 Okay. Let's just get this Instagram on up. We are live on YouTube. How are you guys doing? Instagram live. There we go. We don't want to see that camera. Awesome. Very cool. How are we? Welcome to another Autie Time Chat Live. All autism, mental health related things I'm going to talk about. So I do want to preface like this live stream by saying that I've recently had a little bit of a mental health difficulty. I don't really want to use the word breakdown because I've been managing to support myself at the moment. But my mental health is not the best this week and it hasn't been like on the weekends and stuff. So, you know, there's been a lot of, mostly not very much because I've been having to try and step back and have a bit of a rest and stuff. You know, it happens. Happens to the best of us. Mental health wise, not always the best thing. But, um, wow, I've got a lot of people coming in. Shout out in the comments if it's your first time here. I'm interested in that. And I've just got water on my leg. Brilliant. Hi, Art Time. I'm not too bad. Thank you. It's, um, it happens, doesn't it? You just got to keep rolling with the punches. Hi, Pasta. T.D. Wright says, oh no, I'm very sorry you've had a hard time. It's one of those things, you know, it's not the best of times at the moment, but it's in the same vein. It's not something that is new to me very much. Like, I've had a lot of situations where my mental health's got a bit too bad. So, um, it's not, it's nothing that I haven't dealt with before, basically. Shout out to your own securities out. What do you mean? Real estate says you're awesome. Thank you very much. First time from our Drake style. Nice to see you. Nice to see you. For anybody who hasn't joined before, this is basically an opportunity to ask anything about autism, mental health, anything about the content that I've put out, whether it's the podcast or my Instagram stuff or the posts that I do on YouTube. Go for it. Go for it. Go for the questions. You can use a little question bubble in the bottom right corner to ask some questions. Other than that, my camera is still very shaky. Laura Shakespeare says hello first time here. Glad to see you're staying hydrated, but no, with no water. And constantly knocking over my stuff because my vestibular system is all worked at the moment. It's actually that sneak stuff that I said about in the last live stream that I did. You're here for me. Thank you very much. Emma Falskes says first time here. Been in similar situations. M3 Melissa May said this week's been hard, but I'm so proud of how I'm resting, caring for myself. First time doing that too. Well, we're both in the same boat this week, I'd say. I hope you've been exercising this week. I have actually, I haven't missed a day this week. I'm actually going to go tonight and then I'm going to take the weekend off as some rest days. Do a big upper body session today at the gym. At 10 says on the walls, not inside the walls. I need to report that my flat is getting painted pale green and light gray colors, despite the fact that my father said that it would depress me. I stubbed my ground and that's all the wiring will go on the walls, not inside the walls. Fair enough. Fair enough. That's great. Self advocacy. Joshua's Fortune 146 says nice hearing. Thank you very much. High diversity of minds. You're doing a great job. Proud of you. Thank you. I've got our first question here. Hello, and Andre Leon asks, what are your favorite games? Well, at the moment, I haven't really been playing many games, even though I have been off. I really haven't had like the mental energy to concentrate on something at the moment. So all of my weekly energy is going into doing this live stream. But I want to do it because it actually I quite enjoy doing these things, chatting to you guys because I don't get to interact a lot. I think sort of do it with my comments on my posts. I just find it too overwhelming when I'm in a burnout. So I haven't been that responsive, I think, in DMs and stuff. Joshua Fortune says it is said that autistic people have problems with financial problems. Is that true? I'd say to a certain extent because of the employment rates, we can struggle to. I mean, I think about 20, 22% of us don't have full-time or part-time employment. So that's obviously going to be a big contributor. And then also like some of the adjustments that you make in your own life, the things that, you know, if you have a real difficulty around travel and stuff, I know some people like Autistic Callum who takes like taxis to work just because it avoids the sensory social distress from going on the buses. So you've got all of those things that like the little things that you do just to make your life a bit easier as an autistic person. So I suppose that could be the case here. A. Benj says, love your videos. Thank you very much. Shivri says the heat is now helping to exterity. It's totally, totally. I now move in the sky. Our direct style says I've been experiencing some difficulties myself, anything you recommend when you feel overstimulated. I garden, paint, et cetera. I think just not doing anything is good for me because I tend to be very sort of busy and out and about and doing lots of things. I think sometimes just doing nothing is good, you know. I don't really feel like I'm able to kind of get myself out of them to go to the gym. And I've taken sort of like a week off of work, so I'm able to somewhat maintain my executive functioning skills to a normal degree. So I mean, I think I'm coping with it very well. It's just like, you know, I've got to take some time off and, you know, you're pretty good. Your pink drink is funny, cute, pretty. Thank