The Alltistic Podcast Episode 14 - The Final Episode of Comparing our School & College experiences (neurotypical vs autistic)
Added 2024-12-30 17:00:17 +0000 UTCThe final episode of comparing our school and college experiences! This one feels quite vulnerable (and it's super long!) I hope it's helpful.
We discuss cutting off friendships, my comfort pens, struggling with transitions, and sleepover drama. Plus Meg being unhealthily obsessive as usual 😅
TW: brief mention of body dysmorphia and eating disorders.
Here's a link to the Burnout story video: https://youtu.be/zHZuzwl6r3c
Comments
I had a big bag of pens I brought with me everyday, too! Emotional support pens, indeed. 😄
Eleesa B
2025-01-06 07:20:15 +0000 UTCSending much virtual hugs to Meg for her past school and study traumas. My school experience was basically identical to Lewis's, I didn't have to try at anything, even sports 😱 and be in the top, my handwriting is also terrible, I made/make friends really easy and was friends with basically everyone in my year, loved played video games and was pretty chill. I came crashing down at age 15 though as my unknown support system (my mum) wasn't very available at that time, I had cortisol based asthma medication removed (which I wonder if it kept me stable), I also hit my head a few times so I became very self conscious and worried it might effect me (as I would study the effects of head injuries etc but doctors couldn't find any long lasting damaged and didn't know what to do with me) then very slowly over the course of 6 months I ended up in what I now recognise as autistic catatonia where I was almost completely dissociated from the world (I didn't have any idea at the time what anxiety felt like but I can only imagine I was drowning in it at the time) and took several years to recover from and have been fluctuating through burntout for decades ever since. I for a very long time thought my head injuries caused all my issues until I had kids who allowed me to discover my 'tism through them and realise that I was always autistic I just had no idea what it was or meant even growing up with my autistic brother diagnosed very young. It's been a very eye opening journey and I definitely appreciate it and understand humans so so much more as a whole and way more accepting of everybody.
Glen Rose
2025-01-04 22:00:31 +0000 UTCMegan you should do a no make up episode on Patreon when/if you feel up to it. Also featuring Lewis in full blown make-up 🤣. It'll be a makeover for both of you 😀 Meg can try literally unmasking and Lewis can literally try masking 🤣😁🙃
Glen Rose
2025-01-04 05:14:58 +0000 UTC😳 "Autistic people can be so annoying" - Megan 2024 It's funny because it's also true 🤣🤣🤣. It's either one extreme or the other. We either get on like fire or burn those bridges 🔥🔥🔥🥰🥰🥰
Glen Rose
2025-01-04 05:10:16 +0000 UTCI'm 1 minute into the episode and totally gone off on a tangent.
Glen Rose
2025-01-04 04:48:33 +0000 UTCOmg, I don't go on the discord but there should be a joke neurotypical thread. Though perhaps that would go too far and eventually end up as bullying 😅 Maybe a neurotypical VIP thread invite only via Lewis 😂. We need to study their chat style 🤣
Glen Rose
2025-01-04 04:47:31 +0000 UTCMy school/not Uni story is identical to yours!
Tessa Coker
2025-01-02 01:30:44 +0000 UTCNext episode about your wedding, I suppose
I'm Autistic, Now What
2025-01-01 22:13:14 +0000 UTCI really hope she received it as a joke! I wonder if she got it all the time - was probably so annoying 😅 Poor thing!
I'm Autistic, Now What
2025-01-01 22:12:57 +0000 UTC*now
Ben Rice
2024-12-30 19:36:58 +0000 UTCI love that Lewis's and I's marriage is no cannon on the podcast
Ben Rice
2024-12-30 19:34:10 +0000 UTCI feel like teasing like the "tomato" thing for me comes down to intention. Like teasing someone and being teased I feel really weird if I don't think the person on the receiving end is in on the joke
Ben Rice
2024-12-30 19:06:26 +0000 UTC
