 Hello and welcome back to another Autie Time livestream. How are you guys doing today? We're back for another Autism Q&A. I'm a little bit late, so apologies for that. But it is good to be back after a week of trying to get back on track with things. Things have been very difficult, not going to lie. I've been trying to get back to producing posts, producing videos, trying to sort out my podcast situation. There's been a lot of things that I've been trying to do and a lot of anxiety, panic attacks, dips in mood, as expected, with trying to get up back to the usual place that I am. But we are making some progress and in other areas, not so much in terms of my dieting. This week's been a bit of a throw-to-the-wind kind of situation, but I'm going to get back on it, I think. Today, I'm not going to wait until Monday to be a cheeky boy. I'm actually going to be starting today. I'm just going to stop eating rubbish. Hello, Mr Austin. You are a member for six months. Wow. Thank you so much, dude. It's good to see you. How are you doing? Hello, Jack the lad. How are you doing? Joshua G says we're back, hoping we are all doing well and staying hydrated with some water, indeed. We've got our weekly hydration reminder. If you haven't been on one of these streams before, this is basically an opportunity to ask any questions about autism, about mental health, about self-improvement, fitness, relationships, anything like that. If you have any questions, please go for it. Austin says my diet has been way too much junk food this week, not enough protein. I have been okay with the protein section of things. I've just been adding on a bunch of junk onto it. Indeed, just let me know when you're going to be in the UK. We'll organise the session. That would be great. Kyoto Katnip asks, hi, I had a quick question. Is defensiveness and autism correlated? I assume you're not talking about like the Yu-Gi-Oh! stat of defence or like a game. I know what you're talking about. In terms of relationships, is that what you're meaning or just in general in terms of talking or communicating with autistic people? Let me know. I think in terms of defensiveness, I feel like a lot of the autistic people that I know and also I see this in myself, is that my communication style aligns very closely to the idea of debating somebody. I have in time become a little bit more trait-agreable to a point where I'm not so confrontational in how I feel about things. But in an actual just general conversations, I do find that I do like to not play devil's advocate, but I do like to give my honest kind of direct thoughts on something. No matter what someone's said to me really. Defensiveness in terms of friendships, any type of relationship that you might have with somebody. I think to some degree, there could be elements of pathological demand avoidance that are involved there. It could be with autistic people, which could point to perhaps being a bit more defensive than usual. And also just paying a little bit of lip service to the experiences that we have during life. Quite often we do experience a lot of negative experiences during school, particularly high school, secondary school, whatever you want to call it. So I suppose to a certain extent, sometimes when you go for all of those negative experiences, you're going to perhaps build up a little bit of like a barrier, a little bit of like a defensiveness towards other people. It's definitely something that I've experienced when I was a bit younger going through my early 20s. Something that I went the other way on and become the opposite and then had to kind of like readjust and like find the middle ground. But I suppose so, maybe to some degree it might be somewhat correlated. I don't think every single autistic person is inherently defensive. It could just be something that naturally occurs due to our experiences, kind of like a defense mechanism. Joshua G bought us a couple of badges. Thank you very much for that. You've done that for the past last three live streams. Thank you so much, man, for supporting the stream. Wow. Yes. So defensiveness with answer that question. Do you guys have any other questions about autism, dating relationships, mental health? Hit me. Hit me. Thanks for responding. Much appreciated. No worries at all. No worries at all. Yeah, I do have a, I have been playing with like trying to use stream elements on that very, very badly. Because I think one of the last live stream sessions that I did, I did have the like YouTube chat in the corner, but it was just cut off and it looked really rubbish. So I just got rid of it. So I'll have to take another look at that at some point. I don't know if you've got much experience with that, Austin. Might be able to give me some pointers. Ria Ranka 20 asks how to avoid timelessness. Timelessness. I think I have an idea of what you're asking me about. I'm going to Google it just so that I'm completely sure unless you want to fill me in. Timelessness is the quality of not changing as the