you. Our direct style says gym. Yep, definitely. Colour can affect your moods. Totally. And sometimes it can affect the taste of things as well. It's really interesting. I know that sometimes, like, I don't know, I think I've seen some stuff like some psychology things around like food and stuff where you have like, if you put food on black plates versus white plates, it can taste differently. So they all kind of, we all have these kind of small strands of synesthesia to some extent with a lot of things, especially like taste and smell. Like those are some big ones. Even vision, to be honest. How old were you when you were diagnosed? I was 10. TD Wright says what type of books to enjoy reading? Mostly nonfiction. I like to learn stuff from books if I'm reading them. And I tend to, if I'm going to read them, I tend to use audio books because I don't know, I just find reading difficult. I just get very distracted and then I can't find the place that I am on the page and stuff. So usually audio books, if I'm going to read to something. Adam says, since I started getting into watching you and research my specialness, quotation marks, I self-advocate more. It takes more energy. Thank you for somehow encouraging that behavior. It is tough. It's not, it's not a fun like aspect of it, especially if people around you don't necessarily understand what it's like to be autistic and have kind of spiky needs profiles and have certain preferences and stuff. So you got to some certain extent and it's not always the most fun thing, especially when people don't really take on board what you're saying. Connie Harris says, just join your chat. Good to be here. Thank you, Connie. Nice to see you. Dot Stacey says, hi. Hi. How are you doing? Autostyle. Thank you. Rest may be it. Yeah, indeed. How would it taste different? Like in what way? I hope that didn't sound like a dumb question. I don't know. I mean, can you think like, I'm thinking of fruits that might have like a little bit of a pinky tinge to them. Maybe like from drinking drinks, you know, might taste a bit like bubblegummy and sweet if it's pink, maybe. I mean, it kind of does. It's rhubarb and custard flavoured. And isgy powder stuff. It's really good stuff. It has like some different, like, meat-beasting or focus-encouraging anxiety-reducing supplements in it with it. So it's better for me than coffee, actually, even though it looks about odd. Don't get the jitters from it. Now Moon Sky says, I got very anxious because a lot of people, including my therapist, say that I might be autistic, but my psychiatrist said that I have to wait a few months to get me tested, but I feel I need to know now. Yeah, I get that. And it can be a long process. I'm actually in the process of going for a ADD slash ADHD diagnosis thing at the moment. That's going to take a while to go through. It's a bit difficult because, like, some of the meds that I'm on are kind of quite sedative. So I think my natural, sort of, energy is dulled by those medications. So it's hard to know sometimes, but I'm going to go through that process. So I feel you want that one. It's probably going to be, like, two years for me. So it's good that you'd be able to get it in a few months, at least, if that's something that you want. Of course. A divestive mind says, what advice would you give teachers who have autistic students in the general education classroom very much try and get the other teachers to include autism in the curriculum, to some extent. And not just, like, the science-y stuff. Get someone who's lived experience. Perhaps watch a video from someone who's just created from lived experience, to do experience autistic adults for younger kids. That can be really good. Give them a bit of a role model. Someone to, I guess, fight the stereotypes that can be out there. And also, a peer mediated intervention. So that means a lot of, well, at least some level of encouragement of the kids around them to understand a bit more, understand the differences, pick up on some of perhaps the, I guess, like, the struggles that they may have and the ways that their communication might come across, even though it's, you know, it's not meant in a bad way. I think that stuff can be really important, because a lot of the time, the stress comes from the other kids, just in my experience. PM Ferrier says, hi, Tom, how are you? Not too bad, man. It's not the best at the moment, but we're trucking along. I'm actually going to be putting out our podcast, I think, on the Monday. So it's going to be a good one. I hope you're looking forward to that. How does it feel to be an awesome human being? Oh, my God. I'm trying to take that compliment. I think it depends. Like, if I'm going to be watching something very weird, heavy, then maybe. I tend not to, though. I know for some people, it can be quite good for them, but I like to look at all the pretty visuals and things like that most of the time. What might say foods? Um, um, um, um, um, I've got a lot of say foods. I think I'm, my, like, range of palettes for different things is very, very wide. I get it out of our food or anything like that. So, for me, it's a lot of, like, pre-made protein related things, like protein puddings and pancakes and overnight oats. Something that I'm liking at the moment. Protein jakes. Lots of, lots of, um, um, health related things that don't require a lot of prep, basically. Basically, yeah. Do you think being autistic means we need to sleep more? Um, I think I might have seen something at some point where, like, some, I think we might need to sleep, like, a tiny bit more than, like, the control group in one of the studies that I looked at. I don't know about that though. I probably