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The Nicnac PodcastNicnac Podcast: Actual Better Help IIShow Notes TW/CW Suicide Discussions In this episode Nicnac and Vinny talk about medications, treatment and home remedies as well as the high incidence of suicide in autistic people and other neurodivergent people as they continue to struggle against a neurotypical world that seems hell bent on their destruction Links Autistic Life Span Study Broken Brain Depression Not Caused By Serotonin Imbalance Credits The music is Raindrop Rhapsody by Josh Elkinberry, The Fools Guide by Anthony Rotunno If you enjoy t...2022-08-0422 min

The Nicnac PodcastNicnac Podcast: A Smoking EmberIn this episode Nicnac and Vinny struggle to keep their partnership healthy as they face burcatic nightmares in getting benefits after getting married amid rising costs and unprecedented stress. Credits The music is Raindrop Rhapsody by Josh Elkinberry, The Fools Guide by Anthony Rotunno If you enjoy this music please support these artists by buying their work or making donations! The Nicnac Podcast & FSRideAlong Series is © 2006-2022 by The Nicnac Podcast Network and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License Support Donate To Support Nicnac 2022-07-2735 min

The Nicnac PodcastNicnac Podcast: Gender Roles And Other Social Boxen From a Autistic Couples PerepctiveIn this episode Nicnac and Vinny explore the idea of being autigender as they work to understand gender and other social constructs though the autistic lens. Nicnac also tries to keep it together though the stress of the many hurdles of being married on disability income. Article link If you appreciate Nicnac and Vinny's work please check out their patreon! They both could use the support right now! Much love, Nicnac and Vinny 2022-06-2236 min

The Nicnac PodcastNicnac Podcast-InertiaIn this episode Nicnac and Vinny experience a great deal of inertia as they continue to adjust to their new life together. While they remain happy there is no beating around the bush: being in love while being on the spectrum is not easy! If you feel called to, please support Nicnac’s hard work through her Patreon or by sending a donation on paypal or leaving a kind constructive review in your favorite podcast app. Nicnac can also be reached via Twitter and email. 2022-06-1329 min

The Nicnac PodcastNicnac Podcast: Pinch MeShow Notes In this episode Nicnac drops a quick update on their impending nuptials and move to Seattle Credits The music is Raindrop Rhapsody by Josh Elkinberry, The Fools Guide by Anthony Rotunno and, of course, Catch Me If You Can by Attica Attica. If you enjoy this music please support these artists by buying their work or making donations! The Nicnac Podcast & FSRideAlong Series is © 2006-2022 by The Nicnac Podcast Network and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License 2022-04-0313 min

The Nicnac PodcastNicnac Podcast: Dream SpooniesIn this episode Vinny joins Nicnac to talk about dreams both good and bad and how they effect their lives as spoonies. You can learn more about spoon theory here Credits The music is Raindrop Rhapsody by Josh Elkinberry, The Fools Guide by Anthony Rotunno and, of course, Catch Me If You Can by Attica Attica. If you enjoy this music please support these artists by buying their work or making donations! The Nicnac Podcast & FSRideAlong Series is © 2006-2022 by The Nicnac Podcast Network and is released under a Creative Commons At...2022-03-2026 min

The Nicnac PodcastNicnac Podcast: Actual Better HelpDonate To Support Nicnac Become A Member of Nicnac’s Patreon Show Notes In this episode Nicnac checks in with their partner Vinny to talk about getting better help on the spectrum and simulation gaming. Credits The music is Raindrop Rhapsody by Josh Elkinberry, The Fools Guide by Anthony Rotunno and, of course, Catch Me If You Can by Attica Attica. If you enjoy this music please support these artists by buying their work or making donations! The Nicnac Podcast & FSRideAlong Series is © 2006-2022 by The...2022-02-0830 min

The Nicnac PodcastNicnac Podcast : Stress GatedDonate To Support Nicnac Become A Member of Nicnac’s Patreon Show Notes In this episode Nicnac laments the needless pressure caused by the many ‘stress gates’ they are navigating through and hopes that their work and the work of others may eventually lead to a less hostile world for divergent people like themselves Credits The music is Raindrop Rhapsody by Josh Elkinberry, The Fools Guide by Anthony Rotunno and, of course, Catch Me If You Can by Attica Attica. If you enjoy this music please support these...2022-01-2820 min

