you orient, and the wa…
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Ep. 35 - Cathartic Consumption, Capacity for Consumption, & K-Pop!The third episode of Season is the second part of our look at artistic expression. In this episode, Kara, Maja and Bruce talk about the consumption of Art(s) of all types, and how an autistic consumption may (or may not) differ from a neurotypical consumption. In this wide-ranging di…
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In this episode we speak with Lydia Pelot-Hobbs, about her book Prison Capital: Mass Incarceration and Struggles for Abolition Democracy in Louisiana. Lydia Pelot-Hobbs is an assistant professor of Geography and African American & Africana Studies at the University of Kentucky. In addition to Prison Capital, she is the co-editor of The Jail Is Ever…
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I'm back! At least for one episode! You're just going to have to listen to this one. Two of my best friends and the Wolfpack mascot took a trip with me to the ocean. Here's what happened. Please reach out with any questions, requests, or comments you have. I respond to everyone and look forward to whatever you have to say. Write me an email or send…
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Ep. 34 - Sleep, Synchronicities, & How to End a Podcast? (with Dr. Megan Anna Neff)Inspired by a conversation between Bruce and Kara around Kara’s horrible sleeping patterns, the Autistic Tidbits & Tangents team invited guest Dr. Megan Anna Neff, a neurodivergent psychologist and co-host of the Divergent Conversations podcast, to deep-dive into com…
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In this episode, we speak with Roderick Ferguson about two of Josh's all-time favorite books, One-Dimensional Queer and Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique. The former which problematizes single-issue politics that came to dominate, disrupt, capture, and destroy the gay liberation movement—and has continued to plague queer (anti-…
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Ep. 33 - Autism, Artistic Expression, & AppreciationThe first episode of Season 3! In this episode, Kara, Maja, and Bruce talk about the creation of Art(s) of all types, and how this can be a therapeutic activity for many autistics. They also consider what an autistic perspective can do to enhance our artistic creations and what type of unique pers…
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In this episode we welcome Dani Manibat to the podcast. Dani Manibat is an organizer in the National Democratic Movement in the Philippines and this article was written for the journal Material. Recently we hosted another conversation with J. Moufawad-Paul on Settler Ideology on our YouTube channel. A little bit about Material from their website: “…
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