Category: Life Update

• 2022 Life Update

  

  Well! It has been a while! Hello, friends! How are you all doing? It sure has been a wild few years. In the midst of all the chaos, I chose to retreat within myself, but not in the self-isolating way I normally have done. Instead of being avoidant, I chose to be present with myself, […]

  Jax Bayne

  24 Apr 2022

  Life Update, Uncategorized

  autism, autistic, mental health, mental illness

• A Quick COVID-19 Note

  

  Just because I’m not posting much about COVID-19, doesn’t mean that I’m not holding those who have suffered & died in my heart.

  Jax Bayne

  14 Jul 2020

  Activism, Life Update, Random Thoughts

  collectivism, community, compassion, cooperation, coronavirus, covid, covid19, death, empathy, ethics, fear, health, healthcare, hope, humanity, hygiene, kindness, life, lockdown, love, masks, pandemic, patience, perseverance, personal accountability, sanitation, social distancing, social responsibility, suffering, tolerance, unity, wellness, world war 1, ww1

• Life Goals

  

  All I really want in life is to become a genuinely good, nice, kind, caring, productive person.

  Jax Bayne

  11 Jul 2020

  Activism, autism, Autobiographical, communication, Life Update, Psychology, Random Thoughts, Rants, Spirituality

  adhd, aspirations, autism, behavioural neuroscience, burnout, compassion, compassionate inquiry, connection, dopamine detox, dopamine oversaturation, egocentricism, egoism, empathy, fear, freeze, gabor mate, gestalt psychology, goals, healing, health, internal family systems, introspection, life, mental health, mental illness, neural networks, neuroscience, overstimulation, paradigms, Psychology, psychoneuroimmunology, recovering, rehabilitation, retrain the brain, self-inquiry, shutdown, standards, togetherness, trauma, trauma work, wellbeing, wellness

• Letter To Myself

  

  Hey, Jax. I’ve noticed that things have been going very well for you recently. One might even say that almost all of your dreams have been coming true in the sense that opportunity after opportunity to accomplish your goals has presented itself & continues to do so. That’s pretty rad, dude. Grats & stuff.

  Jax Bayne

  24 Jun 2020

  Autobiographical, communication, Life Update, Psychology, Random Thoughts

  gestalt therapy, open chair technique, parts therapy, parts work, Psychology

• What Is Self-Love?

  

  I haven’t made a blog post in a while. I haven’t updated my social media accounts either. So, why is this? Here’s the full story.

  Jax Bayne

  6 Jun 2020

  autism, Autobiographical, Life Update, Psychology, Random Thoughts

  acceptance, adhd, anxiety, autism, autistic, bipolar, borderline, borderline personality disorder, burn out, choice, choices, comic books, Comics, compassion, cptsd, depression, despair, despondency, empathy, executive dysfunction, executive functioning, guilt, health, healthy lifestyle, kindness, lifestyle, love, mental health, mental illness, modelling, neurodiverse, neurology, overwhelmed, ptsd, recovery, respect, self-care, self-love, self-worth, social media, streaming, tolerance, trauma, twitch, understanding, validation

• Sorry, I’m Asimoving. Could you expound on that?

  

  One of the most universally “autistic” struggles I undergo is requiring a certain level of precision of language in order to be able to process the new information I’m receiving in a meaningful way.

  Jax Bayne

  9 Feb 2020

  autism, Autobiographical, communication, Life Update, Psychology, Random Thoughts, Rants

  actuallyautistic, allistic, allistics, asc, asd, asimov, asimoving, aspergers, aspergerssyndrome, aspie, aspies, autie, auties, autism, autism spectrum, autismacceptance, autismadvocacy, autismadvocate, autismspectrum, autismspectrumconditions, autist, autistic, autisticadult, autistics, autists, clarification, communication, computers, context, humor, idioms, interpersonal effectiveness, interpersonal relations, interrupting, introspection, isaac asimov, jokes, language, literalism, neural networks, neurodiverse, neurodiversity, neurotypical, neurotypicals, precision of language, science fiction, scifi, stereotypes, stereotyping

• Recent Thought Trains

  

  Part of my black or white, all or nothing, rigid thinking includes me vacillating between thinking that I have super awesome unique talents, skills, traits, and attributes that are worthwhile, positive, useful, helpful, and beneficial and feeling that my strong personality, preferences, opinions, and ways of expressing myself are too difficult for people to find worth tolerating or putting up with.

  Jax Bayne

  22 Jan 2020

  Activism, Life Update, Psychology, Rants

  acceptance, actuallyautistic, anxiety, asc, aspergers, aspergerssyndrome, aspie, aspies, autie, auties, autism, autism spectrum, autismacceptance, autismadvocacy, autismadvocate, autismspectrum, autismspectrumconditions, autist, autistic, autisticadult, autistics, autists, awareness, challenges, confusion, depression, developmental disability, disability, disabled, life, masking, medical fields, medicine, mind blindness, neurodiverse, neurodiversity, neurology, obstacles, Psychology, stereotypes, stereotyping, struggles, support, understanding, unmasking

• Q&A Series: So are you a male mind in a woman’s body?

  

  Q&A Series: So are you a male mind in a woman’s body? Not quite, but that’s a good starting point. See, the thing is, this whole “gender/sex/identity/etc is a spectrum” thing is a lot less complicated than it’s been made out to seem.

  Jax Bayne

  5 Jan 2020

  Activism, Life Update, Psychology, Rants

  acceptance, Activism, affection, androgynous, anxiety, biological sex, biology, courage, enby, fear, gender, gender reaffirming surgery, gender reassignment surgery, grs, inclusivity, intolerance, non-binary, non-binary transitioning, Psychology, q&a, question and answer, respect, self-care, self-love, sex, sex reassignment surgery, sociology, srs, tolerance, trans, transgender, transitioning, transmasculine

• Emotional Vulnerability

  

  Just a random factual statement made w/ neutral intentions: I appreciate when people let me know they care about me, but sometimes I feel smothered or overwhelmed if people do it too much

  Jax Bayne

  4 Jan 2020

  Life Update, Psychology, Rants

  auties, autism, autism spectrum, autismspectrum, autist, autistic, autistics, autists, emotional vulnerability, emotions, interpersonal effectiveness, interpersonal relations, social conventions, socialization, socializing

• Mental Health Update

  

  So, I’m about to be going down to 50mg of lamotrigine – I was at 200mg for years, so that’s pretty huge – next week. I’m still at 25mg of venlafaxine, but I was on 150mg for almost the same amount of time that I was on lamotrigine for. I’m hoping to be off of lamotrigine by the end of January if not sooner & off of venlafaxine by March if not sooner.

  Jax Bayne

  18 Dec 2019

  Life Update

  autism, autistic, borderline, borderline personality disorder, hypnotherapy, medication, mental health, mental illness, psych meds, Psychology