years go past or as fashion changers. Interesting. Yeah, I mean, I would definitely say that I'm quite a timeless person. Like, I don't know if it's, it could, I suppose it could be used in the sense of like things to do with like fashion or the way that you interact with people. You know, perhaps you're not adhering to as many like social norms. You might not really care much about like the social norms about like fashion and how you dress and the things that you like, which I suppose could be seen as a positive trait. It does seem like a positive trait to me. If it's to do with progression in terms of like improving ourselves as human beings, then, you know, I think it's always important to try and grow and change over time. Chad the light says, do you feel that being autistic encourages you to grow as a person? I lost my first romantic person this year because I didn't feel I knew how to do it. But I've gotten on to grow myself so much. I think any hardships that we go through, that we process and try and move past always, it can come with some positive changes in us. Equally, if we don't process it very well and we feel very emotional about it for a long period of time, it can also kind of go the other way. I wouldn't say that being autistic necessarily does like will influence a person that way, but we definitely do experience more negative things in life. And also we tend to try and understand things a little bit better, like cognitively, like not necessarily just taking things as they are and how they make us feel, perhaps being a little bit more kind of logical cerebral about how we understand what's happened to us in our life. So maybe it might kind of get us to kind of grow and change a little bit more. But equally, I do know some autistic people who are not like that. They would prefer just to say like, oh, you don't know and move on. Or say like, oh, everything is their fault, move on. I wouldn't say that it's particularly like an autism thing. You can definitely relate to the defensiveness topic. Got landic warrior, nice free says, I am from Sweden and the gym. Interesting. How long have you been going to the gym for? Austin asks, do you think it can be hard for autistic people to understand when somebody is flirting with them? Realized somebody I knew and then it realized, you realize they were flirting with you. And you didn't feel the same towards them. I don't know. I feel like I can definitely, I can tell if someone wants to talk to me, you know, and I can tell when someone is kind of like taking the mic or like having fun with me. It has to be very, very obvious, like that someone is flirting with me for me to like go, okay, hey, that's the situation. And it really much depends on the environment as well because if it's like a one-to-one chat, it's probably, you know, a lot of your focus is on that person. It's probably a lot easier to tell. But if you are in an environment like a social gathering with lots of other people around, you may just be kind of hyper focused on trying to perform, not perform, but cope with that social situation and sort of deal with it. And you just kind of let stuff like that kind of pass for you. So I think it's very situational for me. There is obviously those, you know, flirting is inherently quite indirect. A lot of things are kind of like assumed indirect behaviors rather than kind of direct. You know, you're interesting or like, I like you. You make me feel funny, you know. That's the kind of the directness. The flirting is a lot indirect. So I would imagine that most autistic people and myself when I was a bit younger would have a really hard time trying to pick up on that. Autistic thought says, have you ever found it hard to not be taken advantage of in romantic connections? Is misreading people's intentions as good? When they aren't? I wouldn't say like, I think genuinely like we do sometimes have a tendency of taking people's direct communication very seriously, because I think direct communication offers a level of like certainty to things, which is why even though I'm aware of indirect communication and things of that nature, that I do prefer just to have direct communication with somebody because it's not comfortable. I don't feel certain about anything and what someone's trying to put across. And so if you're in a situation where you're with somebody who is taking advantage of you or is treating you badly and manipulating you, you might just have that natural tendency just to kind of take on board what they're saying to you rather than cross referencing that with like how they're behaving, the things that they said to you in the past, the things that they've done, the way that they behave around you. And so like for me, when I've been in situations like that, I've been looking for some semblance of certainty like what's going on here. Like what's happening? What are they thinking about? Why are they doing the things that they do? And so sometimes it can be quite difficult to be