 Hello everybody and welcome back to another 40-time Q&A live stream, how are you all doing this week? I do realise that I'm a little bit half an hour behind the allotted schedule that we usually have. I've been very very hard at work on some new videos that I'm creating. Next week is my batch content day, batch content week for all of my Instagram stuff that I put out and things for YouTube etc so this week I'm having to work a little bit overtime to get some of the videos that I've been putting out ready to go up. So yeah I've been a bit rubbish when it comes to organisation this week but I'm trying my very hardest. This week is just absolutely flown by as as per usual which is very irritating but it's the weekend. It is the weekend. Great to see your gym progress, thank you very very much, wandering flame. Hello Angelo, welcome to less stream, how are you doing? So a little bit of an update the the new kind of style of video that I've been putting out, I've been putting out presentations recently on to YouTube which are basically my style of creating content which is usually reading off some slides, the keynote so I feel like it's been going pretty well. Like the video that I put out on burnout was the most recent one if you've seen it and I'm pretty pretty proud of how that that one turned out. So yeah if you haven't been to any of these Q&A live streams before this is basically an opportunity to ask me any questions about autism, about mental health, self-improvement, fitness whatever you want to ask but the obvious please go for it. I'm just going to put some music in my headphones in the background. How are we doing this week guys? Give me some updates, how's your life going? Have you got anything planned for this weekend? Hello Proto Dervish, welcome to the live stream. As usual you know this is not like my live streams that I do over on YouTube where I look at particular pieces of videos, this is literally like a Q&A thing. So if you've got any questions that are on the tip of your tongue, something that you want to ask me about the recent content that I put out, please go ahead ask them. They're all questions allowed and I have come back with my signature bottle of pop. Hello Mr. Austin, how are you doing? I see that you're joining on both platforms as per usual. Thank you, much appreciated dudes. I saw that you made some autism content recently. I gave it a little bit of a like, I don't know if you're able to see that. Hello Rebecca, the mecca, how are you doing? Peter D asks, how did you find weight training in a gym? I'm autistic and can find it a bit overwhelming with noise and other people around me. Complaintly understand that. The gym, like any kind of sport or exercise has always been quite a large part of my life. I basically was an athlete in my youth, so I had a lot of experience being in very noisy atmospheres. I used to compete in like stadiums and stuff with crowds. So I could say in some respects I have had a lot of experience dealing with those kind of noisy bright atmospheres. I think one thing that holds a lot of people back is the perceptions of other people. Quite often when we go into a space where we are doing something that we're perhaps not too aware of how to do properly, some of the exercises, especially if we're just starting out, we can feel like there's a lot of people looking at us and judging us. I would say that as a very very minority of people, it tends to be teenagers particularly that do that kind of thing. It's not the majority of people and you'll find that a lot of people are actually just kind of thinking about themselves and whether other people are looking at them. So it's kind of this, it was one of the first things that I would say that a lot of people, that holds a lot of people back from going to the gym. In terms of the sensory aspects, there is nothing wrong with getting yourself a pair of earphones, pair of headphones, blasting your music at a reasonable level, that's to not damage your ear drums long term. Noise cancelling earbuds can be quite helpful if you don't like listening to music. So that's the noise aspect of things, the brightness, it's kind of, it's one of those things. Sometimes I'm a little bit too sensitive to sensory things if I'm particularly feeling quite anxious or overwhelmed on a said day. I can find that the brightness in the gyms can just be a little bit too much. In terms of people, you know, you will have situations if you are in a public gym where people might come up to you and talk to you or ask you how many sets you have left. I'd say for this, there is a lot of content out there saying, oh, if you're at the gym, you should focus, you shouldn't be on your phone. I've got the opposite mentality with this. If you find that the social situations are quite difficult and just ideally sitting around or standing up and kind of walking back and forth while you're in between sets and having to like avoid eye contact with people, just bring your phone with you. Get an app that allows you to set timers between your sets and just go on your phone and there's no need necessarily to interact with other people. A lot of situations when people have come up to me and either complimented me or wanted to start a conversation with me, you know, I personally, it