 Hello everybody and welcome back to another video. Gunslinging Aspie here, ready to give you the lowdown on some news. Not really. Today I am talking about me today because I'm such a great person and everyone wants to know about me because I'm cool and I've got a leather jacket on because I wanted to give off the impression that this was not filmed directly after another video and even though it is and I'm still very tired if you're wondering. Today I am talking about myself. I am going to answer some questions that I have made for myself because I am trying to think of things that people would want to know possibly about me because as I said I know it's a bit egotistical but I haven't received any personal questions yet. I haven't sent anything out to ask for personal questions or anything like that. So yeah, today I'm going to be doing a little checklist. I've got my trusty old book here with a few questions in for me to answer. Just in case you want to know anything about good old Thomas, you know what I mean? So how have you been feeling lately with your grandparents? Have they been taking you to the zoo often? So my friends, question one. Where was I born? I was born in Harrogate which is the district of North Yorkshire, the north of the Yorkshire place in the UK, in England. I was born in Harrogate and I've stayed in Harrogate until I moved to uni and I love Harrogate. Some people call it Harrogate but it's Harrogate. If you know anybody from Harrogate or if you're from Harrogate you'll know that most people around or basically anywhere else calls it Harrogate. So it's just a little weird cult type niche that we have in Harrogate. Harrogate. How old I am? I am 21 as of the 17th of February and every year. That's kidding. In 1997 which was the year that I was born, the year that I graced this earth with my magnificent presence. Am I autistic? I am autistic. Recently the DSM which is like a psychological manual has grouped together asperges and orders, classical orders and into one bundle of one diagnosis which is absolutely crazy in my opinion and a lot of other people's opinions but prior to that I was diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome. In terms of my traits, I'm actually very high on the traits of Asperger's so I don't know I'm more towards classical autism than neurotypical just by the way that I think and by my symptoms and anxiety and stimming and stuff that I had as a child and socializing. I am very happy to be autistic. I love being autistic. I could not live life any other way apart from if I did and then it would be but I would not like to if I am if you're presuming that I am autistic and have the choice to do it. See this is what I mean autism. Which schools did I go to? I'm not going to really say that. There was two in Harrogate of the OT kind that I went to. OT kind being something to do with a name. I've already disclosed a name. You can't even follow me there so, Olin's. I was in Olin schools. They were not my favorite schools. They were not very good with autism so as soon as I moved into secondary school everybody's social skills just completely left me in the dust and I started to get all the loneliness and all that kind of stuff associated with you know being autistic with autism neurotypicals running about and splitting their emotions and speech and weird learning habits at me and then after these primary and secondary schools I went to... what am I talking about? Basically my primary school was split up into two schools for like reception year one, year two and then crossed over to the other school which was what like a mile away and went there for secondary school until about year six. Graduated from that. Did well in my GCSEs. Well more well than I thought I would and went into A-levels where I spent another two years there in that lovely place. I actually had a lot better experience in comparison to the experience I had in secondary school prior to that with all the depression and relationship problems and all that kind of tomfoolery that I'm not going to go into now. And now I'm at Manchester University which brings us on to the next question. When I work I do not work. I live off the government. I'm a dirty money grabbing freeloader. I'm a uni student. I am at Manchester University, the university of Manchester. It's not a man met. Don't want to go to that place. If anybody else on this is from man met or self bid, get off. I'm joking. I love you. See I've been studying there for two years and I'm in the 30th study here. I took a year out and went to Thailand. It's a research. I suppose that is a job. An unpaid job. But it is a job. So I don't know what you would classify as a job. Sorry. And now I'm working as another year as a student. And then I'll graduate and I've got no idea what I'm doing. I've got lots of ideas actually. I just don't know which one I'm doing. So I've got a year to sort it out. Eight months. Give or take. Maybe. Do I have a girlfriend? I do have a girlfriend and she is magnificent. I love her to bits. We met in Thailand. She is a lovely Nepalese Thai girl that I have done. Oh God. Now I have done videos with for the YouTube channel that I age a bit. Oh my God. I've completely screwed that up. Sorry Roma if you're watching. She's lovely. She is a model and she has an Instagram page. If you want to go check it out. Roma at Roma Urasa. She's beautiful. Just don't post any weird comments please because she gets enough of them anyway and it makes me cry. I'm just kidding. I'm a man. What do I do to relax? What do I do to try to relax? This will be a better question. I'm not very good at relaxing. The only thing that really relaxes me is either really intense exercise, which is good I guess. I can't really do that all the time because it exhausts me and I don't have enough time. I'm just going out with mates and drinking. I have a few drinks. Not going out out. That's not like out out is like out is when you go to the pub, out with friends and stuff and eat and stuff. Out out is when you go to the clubs just for any Americans that are watching. But yeah I like to do that kind of stuff. I try to relax with you know TV. Just keep my mind occupied. I watch some series on Netflix and I like to make these YouTube videos. They're very cathartic. They make me feel nice and relaxed and all emptied of thoughts and all that kind of stuff. I like it very much. I like my martial arts a lot. As you may know I am a very keen Taekwondo athlete and I like doing Muay Thai and ever since I went to Thailand and I'm starting up a lot of different things. I'll go into that as another question on that. Next