like, okay, they're saying this thing to me and it makes sense and it feels good to me to have that certainty around it, but is it true? And that's the bit that has taken me quite a while to get to the point where I can be like, I don't necessarily have to have certainty around this situation. It feels very much like it's not a good situation for me and just removing myself from it. I think that's what I meant because we have to work hard to understand life. We grow more, I think, than the average person maybe. Do I game at all? I do game. RuneScape, Pokemon Go, Apex, Overwatch at the moment. Mixed it a bit. It depends if I've got enough time. MiaMantry says, does anyone else find they are stopped from processing things by people telling us to just forget the past? I think it's something that I was talking about earlier actually. It's important to process things and it is also important to move on from things as well. One thing that I recommend anybody who is going through a difficult time with something is to set time aside to think about that thing. Try as hard as you want to distract yourself. Do things, get on with life. Everything like that. In terms of processing it and then give yourself some space to actually process it. You're splitting it up so you're allowing yourself to process how you feel, process what you think, etc. And then giving yourself the ability to move past things and keep progressing in life. There's a middle ground with that kind of thing, definitely. Hello, Nika. How are you doing? And hello, Ikra. How's it going? And Maria. Hello. I got Atlantic Warrior in 1983 so I've been going to the gym for many years but it's in recent years that I've really used the workout as my special interest in ways to socialise. Absolutely amazing. That is like the top reasons that I would suggest like any physical activity. Good for mental health, good interest, keeps you focused, allows you to see progression over a long period of time, allows you to get into a state where you feel a little bit more relaxed and open than you might usually be due to all the hormones and endorphins that go around from exercising, allowing you to socialise a little bit better with people. It's brilliant. It's good to hear that. Hello, Beholder. I am not doing too bad actually. Today has been a pretty good day. Although my brain is very much all over the place at the moment, I'm trying to get back to things. So we are. I'm on my way to getting back to usual business but it's taken some time. It's always difficult like returning after a burnout. You've got to transition into a whole different schedule and focus yourself and do the opposite of what you're trying to do when you're trying to recover from a burnout. So very interesting. Was your viewpoint on people with autism doing the driving test? Definitely do, if you can. It's a good thing to have. I don't drive. I have a driving licence. But I do drive because it takes way too much for my battery to do so and I can just get public transport. Tatum 95 says I excited today too, feeling tired. It's always a good feeling. I love feeling tired after a session. That is the best part. Finishing it and being like, oh, did a good job there. Well done. Sorry I didn't tie that as well, no worries. Mia says I have hyperfimesia. Hyperfimesia. So I can't just forget the past. But I think not forgetting can help us identify what the problem is and helps us spot patterns. Yeah, 100%. I think there's a difference between remembering things and processing things emotionally. Perhaps maybe 10 years ago, just not 10 years ago, about 5 years ago, just coming out of the high school systems not really processed everything emotionally, but it's really, really difficult for me to be like talking about things that I've experienced or difficult situations that I've been through without first slight processing how I react to it emotionally. You've got to understand things. I think that is a good part and also learning and things like that. But the emotional component can sometimes be difficult. It brings up a lot of negative emotions. So I'm going for life, you know. I did Reans game like at 12 and 13, me too. Joshua G asks are you staying hydrated, Thomas? No, I'm not. I know I'm being a bad person. I do have a bottle of Pepsi, but I always feel like shame. I always feel shame like coming onto these drinks and drinking like a two litre bottle of pop. It's very, very professional of me. But I might just have some. It's mostly because I don't like the executive function of going down like filling up a glass of water is like sometimes, you know, sometimes I'm like hyper focused on something. I'm doing some work. I'm like, I don't want to do that. I'll just bring like a two litre bottle and it'll last me like three days or something, you know. This stream as you can imagine is not sponsored by Pepsi. Mia Mantry says for me, distracting never works. I need to talk things out of people, but I was surrounded by a lot of toxic positivity. So for many years