say that because we tend to expend so much more energy and take on so much more stress and cold dissolve and things like that that it would make sense that we might need to rest a bit more using up a lot of that brain power. I'm still close to friends. Do, do, do. Uh, Shivri says, oh, I think you guys are chatting, chatting to each other. Releska says, the adult autism assessment can be immensely helpful if you want to prepare for your diagnosis process. Is that something that's, like, just in the UK or is that, like, a U.S. just a U.S. thing or is that in the UK as well? Um, diversity of minds says, thank you for what you do. You're an encouragement. I'll reach out to you later. Cool. Good stuff. Uh, PM Ferrius, uh, shared some, some news. I'm sorry that you're, um, I'm sorry that you've, you've had a lot of difficulties at the moment and that sounds really tough. You know, my condolences too. Definitely need more during burnout. I've always easily slept 10 hours a night my whole life and probably I'm the same, to be honest. Like, 10 hours tends to be like a good, good marker for me, which is not ideal. It's an international publication. Okay, cool. Is that, like, something from, like, the medical caring systems that will help kind of with, like, signposting for stuff or is that, like, an actual kind of guide on, like, on masking and things like that. I'd be interested to know. Uh, Dark Path, I understand that it is something that, um, it is something that I'd probably usually talk about. I don't really feel like I want to talk about ABA at the moment just because my, um, it's not the easiest topic to speak on, sort of, controversies around it and I don't feel in the right headspace to be talking about that at the moment. I will talk, I may talk about it in the future though. It's not something that I want at the moment. I appreciate it. You'll get for it. Indeed. Indeed. It's clinical looking fresh man. Agent Kins. Uh, it's clinical and neuro-affirming. That's great. That's really good. It's really good. I have good boundaries. So, I just, I don't feel like I could adequately explain my, my stances on things like this at the moment. So, yeah. Do you like to research post by Dr. Joey, Joey on Tiktok? I don't know where Dr. Joey is. I don't know who they are. Let me have a look. Uh, Joey. Are you excited? Are they on, are they on Instagram as well? I know that some people on Tiktok don't, don't come over on Instagram. I don't tend to use Tiktok a lot. So, I don't think I've seen much about that. Is it, is it ND research translated or is that they're like off-shoot channel? Dr. Joey. It seems like they've got a lot of it's ND psych. Oh, there we go. Yeah, they got a lot of followers. I should, I should definitely talk to them. Um, that would, that would be a really good podcast to do. If they, if they have a, an, an Instagram, anyone, if you know of it, please let me know and put it down and send me a DM or send me an email with their at, that would for the, for the Instagram. I could probably search it myself to be honest. I've been a lie. I don't know why I'm asking you guys to do that. How'd they do it on Instagram? Dr. Joey Lawrence. There we go. Okay. Messages here are not, not monitored to brilliant. Okay. I like following Dr. Joey and you for info. Oh, thank you very much. I'm appreciate it to be added into the lump of um, doctors, autistic doctors as well. That's a big compliment to me. Thank you. Uh, Drake Stiles says, hope you feel better soon. Thanks so much for answering my questions, truly helpful. You're very welcome, Drake. Hope you have a good day. So, um, I'm just having a look at some of the Instagram posts that I've done this week. Let's have a look. Uh, talked about earworms. I did my um, what you see, what you don't see stuff and I was also talking about inspiration corn which I'm sure a lot of you all know what what that means but basically it was kind of like a um, talking about the um, the tendency of like the mainstream media to um, kind of focus on autism as being like autistic or autistic people as being these like inspiring um, people who like fight against their autism. I know I've had situations where I've done interviews for the mainstream media in terms of like newspapers or radio shows and they always say like oh this this autistic man is battling his autism something like that. Um and it's it's basically kind of it it tends to be like whether it's like TV shows or whether it's interviews it tends to be always this kind of bait for people to be like inspired by them for doing things which doesn't sound necessarily bad on the surface but a lot of the time it's just kind of played off as this interesting story rather than you know they're not necessarily getting these people into um, like the conversations that they're having around things they're not getting like autistic people to kind of come on to shows and talk about what it's like to you know have all these amazing speakers and that we have within the autistic community actually go on and talk about being autistic and their views on things and stuff so it's kind of like pigeonholing to some degree but for like inspiration which is not always the best thing um, I am going to do a post at some point about what I would probably like to see more from the mainstream media as opposed to this but and that will be coming at some point once I have the mental energy it's going to be another one of those topics and make the dreamies doctor thank you uh, shivery says earworms the new insta function adding a song as a note is amazing I've added so many new songs and it's a mind melt I can get that, definitely brie says I got diagnosed ASD and ADHD at the same time this