 Good day everybody, and welcome back to another Autie Time Live. It is, another Friday has come upon us, and we are back once again. Although to be honest like over the past month or so, it's been somewhat split between like Friday and Sunday. So I'm not doing the best in terms of being consistent and regular, but we're back at least. Ready for another live stream. If you haven't been to any of these lives before, I highly recommend that you ask as many questions as you like. If you have any questions about the content that I've put out this week, either on YouTube or on Instagram, you're very welcome to ask those questions here. We can go over them. I do want to highlight just before we do get started for our allotted one hour Q&A session, that my mental health has been absolutely apparent like this past couple of days. And I did the very, very silly thing that happens to I think probably a lot of people who have executive dysfunction and also co-occurring mental health issues. I've forgotten to put my repeat prescription in for my metazapine, which is the one that helps me sleep. So pretty much running on zero sleep today, which is not great. Just thought I'd put on my signature dressing gown just so that I have a little bit of comfort today. I'm not feeling the best, but I've got a plan of action today. I've got a plan of action to get me back on track even though I've got to wait until Monday for my metazapine. I'm going to go to the gym tonight. Do like quite heavy leg session. That usually knocks me out quite a bit. Try and get a little bit of an earlier night. Hi, so how are you all doing? It's nice to see you. Linda says good to see you. Good to see you too, Linda. And Joshua G, how are you doing, man? Linda said it has been a very bumpy week. Well, I 100% empathize with that. Just going to check that my YouTube side is doing proper. Going proper? Okay, yeah, it's good. So due to my sleep status and my mental health, my speech apraxia might be in full swing today, so just be aware of that. How do I become a reciprocity problem as an autistic adult? I could see that you're healthy. Thank you. I do actually have Mr. Joshua. I do have a big water bottle. It's going to become a signature, hopefully, if I can get it all sorted properly and remember to fill it up in the evenings. We shall see. Hello, Rita. And hello, Runs with Scissors. How are you doing? It's nice to see you guys. I hope you well have an energy drink to give you energy. I do have an energy drink, but it's more of an energy powder. I'm not sponsored by this company, but I think if you are someone like myself who really needs caffeine, but also struggles with anxiety, getting something like sneak or getting something which has alfionine in, or just buying alfionine as a supplement, it can really, really help with the jitters and anxiety that come with energy drinks, coffee, tea, if you get that. I find that it helps me out a lot, so that's a top tip of the day. Get yourself some alfionine. It's a very natural compound that is found in green tea, and it's got a very good action. It's quite good for rest and sleep and all that. What are you having or have had for tea slash dinner? I'm not sure what I'm going to be eating tonight. Not yet. We'll come to that hurdle when I get to it, you know? Yeah, so I don't know. I did put out a post this week on my diet, and basically the reason for why I posted that post is because I get quite a few comments or messages about my diet and how I do things. I try to as much with my page, with my channel, to make sure that I'm being realistic and to a lot of people coming across some fitness related content, especially if you have executive functioning, it can dysfunction issues. It can be quite hard to maintain the diet that people put out. I just wanted to reflect that although I'm not necessarily optimal or 100% healthy with the way that I go about my diet, you can still get into fitness, even if you have the difficulties that I have, and make some changes to your diet that is helpful in the long term in terms of light-opening protein and getting vitamins in and all that. That was my intention with it. It wasn't like a full fitness style guide on how to maximise, minimise your nutrition, but just as a relatable thing. Hopefully open doors for other people wanting to get into fitness. So that is what I've been doing. When were you diagnosed with autism? I was diagnosed when I was 10 years old, so I'm an early boy. You see a lot of, especially on YouTube, you see a lot of late diagnosed individuals, people who have been misdiagnosed in the past. I was caught early, or somewhat early. What was that you're staying hydrated with today, Thomas? It's juice, because water gives me a stomach ache. Don't know why. My beautiful midlife crisis says, I'm sorry you can't sleep. I want to thank you for being here due to your post. I pursued a proper diagnosis at 52, and I'm struggling to accept it, despite the fact all of my behaviours