The Nicnac PodcastNicnac Podcast :Routine DisruptionDonate To Support Nicnac Become A Member of Nicnac’s Patreon Show Notes Note: Nicnac is still having adudo difficulties; they did their best in the edit and are working to resolve them. Your patience is appreciated! In this episode, Nicnac offers some sage advice on gender transitions,integrity, life and neurodivergence as they continue to try to hold themselves together. “If you’re going through hell keep on going”. Credits The music is Raindrop Rhapsody by Josh Elkinberry, The Fools Guide by Anthony Rotunno and, of course...2022-01-1822 min

The Nicnac PodcastNicnac Podcast: Don't StopDonate To Support Nicnac Become A Member of Nicnac’s Patreon Show Notes In this episode Nicnac tries to keep her momentum as she faces a variety of hurdles in the next few months before hopefully moving to Seattle to be with her partner Credits The music is Raindrop Rhapsody by Josh Elkinberry, The Fools Guide by Anthony Rotunno and, of course, Catch Me If You Can by Attica Attica. If you enjoy this music please support these artists by buying their work or making donations! ...2022-01-0716 min

The Nicnac PodcastNicnac Podcast: Help Me Take This Mask OffDonate To Support Nicnac Become A Member of Nicnac’s Patreon Show Notes In this episode Nicnac tries to deal with all the things the universe is challenging her with while expressing gratitude for the autistic and neurodivergent communities. Credits The music is Raindrop Rhapsody by Josh Elkinberry, The Fools Guide by Anthony Rotunno and, of course, Catch Me If You Can by Attica Attica. If you enjoy this music please support these artists by buying their work or making donations! The Nicnac Podcast & FSRideAlong Se...2021-12-1719 min

The Nicnac PodcastNicnac Podcast: The Guilty SeasonDonate To Support Nicnac Become A Member of Nicnac’s Patreon Show Notes In this episode Nicnac turns her attention to the insincerity she perceives in many of the winter holiday traditions. She deduces that this behavior is driven by guilt and suggests an alternate course of action amidst her struggle to save money and keep her momentum. Credits The music is Raindrop Rhapsody by Josh Elkinberry, The Fools Guide by Anthony Rotunno and, of course, Catch Me If You Can by Attica Attica. If you enjoy thi...2021-12-0411 min

The Nicnac PodcastNicnac Podcast: Accountability DayDonate To Support Nicnac Become A Member of Nicnac’s Patreon Show Notes In this episode Nicnac tries to challenge themselves and listeners to do better than Thanksgiving and the way we are supposed to spend the holiday. Nicnac impresses the importance of holding ourselves and our ancestors accountable for our atrocities and failings in the never ending pursuit of a world, species, and life that sucks less. Credits The music is Raindrop Rhapsody by Josh Elkinberry, The Fools Guide by Anthony Rotunno and, of course, Catch Me If Yo...2021-11-2513 min

The Nicnac PodcastNicnac Podcast: Damn You southern OregonDonate To Support Nicnac Become A Member of Nicnac’s Patreon Show Notes In this episode, Nicnac recaps their trip to Seattle and ponders how to move forward with a move to Seattle that will stick within six months. Credits The music is Raindrop Rhapsody by Josh Elkinberry, The Fools Guide by Anthony Rotunno and, of course, Catch Me If You Can by Attica Attica. If you enjoy this music please support these artists by buying their work or making donations! The Nicnac Podcast & FSRideAlong Se...2021-11-2319 min

The Nicnac PodcastNicnac Podcast: I Feel The Earth MoveDonate To Support Nicnac Become A Member of Nicnac’s Patreon Show Notes In this episode, Nicnac tries to process the seismic shifts in her life while enjoying the latter stages of her Seattle visit. Credits The music is The Fools Guide by Anthony Rotunno and, of course, Catch Me If You Can by Attica Attica. If you enjoy this music please support these artists by buying their work or making donations! The Nicnac Podcast & FSRideAlong Series is © 2006-2021 by The Nicnac Podcast Network and is...2021-11-1725 min