year at 33 what a rollercoaster last six months have been that sounds like a really really big thing really crazy strong thing um, sorry I just wrote something else I read one of the uticons this is strong um, now that sounds um you know take it easy on yourself and uh, try and I think one of the first things I always tell people is to kind of identify some kind of learned behaviors that you've taken about yourself and who you are and things like that that have been sort of molded by your early life experiences and try and I guess reflect on them in the new light that tends to be a lot of the where a lot of the use can come out of that stuff so I definitely encourage that do you get a funded watching that movie music I didn't watch it I don't think that that's something that I would enjoy watching not gonna lie um absent says I know A.Z it's a bit random on the internet where you're up you're having a chat there in the comments Tom Stoltman is one of the strongest men on the planet it's very true very very true, it would be nice to have him on a podcast at some point if I can get past his PR team I heard you talk about inspiration in mainstream media and how people tend to be shown as inspirations yeah it's um it is a thing it's not like why this person's done so much it's why this person's done so much but they're also autistic and it's like you know how can they do this because they have this disability it's like well you obviously don't know much about autism because some things we can find a lot easier it's not necessarily this this upward hill of negative battle Brie says yes so much unmasking and realising coping mechanisms to make things easier as well as not allowing it to become a full identity for enough that sounds really good Brie what autistic terms do I like and don't like I can go with that I can talk about the ones that I do like I like identity first language personally it's not something that I'm gonna like force people to do if they don't want to because whenever I meet anyone you know if someone doesn't like me referring to them in a certain way then I don't but in in terms of myself how I would like to be introduced it's I think it depends on the context of what people are saying like if it's kind of like a headline of news article I'd probably say it would be nice to be called and you know Tom is autistic rather than Tom has autism but that's that's kind of the one of the only things that I'm you know really passionately like yeah this is good just trying to think other terms that I don't that I like I'm not gonna talk about the ones that I don't like but to talk about the ones that I do like I think they're probably that's probably the one that I would say of all of them I think it's really nice I like the term neurodivergent and neurospicy those things are cool Releski asks who inspires you I'd probably say and we've got another question from Dr Stacy saying what inspired you to start this channel I don't really have many inspirations other than I would probably say my parents are quite inspirational for me my grandad is my grandma maybe a lot of people in my own family I didn't really identify with a lot of the online celebrities like TV celebrities and stuff so I never really go out with any non-fictional role models especially being fictional you know characters that just kind of show a lot of grit and they're kind of a bit of an outcast but then they make it in the world you know I really identify with that so it tends to be fictional characters there's also not that many like openly autistic people in the media that I identify with or many to be honest in general but I'd say that on Instagram definitely like Dr Megan Neff is one of my inspirations I very much like the work that she does definitely I started the channel actually when I was not doing very well in life probably when I was about 2021 just gone to university was not doing well and wanted to share my experiences and then over time it kind of I started to get a lot into like self-development and I started to learn a bit more about it, talk to some people and it kind of turned into this more of like I helped myself in these areas and so I'm hopefully the way that I did it might help other people but it's everything to me really I just really my life meaning is to support and help other autistic people other autistic children who perhaps don't have a real model and don't have the resources I guess to move forward through the medical system I think that's a big one for me and also to fight against a lot of the inequalities that we see so there's a lot of things but they're all kind of focused around making sure that life as an autistic person is good for a lot of people and not inherently negative like we can say with the stats and stuff and they're spicy, yeah it is a good one it's an interesting one I need to use it like in the context of like jokes or like meme pages or meme posts or stuff like that but it's a funny one what are my hyper fixations as a kid probably well there's been a lot of things I remember there's this these dinosaur cards that I used to like where you could like swipe them at the arcade they're called dinosaur king I was obsessed with those Pokemon, Digimon anime pretty much like a lot of those were hyper fixations and then when I got into my teenage taekwondo became one science became another went to university to taekwondo and stuff so there's still pretty hyper were very big hyper fixations for me but in adulthood I'd probably say at the moment autism is obviously a big one as you could imagine but also like the gym and stuff that's very much something that I'm enjoying at the moment definitely Peedle's autistic journey says I