at ASD. Well, congratulations on pursuing a proper diagnosis. That was really good to hear. The imposter syndrome is definitely a really big worry for a lot of late diagnosed, undiagnosed autistic individuals. So I wish you the best of luck with that, and I hope that my content can support you in your journey. It's difficult to sleep without the help of some meds. I've got those too. It's not the main reason. The main reason why I take it is for the side effects of my antidepressants, which I have to be on. I just have to. It's a bit irritating. I probably should try my best to try and find some alternatives to metasapine, because it really does make ED so much harder to deal with. It is like a proper thing. Hello, Eric. How are you doing? CBD is helping during the day. CBD is another thing that I've tried to have a lot. Justruji says, I have to take melatonin every night, which can be quite annoying. I have to take five. Well, thankfully, I'm allowed between three and five as I get 120 tablets every time I order them and get them. Yeah, melatonin can be quite helpful. I'm not sure about it in terms of the long term. I know that your brain has ways of becoming more tolerant to medications, specifically those that work really quickly, like melatonin. But it's somewhat founded because you'll find that a lot of autistic people actually have difficulties with their circadian rhythms. So we don't necessarily produce melatonin as easy as neurotypicals do. So it's worth, like, if you are having a lot of blue light exposure in the evening to try and reduce that a lot. 100%. It's definitely something that a lot of people do have difficulty in. Best or worst thing about being diagnosed with autism, with all due respect? I mean, the actual diagnosis, I don't see any issue with that. When it comes to being autistic, the things that I struggle with the most tend to be mental health related. And if my mental health is good, I don't have any worries or problems in life. When it's bad, it can manifest somewhat differently in me because I am autistic. So executive functioning issues tends to be the biggest one. But the best thing, I don't know, I feel like there's a lot of things that I could talk about. Just general creativity, hyper focus. I saw a recent video from the Fortspot who shared a statistic that if well supported, having all the reasonable adjustments in place and stuff in the workplace, an autistic person or a neurodivergent is about 20% more productive than the neurotypical peers, which is a crazy statistic. It's really good to hear that that kind of stuff, that kind of research is being put out there. 100%. What flavour or brand use? I think it's just mixed fruits. It's one of the cheapy ones, the ones that are quadruple strength, that I don't like can seem like half a bottle every day with this juice. I might expect it to water at some point, to be honest, but I struggle with hydration, so anything that can incentivise me to get more water in is good for the time being. Well, I'm trying to keep on top of things, you know. A lot of changes going on at the moment. Layla says I take Clonidine at bedtime for sleep. My kids need it in the morning for being calm and focused. Interesting. I haven't read much into Clonidine. Mia says I take Malatone, too, if I have for over 10 years due to sleep disorder. It helps a lot. The sleep disorder was undiagnosed for 10 years and in that time I was dismissed as laziness. I'm sorry to hear that. I'm still considering focus tricks. I would, if possible, if it's not needed and it's not pushed for by your doctor to ask your doctor about some of the supplements out there. You can find some good ones that you can take on a regular basis. They don't have any particular strong side effects for the majority of people that could help you. I think as well, when we're thinking about focusing, you've got to think about why you aren't focusing. I find that a lot of the time when I'm struggling to focus, I have some level of background mental health going on, some background anxiety. Sometimes trying to think of why is important because if you are struggling to focus because you're anxious and you take something that's very sympathetic as in it stimulates you a little bit, you could somewhat make your anxiety worse sometimes. Figure out why you are focusing. Obviously talk to your doctor about anything that you're going to try. But supplements, yeah, I would probably start with them if you're really looking to use compounds to increase your focus. UK reviewer says, I found a lot of your posts helpful this year. Thank you, got an autism assessment next week at 50. Wow, congratulations. I'm glad I can be of some help. Joshua G says, yeah, my body, I don't think produces melatonin or as much etc. I've been taking melatonin for basically my entire life slash for the most part. I think my general dysregulation at the moment is a lot to do with the clocks and the winter months. I tend not to have too much of an