I couldn't process negative emotions. I see. No, I completely understand where you're coming from. It's good to validate, understand negative emotional experiences 100%. PM Ferrius says hello, Pedro, how you doing? Not been a great week for me, but still going on. Austin says I didn't get a license until 27, which is where in the rare in the U.S., but we don't have the best public transport. I mean, the public transport in the UK is definitely not like on point. It exists. It works to some degree. It's not very consistent now. For those wondering what hyperfymia is, it's a memory condition, meaning I can remember things as far back as childhood off than the exact date. I imagine that you're very good in terms of exam preparation then. Just read the entire textbook before an exam. Just remember everything. I don't know if that's how it works. It could be a long-term thing, I guess. Maybe stuff that's been stored in your long-term memory you can remember. Did you know that there's now a new flavour of Pepsi Max? I have seen that around. I think it's been around for quite a while, just maybe in different countries at different times. I remember in Thailand drinking Pepsi Max mango. It's definitely like my... I wouldn't say... It's definitely a safe food, but it's definitely a safe drink. PM Ferris says, Thomas, I just wondered on Instagram, did you see the video link I provided? I'm keen to know your thoughts on that video, which was about autism and bullying. What is it about? Is it a YouTube video? I might be able to approach that in one of my live streams at some point. If it's a good video to have a talking point on. Okay, what's it called? Let me find it. The World Stratostreamer or something. Okay, World Stratostreamer. Is this the story of Chibi? Is there... I mean, that's the only thing that really comes up, to be honest. Could you find it for me? So that I can probably talk about it on my live stream when I do one next. Well, if you can let me know what the video name is called. Yeah, it's the Chiba one. Okay. Okay, okay. World Saddest Speedrunner. I will save that for when we do another stream. Thank you very much for that, Pedro. Joshua G says, the gliders for us here in the UK are pretty good gliders. Along with the translink buses. Yeah, translink buses are good. I was in Thailand for a year. It was part of my industrial experience course at University of Manchester. Went into the mosquitoes, which is good. Very fun. Pedro says, I watched it and I have mixed feelings. I was really keen to get your narration on it. Well, we will do at some point. Maybe not in this stream because I don't really do the video reaction stuff here. But we could do it another time. Yeah, that sounds good. That's very good. Oh, man. I've been making a lot of progress in terms of my weight loss. And I can just see my face and how it's changed after a week of just not being as on it as it was. It's very depressing, but I did give myself that week as a break because as you may know, usually the best course of action in terms of losing weight is a long-term thing. And it's not all this sprint that a lot of people make it out to be. It's usually best done over time. It's still very difficult. It's still very difficult. Give myself a break. What are your thoughts on time blindness? I think I've already talked about that earlier. Would you be able to explain to me a little bit more about what you mean in terms of time blindness? Timelessness, sorry. Oh, time blindness. Oh, no, we talked about timelessness. Time blindness. I think there's a lot to do with executive functioning if I'm not wrong. Something that I experienced to some degree. I think it's a lot to do with hyper-focus. You get really focused in on something we know from just studies on humans that when you are focused on something, you get into what's called a flow state where other factors, other things that are going on around you, including time, just seem to pass very quickly and you just work and work and work. Because of my predilection to get focused on something, get hyper-focused, I do experience a lot of that, but not always. I think if it's something that I've done quite a lot like going to the gym, I can usually tell based on the time that I've been in and what exercise I'm doing, what the time is, weirdly. Do you feel like learning difficulties like dyslexia are further an issue if someone has autism or can dyslexia in relation to autism have challenges? Maybe to some degree, because if you imagine as just as myself as an autistic kid when I was younger, communication was quite hard in terms of social communication, actual verbal communication wasn't too hard. But if I imagine if I struggled with verbal communication and also struggled with written communication, that would be exacerbated to some degree. I wouldn't be able to read the books and learn the words as easy as I did. So I imagine if there's dual struggle with verbal and struggle with written communication, it's obviously going to be an