depends on how I'm feeling and quite often those conversations are quite short anyway. So the social aspects, 100%, just if you feel that your phone is like a source of comfort for you and you can kind of scroll and stuff in between these sets, don't worry about doing that. That's completely okay. I hope that has helped to some degree. I do realize that, you know, the thing is, is that it is going into a situation which can be quite difficult. And I'm not absolved from having a hard time going to the gym. I've gone into the gym when I have not been feeling particularly good. But I just wanted to go and sort of challenge myself. And sometimes I have had shutdowns. I've had probably like one meltdown in the gym. One of my good friends that I knew was thankfully there when that happened. I usually when that kind of thing happens, I usually try and go somewhere a little bit quieter within the gym tends to be like the toilets or something like that. And for me, it really, really supports my mental health because it allows me to be around people. But also, you know, have something to do. So it's not always the fact that I go to the gym and I can have a social time. But just kind of being out in the world and around people tends to do a lot for my mental health. So it's one of those addressable things. And I think it's always good to try and challenge yourself, but also, you know, be go easy on yourself if things are just being a little bit more difficult to manage in a certain certain day. Yeah, I'm trying to speak more on camera still can prove. Well, it's good to see man. And hello, Jackie, how are you doing? Maybe you could do you could do an awesome gym, take top reel. Maybe that'd be cool. Swimming is my jam. I used to be really interested in swimming when I was a bit younger. The one thing I don't like about it is like getting into the cold pool is like, where is that sounds? It's it was just all it's never something that I got used to doing. And also like the feeling of like my skin and my hair after after going like a chlorine filled filled pool wasn't always the best thing for me. I do find that especially if you are like training, or you're like competing, sometimes the sensory environment can be sometimes a little bit overwhelming, you know, like dipping in and out of the pool. I used to I used to really love it. And one of my favorite things to do when I go swimming is just to like, sink myself to the bottom of the pool and just like shut my eyes and like spin around such like a nice sensory experience. Hello, Joshua G. Welcome to the chat, my friends. Isabelka says about odd HD and the overlap of co occurrence between autism and ADHD. I see this term used especially by women, but correct me if I'm wrong. Do you recognize ADHD traits in yourself? I wouldn't say it is particularly one thing. I think men can also identify odd HD. I'd say I definitely see a lot of traits not more akin to our ADD in myself. A lot to do if like my differences and the ability to focus. Perhaps like my attention. Sometimes a lot why actually a lot to do with executive functioning is quite difficult because there is a lot of crossover between ADHD and autism. And I am at this moment, you know, on medication, which can somewhat sedate me to a certain extent. So, you know, they could they could be a very big possibility that I might could be ADD possibly. Not too sure about it, though. We are back from say hydrated everyone some water, not carry Thomas. It's Pepsi. It's Pepsi. My lord. But thank you for that, Joshua G, our hydration reminder in the chat. Blunt Force Tiny says I spend a lot of time in the gym doing what I do. After a decade, it's basically my safest place. The regulation that comes with lifting plus being very constant and comfortable is an anchor. I like the gym like that the gym is a place where people are all the same in the same room yet not interacting as normal, at least a good gym at least 100%. I find that the gym is a very regulating place for me. It's part of my routine. And that's one of the good things about being autistic in that sense because having, you know, a predilection for liking routine and, you know, that being quite regulating and also the beneficial effects on mental health from exercise is like definitely a very good combination for me. So it's quite a big stint for me as well. You know, a proper reception. 100%. Gulaka Mellon says my flatmate whom is autistic, so she needs space, partner is small, any recommendations asking out respect or love. Not too sure on that, Gulaka. You know, in one sense, space, like I could imagine there's difference between physical and like social space. I'm not too sure about that one. Same. I hate getting into cold freezing pools. I don't know. You're enjoying your Sam Pellegrino. Very nice. So I do have a video that will be coming out next week, which is going to be quite an interesting one. I'm gonna be talking about the very real realities of Reddit forum that I've seen quite a few times. I've seen some content which is around as well. There's quite a lot of people searching for what can only be defined as fake disorder cringe. Basically, these these platforms are reposting stuff, particularly about self diagnosis, but also some things related to the autistic experience as