issue when it comes to being in the winter months but any change in daylight or nighttime stuff, it always kind of throws me off a little bit because whether I want to admit it or not, I do sort of unconsciously think about what I have to do depending on what it looks like outside. If it's darker, I'm like, oh, I want to chill, I want to relax. If it's a bit lighter, I can be like, OK, it's time to work. So, got to switch my mindset a little bit during these winter months. Thanks so much, don't worry about it. Layla says, I take an SNRI and stimulate in the day. I found that SNRI dose needs to stay low because otherwise it numbs me out, making my ADHD worse. Everyone's different. Interesting. Yeah, so I think SNRI is selective noradrenaline rheotech inhibitor, which is a very sort of interesting kind of alternative way of, I guess, helping with depression. I imagine that it will help with anxiety as well. Let me have a look, because it's stative noradrenaline. Serotonin noripera from rheotech inhibitors are a class of medications that are effective in treating depression. They're also used to treat other conditions such as anxiety disorders. I don't know if you guys who run the meds like I am, if you also find that SNRIs tend to make your anxiety worse, because I find that it's from my experience. I was being on meds since I was 14, so my experience of antidepressants is that they very much just kind of wire me out a little bit, like way too much. I don't know if that's something that you guys have experienced. Yeah, the day after the clocks changed, it was so, so annoying as I woke up slightly earlier that morning, and I definitely would say that would be because of the clocks changing 100%. I think it can make a significant difference, especially if you're not feeling 100%. My doc wanted to up it, big mistake, had a total breakdown, like it's a tight bell curve of benefit for me. Either extreme or too high, or no med can be dark. I know what you mean. It is a fine balance. It usually takes quite a while to find a dose that is manageable and also supports you in the ways that you want it to. Hello, Figgy. How are you doing? Nice to see you again. Winter months are hard due to seasonal affective disorder. The interesting thing is that I tend to have my dips or my burnouts during the summer, because as I said before, I tended to dictate what I was doing based on how dark or light it is outside, which is irritating. And so during the summer, I tend to burn myself out a lot because it's very light outside. I'm like, ooh, I need to continue working. Interesting, tough but worth it. I'm going to be recording next week's videos tomorrow. I have been a bit rubbish with it over on YouTube, particularly due to my mental health, but I'm trying some new things out, new sort of schedule out that perhaps might be a bit more friendly for me. Trying to get back on track with things a bit more, because I really do want to stay consistent and produce things because I am really enjoying it. I feel like it's something that I'm fairly good at, so it is something that I need to really focus down on, hunker down, whatever. Let me have a look at some of the posts I made this week. As I said, for anyone new, you're very welcome to ask any questions that you would like related to the stuff that I do, obviously. You're welcome to ask personal questions if you want, but I might not always answer them. So I put my Diagnosticic Bodybuilder out. That was in response to someone asking about it. I also made a post on Autistic Burnout, which I think people liked a lot. The bobbing heads kind of dance reel that I did recently. It is awful. I had this one and another one ready to go like a month ago, but I just didn't release it because I just didn't like it. But I thought it would be funny. I did a really poor job at lip syncing in that one. So as I see you posting, are you taking any protein supplements? If I'm being good, then yes I do. I tend to take weight isolate just because it doesn't have the lactose in. I don't know if I'm particularly lactose intolerant, but I do find that it's just a little bit easy on my stomach. That can be quite helpful. But I do need to be on top of things, and these past couple of days I have not been at all. Which I'm okay with saying, because it's the ups and downs of life as someone with mental illness. I don't mind being open about that. I also did a post on Autistic Traits of Social Anxiety, which is quite interesting. I'm trying to do some sort of traits based stuff recently. It seems to be doing quite well. I've got a few more to put out over the next couple of weeks. I think to be honest, I probably need to get started on some more Instagram stuff next week. So I'm going to have a busy weekend, that's for sure. Try and make it some of the time lost this week. As far as changes when it comes to my gym stuff at the moment, I have started doing deadlifts again at the gym, which I haven't done for a while. Like proper