issue. I think there is also some benefits that some people show from being dyslexic. It's considered to be a neurodiversity. So dyslexia for anyone who doesn't know is the longest difficulty that primarily affects the skills involved in accurate and fluent reading and spelling. Let's have a look at some of the benefits. I have seen some stuff. People with dyslexia have the ability to see how things connect to form complex systems and similar to identify similarities among multiple things. So like lateral thinking, I think that is something that is shown with autism as well. And show strengths, particularly in fields around science and mathematics where pictures are key. Interesting. There's a lot of stuff to do with like puzzle solving, spatial, sometimes around conversation as well with dyslexia. I suppose there are some kind of benefits, but I don't know in terms of relation to autism. It would definitely be something to have a little bit more of a look into. You're very welcome, Ria. Melissa says, hi, my son was able to start school three weeks ago. He loves this. That is very good to hear. Thank God. How old are they? If you don't mind me asking. I'm not too bad. Thank you. Not perhaps as on point in terms of nutrition and exercise as it was last week, but definitely working a little bit more than usual. So I'm quite happy with my progress so far. 100%. I just want to say, just while we're a little bit of a stall on the questions. If you do have any questions that you want to ask, which is autism, relationship, fitness, self-improvement, mental health related, please feel very well. You can ask personal things as well if you want to ask them. Ask away. This is the time to do so. And if you do enjoy these live streams and you want me to continue doing them, you can support on Instagram with the badges or on YouTube. You can support by being a member for 99 p.m. or you can use the Super Chat if you want. Indeed. Freddie's tiny design says I study design only one student was not dyslexic. That's very interesting. He's 14. He might have something called RFID. ED 41% of autistic people have it. Avoidant restriction. Avoidant restrictive food intake disorder. So I only have concepts like safe foods and things like that. He lost weight, but I believe in him gastroenteritis will help. Gastroenteritis will help. Thank you very much, Mr. Austin Henshaw, for gifting another 40-odd podcast membership to Rev. and Beazey. Make sure to say thanks to Austin if you can, Rev. and Beazey. Very much appreciated, Austin. And also Mr. Joshuji, buying another badge, which appreciates. Hi. So Pedro says, prior to my autism diagnosis for a long time, I obviously blamed all my problems on dyslexia. I didn't know enough at that point. I, in fact, only found out I was dyslexic when questioned about getting extra time in exams. I wasn't taught I was dyslexic until after my GCSEs. Interesting. Well, I got extra time during my exams. I didn't have dyslexia. I don't have dyslexia. I think there's a lot to do with processing things. And I think sometimes, particularly when you're autistic, some of the way that the examiners would exam questions can be very difficult for us to understand exactly what they're asking us to do. You know, like it's all good. You know, like someone saying, oh, describe this, you know, talk about this, you know, rather than, you know, ideally in my situation, there would be. Tell me all you know about this area and this area and how these two areas connects, you know, be a bit more, a bit more good for me. But no, my approach to exams and it's always been my approach to exams. I see a word. I'm like, OK, this word, I know this word in different areas. So I'm going to furiously write for as long as I can about this particular word. It doesn't always work. Sometimes it does work. How's your mental health doing right now? Hope it's much better than it has been the past few weeks. It's been very up and down, if I'm being honest, like very, very up and down, actually. Some days I feel quite calm and collected and confident and feel like I'm getting on to my usual kind of resting state. Other times, complete opposite. You know, everything's very overwhelming, panic attacks, all that kind of stuff. So mixed bag, I'm going to say this week, 100%. Supposedly 50% ish of employees at NASA is very interesting. That is very interesting. Melissa said that GL doctors, our guests are into writers doctors. OK. Sorry, I spelled it wrong. Yeah, we're about him. He's like a bird. He will get the swallow test on Monday. I'm sorry to hear about that. It's not something that I've really experienced, but I know that from my upbringing, I was always kind of pushed to try new things a lot of the time, which I think has been a good thing overall for me. I have been pushed to get into different social groups, get into different sports, try different foods. All of the things that I tried, I didn't particularly like, but some things I did. And it's been good for me. I've always had