question. My parents. I have two parents which is usually how it works. One of which is a lovely woman who used to be a teacher. Her herself after having me. Not during having me. I am mortally injured in any way. During or after the birth. I'm going into too much detail here. She injured herself and then she was out for a bit and went to police and then came back and she started training as a special needs teacher. I wonder why. My dad is a awesome guy. He's one of the nicest guys. I know they're both the nicest people. I love them to bits and I could not hope for a better family. They've been so incredibly supported for me. With my endeavors they support me. I don't get that much grants for uni because of the places that we live and the styles that we live so they help me a lot with the funding and they also give me a lot of motivation. They help me go to competitions, take me abroad to go to competitions and stuff and for my Taekwondo which is really helpful and has really had a big impact on me. I don't want to talk too much about them but they are the best people. For me. I love them to bits. My dad is a hot wire. He is a hot glove linesman which means he works on live wires with big rubber gloves. Lovely. Nice and sweaty. What season do I like? If you would ask me this, if I'd have asked me this considering I made the questions about three or four years ago I would have said winter just to be cool. Yeah I love the winter it's nice and cold and stuff. But I kind of like all seasons to be honest in England it's pretty much the same. It's just really dependent on the timing to be honest. I prefer to have a lot more daylight so you know summer can be better for that but I do like a bit of coldness. It chills me out. Helps with the cold air on my face. Loads my blood pressure. I also like to snow a lot and contrary to what most people do I like to eat ice lollies when it's cold because I don't like my ice lollies melting in the hot sun and getting all over my hands and making me all sticky. What series am I watching currently? I have just finished the last season of Bojack Horseman which is my absolute favorite TV show ever. Probably one of my favorite just CDO type things in general. Bojack Horseman is like it's it's basically the reason why I like it so much is because I'm a very nice person and a lot of his thought patterns and stuff he has in the series are very similar to like how I think so I kind of relate to him in that way and he also gives me a an idea of what I could be like if I carried on with his kind of way of thinking and did all the stupid stuff that he did in the series and stuff so it's it's a good it was a good like learning experience for me to go through that series and it was also very fun. It's nice to have characters you can relate to that isn't all bubbly and frantic and stuff in a lot of soap operas and American TV shows. I can't understand the things. Friends get off the table. Dessert or starter. Easy one there. Definitely dessert. I'm a complete sugar fiend. Anything that's addictive like that I've had like I'll just be on it non-stop. I've got a really addictive personality. I used to drink too much sugar for my own good and got a lot of cavities and fillings because of it and it's taken a bit of a doubt and isn't this I really like desserts. Sugar is the best. I love sugar so much. It's really good and it's my cocaine but sugar is but desserts are definitely if I can get a star in as well you know both to be honest I quite like a bit of a star you know a bit of prawn cocktail. Have a nice man finish off a nice brownie sundae. Do I go to the gym? I sort of do. I sometimes go to the gym. Usually when I go I just use the punch bag and kick it around make a lot of noise and annoy people and hit the bag for about I don't know how easy stay for about one and a half to two hours just so I get a lot of kicking done and stuff. Get all the cardio and working some techniques. I do a bit of body weight training in my spare time. I've got some exercise equipment in my room that I sometimes use. I use it maybe every two or three days and there's like a little sculpture near my university on the way to university so I just go up to that and do some pull-ups every hand in the morning and just to keep the fitness up. Now I'm not really fan of gyms. I don't particularly like the people or the atmosphere that's going on in gyms and I much prefer like nice environments like classes and stuff if I was gonna go to the gym and to be honest I just go to type 1-0 classes because we do circuit training there anyway so. Sort of yes but sort of now used to go a lot. Hobbies excluding YouTube and Taekwondo. I have recently taken interest in swing dancing not swinging swing dancing swing dancing swing dancing is a type of old sort of style dancing and it's really fun and I did it with my girlfriend when I was in Thailand and it's amazing and I want to go back and I think I'm going tonight actually with my friend and her boyfriend that's come around and stay for a little bit. So that's gonna be fun. I also really like my interest kind of fluctuate quite a lot. The general interest I have most of the time. What the hell is going on? I think someone's doing the other room up. I think we're gonna have a new occupant coming in. I forgot to mention like this is my new room. I didn't mention it in the other room, the other video that I did. This is my new room. You can see a little bit of it because following this way this half of the room is not very clean because I need to get rid of some take some stuff back out of some boxes and stuff so you're not seeing that. I don't want to tarnish my reputation that's already so pristine. Any more hobbies? I love philosophy. Philosophy is one of my passions that I have not actually divulged any of my work to yet because I'm saving it for my upcoming book which comes on to the writing aspect of my hobbies I guess. I like hobbies. I used to game a lot but I have stopped that now because it kills my productivity and I get addicted to it. I also like to write some lyrics and do a bit of rapping and all that kind of stuff. I'm actually thinking of doing a rap video about autism. Tell me what you think in the comments if you want me to do it or not. Might be a good 1000 subscriber special or 2000 subscriber special depending on when I can get it out for. I go running now and again with my friends at Running Club. Planning on going to athletics maybe doing a bit of sprinting all that kind of juicy stuff and my time. It's my time. I don't know if I mentioned that already. Next thing my achievements. This is a great time for me to brag. I