deadlifts. I was doing trap bar deadlifts, but I actually had to stop doing that because the exercises that I have in my program, they target my upper traps quite a lot. And I found that after doing an upper body day, going and doing some trap bar deadlifts with really heavy weight, it's just a little bit too much for my traps. So I'm switching back to the old barbell deadlifts. I do feel a lot more in my back, which is the area that I'm wanting to build up in order to make me a more stable human being, I suppose. The actual muscle that you target a lot with exercises, the reason why it can be dangerous for your lower back is because it targets your lower back a lot. Particularly your erector spinay, which is like these two vertical running pieces of meat like either side of your spine. Building that up, it's really sort of impactful, I found. So I'm looking forward to saying that. I did make a video. I don't know if I'm going to put the video out because my form was atrocious, but I'm trying. What make of the earbuds are they? Mine keep falling out of my ears. They are WFM5000XM5. Probably one of the best earbuds when it comes to noise cancelling capabilities. So if you are like myself, a person who doesn't like to hear people at the gym just use music. I highly recommend them if you've got the cash spare. They really help me a lot. Deadlifts scare me since injuring my lower back. I can imagine that. I have wanted to avoid it, but I really need to focus on building up my lower back strength. I'm doing a lot of heavy lifts now and I'm trying to go up on my squat. So I think it's important to make sure that my body is stable when I'm doing these heavy weights. It's probably not the best thing to do. It's probably not the most fun thing to do after having a really bad mental health day and not sleeping. But leg days are top tier when it comes to sleep aids. I can tell you that. You like doing deadlifts? Deadlifts are pretty fun. As long as you don't snap yourself up. You've got to be careful on the old technique and stuff like that. It's difficult going back to them because I have noticed some lower back weakness as compared to usual. I can tell because my legs are really strong in the lift, but I do find that my lower back just gives out way before my legs do it. I'm going to incorporate some Paul's deadlifts tonight. I've done Romanians before, but I find that again, because I use such heavy weights, it tends to hit my traps a little bit too much. So I'm going to be going for a Paul's version, trying to isolate my lower back a little bit more. Trying to improve my technique. It should be good. What have you guys been up to this week? Is there any news to share? Any exciting things for next week that you want to share as well? That would be interesting to know. I'm thinking that maybe Sundays are actually a really good day to be doing these lives. It just seems like there's a lot more people online during those times. So I might actually switch up to doing them on Sunday at some point. But we shall see. I'm not going to make many changes at the moment because brain got to keep on track being a bit more stable with myself. So maybe not lots of changes for the time being, but possibly in the future. I think it's probably going to be a good option. They have a question from Cookiefish. Have you ever tried Reforma Pilates? Reforma Pilates? What is that? The Reforma Pilates machine isolates your muscles for lower imbuts. Workout that helps tone the core and helps rehab. Prevention. Is it just like using some exercise machines to improve Pilates more? I can imagine that would be good. I'm hitting all the right muscle groups at the moment. The deadlifts definitely do help in my lower back. I just need to be a bit careful with the weights that I use. But you can get a lot if you are struggling with your lower back. I'm not a P.T., a registered P.T. But one thing that helped me a lot when I was doing my taekwondo because I didn't really do deadlifts. I was mostly squatting quite a lot. I found that doing supermans was really, really good. It's a lot of people when they think about having an unstable core they immediately think about the abs. The abs are going to be the main issue. Not always. A lot of the time people can have weak lower backs and weak spinal erectors, the ones that I was talking about. So working on those in whatever way works for you I think could be quite helpful. Also check out Tom Morrison's weight slash fitness content. Those are helpful and fun fitness content. Cool. Yeah, they are good. Some good head fans. Indeedy. Layla says my Adderall got filled after one month and a weak delay. Excited about that. Yeah, he was getting scared that I could get fired. That's not a good day here. I relate to you with your lack of meds. Just maybe in a different, the opposite way. I think probably for the next couple of days I'm going to be very highly energised. Natasabin is quite heavily sedative. It's going to be like the opposite