kind of the attitude that's been kind of drilled into me by my mom when I was growing up, that you give things a go. If you don't like them, you can always just stop or go somewhere else or try something else or do it differently. It's always that kind of like, you try and if it doesn't go so well, that's fine. I think that's a really good way to approach things in life. Vitamins says, hi Thomas, you are the cutest. Thank you very much. Much appreciated. Thank you, Freddie's tiny design for buying free badges. Thank you so much. Much appreciated. Really does encourage me to do more of these streams, so always very, very happy. It's nice to try it to you guys. I really enjoy doing these live streams, honestly. It's very much a part of my week now, part of my routine. When is the next podcast episode coming? I am trying my very best to get back on top of things. I have actually had a meeting recently with someone who might be helping me out with the work that I'm doing. So someone who's going to support me in terms of like emails and organizing things and all of that stuff. So hopefully I will be back to it soon. I will try. I'm trying my best. Melissa says, thank you. Just pray for him please, of course. Freddie says, hi, hello from Norway. Hello. It's nice to have you on here and thank you for the badges again. Much appreciated. Melissa says, when I was six or seven, my mom flipped out on me for being a picky eater. And so that's why I know what not to do. I think it's one of those things I thought for a long time that I didn't like spicy food. Because I didn't like some of the spices that were used in like Indian cuisine. When I went to Thailand, as you realize that, oh actually, I really like Thai curries. And I started to enjoy spice a lot more. So I think that over time, the way that disgust works in our human brains is that disgust is there to stop us from getting poisoned, from getting ill. Anything that we find disgusting, we usually want to avoid. But one thing that I found particularly like with my experience of eating mushrooms, I hated mushrooms. I made myself eat mushrooms for like now and again for like a month. Over time, I actually started to enjoy them. I can't say that for every single thing. Like tomatoes have always just been very difficult for me to get my head around to actually like eating on a consistent basis. Yeah, so some things that has worked with. And I say it's the same for a lot of things in life, you know, getting used to it. You know, you kind of, sometimes those negative emotions that you have around it are justified. And you're probably right to think that way. And over times, you get your mind changed. You start to see things as good, you know. Vitamin says, what's your opinion on wellness, especially massages? Is this something that helps you? Massages are actually one of, like, the biggest helps for me. Like, out of everything. Like, I think it's something to do with the deep pressure. I find deep pressure extremely relaxing and a lot of people find massages quite relaxing anyway. It's just kind of a bit more amplified for me. And if I've been for like a full body massage, I have not done one of those in a long time. I probably should and really had like a deep tissue massage. It's almost like it just erases my anxiety for like probably a couple of weeks, probably a week. That's a couple of weeks is a little bit too far of a stretch, but definitely for a week. Solidarity, I was forced fed at school and developed an aversion for a lot of vegetables. My parents worried about me in the following years, but it was only when I, they took the pressure off and I was able to change my diet and my health improved as a result. Behaviorism has always had the opposite effects on me. Interesting. Melissa says, oh, I love spicy foods. My son loves spicy everything. Very interesting. So they have the half of it, but they love spicy food as well. That's very interesting. Freddie tiny design says, I had to set the table until I finished dinner, even if I sat there all night. I've had stuff like that. My dad's dad was like that as well. He would always make him eat like Brussels sprouts or broccoli or like some it something like that. And the thing is with that kind of stuff, there is an actual chemical that's involved in that. I think it's something to do with sulfur that some people can taste and some people can't. And the people who can't taste it tend to enjoy a bit more. I think there's also one to do with like bitterness just in general towards vegetables. Some people can taste the bitterness and some people can't. It's very interesting. And some people who can taste it weirdly become obsessed with it because they like the negative experience to some degree. It's kind of a similar thing to spice. Where in it's just, you know, you like the bitterness of it. And I think I fall into that category to some degree. Do you like dots pepper? I do. It's not usually my go to because it tends to be like really, really, really fizzy. But