 Good afternoon, Aspergis Legion. Welcome back to another video. So it's a little tiny little quick one today. I just thought it would be worth coming on and giving you guys a little bit of an update because there's been a lot, a lot of things happening these past two or three months and that's not considering the current global climate that we find ourselves in, if you know what I mean. I'm not gonna say it. I've had enough about something dawned on me a couple of weeks ago and I realised that a large considerable amount of people who are on YouTube do not actually follow my social media and of course when I was going through the process of making the Aspergis Society documentary I basically stopped putting out videos. I think I might have posted a video just explaining all of that and so I'm going to get back into it. You may have already seen some of the other videos that I've put up. I'm trying to get myself into the flow of it. When I started putting out those videos I was not particularly in the best place mental health wise so when you when you're on YouTube you sort of feel that pressure to constantly churn out and put out videos. It's something that definitely bothers me and one of the main things that coaches for YouTube and other video creators sort of highlight is consistency and putting videos at least out every week. So I've been trying to do that on top of podcasting, on top of doing things in my life. It's been it's been a bit tough and I've been going through a lot of bad spells of depression and anxiety and it's it's really been affecting me a lot in terms of sleep, in terms of weight, in terms of eating habits, hygiene, all of that kind of stuff. It's been quite difficult for me. I'm not gonna say it's not like a it's not a sob story video it's just me coming on and chatting to you guys because I know that although I do put stuff out on Instagram and Facebook and Twitter and stuff like that I know not everybody is on there and is up to date with it and sees it all the time so I just thought it'd be worth coming on here and having a chat. As far as developments for the actual channel I didn't get through to the short list for the national diversity awards and you know we did amazingly well with it like it far surpassed any sort of expectations I had for the awards so when the short list came out it felt just a little bit more punchy you know. I think we've got around 250 votes which is stupendous, it's amazing and I couldn't ask for you know better comments on my channel and the work that I do with it genuinely makes me feel good. The other people who have been shortlisted are like massively successful well-known people with like nighthoods and MBEs and OBEs and all that kind of stuff so it's definitely I think at the stage in my sort of advocacy career on media stuff it's not really attainable although we did get quite close and we got I think shared by the national diversity awards a few times which boggles my mind maybe it's just trying to show showing that they're sticking up for the little guy even though they're not gonna put me through. Showing it to the public they're supporting these small people I'm not small in physicality but in reach. The plan for the next few weeks is I'm gonna be putting out my podcast I've got it scheduled for the next week I've already produced this week which I'm quite pleased with myself because it's not really something that I do I usually leave it to the last minute and then rush and stress to try and put it out on a Friday so that it can go out on this Saturday. Didn't do that this week though I managed to get it done however I have not produced a video this week hence this video and I think for the next week I will not be putting out a standard YouTube video you know like this kind of thing where sitting talk to a camera so after that I'm gonna start putting out videos and I've got two videos which I'm quite excited to get started off because I'm producing this series based on relationships and dating I think at some point my girlfriend's gonna pitch in be on the channel you know give her experience from a neurotypical angle it's all very exciting stuff and just from looking at like the analytics and the metrics and stuff it seems anything to do with relationships and dating just seems to be like way up there with the podcast with the YouTube videos pretty much everything this doesn't mean that it's going to be turning into the Ashford of growth dating channel but it does mean that maybe every couple of weeks I'll be churning out another video it's something that I've researched quite a lot and have wrote about quite a lot and have a lot of experience with so it's only natural that I try and pass on that information so that's pretty much all from me if you want to as I said stay up to date with what I'm doing in my life you know what I'm doing in the media what I'm doing for recreational stuff just boring Thomas life stuff then there's a lot more than that just no just it's pretty cool you know do some posts inspirational stuff a lot kind of jazz but yeah like for the next couple of weeks that'll be the main place to stay updated with the work that I'm doing I've quite recently started working with a podcasting coach and they recommended that I not only sort of create like a poster and send it out to different companies and and the BBC and stuff to try and see if they want my podcast you know to be paid for it which would be crazy and there's other stuff like going for the independent documentary awards could possibly be a possibility who knows with the current money that I have I'll have to try and scrape it together just to try and keep up with it but if it's a good investment then I may consider doing it my social media accounts are at Asperd's Gryff for Facebook Twitter and Instagram very easy to find there's a lot of stuff on there if you haven't already seen it so you can scroll down and have a look at the stories that I've made and the highlights if you want to no worries if you don't but this is the I guess this is the reason why I put this video out just to just to update you with things that I've been putting on my social media but I haven't been on YouTube hope you guys are doing well and as I said before my inbox has always opened my email Asperd's Gryff at Gmail.com is always open if you want to send an email send a chat I will be starting to work on the comments more trying to response people a bit more because I've been a bit rubbish with that and it used to be something that I did quite a lot so I will attempt to pull up that deficit that I have it's been absolutely sweltering hot horrible day today it's been nice and sunny it's been good to go out for a walk and you know just get some ice cream and stuff but I'm absolutely sweating my ass off it's probably that's too much information but I just had a shower more fresh much love stay happy stay hydrated and I'll see you in another video in the future check out the podcast by the way see you later sound nice squeaky clean