to what it does. I'm not looking forward to that but I might be able to utilise my new energy. Maybe get my diet back on track a little bit. We shall see. What's up? Hello OCD Brain. How are you doing? Just letting you know guys, we do have about half, just under half an hour left on the live stream. See if you do have any burning questions that you want to ask me about autism, mental health, fitness, self-improvement. Anything like that. Go ahead. I'm a mental health nurse and I've seen patients do really well on Natasabin. It definitely helps. I wouldn't be taking it if I wasn't on SSRIs, I don't think. It's just kind of a measure that we've found through trial and error that really helps me with the unfavourable anxiety effects of SSRIs on my brain. Having a look at some other things that I've put out. What are you doing this week? Oh yeah, I put out a post on Alexa Fimea which I'm really happy that. Usually the posts that I do about Alexa Fimea don't tend to pop off as much so I'm happy that more people are getting to hear about it. I think it's a very underrated aspect of being autistic. Thank you for joining Kim. I've been really bad with my diet. I've been eating a lot of inflammatory foods. I know the feeling. This is not fun but I'm sure I will get back on track at some point. My brain doesn't seem to be giving me a break lately though. I'm going to try and get a good old early night tonight. We've finished up some videos, things like that. Get to the gym. Sort myself out. I'm trying to think of what I've got planned for next week. I can sort of give you a bit of a sneak preview I guess into the videos that I'm going to be putting out. Let's see if I can find my presentation folder. Meditation videos. What am I doing? One thing that was asked I think at one of the previous live streams was that there is a minimal amount of content out there on supporting people within neurodiverse relationships with one person being neurotypical, the other person being autistic, or one person being autistic. Someone asked me to produce a presentation on what is like to date autistic people as an autistic. It's been an interesting video to put out. It's not really something that I've thought about doing before but if it's something that a lot of people would find a lot of value in I will go for it and try my best. I have a video coming out about the problem with autism genetic research according to both the scientific and social perspectives on this. I also have a very very big video going to be coming out on what autism is because I haven't really done many videos which actually sort of cover that so I'm going to be covering it from the scientific and the experiential perspectives in that case which would be really cool. I'm also going to be talking about the divide between autism parents and autistic adults which I'm hoping is going to be received well. I think it's a really important thing to talk about. It's not nice to have these divisions within the autism advocates whether they're parents or autistic adults if we could all kind of band together under one banner or at least just collaborate with each other a little bit more, cooperate, perhaps we might be able to get a little bit more more things sort of changed in society quicker. That is the goal you know. To make sure that we reduce those negative life experiences that autistic people face. At a very very high rate. Goofish I think the film Amelie was great for showing a lot to find me. She used character in the painting to describe her emotions which was very relatable. I haven't seen Amelie before or heard of it. I think my dad might have mentioned something about it but I haven't watched it before. Any dating slash real relationships advice insight would be really appreciated. Well if you are looking for stuff like that you can head over to my Instagram page and go to like the little newspaper icon. I do have a section which kind of covers a lot of the sort of relationship dating posts that I've made. There is also on YouTube I've done quite a few videos which cover that which you're very welcome to have a look at. Yeah there's definitely a massive massive lack of research on autism and maybe ADHD and the likes of RSD as well and probably epilepsy. Go like Amelie says mate I would love to hear that podcast slash video on tips for dating people with autism. I have a special mate in my life whom I want to take out for a date. Tapes like says thanks for your insightful videos. I found that metazapine for me was mostly unhelpful as it pronounced predominantly histamine one binding. 