cringe and kind of putting that out on the internet. And I'm going to be dismantling what this this whole thing is about, giving my own personal opinions around self diagnosis and such. So if you are interested in that, you can subscribe and tick the little notification box to be notified when that video comes out. It should be coming out Wednesday next week if you are interested in that. Blunt force tannisters blows my mind that NT people think anyone would want to pretend to have this kind of struggle. It's interesting that you say that because I do you know, there are some people who say that it's a way to like garner attention or garner sympathy or use autism as an excuse. But my my perception of it is that, like, exactly that, like that there is definitely like a negative stigma that is attached to autism. And it seems very silly to characterize it as being like a trendy or fashionable thing. When the only places where it would be some somewhat kind of accepted and seems perhaps perhaps a neutral to positive thing would be within the autistic community, which is you know, compare comparing that to the rest of the world, it's it's a very small place. So I feel like it's a very, very similar to do very, very like silly thing. Autistic thought says what's something you're looking forward to? Good question. I think I'm looking forward to like the next like calendar and my working content creation month because this month is is very much been my first month where I've been trying to get into like regular business trying to sell my self employment, trying to get into a rhythm of producing content and also working on some projects. I haven't been the best at it. You know, as with the burnout video that I talked about, I'm still very much trying to transition from the recovery stage into my capability stage, where I can, you know, somewhat maintain maintain a routine that's that's good for me. But I have had days where I just hadn't, you know, had the energy or I haven't had the, you know, I particularly had like a low mental health day. And so I haven't, you know, necessarily stuck to that schedule that I've done. But I'm taking it easy on myself. I'm like, okay, but you've done all of these other stuff and you can get back into it. And, you know, so 100%. I'm just trying to I'm looking forward to to getting back to to business and, you know, feeling comfortable with my routine. It always takes a while, but I will get that. Have you had any experience with RSD Thomas lately with RSD? You know what? I'm not really, to be honest, it's not necessarily something that I so it's not necessarily like something that experienced a lot in adulthood. I think it's mostly because I've been I've been quite focused on my my work, I think. And so I've been a little bit less focused on relationships and friendships and things of that nature. So it hasn't stuff like that hasn't really, I suppose, like got to me or had much of an impact on me as as it usually might have. It's definitely not something that I experienced a lot in adulthood. I'd say that my reaction to rejection is pretty, pretty kind of regular. Then again, haven't really experienced much much kind of feelings of rejection or failure at the moment. So not really, I would say. As your friend, is it Friday the 13th? Oh, wow, that's cool. I have a typical Friday the 13th. Hello, Rita, how are you doing? Autistic forces, feel free to use my first name, Jennifer. Thanks for asking my question. Consecration, burn out recovery can be challenged for sure. Glad to see you. Glad to hear you're being kind to yourself. Thank you very much, Jennifer. I will I will definitely commit that to memory. But it's nice, nice to have you. So we're probably good because I started a little bit late, we're probably going to go to about 7pm my time. So another about 40 minutes. If you guys want to ask any any questions about autism. As always, this is a place to be. But hold it MX as hey there, welcome to the stream. Are you guys looking forward to Halloween? You got any plans? I know that that there has been somewhat of a shift over like the past decade or so. People are definitely not trickety treating as much as they were when when I was a little bit younger, which is a little bit sad to see, but it's I suppose you don't necessarily have to fork out some money for sweets to give to people. For Guy, welcome to the chats. Nice to see you. Behold it MX says I met a guy this weekend. And we've been talking it's strange strange to feel seen and wanted. And not only wanted but actually wantable. Well, I'm glad to hear that you've had that experience. What has been your experience up until this point? I'd be interested to to know if you feel able to feel like you want to share. Joshua G says what ways do you deal with a cold Thomas as I have one right now and have been recovering the past two or three days now? I'm a very strange person. I think it might be something related to interception. But I don't tend to like experience sickness as easier as easy as other people that I've seen. Some things really, really do hit me hard. Like when I got the dreaded C O V I D. I definitely like experience a lot of the acute symptoms of that, which was not very fun. But when it comes to like colds, things like that, it doesn't tend