The Nicnac PodcastNicnac Podcast: Virtual City BuildersDonate To Support Nicnac Become A Member of Nicnac’s Patreon Show Notes As Nicnac is still in Seattle, she opts to focus this episode on SimCity and and Cities:Skylines and how using these software toys might help inspire one to think about communities in ways outside of the western colonial norm. Nicnac hopes this episode may serve as a kind of bridge connecting FSRideAlong and other simulation games content to the rest of her long running podcast. Links City Beautiful Credits The music is...2021-11-1421 min

The Nicnac PodcastNicnac Podcast: Seattle HomecomingDonate To Support Nicnac Become A Member of Nicnac’s Patreon Show Notes In this episode, Nicnac reports from Seattle where they are experiencing a very potent mix of old memories and new experiences with their partner after enduring a harrowing Greyhound bus trip from hell. They remind both themselves and their listeners of the importance of connection and the solace and safety the right connection can offer in the face of the harsh outside world. Credits The music is The Fools Guide by Anthony Rotunno and, of course, Ca...2021-11-1021 min

The Nicnac PodcastNicnac Podcast: Sleepless 662 Miles South Of SeattleDonate To Support Nicnac Become A Member of Nicnac’s Patreon Show Notes In this episode, Nicnac shares that she is traveling to Seattle to see her partner and reconnect with the city in the next few days. She is filled with jitters but knows it will go well. Credits The music is Raindrop Rhapsody by Josh Elkinberry, The Fools Guide by Anthony Rotunno and, of course, Catch Me If You Can by Attica Attica. If you enjoy this music please support these artists by buying their wo...2021-11-0410 min

The Nicnac PodcastNicnac Podcast It’s A Lot (Auti-Mating)Donate To Support Nicnac Become A Member of Nicnac’s Patreon Show Notes In this episode, Nicnac tries to get her head out of the happy clouds long enough to think in the face of the challenges posed by all the things that have happened in her life as of late. Although they feel lucky, they know that they and other divergent people like themselves face a severe uphill battle, particularly in these times. She is continuing her climb up the mountain and hopes you are as well Credits Th...2021-10-3126 min

The Nicnac PodcastNicnac Podcast: Coming Out in California with Moss WildwingDonate To Support Nicnac Become A Member of Nicnac’s Patreon Show Notes In this episode, Nicnac talks with her friend Moss Wildwing about a unique Coming Out Day Experience they both had that inspired each other. They go on to talk about being queer, trans, and otherwise divergent in both Chico and San Francisco. They also discuss mental health and psychology. They come to no definite conclusions but they both express much hope and look forward to future conversations and a more positive world heavily influenced by queer culture. Credits...2021-10-3035 min

The Nicnac PodcastNicnac Podcast: Actually Autistic LoveDonate To Support Nicnac Become A Member of Nicnac’s Patreon Show Notes In this episode Nicnac talks with her partner about how they found each other, their shared dreams, and the unique experience of Actually Autistic Love. Credits The music is Raindrop Rhapsody by Josh Elkinberry, The Fools Guide by Anthony Rotunno and, of course, Catch Me If You Can by Attica Attica. If you enjoy this music please support these artists by buying their work or making donations! The Nicnac Podcast & FSRideAlong Series is...2021-10-2719 min

The Nicnac PodcastNicnac Podcast: Send Nicnac Back Home; Help Them Publish (Twitterpated)Donate To Support Nicnac Become A Member of Nicnac’s Patreon Show Notes In this episode, Nicnac tells of a new partnership and love that has her crazy twitterpated and happy. She asks listeners to help her get some writing projects finished and work towards seeing her new partner in Seattle. A place she has been homesick for for 10 years anyway. Credits The music is Raindrop Rhapsody by Josh Elkinberry, The Fools Guide by Anthony Rotunno and, of course, Catch Me If You Can by Attica Attica. If...2021-10-2511 min