20 times more than other sites for me equally as damaging as a psoriasis and then SNRI. Yeah I think that's a big issue with metazapine I would say. The old histamine receptor. Emily N channel member nice to see you Emily. Did you struggle with outbursts and meltdowns in school before you were diagnosed? I struggled with meltdowns in school while I was being diagnosed. Wasn't wasn't really like a lot that I could do. I just got overwhelmed quite a bit at school. I didn't I don't think that having autism diagnosis necessarily helped me have less of them. Although it did allow me to sort of go out of class if I needed to. But I didn't really tend to have any outbursts. I'm a very sort of internal person. Like a lot of my negative emotions tend to be focused internally rather than externally. Which is good for people. Maybe not so much for me. So shutdowns are plenty. Meltdowns are plenty. 100%. It was a tough time in my life. And even sort of in my early adulthood I would say being honest. There's a way to stop outbursts. I wonder if normal autistic people don't have outbursts ever. Oh they definitely do. The best way of preventing meltdowns. I'm not going to talk about outbursts because outbursts are kind of this just basically external display of emotion. But meltdown specifically the best way to stop meltdowns is to prevent them. So make sure that you are meeting your needs. Avoiding as much as practical sensory and social overload. Taking breaks at social events. Making sure that you've got sensory supports. Make sure that you have to to a certain extent reduce the amount of sensory stress that you experience in the workplace or at home if possible. Those things will do the most for you. And also trying to understand a little bit more about alexithymia as well. And thinking about some ways to somewhat identify how you're feeling a little bit earlier. That can do a lot for regulating you because a lot of people with alexithymia have a difficulty with it. Not necessarily because they can't feel the emotions. But because when an emotion like the the only necessarily pick up or identify an emotion and connect it to to an event when it's very intense. So if you have periods of time during the day where your anxiety is rising and most people kind of be like oh okay I'm feeling anxious I need to take a break. Perhaps you won't and you continue to a point where it it becomes a little bit more noticeable for you. And you have a very very short window between noticing that you are not progressively like not doing good. And having a meltdown having a shutdown having some kind of emotional sort of outburst perhaps. So I definitely recommend if you are struggling with that sort of emotional regulation to have a look at my content on alexithymia. You'll find that it might be quite helpful for you. I do have some guides about how I have sort of not overcome but I just did my mindset towards in order to better identify when I'm not doing so good. Those can be really helpful. Implemented breaks is also a good shout. You know just having breaks that you set yourself to have even during the working day also during social events that can be really important for your regulation. Making sure that you get your alone time your social battery is replenished. All of those can do sort of wonders for keeping you a bit more sort of regulated I suppose. I don't necessarily have a lot of meltdowns and shutdowns nowadays especially if I'm on my own and I'm kind of repeating my routine that I have. I don't necessarily tend to experience those meltdowns and shutdowns as much as I did when I was younger. And that's because I can kind of notice now the point at which I need to stop you know a little bit earlier which has been helpful. I have a very cool chart hanging on my fridge to help helping to identify emotions. Is that the emotional wheel? I have one of those as well. Cookiefish as I used to have meltdowns that brought me out in a rash before I learned to hide them not helpful. In a rash? Wow. Sorry to hear that. Alright thank you. I'm trying to find ways to help myself and my son with meltdowns. Your insight is helpful. Thank you. I spend a lot of time feeling anxious so it's a hard target when it becomes too much. You obviously have to notice and identify stuff but also it can make it sometimes difficult even if you do notice that you're becoming not so okay. Because you are hyper focused on something. You're focused on getting something done that's part of your routine. You're focused on your routine. You're very much focused on what you're doing. It can be sometimes very difficult to break away from that. I'm not saying that I am a god when it comes to breaking away from hyper focusing. I do try as much as I can to very much like. My brain is faulting. We have about 13 minutes left of this livestream. If you've got any more of these questions you want to ask? It's called a needs finder but it is a wheel yes. I'll have to check that out Jeannie. Thank you for recommending that. Yo just popping in say thank you for all that you do. I really love the OSRS stream. You did. Interesting. Well I will possibly do something more like that at some point if that's something that you guys want. It's pretty much just like one of these streams but with another focus as well. I guess I should probably do some more of those. Thank you. It's rough having my son help sent home multiple times a week. While it's perfuming for a resistant assessment and possible medication. Yeah I can imagine. If it makes you feel a little bit more hopeful about being sent home and things like that. That was something that I experienced quite a bit. It didn't necessarily impact my education. I got some very very good grades once we're good university. I just wouldn't think too sort of doom and gloom about that occurrence. It is a very common thing that we can experience especially in the secondary school environment. 