to have much of an impact. And sometimes I, you know, I don't necessarily pick up on it. And other people might say, Oh, you're not looking so hot. Or like, you know, they put their hand on my forehead and say that we're at temperature. So I'm not really sure. I would say just follow the regular advice that the medical professionals give around around that. Laura says, Hi, bro. Alexandria, Ontario, Canada. Welcome to the chat, Laura. Rita says this chat is already helping. Good. I'm glad. Brother blood type is giving me a whole list of facts about yourself. Well, thank you very much for that. I'm just hoping for a Halloween party in the neighbourhood. I do love a Halloween party. I can't wait for Halloween as I'll be able to see my friend who's having a party. He brought some UK tea, mainly for you. It should be fun. I mean, to be responsible. So I've also got a, I'm a little bit kind of dysregulated at the moment because I've been working on basically the two, two of my proper videos this week. And one of the videos that I did on autistic masking where I go into like social camouflage and things like that. I feel like I somewhat mischaracterized the different aspects of social camouflage or at least I didn't explain them very well. So at the moment I'm just kind of trying to debate whether I should just completely demolish the video or whether I should keep it as is and just use like titles or text to, I guess, provide a little bit more information about each each aspect of social camouflage, or whether I should shoot another video and use that to sort of give a little bit more information on it. I have no idea. And so I've been sort of in a little bit of a paralysis, decision paralysis moment for the past couple of hours, which has been very unfortunate. But I try. Hello, Livestel. We rewind. Welcome to the chat. Feel free to ask any questions about autism mental health, fitness, self-improvement, anything like that. Go for it. Neurodivergent Lou has just posted on her Instagram about autism interrupting conversations. I'm surprised she didn't say the post was about ADHD as well. I think it might be, I don't know whether they are ADHD and autistic or not, or whether they're just autistic. But I would say that if they are just autistic, it tends to be that we like to talk about autism from, we like to talk about things from an autistic perspective as to not like, I don't know, you know, because whenever you add in aspects of other neurodiversities and you are not like that, or at least you haven't had a lot of knowledge or experience with talking about particularly ADHD, then you don't particularly want to produce content for like a large audience like neurodivergent Lou would have. That's just my thoughts on it to be honest, but I can understand that, you know, it's definitely an aspect there. I think it's really interesting the interrupting conversation thing. I think it's a lot to do with processing times for speech. So like, usually, you know, people might say, okay, autistic people, they don't know when it's their turn to speak. I would say that we probably do in a lot of cases. It's just we notice someone wrapping up their conversation or their sort of line of speech or their monologue a little bit later, like a few seconds, couple of seconds later than other people around. And so when we step into talk, we inevitably interrupt someone speaking because we're a little bit far behind her. That's just my thoughts on it. I'd be interested to hear what you guys think about that as well. My sweet, sweet guinea pig, one of my two piggies. Jackie says, you got a disco ball lamp going on your face, color changing on my end. Is it? That's interesting. Plum Force Tiny says, also dysregulated, just now getting feedback about the manuscript and trying to get it published for the first time since it was my thesis in May. It's bringing the PDA right back. This is calming. Well, good luck with that. Pahada says, usually I fail to make a connection, but with him, we've been talking a lot, making plans when he returns to Mexico, nearly always I find myself missing something the other once. I think we're always doing processing and planning what we need to say. So also having to aim it at the right moment is a lot of work. Yeah, I get that. I'd say for me, like perhaps in the past, when I sort of approach social situations a little bit more cerebrally, when I kind of planned and thought about what I was going to say before I guess saying it, then that would be applicable for me. But even now, when socializing and talking seems like just this kind of natural thing that I do, I still have situations where I interrupt people. The colors are absolutely fine on my end, Thomas. That's good. This individual Jackie was talking about my YouTube side of things, and there is a little bit of a difference that. Good luck with that. Speakest thing about Halloween this year is my studies. Hashtag creepy exam times. Good luck with that. Godspeed, this is my first school year, not having a school year, not had a school year in eight years, looking forward to the end. Good luck to you guys. Just trying to think of some other content that I've produced recently. I am really excited to see what you guys think about the addressing of the fate disorder cream