appreciate your content and I show it to my autistic daughter I'm also autistic and you brighten up our life for sure I'm really glad about that honestly it warms my heart it's no end to know that my my crazy way of approaching online stuff and doing all these things is actually helping someone, sorry about the noise PM Ferris says I have a lot of fixations completing TV shows or finishing games 100% I dive I deep dive into the extent that it can annoy my parents I get that I like collecting things making sure that all the achievements are done and stuff especially with video games autism says also if you don't mind me asking I saw your YouTube short where you post a list and something triggered me to ask if you have your blood work okay homily speaking, what do you mean alright I was in like if I did asking if I take testosterone testosterone or not testosterone is bad remember to stay hydrated everyone that's Joshua J Williams in for managing the stream making sure everyone's got some hydration in them it's warm day what did you ask captain, sorry no offense taken if it was by the way I think it's a compliment so we have about 25 minutes I am going to go at 25 minutes in 25 minutes because my brain can only handle so much at the moment and it's very nice to do these and I enjoy them but go ahead take care of the old brain I think hi Austin, nice to see you how are you doing man I'm not into gear shaming or something else yeah I don't use that but I think it would be a very poor choice for me to do that because of the meds that I'm on might just screw up my mental health Barry says how's the heat treating you mate pretty badly, I hate it it's awful I'm literally 24 seven in front of a fan at the moment so I'm trying you know it's good to a certain extent because it means I can just kind of hop outside very easily yeah, it is horrible the heat has curled everything Austin says new work schedule so I start work later on Fridays is that good, is that bad it doesn't sound like it would be good Rayla says you have an amazing brain thank you very much I struggle to see why but I appreciate the compliment so I think something else that I talked about recently I made a post on the autism puzzle verse affinity infinity logos and there has been some comments, I think I've started to use more hashtags and I think some of the hashtags are followed by people from not the actual autistic community so I've had some people who are being quite combative towards each other which is not ideal but I think it's good, especially with things like this for there to be some kind of dialogue as long as it's not too angry and annoying I think that's fine but a lot of people, I mean I suppose I could explain my stance a little bit more on the jigsaw puzzle and the infinity symbol I'm not like one of those people who I don't like it and I don't particularly like what it stands for and some of the companies that you use it and I don't know I know that some autistic people love puzzles and I think that's great and I think in some ways you could say like autism is the missing piece to you understanding yourself maybe I think it mostly comes across to people as being quite an infantilising thing perhaps maybe a little bit standards like they're puzzling and all that I don't know there's also a lot of bad history and a lot of people who aren't within the autistic community tend to use these jigsaws for a lot of people it's a red flag doesn't mean they're necessarily bad content some people might just like it and some people might just be getting into the community so I'm not always so combative about it and I think as well even with the infinity logo for neurodiversity it's it's not necessarily like an autism logo because it is the neurodiversity logo so we don't necessarily have one that I've seen that most people identify with I know a lot of people like the autism creature which is something that I've seen but I don't know I feel like the infinity logo is a bit more age inclusive like it's not as infantilising as like a jigsaw multicoloured and like in primary colours it just doesn't really hit me right it's not really something that I want to represent me that makes sense yeah autism creature have you not seen it it's a funny one I've done some memes on it in the past it's also I think it's a green flag for a lot of people because it stands for neurodiversity I think a lot of people associate it more with acceptance work actually autistic work I think as well like just anything that kind of affirms the neurodiversity label and encourages people to think about think a little bit outside of the box to how they interact with teach parent autistic people I think it's a lot better of a logo but I notice some people feel quite strongly about it good I can gym in the morning that's good there's some days I've been feeling drowsy because of the heat on the bus Tuesday I started to hallucinate oh my god you need to take care of your your height, not hygiene your hydration man gotta be careful with that stuff I've been in situations like that before it's sending me about loopy when I don't have enough water I tend to say I ask because that is a concerning thing that led to in my case have you used how to remove everything except pictorial muscles so you took PD's and you had issues with that that's horrible me and cupcake says hi Thomas, do you invite specific people that need to be interviewed on your podcast not necessarily actually I interview anyone but has a good story has a nice story and can speak on a topic I don't gate keep like based on how popular someone is or how many followers they have on stuff like that if someone has a good thing like a special interest or some