100%. Hello everybody. What is being discussed on this stream this time? We've been talking about overload and meltdowns and shutdowns and all sorts of various things. Indeedy. Hope you're staying hydrated this week Thomas. I haven't been actually the best the past couple of days but I do have my good old 4 liter bottle of water or juice. I think I've got too much juice in there to be honest. I've got like the quadruple strength one. I've just been using the normal strength one up until this point. Like I can't believe it's already been two weeks into November already. Yeah so... Yeah it's crazy. Time flies eh. Fagi says I was bad with meltdowns after my father died so I found out how to process my emotions at that time. I went on for months after that. Yeah. And it is difficult to process those emotions especially if you struggle with the likes find me. It's hard to like really sort of identify like why you're feeling a certain way. What you're feeling. Expressing that and like acting on the on said sort of feelings. Sort of managing your own mental health and making sure that you're okay. It's difficult. It is. I had a similar experience with my grandad. My grandad passed. Thank you for reminding me to drink water. You're welcome Dan as Grotto. No it's um... I'm not reminding you to drink water. Joshua G is reminding me to drink water which is reminding you. So we've all got to pay some PR respects to the almighty Mr Joshua G. Reminding us to drink some water. That was weird. This loose connection that hardly ever happens. Madness. So guys we've got about 8 minutes left if you have something that you would like to ask me. Go for it. Would you prefer sparkling water or non-sparkling? If it's got some juice in it. Sparkling is pretty nice. But just sparkling water. I don't know. It's just not pleasurable. Especially if it's really really really like you know really sparkling. Like tingles your tongue as you drink it. I can't be dealing with that. But if it's got some flavour to it and it's also filled with CO2. I will enjoy that. Water nasty until you flavour it. Yeah. I mean my ideal is to get to a point where I am just drinking straight water. So that is the ideal. But for the moment while I am strolling to do life. Adding a little bit of flavouring to my water is going to help me a little bit. Staying a bit more consistent. Maybe I can deviate away from it at some point. I feel like a lot of the information and a lot of the stuff around sweetness is very much overly negative. It's definitely not good to consume massive amounts of it. I think it activates some of the receptors that you have for sugar in your taste buds. Which does have downstream impacts on the amount of enzymes that you produce. Which can somewhat have some negative effects. The alternative of adding sugar to things is not ideal either. I think if you keep it in moderation you should be okay. It's a very researched group of compounds. It's got to look at the information on it. I think I also have a video that I am going to make at some point. I don't think it's going to be the next two weeks. But I am definitely wanting to try doing the post about the stages of autistic realisation. I really enjoyed doing it. I'm going to try to make that into a video format at some point. I love the way you calmly explain things. Thank you. I think I'm just generally quite a relaxed person. Which is weird. It's a very weird paradox isn't it? Someone with strong anxiety disorders is very chill. Doesn't really make much sense. Again, what I was talking about before. It's very internal for me. It's not really external all the time. In 2024 I will quit the sugars. That is a big goal. Big goal. I think he says frozen berries on great yoghurt stops me consuming loads of ice cream. So I reduced my sugar content there. That was a very good idea. Greek yoghurt is great if you enjoy it. Good source of protein. Relatively low in fat. Little bit of carbs. Good stuff. I can link the needs. Find it into discord if that would be interesting for others. Please do. That would be very cool. Best neurodiverse friendly parts of the UK. I'm not too sure on that. region to region. Not too sure. CJQ says I hear that a strong sense of justice is something in autism. What is your experience of this? I think it's definitely apparent in quite a lot of the autistic people that I come across. But I think that's a lot to do with our sort of attraction towards