The Nicnac PodcastNicnac Podcast: Coming AlongDonate To Support Nicnac Show Notes In this episode, Nicnac notes the personal progress she is making in the midst of the challenge of her transition and her environment. She reflects on the intersection between the leftist community and the LGBTQI+ and neurodivergent communities. An intersection that she views as purely anecdotal but worth noting nonetheless. She is so thankful for her comrades and new connection the world over and asks for your support in keeping this labor of love going. Credits The music is Raindrop Rahspody by Josh Elkinberry, The...2021-10-2117 min

The Nicnac PodcastNicnac Podcast: The Fear You Won't See MeDonate To Support Nicnac Show Notes In this episode, Nicnac finds herself half hearing Anne Murray’s version of “You Won’t See Me”. This ties into her ongoing transition and recent coming-out day events in Nicnac’s mind. She does her best to info dump and tell her story in an entertaining way. With hopes that she may be able to do another conversation episode around this sort of topic with a friend soon. Credits The music is Raindrop Rahspody by Josh Elkinberry, The Fools Guide by Anthony Rotunno and, of course...2021-10-1632 min

The Nicnac PodcastNicnac Podcast: Going Beyond The Mind (You Were Cool)In this episode, Nicnac talks about where she is in divergent life, transitioning and thinking back to a person they once knew in passing who was so cool. She feels the sting of the missed connection even years later and tries to find the good in the missed connection and living the day-to-day challenges of being divergent. Nicnac advises you to skip if you aren’t ready to bawl your eyes out with love. She thanks you for sticking with her! Credits The music is Raindrop Rahspody by Josh Elkinberry, The Fools Guide by Anthony Ro...2021-10-1423 min

The Nicnac PodcastNicnac Podcast: Art Me Gently With a ChainsawTrigger Warning: This is a deep, heavy, and honest episode that may not be suitable for everyone including dark themes, politics, and divergent life struggle. Please proceed intentionally and do your own thinking as required. If you don’t have the ability to listen with an open mind please don’t! Donate To Support Nicnac Show Notes In this episode, Nicnac returns to unscripted formate to talk more about their fantasy of love, their admiration, and envy of Robert Evans and their not-so-pleasant feelings about their hometown. It somehow turns into the internets stra...2021-10-0736 min

The Nicnac PodcastNicnac Podcast: It’s Just A FantasyTrigger Warning: This is a deep, heavy, and honest episode that may not be suitable for everyone including dark themes, politics, and autistic life struggle. Please proceed intentionally and do your own thinking as required. If you don’t have the ability to listen with an open mind please don’t! Donate To Support Nicnac Show Notes In this episode, Nicnac does their best to process their birthday and more connection issues with other humans without excessive bitterness. They hope they’ve succeeded on some level. Credits The music is Rai...2021-10-0412 min

The Nicnac PodcastNicnac Podcast: The UglyTrigger Warning: This is a deep, heavy, and honest episode that may not be suitable for everyone including dark themes, politics, and autistic life struggle. Please proceed intentionally and do your own thinking as required. If you don’t have the ability to listen with an open mind please don’t! Donate To Support Nicnac Show Notes In this episode, Nicnac drops as much of the mask as they can muster and just tries to deal with it in hopes of coming out the other side. Credits The music is R...2021-09-2420 min

The Nicnac PodcastNicnac Podcast: BorderlineDonate To Support Nicnac Show Notes: In this episode, Nicnac’s creativity and life train is jarringly derailed by their very frustrated body’s instance on closeness despite Nicnac’s mind objecting to the cries. This forces Nicnac to explore a different kind of date seeking despite their extremely rational objections and ongoing gender changes. Nicnac hopes this episode can serve as an admittedly dramatized look into their mind and their loathing of the gender they were assigned at birth. They hope they can find someone far from Hellhole, CA who can se...2021-09-2315 min

The Nicnac PodcastNicnac Podcast: Genius Is Pain And Being WrongDonate To Support Nicnac Show Notes In the episode, Nicnac reflects on their second conversation with Antony and tries to signal where they want to go next. This leads Nicnac back to their creative process and the problem of not being commercial while having walked backward into broadcasting. They tie it all to John’s simple statement of fact that genius is pain while noting it has to be packaged in just the right way. Nicnac hopes they package it in the right way just often enough. Credits The music is Ra...2021-09-2219 min