stuff, because I feel like it's something that has been covered by some autistic people, but the only stuff that I've really seen about it is like shorts and reels. So I think it's going to be one of the first times that people kind of speak out to this behavior of like viewing autistic traits as cringy, being open on the internet and kind of emotional as creepy as a cringy rather. You had no idea about it and haven't seen it covered yet. Yeah, you can pretty much type in on YouTube. I would highly recommend you don't, because it can be quite unsettling, but there are, I think there's a YouTuber called Retro Phantom who has done a lot of disability cringe videos. Some of the stuff tends to be, that I've seen on the actual Reddit, the fate disorder cringe Reddit, tends to be stuff particularly around dissociative identity disorder, but definitely there is some stuff around autism, which I went into in the video. DJ, how are you doing? Welcome to the stream. Nice to see you here. If you guys have got any questions that you want to ask, please feel free to ask them. This is the time and the place for it. I know it's always the best with comments and refined to comments and doing stories and stuff like a lot of other kind of creators do. So this is kind of like the slot in my week to talk about this stuff. What is fate disorder cringe? Good question. Basically, people reposting reels or posts or pictures from people within the disability community with like a comment that it's cringy or it's weird in some way. It's kind of like tongue-in-cheek humor. It seems to be something that a lot of people search for, sadly. Blood force is not going to already irritate us enough today. And then sort of a full-colour autism awareness cop car in my neighbourhood and just spoured into a rant about it. Is that the one where it's like a multicoloured light jigsaw? What do they call it? Like a wrap that they put around the car? That's interesting. You're doing all right. Good to hear, DJ. Sounds like bullying. Well, you would be pretty much right there for the people who make this stuff and the people who talk about it. They justify what they are doing in the context of like our benefit. You know, that they are being inherently disrespectful because they view them as being fake or they're putting stuff on for social media. And so they believe that by highlighting these individuals and making fun of them is doing somewhat of like a justice for people who are actually autistic. But a lot of these people that they highlight not necessarily not autistic, you know. So it very much just falls flat and it's kind of like this general forum for people to repost stuff about autism and different diagnoses and different neurodivergencies as being cringe. It's not fun place, but I've had a look into that for some of the research that I did for that video. Do you always feel like the black sheep in your friend group? I don't know. Maybe I don't necessarily have like a friend group. I have friends. They're just very kind of atomized often to like different places and not necessarily all part of one big group. Although definitely when I was a little bit younger 100%, like very much like the black sheep in the group. How are you doing? You know, I'm not too bad, you know. As I said, I'm a little bit dysregulated from trying to get one of my videos done right and realizing that perhaps I wasn't clear enough whenever I was recording a video and thinking about whether to completely remove it or add something else in or just like run with it and put some like text on the top of it. I'm not too sure. Have you been staying hydrated today, Thomas? I have indeed. Indeed, you do. Not just with Pepsi wax. I have been drinking. I've actually been drinking coffee lately, which is very strange for me. I usually have this energy drink powder that I use. But I've run out of it and so I just haven't ordered anymore. So I've been drinking coffee now. The positive piece is, yeah. Like, wow, that helps a lot of people understand me as an adult. No, thanks. Isabel Kerr says, for me, work was an anchor in my life related to special interests. However, I usually don't feel seen in my competence or seen as annoying and then I burn out. Is this recognizable to anybody? Um, I think a lot of people either... They don't necessarily have like a whole picture of who I am as a human and what I'm good and bad at. So my experience is that people either tend to view me as someone who can't do anything and who is incompetent or just competent in every single area of work, if that makes sense, which is not true. You know, the truth is that in some areas I've got a very spiky profile. Some things I'm very good at, some things I'm not very good at. It's a very variable thing. Ask the world how you're doing, man. Hope you like the book. Indeedy, um, let's see if I can grab it from the top. Just knocked stuff over. Oh dear. Mr. Dan, Mr. Ask the World centers a book in the post, which is his new book. You want to go check it out? It's called Autism for Adults. And there is a section within it where we were talking, I think Dan was talking about the Fortility Podcast, which is a very nice, very nice little plug. I appreciate that done. I do actually have, I've got a video, sort of a, one of my kind of streaming