Jun 22, 2026 · 22 min · 9 segments
What happens when the person you've spent years trying to be turns out to be built around survival rather than authenticity? In this episode, Chelsey Flood is joined by Bre Ransome to explore late…
Brie RansomGuest
Chelsey FloodHost
My very first drink, I told everybody I had drank before and just performed like somebody who knew how to drink alcohol.
Thinking back on my life in so many years, I've been sort of consumed or wrapped up in this identity that I never gave myself.
It was after my diagnosis with autism where I was told about the high verbal IQ stuff and I reflected back on my whole life hyperspeed, reprocessing everything I've ever thought, done, felt, was interested in, was good at, bad at.
And I also turned to AI to say, like, what are some areas of my life that I've made difficult for myself without realizing it? I need things to be different than the way I've set them up.
And it was In my research in like talking to it and talking to my therapist about coping mechanisms, I became aware of the increased alcohol consumption.
I mean, I'm a lifelong drinker, but I was drinking in a way where it was like still light out.
My very first drink, I told everybody I had drank before and just performed like somebody who knew how to drink alcohol.
Thinking back on my life in so many years, I've been sort of consumed or wrapped up in this identity that I never gave myself.
It was after my diagnosis with autism where I was told about the high verbal IQ stuff and I reflected back on my whole life hyperspeed, reprocessing everything I've ever thought, done, felt, was interested in, was good at, bad at.
And I also turned to AI to say, like, what are some areas of my life that I've made difficult for myself without realizing it? I need things to be different than the way I've set them up.
And it was In my research in like talking to it and talking to my therapist about coping mechanisms, I became aware of the increased alcohol consumption.
I mean, I'm a lifelong drinker, but I was drinking in a way where it was like still light out.
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