I do like a dot pepper. Mortal Scheme Tom says, hi, I have no idea how crucial you have no idea how crucial you've been to my mental health. And 24 and just came to my autism realization this year. And one of the darkest points in my life, learning about what is from autism and is not just me going clinically insane. I've been able to cope much better. And I'm finding hope again for handling life, especially your interview with Neff and the validation that it gave me. Not trying to overshare, but just want you to know how important what you do is. Thank you for everything. Well, thank you very much for that. That really does like don't really want my heart a lot. I'm really glad that I've been able to be a positive impact in your life in that way. Thank you for that. It's been really that's really nice things. So let's said, yeah, you would afford to eat us like a caloula caloula. Oh, what is what is caloula? Oh, is that a is that an alcoholic beverage? Caloula spice. Not sure. Do you like coffee, Thomas? If so, what is your favorite type of coffee? I like ice. I use it go for like an ice latte with an extra shot of coffee. Not because I really enjoy the taste of coffee, particularly like the strength, like the bitterness of black coffee. But quite, I really like the sensation of it being a bit thicker that you get with milk. So I wish I could have something that thickens the drink without like making it milky. But I go for that. I go for ice. I say have an extra shot just to get like more of the taste. Have you got to try the new flavor of tango? It's like some paradise flavor. I think I have not. I will have to. I hope it comes in a zero sugar version because I don't tend to drink a lot of like full sugar things at the moment. Both for teeth and also for calorie intake for body building. Trying to lean down. Maltel says, and for now a classic American debate. How do you feel about pineapple and pizza? I don't mind pineapple and pizza. I have no feelings either way. It is an item. I'm the same with mom. I don't have any feelings either way. I can see why people don't like it and why some people like it. I would like to add perhaps an even more controversial statement is that I don't particularly like pizza. I think that's likely to provide a lot more controversy. I do like some pizzas, not going to lie. Sometimes. It really depends on the type though and how I'm feeling. Speaking of dinner, it's ready and I have to go now. Thank you. Thank you very much, Freddie. Hopefully see you again on a future stream. Calula is how we say it. It's okay. It's a Mexican spice. Oh, I have not heard of that before. Actual sweeteners can actually be worse for us. Yeah, I think that it's it's one of those things, you know, I think you can get more negative health effects by rotting like rotting your teeth and. gaining an unhealthy amount of weight, I think. I think there have been some studies that have shown that like artificial sweeteners deep reduce like an insulin response, which is quite interesting because of the way that our body. When we taste sweetness, though, our body produces like the the enzymes that are required to break down them. So I wouldn't say that they are better or worse. I think they're just different, you know, and there's been a lot of research into like the negative effects of sweeteners. I think I'm pretty clear on like the understanding of sweetness. It's not something that I intend to like engage myself in all the time. But if I have the option, I will definitely opt for that. Me too. Same with pizza. It's okay. It's it's it's it's dough with stuff on top. It depends what the stuff on top is. I also I really like if I go to a restaurant and it's like a pizza restaurant. Of course I will get a pizza. But if I have the option between a pizza and everything else. Probably going to be something else. More says to be honest, I don't care for what people answer. I just like seeing how passionate someone is about their answer. Fair enough. Some people have gone very in depth in their opinion. It's I think my my thing is is that it's a subjective thing. You know, I think with anything that is subjective, it's like you can you can apply as much fact and logic on how you feel about something. As much as you like. It doesn't necessarily like make it more or less of an OK feeling to have about it. Interesting. I find it quite funny as well. I'm also not always the biggest fan of chocolate. I go in waves of it. Sometimes I just don't want anything to do with it. Sometimes I'm like, give it all to me. I will eat it all. 100%. So we have about 12 minutes left of the stream. I feel like things are winding down quite a bit in terms of like people on the show, which is cool. I am feeling probably very tired and I'm not coming across in the best way possible, which is also cool. If you guys have any more questions that you would like to ask me, please go ahead. Anything to do with autism, mental health, dating, relationships, fitness, personal questions, go