have A levels which are good. I've got A star AB in my A levels. I think that's a good achievement for me. I've had a lot of success in the university just doing different little roles. Mental health ambassador first year student rap. That kind of stuff just to boost up my CV. I've also had a lot of success in Taekwondo. I got a Commonwealth gold medal and best male athlete of the competition. I'll show you my trophy. My dad likes to put apples in it whenever it's home. Just to kind of degrade my achievement. Just joking. And there's my medal. Which I am very proud of. It was one of the most difficult competitions I've ever done. I was fighting an above weight person who was about 10-15 kilos heavier than me and about three or four inches bigger than me as well. That was fun. It was probably the closest match that I've ever had and when it was happening like people were screaming so much because it was like one of the last fights because it was heavy weights and it was just mad. I've never heard so much noise and stress and we were both tired and like sweating and sweating over each other and stuff just like trying to kick each other just to get some points. One of my best experiences. The other people in the category, the merged category, were all Australian so it was about three Australians in a row. Yes Britain! I also have a few international medals that I've done. I've got bronze in one of them. I've got a few silvers as well and some of the other ones when I was in juniors which is like under 17s. I've got a few national medals, a lot of silver ones in my starting phase of my Taekwondo career but these are my babies. I've got Shanie. These are the national championship medals for 2014-2015 which I'm very proud of because it was something that I'd buy too for a long time when I started and it really gave me a confidence boost and helped with my depression and stuff and it was overall like one of the best things that I've ever done getting into the sport. But yeah that's my Taekwondo achievements. I came fourth in the under 21 European Championships. Don't know if that means anything to you and I was a finalist just looking at the poster over there in the young males sportsman for Bradford. Even though I'm Bradford but the club isn't Bradford so I don't know. Take it or leave it I guess. I'm really trying struggling to think of other things. I swear there was some other things I was gonna say. Anyway I don't want to brag too much even though I already have. Please let me have it. Please don't bash me in the comments. I just want to make you proud of me mom. I'm sorry about that. What do I love and hate about YouTube? I've just noticed that I'm sort of flicking this book in the bottom of the screen a bit too much so I'm sorry if that's a bit annoying. What do I hate about YouTube? I love YouTube because it's free and I don't need to use storage and I can just upload my videos and I should really keep a backup to honest but I just like to upload my videos get my content out there. I like to be understood by people and I like to help people so this is a really good platform for me to do that. It helps me with my communication skills which should be good for my presentations and science and trying to go into the whole media thing and my book and all that kind of stuff it gives me a lot of opportunity to think about stuff for my videos and you know try and communicate to a wide audience sounds like a CV doesn't it? What I hate about YouTube? It's extremely hard to start and if you have good content and you have good scripts and stuff but if you don't have the know-how on the software and you don't have the actual software or hardware to do it all and it's very hard to start up and when you start I know you've got a lot of progress to make so until a certain point maybe doing like a year or something and I think I made like 15 videos in a year and it wasn't that successful I got up to about 150 people I'll take and that was a bit difficult to start up it's a bit annoying because I think you know we've got some quality content here you've got quality lovely old Aspie here to deliver it to you I'm really tooting my whole trumpet here I well so I hate about YouTube just the dynamics of it just how it works and type of people that get put in front of you know if you regurgitate the same format and content and where you're talking and you remove all the personal you know things that we have going on here and stuff is just kind of dilute so it makes it feel like you just watching some kind of short and television program which is no one trying to do here like I always want to be trying trying to be genuine with you and talk to you as if I your friend or you love her I'm stuck if my mom was watching this please like just ignore that why am I here kind of ties in the last one I guess I'm here because I like making videos I love you guys and I say that a lot I'm saying a lot on time being very affectionate I hope you don't like get weeded out and don't text me for a couple of weeks or something so that would be very demoralizing for me but yeah like I really like talking to a large group of people and trying to help people on a large scale get my ideas out there you know trying to start a community going to people to you know seek help and help others and it's kind of it's kind of why I'm doing it and it's fun I guess kind of nice having a face on something and kind of makes me feel like I'm making progress towards something bigger and I probably am to be honest and very happy with it very happy with why I'm here and this stuff I'm doing so that about wraps up the video I know it's been a long video and I hope I haven't dragged on too much and I hope you found it somewhat interesting to know about me I hope you enjoyed this video comment down in the comments is where else would you comment I'll know some message board on some random website and tell me about what you've been eating how you've been feeling seeing any good TV programs lately and tell me about the kind of videos that you want me to put out give you some feedback whatever tell me if you like this video or not and yeah I thought someone just called me maybe they talked to someone on the phone thank you very much for watching and I'll see you guys in the next video where we will be we will be going over your past trauma and your events that have been leading up to this very moment they've been causing you to have some drastic withdrawal from Asperger Square of content and I'll be prescribing you some hopefully consistent and regular stuff and we'll get you right and ready just for the next and next appointment