kind of topic that they know a lot about or have a lot of experience with in life then that's definitely something I would consider does that mean email I may not be always like going to say yes to everything but I'm definitely open to it if you can think of some good topics and some evidence to why you'd be good at speaking on it jolly williams my autistic wings, how are you doing recent podcast just wanted to say hi thanks for the opportunity to discuss gaslighting on your podcast I hope that helped I've been so shut down that it took the entire live stream to message take care I'm sorry that you're going for a shut down at the moment it's been a long week and the heat doesn't necessarily help with that I think our symbol should be a water bottle maybe joshuji is a hydration person you can come enjoy my air conditioning thank you I would love to have that but it's not something that we tend to have in the UK because it's not necessarily always this warm Melissa Amy says I didn't take the address and seriously until you all told me to drink water and now it's one of my favourite things about this Q&C you can thank mr joshua for that you make sure that everyone's staying staying hydrated remembering to drink it helps me out a lot so thank you very much jigsaw puzzle why though yeah exactly the puzzle piece normalised looking at us as not fitting or being a problem yeah I can see that you probably get told this a lot but if you ever need to talk feel free to subscribe and hopefully we can make you laugh even if it's an intention thank you I appreciate that I think one of the difficult things for me is that when I get long periods of quite severe depression tends to be the case that I retreat more from social interaction which is not the most helpful thing so I am actually trying at the moment to talk to people a bit more which is helping I had to learn my lesson with hydration not very good at looking after my well being well it's not necessarily about that I think a lot of people they can not notice because of interception with autism it tends to be that sometimes with food eating things like that there is also the executive functioning aspects of hydration, hygiene, organisation things like that there's a lot of stuff you just got to keep up with it if you see yourself slipping look back on your day have I drunk enough today it's warmer than usual maybe I should be something that I do quite a lot I find myself in big lolls and I'm like why do I feel like I can have a headache and stuff like that didn't drink enough water that happens to me now I didn't take PUD so I had some extra tissue under my nipples due to a hormone imbalance when I was 14 that sounds tough that's like gannocomastia I got cancer then next week it was removed that is why I asked fair enough oh no you didn't ask an embarrassing question so don't don't worry about it I don't take people's worst intentions at heart don't worry about that at all no offense taken Joshua G bought a batch, thank you very much my man much appreciated supporting this live stream that's probably a good point if you guys on YouTube are enjoying it so far make sure to like and stuff like that I am actually gonna I'm planning on starting streaming at some point and probably gonna I don't know do you think I should start a new channel or do you think I should just start streaming over on YouTube and um just I could even do it on Twitch to be honest but I'm just wondering if my use of like clips from from my streams would be bad if I was to mix like the podcast with the streaming I'm not sure I'd love to know amaranth.l.jg I wish I had a role model like you or.nf when I was in uni studying biology took me 12 years to graduate why was that was that just because of general sort of stress of uni and stuff cause I know that I can be really tough use of clips would be okay if no copyright music would be present totally, fair enough I was actually wanting to ask as well I was meaning to get in contact at time I actually I think at the moment I'm not in the right headspace for communications and it's taking me a while but I was wondering if anybody within my community might be interested in clipping some of the streams that I do so it's up to you like that would be a massive help I can't obviously pay at the moment because I'm not I'm not selling my business properly and I don't really have the income at the moment but if anyone's willing to support that would be great Stacey says I hope you've seen this got to go when do you normally do live so I can put it in my schedule 530 BST every Friday sometimes may not be but well I have done for the past like 15 live streams so pretty consistent at the moment I'm a state exerising and hydrated, very true I'm going to go exerising after this that's why I've got my compression top on Amaranth says by the way I absolutely love biology just not all the topics relate to it I used to hyper focus on things that I loved but I struggled so much with the rest I think that's something that I agree with this why I picked a biomedical sciences course because it allowed me the most freedom in choosing the modules that I undertook some of them I wasn't too good at but I really enjoyed so that was like the neuroscience stuff and I just found it I think like the questions the examination styles a little bit too much very sort of indirect way of asking questions in exams which was really hard but then some things they had a lot of course work and they were just kind of things that I felt a lot more comfortable doing so to do like microbiology and stuff so those tended to be my good ones Joshua J. Williamson says sure you could do some of your podcast clips on your Twitch and some