reaction videos that is going to come out where I look at one of your videos. So I've plugged in on that video, a link to your new book. I'm also going to try and do a little bit of a story at some point. Just being very busy to be honest at the moment and trying to get out of that old burnout has been a bit difficult. But we're getting there. But I much appreciate it, Dan. Whose book is your favorite recently? It's going to be yours, man. Bloodthirstownie says, we don't have friend groups. We have a group of individual friends sourced from distinct friend groups. Yeah, that was, yeah, they kind of like the social drifter, having like one friend in like multiple groups. That was very much like my experience of secondary school, 100%. Isabella says, yeah, I've recognized that work-wise. I feel like it's hard to navigate around the workplace with my spiky profile. Thank you for answering my question. No problem at all. How is it, excited to watch your man, miss your man, of course. You're very awesome. Thank you very much, dudes. Much appreciated. Lagoon says, watching a horror movie Halloween, Halloween horror movie Halloween party. Very exciting. That sounds really cool. We always love the Halloween, the horror movies. That's definitely my thing. Joshu says, how many autistic books do you have? I have, let me check. Right, I'm not going to knock anything off this time. I have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. I have nine books. I'm very happy with my books. I'm happy with my book collection. Because I have had people who have come on to the podcast who have come on to talk about their book as well as part of the promotion thing. And they've sent me a copy of their book, which is really nice. So wherever I come into my room, I can see on my shelf. I'm just like, I didn't see that person. I don't think everyone signed them now. Well, Dan did send a very nice note within the book in his autism for adults book approach to approachable guide to living accidentally on the spectrum. Very, very cool. But yeah, I am definitely thinking about, I think just, you know, definitely like offering writing is something that I'm very interested in. I very much enjoy writing. I think it's going to be something that I do a little bit later. Within my advocacy content creation, why everyone would call it career. I think for now I want to focus on producing some resources and things. But possibly in the future, when I'm a bit more older, that's a little bit more like experienced with life and I had a few more things under my belt. You might see a book coming out from me. Ever tried doing an American accent? I can do an American accent. I don't want to do it on the spot. Because I feel like if I do it, it's going to be bad. I don't know. What do you want me to say? I'll give it a go. Just give me something to say. Paul says, hello T and all from North PA. What's Friday 13th? Love horror movie. Love the show. Well, thank you for coming back in. Love the Dragon Ball Z hoodie. Indeedy, I've been at the moment in my free time, I've been going through the old, I think there's a YouTube channel called Team Four Star. And they did Dragon Ball The Abridge Theories. So I've been watching through Dragon Ball The Abridge Theories at the moment, just like in the backgrounds while I'm like editing on something, which has been quite humorous. I would say I definitely recommend it if you haven't watched that before. Uh, who are they all by? Any by Temple Grandin? No, Temple Grandin didn't send me a copy of her book, sadly. No, it's a bit too much. Steve Silberman didn't send me a copy of that book anyway. But in preparation for doing my podcast with both of those people, I did read that book. And I tend to usually read stuff or sort of consume literal content, what am I talking about? Consume books through like audiobooks and things like that. That usually tends to be the thing that I enjoy to do. I can do something mindless on RuneScape and just something that doesn't require a lot of attention and sort of listen to an audiobook. I really enjoy doing that. What top books do you recommend? I definitely recommend Neurotribes from Steve Silberman. If you are interested in the history of autism, the autistic community, 100%. That's a very good book. I do have some other ones. I think if you are autistic, perhaps a little bit younger and, you know, you want a bit more of a guide to life. I mean, you can definitely check out... There was a Sienna Castellon who has done a few quite big talks about things. Sienna made a book called The Spectrum Girls Survival Guide. If you want to go check that one out. A little bit more specialized for autistic girls kind of going through school, but if you are going through school at the moment, it could be something useful. There's definitely some stuff that was useful in that. Behold, it says something else to mention. I've been taking pictures for 11 years and from last Friday to yesterday was probably my best week ever in terms of photos. Very cool. What kind of stuff did you... Did you snap? How about saying, top of the morning tier? I think... I think... I don't know if I can do that in an American accent. I feel like it has to be Irish. You love Dragon Balls or your bridge? Top three? Oh my God. Unmasking