Jax Bayne

Stop Picking Your Scabs

“It occurred to me that ‘choose’ and ‘pick’ are synonyms. You can choose to learn from your mistakes and turn your pain into something kind, or you can pick your scabs and pick a fight.”

Jax Bayne

26 Mar 2020

Activism, Psychology, Random Thoughts, Rants

abuse, accountability, actions, agency, anger, apology, behavior, break the cycle, choices, compassion, complex ptsd, consequences, cptsd, cruelty, culpability, danger, doctor who, doctorwho, empathy, fighting, grief, growth, harm, hate, healing, hurt, intentions, kindness, learning, love, mental health, pain, personal accountability, ptsd, rage, reactions, scabs, selfishness, strength, suffering, support, thoughts, trauma, victim, victim complex, victimhood, violence, words, wounds
Prema Dharma

During this incredibly difficult time, I’ve been fortunate to have a comfortable home, a good support system, & my needs mostly provided for by my parents & the State. I’m in relatively decent health & am an incredibly introverted person by nature who typically prefers to be alone, so for me, this seclusion hasn’t really been a hardship but actually quite a blessing in many ways.

Jax Bayne

26 Mar 2020

Spirituality

bhakti, bhakti yoga, bhaktiyoga, calamity, compassion, fear, gratitude, grief, hare krishna, harekrishna, healing, kindness, krishna, krishna consciousness, krishnaconsciousness, love, opportunity, pain, patience, premadharma, separation, service, seva, suffering, understanding, vipralambha
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
Interpersonal Effectiveness

Just a gentle reminder about what effective communication entails. Emotions can cause us to forget simple truths.

Jax Bayne

2 Feb 2020

Activism, Psychology

Activism, communication, dbt, dialectical behavioral therapy, interpersonal effectiveness, marsha linehan
Thoughts About The Horror Genre

I remember feeling very uncomfortable watching The Ring for the first time w/ all the girls in my grade who were laughing when something messed up happened.

Jax Bayne

24 Jan 2020

Activism, Psychology, Rants

acceptance, compassion, cruelty, desensitization, emotional honesty, emotional safe spaces, emotional vulnerability, empathy, fear, film, mental illness, psychological disorders, psychologicaldisorders, Psychology, ring, ringu, safe spaces, support, the ring, trauma, violence
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
Personal Accountability

If you remove the gender commentary, this post is actually just a really great observation of how human society as a whole has been acting in general lately. It’s worse than ever before because it wasn’t as easy to act like a total troll & get away with it like we can now in the past. This is typically what it feels every time I try to have a basic convo with someone.

Jax Bayne

5 Jan 2020

Activism, Psychology, Rants

blame, cbt, dbt, immaturity, introspection, maturity, paradigm shift, personal accountability, projection, Psychology, reactionary, scapegoating, self-awareness, self-monitoring, social obligation, social responsibility, sociology, thought patterns, thought processes
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