The Nicnac PodcastNicnac Podcast: Nobody Told USIn this episode, Nicnac has the privilege of being rejoined by Antony to wax about the challenges of being creatively divergent in a world nobody told us about. They muse about the last 20 years, the future and the further-flung past in a worthy follow-up to “Living Is Easy With Eyes Closed”. Please check out Antony’s wonderful music and podcasts including Glass Onion: on John Lennon, Film Gold and Life and Life Only Credits The music is Raindrop Rahspody by Josh Elkinberry, Mr. Rainbow-No Love by Nicnac Marsh, The Fools Guide by Anthony Rotunno and, of cou...2021-09-201h 22

The Nicnac PodcastNicnac Podcast: 20 YearsTrigger Warning: This is a deep, heavy, and honest episode that may not be suitable for everyone including dark themes, politics, and autistic life struggle. Please proceed intentionally and do your own thinking as required. If you don’t have the ability to listen with an open mind please don’t! Donate To Support Nicnac Show Notes In this episode, Nicnac reflects on the horrors of 9/11 even from 2,800 miles and 20 years away and tells what they remember of that morning 20 years ago from the perspective of an isolated and burnt-out kid who loves flig...2021-09-1645 min

The Nicnac PodcastNicnac Podcast: Say No To DogmaIn this episode, Nicnac thinks back to the horrors of being a child and having that natural wonder beaten down and suppressed. Although Nicnac has never been able to tolerate children (even as a child) they see and know the pain of childhood. They encourage those that do have the skills needed to be there for children to let them be human. They encourage adults to remember a free their inner child. Donate To Support Nicnac Credits The opening music is Raindrop Rhapsody by Josh Eikenberry. The closing music is Catch...2021-09-0416 min

The Nicnac PodcastNicnac Podcast: They Say It’s RainingTrigger Warning: This is a deep, heavy, and honest episode that may not be suitable for everyone including dark themes, politics, and autistic life struggle. Please proceed intentionally and do your own thinking as required. If you don’t have the ability to listen with an open mind please don’t! Show Notes In this episode, Nicnac reviews some notable media portrayals of Autism and autistic traits and puts them in the context of their personal experience of life on the spectrum as best they can. They focus their efforts on Raymond from Rain Man, Hous...2021-09-0321 min

The Nicnac PodcastNicnac Podcast: Going Around AgainTrigger Warning: This is a deep, heavy, and honest episode that may not be suitable for everyone including dark themes, politics, and autistic life struggle. Please proceed intentionally and do your own thinking as required. If you don’t have the ability to listen with an open mind please skip this one! Donate To Support Nicnac Autistic Education Survey Show Notes In this episode, Nicnac wrestles with the reality of their internal world and how that im...2021-08-2840 min

The Nicnac PodcastNicnac Podcast: Rationally IrrationalIn this episode, Nicnac reflects on the view outside their Windows and tries to synthesize the last month or so of their progress and creative endeavors over the last month or so. This is definitely an ongoing creative experiment so Nicnac would appreciate constructive feedback. Nicnac is thankful to their recent guests for sharing their time effort and views. Please don’t forget to check out past episodes. Donate To Support Nicnac Autism Survey Detester Magazine Autistic Education Survey Learn From Autistics Autistamatic YouTube Channel...2021-08-2013 min

The Nicnac PodcastNicnac Podcast: Telling Our Stories: Interview with Suzanna Chen of Detester Magazine, And An Autistic Youth AdvocateIn this episode, Nicnac has a conversation with Suzanna Chen. Suzanna is an autistic youth, advocate, and member of the Detester Magazine Team. The team has recently put out a survey designed to improve young autistic life by collecting first-hand accounts of the experience. Please consider completing the survey if you are an autist. Also, be sure to check out the other great work being done at Desterer Magazine and Learn from Autistics. Links Survey Detester Magazine Detester Autism Advocate Interviews Learn From Autistics Credits ...2021-08-1312 min