Autism is a fantastic book. I hope he says you want to go check that one out. Rob loves Dragon Balls or a bridge as well. Isabel Carras, did you get the But You Don't Look Autistic at All by Bianca Toewheps? Recommend. Another good recommendation there for you guys. You want to go check that one out? I like to consume a lot of my autism content from watching videos and things like that. So I'm not the biggest reader in the world of books, but I try to. I like reading science articles and things like that, 100%. You photograph the kink events and all streets, photos of skate park, night time, calisthenics. That sounds like a very varied amount of different sort of genres, I guess, with photography. Very interesting. You know, never did a blog video on your YouTube channel. I feel like I've done a blog video. I feel like a lot of the old videos that I made on YouTube were quite bloggy. I would say. There were a few blogs that I've done. They didn't tend to do very well. So it was kind of just like my life. Going through like the life of an autistic person at university. It wasn't very interesting, to be honest, but I gave it a go. Have you read the Midnight Library? Not bad, good. I haven't. I have not read that. What is the Midnight Library about? Ever tried street workouts like calisthenics or parkour? I think you might like it. The issue with calisthenics is I'm six foot free. Like, I know that that doesn't absolve me from getting into calisthenics, but it definitely is a factor in how difficult it will be for me. I used to, when I was a bit younger, pretty much primarily do calisthenics, apart from squats and leg extensions for taekwondo. But I used to, whenever I went to university in the mornings, when I started to want to pull a little bit of my own mass on myself, I would walk past this park and there was this kind of art piece that was there. I used to just hang on that and do like... I could do like 30, 40 pull-ups at that point. Probably another best form in the world. It was a very thick bar as well, so it was kind of just like cupping my hands over it. But that's how I got into a little bit of calisthenics, I guess. Used to be able to do a lot of muscle-ups. I used to do a lot of dips and things like that. So I do have experience with it. I do some weighted calisthenics. For anyone who doesn't know, calisthenics is basically just using your body weight to do things. So anyone who just like push-ups, things like that, that would be calisthenics. But weighted calisthenics, I do weighted pull-ups. I managed to get about four reps recently with an extra 35 kilos strapped onto me. So that's about 135 kilos for a weight pull-up. Being really getting into those is like a primary kind of strength movement for pulling. Really enjoying that. What other calisthenics stuff do I do? I think that's probably the only thing I have thought about, including some weighted dips. But I have a lot of like pressing movements anyway, and my triceps are pretty like, my elbows are the main source of them in my lower back that often can get quite damaged, perhaps, worn out. And so I'm a little bit hesitant to add in weighted dips on top of that as well. Just because it can be a very risky thing. And I'm not sure if I have the motivation at the moment to include that into my program and learn how to do it and fix stuff and take it slow. And I just want to get in there and do the things that I know work for me. Might be in the future that I try some more kind of calisthenic weighted movements. But for now, I'm pretty happy where I am 100%. But yeah, other than that, gym is going great. I've got about six or seven reps on my seated shoulder press for about 65 kilos, which I'm quite happy about. I've basically recently started pretty much pausing and using like a really long eccentric on a lot of the exercises that I do. So eccentric being like the, you know, if you're doing a bench press, the concentric is pushing up, the eccentric is lowering it back down. I basically just been making that eccentric portion really slow and pausing at the bottom of the movements. And it's, it's been quite good for me because it means that I can standardize my speed to some degree. So I'm not like, in some, some days, if I, you know, if I don't have that pause, you know, it's some days I could like probably just bounce out of my chest and other times probably not, not so much. So having a pause definitely helps me kind of standardize the range of motion that I have on an exercise, but also stops me from like dive bombing my movements. VV vitamins says, hey boo, what's your favorite horror movie? Favorite horror movie. I don't know if I can choose a favorite. I'm also not very good at remembering the names of things. I'd say my favorite horror movie, just because it's, it has a long history with me, something that I used to watch as like a comfort show, is Let the Right One In, which is a Swedish film. There was Let Me In, which is the American adaptation of that movie, but Let the Right One In, really, really cool. I highly, highly recommend if you like a good, like, actual vampire movie. It is a bit disturbing in some parts, especially like if you're going to read the book, just, just prepare yourself. Are you like, alternative or edgy? I, I, I don't think I'd call