sort of rules and guidelines and things like that. I think when you follow something to the letter, it does provide you a little bit of kind of, you know, it's a similar effect to having like a religion or something. Like you have some set sort of guidelines to do, how to act, what to say, what not to say, you know, things like that. It can somewhat give you a little bit of a direction when a lot of things are very uncertain. So I'd say that, you know, that kind of strong sense of justice. I think it's something that I have seen, but also it does not necessarily absolve autistic people from doing things that aren't sort of considered widely to be, you know, not so good. I don't know if I word that properly. The speech apraxia today is strong with this one, as you can tell. At least I'll try it, 100%. As an odd HD person, I find your calm demeanor stabilizing. Good. I think that's something that I hear about a lot. Just from different sources. I don't know. I feel like it just have a little bit of a sort of, I don't know. I was wondering if you heard of oppositional defiance disorder. I wonder how the mind avoidance and odd, odd what, odd. I can't seem to see the message. It's like odd. No, I can't see it. For some reason odd something can be mistaken for one another. I'm not too sure. I haven't done much research into oppositional defiance disorder. It sounds very similar perhaps maybe to PDA, but also might have some like different roots or kind of meaning like reasons to why those behaviors happen, possibly. Do you have a discord for autistic people? I do indeed. It is located on the Planet Aspe Discord server. I've got my own sort of sub-discords in there. I haven't been the most sort of diligent in sort of being a part of that, so I do apologize. It's something that I told myself that I would do, but you know obviously like lots of changes going on at the moment. It's a bit difficult to maintain a lot of different things, but I'm trying my best. You can find it in my link trade if you do want to join. You're from the US? Cool. Have you got your coaching and guidance services up and running? I'm not going to be doing coaching services for now. I do have a service which is called Talk to Thomas, which is basically an opportunity to ask me questions about things. There is no necessarily like coaching sort of recommendation aspect to it. It's a conversation about things. So if you've got some questions that you want to ask me, some perhaps more personal questions that you don't really want to share with other people, you just want to ask me them about autism, mental health, things like that. You can head over to my link tree and do a Talk to Thomas thing. Good luck to those. Have a blessed Friday. Hope everything goes in your favor. And it says trouble free as you wish. Thanks to the stream king. Thank you. You definitely hype me. He says I took your advice and got some chewy gem products for chewing. They are really good. I'm glad. Filling those oral motor needs a good way of going about it. 100%. Well guys, I appreciate all of you guys. I'm not having the best day today and it's always really lovely to kind of hop on and just be open and talk to you guys about stuff. So I much appreciate you all coming in today to be part of this live stream. And I'm going to go to the gym, do some squats and some deadlifts. Just what you want to be doing when you're not feeling too great but it's going to make me feel good after. That's just what I'm hoping. So hopefully things will go well tonight. You can get a bit more sleep. I'm kind of having to put a bit more effort into it. And yeah, well I hope you guys have enjoyed today and if you have, you can always head over to my YouTube channel. Support me as a member for £1.99 a month. You get a little badge next to your name. Things like that. So if you are wanting to support me doing the work that I am doing, that would all be really, really helpful and great. I'd appreciate that. Me like says I'm autistic myself and nobody should be ashamed of it. I'd be proud because I'm human. We're all humans. We should be proud of who we are. And by the way, I love your videos. It helps me. Good bless. Thank you, Mainline. Hope your day lifts up. I appreciate you enjoying your workout. Harry Squatter. Oh, don't get stied with a Harry Potter. A Harry Potter. Harry Squatter means. Oh, they tickle me so much. They're so funny. I love them so much. I might watch a couple of those just to brighten my day. That's a good reminder that those things are out there. Ready to make me Google. All right, guys. It's been a pleasure. And I will see you next week for another Autie Time livestream. If you guys are doing well. See you later. And to you guys on YouTube, thank you for joining today. And hopefully I'll be able to do another stream at some point. So get that started. See you later for ghee. See you later, everybody. Moonlight, Rita, Nanas. I'll leave you guys. Thank you so much for joining. See you later.