Black Box Recordings, by InMyOwnWorld

I would like to suggest my podcast: Black Box Recordings, by InMyOwnWorld. An unscripted, unedited, unfocused, unmonetized podcast by me, InMyOwnWorld.

I'm a white, queer, multiply neurodivergent, multiply disabled, middle-aged, non-binary anti-capitalist with an adult onset tic disorder who is trying to cope with... well, everything.

One of the ways I cope is to talk to an imaginary audience, and, as long as I'm talking, I figured I may as well see if anyone wants to listen.

Originally conceived of as videos with my voice and a completely black screen, Black Box Recordings has become a podcast instead. An ad-free podcast consisting of disjointed ramblings, usually as a way to organize my thoughts and encourage myself to get things done around the house, posted according to no schedule whatsoever.

Why a podcast of me rambling about whatever crosses my mind?

Because it will make me feel a little more connected to other people, whether or not it creates any connections. It's a placebo, to make talking to myself feel a little more productive and somehow push past some of my executive function issues with starting things. It's a scream into the void. It's turning the void into an ADHD body double.

The podcast is just me, putting my bluetooth earpiece in, opening up the Voice Recorder app, and pacing around the house while talking to you, my potential future audience. You'll get whatever's on my mind, for however long my brain can maintain focus on it.

Enjoy.

Quickest way to find me on your podcatcher is to search for InMyOwnWorld (all one word).

Another episode of the unscripted, unfocused, unedited, unmonetized podcast that needs no audience. These recordings are primarily for the purpose of self-motivation, task-initiation, and rubber ducking/body doubling. In other words, I use the act of talking to a hypothetical audience to get myself to do things, and I post the recordings so that the hypothetical audience can potentially exist, which motivates me to make more recordings and get more stuff done.

It's another day and another podcast episode used as a tool to help me get the day started. The title of the episode, Title of the Episode, is inspired by this song by Da Vinci's Notebook, Title of the Song, a satire of boy band love ballads of the 1990s.

An hour and twenty minutes of me using handwritten notes on otherwise blank cards as a way to externalize my working memory and bypass some executive function issues. Also some cat sounds, if the microphone picked them up.

Yet another hour of me, talking into a bluetooth earpiece, recording myself on a voice recorder app, and using that as a way to create some self-motivation.

Yet another hour of me, talking into a bluetooth earpiece, while a voice recorder app listens, and I go through my Do Deck hand for the day and try to get some stuff done and planned.

This podcast is for me, not you. But you're welcome to listen to it anyway.

I make low-quality recordings of myself, talking to my pretty-much non-existent listeners (so, really, talking to myself, with the added psychological impact of a potential future audience), as a way to overcome some executive functioning barriers and plan things and/or do things.

It's podcasting into the void and using the void as an ADHD body double.

Enjoy.

I’m taking a short break from my pain medication, and I’m tired and sore and grumpy.

In this episode, you get to hear me grump as I try to figure out how to pass an hour of time.

Black Box Recordings, by InMyOwnWorld is an unscripted, unedited, unfocused, unmonetized podcast of me, InMyOwnWorld, using the act of recording and posting podcast episodes to motivate myself to do things that I struggle to do... which is most things. I find that talking out loud can help me focus, and having an audience (even a hypothetical future audience) can help me focus on talking out loud. So this is me, using the void as an ADHD body double.

Yet another episode of me, a physically disabled autistic ADHDer, using the act of recording a podcast episode to motivate myself to do things.

As always, this is unscripted, unedited, unfocused, and unmonetized.

That's twenty episodes of unscripted ramblings from an autistic ADHDer who uses their podcast as a way to think about stuff and get things done around the house. If you're familiar with the concept of ADHD body doubling, it's a little like that.

Because this is about helping me get things done, I needed the process to be as simple as possible. That means I record with simple tools that are portable, hands-free, and available to me, and I don't do any processing of the recording. In other words, I put my bluetooth in, hit record on the voice recorder app, and upload the result. Which is why it has the sound quality of a phone call.

You don't have to listen to these in any order. I mean, you don't have to listen to these, period. But, if you listen to them, there's no significant chronology. It's all just narration of what I'm doing, explanations of things I mention while narrating, and various tangents of thought that spring up throughout.

Black Box Recordings, by InMyOwnWorld is an unscripted, unedited, unfocused, unmonetized podcast by me, InMyOwnWorld.

It's mostly just me, talking into a bluetooth earpiece and recording on a voice recorder app, using the act of 'making the recording with the intent to upload it' as a way to get my struggling self to focus and plan and do basic things around the house.