livestream clips as well there maybe maybe I don't know whether it would be a good idea because I don't necessarily have the biggest following on YouTube at the moment I took a long break so I'm only just starting starting up with some consistent stuff yeah I don't know so PM Ferris but certain content YouTube can be copyright ID claimed and stream then again YouTube is really inconsistent about the content so I give it a try for gaming with Twitch you can get away with more hmm I wouldn't I don't think I'd be gaming I think I'd be looking at that like kind of like what we talked about last week where either look at different pieces of autism content as well there give my opinion on it we can have a chat we can watch it together for YouTube or it could be just watching sort of general modern news and giving like the autistic angle on it from my autistic angle turns out I wasn't on diagnosed or HDR have you been diagnosed recently or are you self diagnosed or are you looking to kind of go for a diagnosis just interested Jayla says I love when you're being yourself and inspires me to be more positive about myself plus I love your plushie thank you very much well Felicia I've actually I've got three plushies I've got one which is Matadi grad I got it from the Microbiology Museum in Amsterdam it's very cool it's called the place is called Artist Micropia Artist really cool place they got a lot of cool exhibits and interactive things if you want to go if you have a in the Amsterdam how to buy help indeed I can show you some of the ones if you want I don't know you might have to just worry I'm wearing my PJ bottoms so I need to be like quick got another one here which is Bailey the gargoyle called it Bailey because would have like the it's a very sort of satanic looking doll so like named after like Bailey was trying to figure some cool cool names to name my plushies and then I got another one which is the roll up on my shelf this one Lucy you can imagine what what I would stand for I love these things they're so cool I'm sorry if I keep knocking the microphone oh my god we got about 7 minutes probably be where's the chat gone naughty chat where have we gone oh god how's that happened it's because I've zoomed out too much ah there we go live chat what has happened ah there we go solid well as Katie says thank you for helping me get my dishes done today you're very welcome you do need dishes while watching watching the live Joshua Jay says you could advertise your twitch and your twitter or facebook I actually don't use twitter I don't like twitter I don't know does twitch have their own like inbuilt streaming thing like youtube does because I just use it on the the inbuilt streaming thing over on youtube Amaran says kind of self diagnosed because I can't afford for modernosis but I managed to get treatment for ADHD at least that's good very good yay for plushies show and tell a tip wadzy waislina hi welcome melissa ms we're still here indeed I put where the gross is and drank some water you gotta stay hydrated on your water Joshua and if you if you if you want to keep up updated with the hydration look out for Joshua Jay in the chat gonna give you some hydration reminders twitter has its high points but if it fires a new the low points can make you feel really upset as though I've found well it's not necessarily that I just don't like the medium of twitter I don't feel like my random thoughts during the day like can be just like distilled into a very short line of text I don't enjoy talking back and forth with people really yeah so I don't know twitter is not for me I do I think I've tried like posting my reels and my pictures and stuff but it just seems to be very very slow it doesn't seem to be picking up very much but I have been using to talk if you want to go follow me on that which is just kind of like the reels version of my youtube stuff melissa says should I be drinking something other than plain water I feel like I've heard that I need electrolytes or something plain water you can't go wrong with plain water I definitely say try and get some electrolytes if you can that can be helpful I know that if you're not like taste intolerant milk is a very good electrolyte drink and maybe you could get some like skimmed milk that's the one that I drink it's not always the best though because I know that sometimes some of the hormones and stuff that are used with grating it can be can sort of leak into the milk so that's not brill I know coconut coconut water is very hydrating very big electrolyte thing they actually use it as emergency stuff in like transfusions if they don't have any bags of the old B I don't know if I'm allowed to say that say that word on the stream I know sometimes Instagram can be a bit weird with that Twitter yeah crazy do you not like how toxic and annoying it can be totally that's the reason why I don't and also I just don't enjoy it I don't like that medium it's not for me I like making long form stuff that I can even to be honest Instagram is not ideal for me because ideally they would let me like the platform would be good for someone who wants to be like a long blog style kind of dissections of things but it's not but it's the best one that I found I think only YouTube might be a bit easier on the the word count sometimes I write a lot and I have to distill it like a lot chop it down Jailer says that I was diagnosed with autism when I was 4 didn't hit me being autistic until I was 16 and at 21 for infinity I accepted being my autistic self and it's okay totally I feel the same I was diagnosed when I was 10 it was only until I got into my early adulthood that I started Adson says must you do discord remind you when you