Travis talks about how Autism combines and interchanges with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder to magnify the perseverative thinking that autistic people typically have. When combining OCD with autism people can become hyper-focused on one particular subject or person. This hyper-focus can either be healthy if it is a positive special interest or it can be unhealthy if it is a negative special interests.

Travis discusses the differences between obsessions, fixations, and special interests. He talks about how positive special interests lead to good mental health and negative special interests lead to poor mental health. The opposite is true that poor mental health leads to negative special interests and good mental health leads to positive special interests.

Travis shares personal stories and provides practical advice on dealing with co-morbid OCD with autism spectrum disorder. Travis introduces you top deep breathing exercises and discusses the technique called "dive" which is meant to reduce anxiety and OCD thinking.

Tune into this podcast to learn more about OCD mixing with autism spectrum disorder

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Travis landed a new job and starts work on Monday. He talks about the job and why work is so challenging for him with all of his ocd and anxiety.

Travis hopes this job will be different and last longer than any other job he has ever had. He shares some coping strategies he has been working on in counseling to help him manage some of the anxiety and keep employment for the long term.

Checkout the podcast to learn what working a job is like for a neuridivergent autistic person.

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