 Hello everybody, welcome back to another video. Today, it's a little update and I know, I know some people are there, they're gonna be sick, they're gonna be tired and this kind of thing where I'm talking on a camera and I'm not doing videos about autism and stuff, but recently there's been a lot going on in my life, a lot of bad stuff in terms of family and my own personal life, so I'm just trying to get myself back on, back on board really. I know it's not an excuse for not making videos and I want to start making videos again but there's been some stuff that I've been having to work through as well as some stuff in my professional life as well And this video is a little bit of a vloggy style thing about my time at the Birmingham Media City event thing, which I am constantly forgetting what the name is but I will probably put it in the title so you already know that. Anyway, today I'm joined by the lovely Popster, the lovely Poppy, say hello Poppy. Hello viewers, welcome. Okay, it's gonna sit there, so she's gonna sit on my lap while we're doing this. Alright, chill out. Okay. So basically, I was trying to find some ways of getting into the media industry, I finished my university degree, I found out that I didn't really like research because it was kind of boring and monotonous. Sure, you can make new scientific discoveries and stuff but even if you make a discovery in science, it's not always the truth because people have to test it and you have to test it and you have to test different variables and my idea of what a scientist was before I went to uni was I would be making lots of discoveries, I've been doing lots of thinking and being creative and finding new things out but I've recently come to the realisation that that's probably not gonna happen and that's not really the reality of being a scientist. So now I'm looking out into new sort of areas, one of being media, you know, doing this kind of autism representation, talking about how we can improve our society for autistic people and I came across a few things when I was doing some research into ways of getting into the biz, into the business, which is obviously one of the things that's hardest about getting into the media. But I've had some good luck, some very good luck and I have attended this sort of one week programme of things and it was basically a whole week of different events so I went for Monday and Wednesday. First day from Monday it started at about 9am, I got very little sleep because my sleeping pattern often gets messed up if I don't sort myself out beforehand but very tired. I had a whole day of talking to people who were trying to get into the media industry, learnt about Instagram, how to mould your Instagram for a business profile, how to do the posts and make it interesting and gain viewers and all that. There was a one on freelancing which I was interested in doing initially but upon further investigation, sounds like a lot of stress and effort and although I do want to put effort into my stuff, I do not want to be calculating monies and all that kind of stuff because it's not my forte and stuff and stuff. Anyway that was fun, met a couple of cool people there and a couple of more and at the end of the day I was ready for the networking event. There was a networking event right on after, there was about two hours in between and I went and got some milkshake or ice cream, Sunday, that's what it was, it was a Sunday and we sort of had a chat, I had a chat with some other peeps from the event, some people from Birmingham and then we went back, went to this little networking event and met some peeps. What I didn't realise was that throughout the day, I was never taking breaks from talking to people so I was talking to people all the time and I was paying attention to stuff all the time, I think the maximum amount of break I had was just going outside for a little bit and going back in so the whole day up until 6pm I was talking to people constantly and I was in a happy mood, I was and one of the things that was strange about that day was that I had a sensory overload so I had a meltdown but I was not in a bad place when I had it which has never happened before and it was very weird, it was so weird because it was comparable to being drunk, it was really weird because I just couldn't verbalise what I was saying and I never had the experience of that, it was very strange and looking back on it I definitely did have a meltdown and yeah it was really weird but I managed to find some after talking to people in a strange manner and going oh it's all stressful and I can't get my words out but I wanted to talk to people so that I could make links and stuff and it's hard and obviously some people sort of you know like oh I've got this 6 foot 3 dude, it's always kind of weird you know like get away from me but there was other people as well and there was this one lady that I met, this one TV producer who was amazing and she had a lot of experience with autistic people and she was very much on board with the kind of thing that I want to do you know in terms of policies, all that kind of stuff you know in workplaces and schools trying to improve the mental health of autistic people and she was really up for it and she got my contact details details details she got my contact details down and she's subscribed to my youtube channel so if you're watching this hi thanks for coming on this is not usually the quality of the video that I make it's very rubbish today but smooth sailing anyway that was good we had a good long chat and hopefully something's going to come up come out of that she was quite high up in the TV producing area and field so I'm very much looking forward to doing some stuff with her she knows someone who got a BAFTA film making BAFTA on this something like 87 cows or some documentary about cows and it was apparently very successful and it was very highly rated so could be something that I'm very very excited for that how excited are you Poppy go on show your excitement come on be excited I've never seen that side of you darling anyway that was good that was the first day and I was very weird and I had a sense from overload and I was happy so fun get fun day fun day very fun day I sort of learnt from that day and I managed to give myself a little bit of time this time for the next event so had we didn't really do much Tuesday we went out into the town centre had a Nando's little cheeky Nando's had some chicken all that kind of belaki that you do and Nando's and that was fun I was still feeling a