The Nicnac PodcastNicnac Podcast: The Philosophy Of DisabilityIn this episode, Nicnac describes their Philosophy of Disability and the way that the world they live in forces them into thinking about it in many ways at the same time. They reason that the best way to make progress on this is to keep sharing their experience and empathically listening to the experience of others. Autistic Education Survey Learn From Autistics Autistamatic YouTube Channel Autistic Collaboration Sarah Kurchak Donate To Support Nicnac Credits The opening music is Raindrop Rhapsody by Josh Eikenberry. T...2021-08-1313 min

The Nicnac PodcastNicnac Podcast: Living Is Easy With Eyes ClosedIn this episode, Nicnac sits down with Antony Rotunno, a teacher, podcaster, musician, truth seeker and life coach to talk about artistic media creation, the search for truth, John Lennon, The Beatles and everything in-between. This is a hugely deep conversation that will likely cause both Nicnac and listeners to rethink some things. Donate Credits Check out all of Antony’s work at https://www.antonyrotunno.com/ The opening music is Raindrop Rhapsody by Josh Eikenberry. We also hear a selection of Antony’s “Life Goes On” featuring an amazing violin solo by...2021-08-081h 36

The Nicnac PodcastNicnac Podcast: Abilities And NeedIn this episode, Nicnac briefly returns to one Marx line to get at individual variation and adds a corollary about the social contract. Nicnac notes the importance of living in a dreamland to keep oneself going but underscores the importance of keeping the ratio of the time one spends in dreamland and the time one spends in the real world as balanced as possible in line with needs. Nicnac ends by imploring folks to learn to accept every individual fully. Both their failures and their success. Even if you can’t relate to them. Believing th...2021-08-0709 min

The Nicnac PodcastNicnac Podcast: Sometimes I Am WrongIn this episode, Nicnac reflects on what they took away from the wonderful conversation they had in the last episode with Antony Ruttuno and tries to grapple with their own human failings. They talk about what they learned from finally finding Judy Singer’s work and what they think this means for themselves and the political Neurodiversity Movement at large. They mention that they have started to look further into George Harrison and confess that their search for knowledge and their creative expressions are merely coping skills of extremely varying value. Concluding that, like any human, sometimes they are wr...2021-08-0312 min

The Nicnac PodcastNicnac Podcast: What Is Neurodivergance?In this episode, Nicnac gives explaining and defining Neurodivergance another try, having felt that they may have glossed over a few things in recent episodes. They return to their favorite historic Psychologist Abraham Maslow to point out an important oversight in his research that some current scholars are beginning to understand. Namely, the internal experience of autism and other forms of neurodiversity. They highlight the recent work done by Dr. Dora Raymaker and The Academic Autism Spectrum Partnership in Research and Education at Portland State University around the topic of Autistic Burnout and the age range when...2021-07-2918 min

The Nicnac PodcastNicnac Podcast: Silicon Valley Meets Hellhole, CAIn this episode, Nicnac covers the history of Hellhole, Ca (Chico, CA) from the little they know about The Mechoopda Maidu to the days of The Bidwells, the agriculture migration, the segregation and sundown era, The Cold War and the town being discovered by Silicon Valley retirees as the nearby foothills burn and the creeks go dry. Nicnac sees what city planners and developers are doing. Namely trying to create a quaint clone of Scottsdale Arizona for the retirees. But, this planning approach ignores Chico State along with the unhappy tempest-tossed shelterless, welfare and working-class lifers stuck here for...2021-07-2720 min

The Nicnac PodcastNicnac Podcast: Trying To Make It WorkIn this episode, Nicnac starts to puzzle over how to adjust to what they now know about themselves. They review their various coping systems and lament the “return to normal” humbug that is currently adding to the already oppressive normalization meat grinder. They conclude that their best path forward is to stick with what they know works and learn to say no when needed. This includes minimizing social interactions in any form, rolling with their energy flows, and trying to figure out how to conduct their life from home. Fortunately. Covid gave them a head start. Now if all the...2021-06-3009 min