myself edgy. I don't know if people would characterize me as being edgy either, but definitely alternative, 100%. Good sir, thank you for having such great streams. You seem to have dropped this, King. Thank you, much appreciated. Swedish movies, I'm from Sweden, just had to represent, sorry. No problem. Yeah, it's a Swedish movie. I really, really, really enjoyed it. I used to watch it as a comfort show, which is very weird because I really don't like graphics, I didn't like graphics off when I was younger. I'm a little bit more decentralized to it nowadays, but yeah, I don't know what it was about it. I think it was just the aesthetic of the, the film. I thought it was done really well. And it was a good vampire movie. That was cool. Abby says, Let the Right One In is a, is great. I love Midsummer. Very cool. I don't think I've watched Midsummer Murders. I think that's what you were referring to. Horror movies are a perfect coping mechanism for me. It's definitely an interest of mine. If I'm going to go to the cinema to watch something, I don't tend to go for like action, comedy, things like that. If it's horror, I'll be like all over it, 100%. It's the best place to watch them. You know, you're in a dark movie theater with a big screen and like the, the optimum like sound levels to, to scare you. The only thing is, is that I feel like my adrenal system has been somewhat calloused by all the like combat sports I used to do when I was younger. So when I, when I do watch or when I do something that is seen as scary or watch something that's seen as scary, I don't really get any like feelings of not fear and also like that feeling of adrenaline that you get when you watch something scary. I didn't really get that very much. Some movies do do do a good job of that. I particularly like the ones that build a lot of suspense that those tend to be the ones that I go for. Okay guys, so we have about four minutes left of this live stream. Boo. Oh God, you scared me. We have about four minutes left, three minutes left of this live stream. So if you've got any burning questions that you want to ask, please, please go for it before we go up and probably take maybe one, one or two short questions or one long question before we round up for this evening, round up for the weekend for the week. I think my adrenal system has been callous by being autistic. Yeah, well, I guess you do have to, to some extent, you've got to get used to overloading anxiety to some degree, but I like to watch documentaries. I don't know why. I do as well. The books that I tend to read also follow that, that theme. I very much like to learn things. So a lot of the books that I tend to read tend to be nonfiction. There's not that there's hardly any fictions I've read. I think I've read like two fictions and it like adult books, not like kids books when I was younger. Live stream went fast for me. Yeah, me too. The first 15 minutes, I'm kind of like, oh my God, just like, I've got 45 minutes left to kind of speak and be online. But at around like the half an hour point, I kind of, I suppose I get into a bit of a groove with speaking. And then it just goes really quickly from that. That's crazy. What kind of fiction do you like? Horror. Dark stuff. Love that stuff. I watch a lot of fiction, like a lot of TV shows. One of the animes that I really enjoy, you know, being a very oldie kind of person is a devil man cry baby. It's not the most like well put together plot, but I don't know. The aesthetic of it is just like, oh my Ali, you know, as a kid I would watch the Discovery Channel. Yeah, it's Cartoon Network for me. I think there was another one. It's not CBBs, which is the other one. There's a Cartoon Network and there was another kind of cartoony kid show. Can't remember what it was called though. Say cute, handsome and healthy. Thank you very much, vitamins. You're very complimentary. Have a great weekend. Thank you, Rita. Planet Force Tiny says, you made me stay in one social media place while actually getting a bit of work done, so thanks. No worries at all. This is the best thing to do when you're on a stream, isn't it? Just like have a little bit of, what do you say that thing that you do when you have someone in your presence? Body doubling, that's it. You have a little body double using a stream. So it's very nice. I do that as well. Have a great weekend. Thank you, LuTG says, thanks for streaming. Have a nice weekend. All right, guys. It has been a pleasure. Hope you guys have a good weekend. I'll see you next week on Friday for another AutieTime livestream. I hope you have enjoyed this. And indeed, have a good weekend. Take it easy, guys. See you later. And YouTube, thank you for coming on again for another livestream. I realize that my, like, the aspect ratio of my screen is really badly done today, so I apologize if that looks really annoying. I'll try and get on a little bit more next time, but this has been a bit of a rush because I was, like, definitely, like, trying to, like, to try and sort this video out that I'm doing and just getting myself in a tis about it. So very much rushed to kind of make a 6 p.m. livestream. So we'll get on it next time. It'll be a bit more professional, but indeed. See you later, Fuggy. See you later, everybody. Have a good...