bit overwhelmed from the day before but I did have a very long session of playing borderlands free so if you don't know what borderlands is it's a new game that's come out and it's cool fortunately I'm not sponsored by them so there's no biasness there I did quite like it being playing on my bro took my Xbox with me good shout it was my mom's shout actually that was a very good idea the next thing was a day about this thing called the new creatives the new creatives and it's a scheme for people between 19 and 25 or 18 and 25 if I remember correctly it's a scheme where you can send in scripts and screen rights for different short form films and videos and audio clips and for the most of the time that I was there I was in this big sort of iMac sized sort of theatre place and it was really cool and it was definitely somewhere that I'd want to watch you know like an avatar film or something it was really cool and we had some good speakers on the first time they showed us lots of clips on the different sort of projects that people have made made a few friends from that I talked to a guy who made like a creative piece about being bisexual which I thought was quite cool and you know he was talking about all the stignas around it and stuff and it was very poetic and very creative and I had a few sort of jot down a few ideas about autism related things that I could make maybe not audio pieces but film pieces, short film pieces I was very excited to do something like that, I just need to get myself in gear, don't look poppy, yeah anyways that was that was good we had a few more sort of things schemes that they were pitching to us a few panels and then we had a networking event where I probably drank more wine than I was expected to I'm not really a fan of wine but you know when alcohol is there I've got to drink it Vimea is a role model guys like you, it's not a good idea, I was fine because I've got quite a high tolerance but like I had at least three glasses of wine and I don't drink wine and it was probably more than I expected turns out it made socialising and being confident easier during the networking and I met a few cool guys, a guy called I think it was Amrin and he's quite a prolific sort of video maker on Twitter and I think it's like Imran or Amrin Singh, S-I-N-G-H and he makes like Twitter videos, TikTok videos I was surprised about the TikTok thing, I didn't realise that you could make anything other than dancing videos on that thing but apparently, apparently so and he was cool, very cool, he gave me some ideas of how to make my content better so I might start making like a daily video every day on Twitter as he suggested so if you don't, if you want to go check out my Twitter account you can go down and check the link check the link, check the description and take yourself over to my Twitter because there is literally no one on it there's about 57 followers which is not as much as YouTube and it pains me that I can't grow quicker on YouTube but sometimes you've got to switch platforms Am I right? Am I right? Am I right Poppy? Yeah you bitch She's a bitch She is a bitch That is not infringing copyright or YouTube laws because it is factually correct I'm very hopeful for the future I've got quite a few people, a guy who, a network with dude who does sort of diversity management and he heads a lot of the sort of the mediating phase of university to the media industry and he wants to do a bit of work with me on improving diversity sort of utilising the amazing talents of autistic people like yourself if you're watching then you are autistic pointing over there but I'm pointing at you because you have intelligence, you have creativity and businesses need to utilise us because we are amazing workers once you know how to work with us absolutely amazing, absolutely brilliant can bring a whole host of things to a table in any business any business that we're interested in so I was sort of emailing back and forth over the course of a few days and it looks hopeful looks hopeful that I'll be able to have a bit more impact on the world and that's the thing that I'm trying to reach for I've got this thing where I'm going into Leeds Trinity to talk about mental health and autism do a little few minute video just to sort of promote all that kind of stuff promote the diversity at universities of autistic people which is very important because it's not always that we have the confidence to do that kind of feat sometimes we need a bit of extra help and that's okay because the world's not built for us and sometimes we need a bit more help and that's fine but that was good so a lot of exciting things that are going to be coming up you know possibly this little YouTube channel that we got here I keep saying little but 1.5000 you should really do a subscriber special so please let me know down in the comments what you want me to do please because I've got no idea what you want I should probably put out more polls but I'm rubbish I'm a rubbish boy answer Poppy Poppy don't ignore me I'm a rubbish boy but it's okay all you guys I'm so happy to have you on the channel you've been supporting me for ages so long two years and you're all such lovely people stop licking my hand and I'm just so amazingly grateful for all of you because you know just supporting me on YouTube has allowed me to get a bit more you know attention from the people that I've been networking with so it can show off my skills and stuff so you guys have helped me so much in my life and hopefully in the future give it maybe 2, 3, 4, 5 years we're going to be on top we're going to do something in society and it's going to be great thanks so much for watching it's been a long... stop licking me throwing me off my train of thought it's been a long vlog Poppy's been very patient with me she's probably wondering why I am resonating noises out of my mouth for no reason she probably thinks I'm talking to her don't you? she has no idea thanks so much for watching guys if you want to see some more videos from me I will be trying to put some out possibly in a few days I'm going to try and put together a video so stay tuned for that go follow me on Twitter Instagram, Facebook, whatever whatever you want to do comment down below what you want me to do for this subscriber special because I've not always been great with making those and they don't seem to get a lot of views so I don't know what I'm doing let me know anyway, hope you guys are doing good and I'll see you guys in the next video later goodbye viewers I am a very old dog stop moving