The Nicnac PodcastNicnac Podcast: Learn By DoingIn this episode Nicnac traces how they came into podcasting and attempts to convey what they are aspiring towards along with how their own experiences and limitations have shaped their work. Nicnac is excited about the process of taking their work to the next level and thankful for all who have contributed to the craft and taught it to them. Having a podcast that combines Nicnac’s unique interests, strife and limitations is interesting. It seems to work almost despite itself. Nicnac hopes you will continue to join them on this journey wherever it may lead. Donate To...2021-06-2712 min

The Nicnac PodcastNicnac Podcast: Harm ReductionIn this episode Nicnac talks about the poor state of social services in their community of Chico, California and lists two organizations among many that are trying to help in the face of violent city policy and public opinion; Northern Valley Harm Reduction Coalition and Chico Housing Action Team. Nicnac calls for real pluralism in policy in their community, state, city and world. Links Northern Valley Harm Reduction Coalition at https://nvhrc.com/ They need volunteers! Chico Housing Action Team at https://www.chicohousingactionteam.net/ Donate To Support Nicnac ...2021-06-2609 min

The Nicnac PodcastNicnac Podcast: The Moral Bankruptcy Of Conformity CultureIn this episode Nicnac tries to succinctly synthesize and summarize their work and call out US conformity culture for what it is. They briefly summarize their historical findings before sharing their view that now is the time to connect with like minds, help where you can but lay low and stay safe in hopes that humanity will see better days in some far distant future. Sometimes The Obi-Wan Kenobi approach makes the most sense…. Donate Nicnacjak.net Credits The opening music is Raindrop Rhapsody by Josh Eikenberry. The closing music is Cat...2021-06-2509 min

The Nicnac PodcastNicnac Podcast: Integrity III: The Painful Search For TruthIn this episode Nicnac tries to connect their recent progress in self identity to the work that they’ve done and how they came to do that work. They try to explain that they are driven to strive for a better world because they’ve experienced pain and indeed have caused pain. Nicnac does this by talking a bit about the podcast, their desire to be accepted, their more problematic coping techniques and explaining why they wrote and released their early song “Say What You Want To Say” at the age of 19. Donate Nicnacjak.net Sa...2021-06-2221 min

The Nicnac PodcastNicnac Podcast: The Value of Finding Safe CommunitiesShow Notes In this episode Nicnac tries to articulate how finding safe communities that embrace and support who they are in recent times has made them feel. They don’t feel they can adequately express how much these discoveries have helped them and will help them in the times ahead. They also express how damaging attempts to modify or suppress who they are have been over the years. Given that advocating for and creating a global community that embraces diversity and supports people’s needs is their greatest passion, they resolve to continue focusing on this ambition in t...2021-06-1608 min

The Nicnac PodcastNicnac Podcast: A Dr. House Moment; Why I Feel So Certain That I am A Neurodivergent PersonIn this episode Nicnac describes a moment of incredible clarity that they reached at the end of last weekend. An experience that they articulate as something akin to A “Dr. House” style epiphany coupled with the euphoric clearly the character would experience at the end of the majority of the episodes in the 2004-2012 series. They make the best effort they can muster in an attempt to explain their lifelong social, work and daily cognitive experience. They have made a herculean effort to complete this production as they endure the early stages of neurodivergent burn out. They begin the wrap...2021-06-1613 min

The Nicnac PodcastNicnac Podcast: Limited Capacity; Infinite FlowIn this episode Nicnac works to shift their energy and considers what it will take cautiously to spend more time outside of their darkened studio where they’ve spent most of their time since Covid started in March of 2020. They are in the process of accepting the neurodivergent capacity limits they have that cause them to need to work hard to be mindful of their limits when outside of their safe space and interacting with others Donate Nicnacjak.net There is a lot going on behind the scenes as capacity allows so please re...2021-06-1306 min

The Nicnac PodcastNicnac Podcast: Nicnac Rebirth; Please Send SpoonsIn this episode Nicnac is having a rebirth of self after picking a new name to better fit who they are. While they want to embrace the moment for all that it is, they also have a need to process their strife around energy management and the difficulty of living in a culture of compliance. So grab your favorite beverage, grab a breath and join this important moment in Nicnac’s life. Donate Nicnacjak.net 2021-06-1012 min