for it. This is a place to do it because I'm not always the best with like comments and, you know, things like that. So go for it. Well, we all have a tired day. 100%. I mean, I'm not even feeling tired today. I think I'm just like, it's not feeling on form. Do you like dark chocolate? I do. It's because it's the bitterness. The bitterness is there. Is the key thing there? Oh, it seems like my connection has paused. Is it back now? Is it rotating? Yeah. Muttal Sugimi says, I just got off an overnight shift. It's still before 11 a.m. here. It's a perfect timing for me to sleep too. Interesting. I've heard a lot of people say that my voice is, I feel like it could go one or two ways. It's either received as very monotone and boring or it's quite relaxing. The bitterness once tastes like burnt wood and dirt. Interesting. Yes, coffee definitely does offer that. And so I think sometimes chocolate can as well. I do. I do like it. I mean, I have tried like incorporating, was it like not the chocolate powder? There is specific form of a cow, I think, as that's kind of a big health side of things. It's very interesting. What's your favorite dark chocolate brand? I don't have a favorite really. I think dark chocolate can be good. It can be bad. It depends. I don't like, I'm definitely not a live to eat kind of person. I'm more of an eat to live person. I don't really find that food really ties in my life very much. Not say that I don't have issues of like overeating or under eating and stuff. You know, I definitely do feel hunger. It's just that, you know, it doesn't, I don't really mind too much about why I eat, I guess. As long as it's like sugary. The sugar definitely is a factor that's involved in that. Used to sneak your mom's dark bakers chocolate. Isn't that like bad for your stomach? I mean, you're supposed to like use the dark chocolate to like make some and these be cooked. I don't know much about cooking. I would strongly recommend Lavaza coffee beans. I will check it out. Hello Thomas. Happy to see you healthy. Thank you very much. Happy to see you too. Have you played Starfield? No, but my brother has been going on about it a lot. I think he's been playing it quite a bit recently. Just stated, I think I'm very much. I'm very selective with games that I play. Like I pretty much like to play the same things. And so adding like the amount of games that I play just makes me feel uncomfortable. It's why I play Reanscape really because it's like an MMO. It's like I can just play that for as long as I want and do different things on there. I like to have all of my progress with games condensed into one game. That makes sense. Or rather just be like pretty bog standard at everything that I do. Everything that I play rather. Dark chocolate is good for you, isn't it? I think that there is an aspect to dark chocolate, which is the alfionine. Not the alfionine. I always do that. L-Triptophan, which is a precursor to serotonin. Serotonin in the brain, which can be quite interesting. I think it's converted into 5-HTP and then into serotonin. So I have supplements like that as well. I love my dark chocolate. You eat less, savor it more. I think my auto-interest has bailed and run from me again. What do you mean? Mia says I don't drink coffee, but I liked those Lavazza coffee adverts from 2017. They're on YouTube. The song is a parody of the Temptations, My Girl. Interesting. Hard to find a good man my age range, maybe. I'm sorry to hear that. No worries, Pedro. It's nice to see you. I think we're probably going to wrap up probably like five minutes. Anyway, so it's good to have you on, Pedro. Those are the ones I use in my house and they're amazing. I will try them. Dot Stacey says, hi, Thomas. What kind of content will you be writing about this week? I appreciate your posts. I think I'm very much trying to get to a point where I'm creating stuff and I'm on track of things because at the moment I am a little bit all over the place in terms of sorting my life out as well. It's just general content creation, whether it's like podcasts or YouTube or Instagram. So we will see. I'm going to try and get stuff out. Possibly not next week. I don't think it's going to be next week. It's probably going to be the week after. But if you are wanting to stay up to date with more of the stuff that I do, you can go over onto YouTube. Check out some of the streaming that I do. Cover a lot of interesting topics over on YouTube. You tend to frighten most. I'm a handful. Righty. It has been absolute pleasure peeps. I'm probably going to wrap things up now. Try and get myself to the gym because I haven't been in a couple of days and it is eating my sanity away. I need to go in and get some good flowing positive endorphins. Wish you had a chill night. Me too. I like your earphones. Lime is my colour. They're a total beach headphone. They're supposed to be used with Xbox remotes. They're quite good actually. Crush the work out. I will try my very best. All righty. Take care peeps.