Honestly Unorthodox. with Kayla Perry

Dylan and I discuss the Industrial Revolution and how it has made us all similar to the "fitless humans" in the movie Wall-E. Between the habit of poor positioning when we scroll on our phones on the couch, to education systems keeping children sedentary, our society as Americans is quickly headed towards poor health and, possibly, a lifetime of pain. This is especially pronounced for those with disabilities, who may lack the language and cognitive capacity to fully understand how to address and communicate pain, manage pain, and strengthen themselves with the human body armor that is muscle. Can people with disabilities still benefit from good nutrition, lifting heavy things, and a life similar to that of the Hadzabe tribe? Hell yeah, they can! We just have to be willing to do it ourselves.

Challenges of the Week:

1. Continue to walk for 30 minutes, 3 times per week.

2. Choose a habit you'd like to change, and simply carry around a notecard or notepad to which you'll tally off whenever you engage in the habit.

3. If you are religious about your Apple Watch, try taking it off for an entire day and make note of what you feel.

4. Sit on the floor, with your back unsupported, for 10 minutes while you're watching a TV show or answering emails.

5. Please leave us a review! Our egos have not recovered from the reviews we are left with. ;-)

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HOUSEKEEPING:

1. Dylan and I are starting a nonprofit related to common-sense approaches to health, wellness, and building of communities to mitigate poor mental health and bad therapy. With a slew of psychotropics and endless access to useless "therapeutic" interventions, we are attacking Big Pharma the Mayan Way: through togetherness, community-based strategies, and offering people purpose and meaning over digital prestige.

2. In an effort to detox ourselves and others from the effects of cesspool-gram, we have started a pen pal club! If you'd like to help us send letters to all of our clients who get lonely during the holiday season, please email me at [email protected] for details.

Challenges of the Week:

1. Walk for 30 minutes, 3 times per week.

2. Delete all social media apps and any access to social media for 1 consecutive week.

3. Spend 3-5 minutes every day completely devoid of stimulation; no phone, no talking, no TV, no computer, no nothing.

4. Report your findings to us [email protected]

Please email me with any questions, comments, or concerns! [email protected] (I need a new email address, don't I... :-) )

In short: no. The long answer: while this may have been a great step for our field, as we need to start somewhere, Dylan and I discuss the necessary steps that each individual needs to take in order for something like the Unpopular Conference to have long lasting effects. Pssst: it starts with you. We also go into depth about what our plans are, if I'm leaving the field or not, and what our next venture may be post-Nazi-Gate.

Please email me with any questions, comments, or concerns! [email protected] (I need a new email address, don't I... :-) )

Of course, behavior analysts are upset about free speech being a bad thing. Have you considered moving to North Korea? I kid, but sadly, I'm serious. On today's episode, Dylan and I discuss our thoughts and our hopes leading up to The Unpopular Conference, our very obvious stance on free speech, and why we believe that behavior analysts are, as of today, completely unequipped to handle any problem outside of those experienced by autistic children. Oh, and lastly, we discuss why I moved away from the stupidity of social media for an undisclosed period of time---- as a behavior experiment, of sorts. See you all at the conference!

Please email me with any questions, comments, or concerns! [email protected] (I need a new email address, don't I... :-) )

BONUS Episode for Friday! My husband Dylan and I address listener questions and topics, ranging from breaking into the world of working with adults, if deafness is a disability, and if society is "too easy" on people with disabilities simply because they have disabilities. Oh, and also--- should we demonize Dustin Hoffman for perfectly depicting an adult with high functioning autism in Rain Man?

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Another live university lecture from my first class, Learning and Motivation, in which we addressed our obsessive tendency to want everything right this second, if Gen Z compared to other generations is afforded too many luxuries, and testing their perspective on life with a philosophical game of "Would You Rather".

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This is the FIRST pre-recorded lecture for Substack subscribers, where my students and I have an honest and open conversation about eugenics, excessive normalization of people with disabilities, mocking people by turning everything into "inspiration porn", and the modern-day conception of what it means to have "special needs."

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Adam returns to first review the past few weeks of a failed cancellation attempt. Have we both survived? Are we living on the streets? Are we morally injured? As you can imagine, the answer to every question is "no", except for the first--- because we are thriving in today's episode talking about language, perception, and explaining concepts like death and grieving to people with disabilities. We also touch on school refusal, how avoiding anxiety makes anxiety worse, and differentiating between burnout and bullshit.

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For today's episode, Kait and Dylan return to discuss the loss of her brother to suicide, while I dive into the loss of my brother to a Fentanyl overdose. Losing loved ones is spoken about as a loss, one that is sometimes tragic, but we often struggle to find the "right" words to console a grieving person. Considering we have our own ideas of grief, is there a correct and incorrect way of offering support? We finish with talking about whether or not we believe in an afterlife, if we're spiritual or not, and if Kayla is actually an atheist.

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Kayla Aces the Diversity Test: She Found A POC Immigrant of Catholic-Upbringing Culture! For our first-ever entirely bonus episode, we put ourselves to modern day's litmus test: identifying how many intersectional checkboxes we can scratch off, in our own lives and in the lives of those poor Barbies. With today's guest, Mariel, she is essentially a token person: she speaks of moving to America from the Phillippines, we compared the Barbie movie to life in America and life as immigrants trying to live the American Dream, and we took a sharp right turn into an article circling social media: "The Autism Surge: Lies, Conspiracies, and My Own Kids". We go off on the Neurodiversity Movement, Disability Activism, and how anyone could possibly think autism is a superpower or a gift. Well, only the most privileged people.

Please email me with any questions, comments, or concerns! [email protected] (I need a new email address, don't I... :-) )