will get to it thank you very much appreciate that term that's another thing as well if you want to get involved in the community like the people who like the podcast and people who like my Instagram stuff you can find my discord in the links on my story or you can check the link tree that I have go head over to the planet planet ASPE discord server I've got my own sort of section of that that you can join in and ask some questions, communicate with other humans with other autistic humans within the discord need to check that again not being the best with staying up to date I drink tea and coffee love couch sparkling waters totally Anna says good to know about milk just a bunch got a bunch of cereal yeah you gotta be careful with cereal cause there's a lot of sugar in that stuff I know there's some protein I've seen it advertised a lot I don't know if you guys have seen it like protein cereals which I want to get but I just don't know if I can ideally purchase that cereal too much sugar in cereals yeah it's totally Mercer Amy says I'm 42 self-diagnosed a month ago so it's all new well you take your time you know it's a long process learning about yourself and are you into others and understanding your prior life experiences future life experiences making adjustments magic spoon is protein cereal there's no one called elite I think that I've seen I'm waiting until it becomes more of a mainstream thing cause I imagine that it will and it may be a bit cheaper in a bit as well so that's what I'm hoping for Vicky says well you've used full diagnosis I'm autistic son's been diagnosed autistic everyone who works with him says he claims he's diagnosed a third assessment fight is done why would they need free assessments that doesn't make much sense for me yeah magic spoon is protein cereal you can find it it's good stuff I mean I haven't tried it but I don't know if I can afford that stuff at the moment Joshua Jay says I hope everyone's having a great day so far I'm going to stay hydrated with some water and perhaps electrolytes have you heard of fuel before Thomas I have heard of fuel I haven't bought fuel because I don't know I mean it doesn't strike me it's something that is ideal for me I just want protein in my protein drinks I don't need the other stuff I know that sometimes it can be helpful if you are not wanting to make stuff but I find myself in those situations just being like why don't I just have a protein shake and eat some fruit that tends to work with me you like it I don't know if I could get protein cereal because I feel like I could just eat the entire bag just straight away just start digging into that bag yeah might not be good for me good for the bank anyway I should probably try and sign off now and get to the gym and I think I'll feel a bit better keep the stress levels at bay might be good to have some rest on the weekend as well because I've still got my nagging elbow injury that I'm dealing with which is really annoying we'll go for one question last from Joshua J G who has bought a badge to support the stream much appreciated my friend what's your experience being like with RSD are you much of an impulsive spender two questions there RSD totally of really really small things especially like when you are trying to start a new conversation with someone sometimes it's not too too bad within like relationships that have been established hey fever but I think definitely like people I've just met I'm very very sensitive to like their facial expressions and the vocal tonalities a lot of things which I shouldn't be but I am which can be a difficulty sometimes especially when you're trying to meet new people talk to new people can be sometimes a difficulty and lastly you talk about impulsive spending not all the time sometimes I did call it impulsive because I've always been a very big spender so anything that like any point where I'm actually just spending money on myself for my own like enjoyment I feel like it's being impulsive spending but maybe have a different definition of that I did buy myself some new jewelry at the moment I got myself a couple of chains to replace my black chain that I usually wear I just thought it might be a good to have a bit of somewhat not black in my attire so got a couple of rope chains that I really like which I'm happy about thank you Re-Think Inclusion for buying a badge much appreciated I um it means a lot thank you good and glad well um guys it's been a pleasure and um I'm gonna try and set up doing some streaming at some point which is probably gonna be quite fun I'm really excited to do something like that because I don't really see many I feel like you know I've been in the podcast space for a while I've been trying to push that stuff forwards in terms of the popularity within the community I kind of want to get involved in a bit of streaming I think that might be my place doing some commentary on live videos thank you for another badge Joshua much appreciated man Constadena says that I was having a breakdown and watching you made me feel bad for some reason I'm glad we can both be feeling breakdowny shut downy together there's always no pressure to feel the need to comment or question if you just like to join in chill all that kind of stuff so yeah well it's been lovely chatting to you guys I'm gonna say goodbye to YouTube and I will see you next week at 5.30pm BST every week though on Fridays go check that out yeah if you have enjoyed the stream over on YouTube I do have a membership button it's very low cost in comparison to other ones so if you want a little badge like you can get like Austin has a little neurodiversity badge go check that out and yeah see you later guys and you guys on