 It really just blew my mind the fact that nobody's it's not like in the news like it's not on mental health crisis Hello everybody Welcome back to Aspergys graph. I am your lovely commentator today. Mr. Thomas Henley and today. I'm back on YouTube after my long Journey into the why is that sorry there's a video us to one Hello everybody So I have been Doing my exams for the past month in a bit. It's my final year at university. So this means that I am fini I am finut I have finished the exam period and my My university life now I'm finished. All is good. All is well. Uh just coming back to Tell you that I'm you know, I'm sorry for Not uploading as much as I really should have done. I've been attacked by 20 miniature pit bulls I can tell that it's had an impact on my channel every time I do this kind of thing. So I really need to sort of get myself You know like a a few videos that I've pre-made and then upload them throughout the exam period Should probably have done that but it's it's over now And I have the summer to Work on my youtube channel and work on some other stuff. So I'm I'm gonna tell you a little bit about What I did in my final year as far as the final year project and my little other thing that I was working on during the My time filming and stuff for my project as you may know, I do I did the course by medical sciences at Manchester University of Manchester I'm a clinical psychologist I'm gonna mention it every chance that I get for the final year project They do a research thing and like the lab and they do some Do some research and I wasn't I wasn't really feeling that because I've already done a year in industry, so I've already done a year of research in Thailand. I then found it Didn't find it that great. So I Decided to approach my supervisor and say Hey, I don't want to do this. I want to do something else and they said, oh, well We have these e-learning projects where you do some Teaching resources or you can do a science media projects, which is just a broad sort of range of things that you can do to do a science and I did a bit of soul searching and considering I'm on this sort of path to raising awareness of autism, I decided to do a documentary on something that You know is quite close to my heart and I decided to do it on mental health and autism Okay, so I'll tell you something that's so cool life is horrible and tragic and bitter You have to be willing to be a fool I basically went to three main people special needs teacher the coach who works for autistics and a guy who Leads one of the charities self-adautism and a bunch of other people about five five other people Autistic people giving their accounts of their experiences of relationships and mental health problems at school Isolation bullying We talked a lot about that stuff and I saw I compiled it over the course of this six months into a full length documentary about 40 minutes long and I had no prior video production skills They gave me a few bits of equipment I wasn't really sure how to work and it took me a while to get to grips with that And I'd never really sort of professionally edited something and I didn't realize yet to put so much work into it and considering I'm using a new software. I'm using final cut pro It's very complicated going from iMovie to final cut pro iMovie on the ipad In fact You're useless you're moderating And it was it was very difficult But I managed to produce this I think pretty good thing Considering I hadn't had all this experience with media and stuff. So I'm very proud of it and the sort of catalyst that that Got me to to do this was these statistics that I found on the website now. I realized Greatly the extent at which mental health is a problem with autistic bullying social isolation But there was there was other stuff as well It was the the statistics that I found was were absolutely horrific And it surprised me It really just blew my mind the fact that nobody's It's it's not like in the news like it's not a mental health crisis eight times likelihood of Being linked to suicidal thoughts and acts One in three autistics with severe mental health difficulties unemployment Bullying social isolation. So what you're saying is that that sucks It's really not great. Um, so that that's what the reason why I did this this documentary because it just seemed like a very Important subject it's going to be uploaded on my youtube channel at some point and I'm just waiting it for to for it to be marked and to get the green light for me to put post it on my youtube channel Um, but good things could come from that and I'm very hopeful for it Another thing I was doing throughout my six months is that one of my mates knows a media student from Leeds And he wanted to do a documentary himself um On something to do with sport my friend was one of his mates and um She she sort of recommended me to do it. Um, and I thought I went along with With it it took us a while to email and stuff, but we had a Skype call and um said, yeah, yeah, let's do it Let's do all of it. So we started, you know going about Working on our projects sort of side by side because we wanted to interview people who are very similar It was it was only like a few weeks in that I realized I asked him, you know So I was thinking there'll be other people that he's working with and I was thinking why is he Why is he doing so much so many videos with me and he's not talking about other people and It's it just he said that I was the only person who was doing it on this documentary so Put a lot of work into it. I think both of us have made a really good Video I haven't seen his yet, but I definitely think it's going to be quite high quality and gray He's got all the equipment from the media section of his university. It's not like right of mine But yeah, so that's what I've been doing these past six months doing exams Doing my documentary working on another documentary. So Uh, I hope that's enough fear to convince you that I'm not sort of Slacking I am trying to do my best And so you'll have your specific reasons, but under that there'll be some other reasons and under that There'll be some other reasons and under that there'll be some other reasons And I really just haven't had that much time to upload on my youtube channel, but Over this summer, I'm definitely going to be working on it as much as I can be expecting videos very frequently because that's my plan be expecting that I'm going to put a lot more work into Promoting my channel. I'm going to start up a website where I'm going to do some blogs And I'm going to sort of talk about my experiences and stuff And my observations and theories And about autism and about mental health and just daily life And I'm also gonna Try and put together a proper series of videos Um, it's sort of like a life coach type Sort of thingy So if you if you imagine you pay like 30 40 quid and you get all these these videos and yeah I mean needle capitalists where I sort of take you through The things that I worked that I struggled with and how it worked on them and how I got better at them social communication Getting a relationship in friends Any things that we struggle with as autistics But also some of the ways that we can sort of work with What we've got and the strengths that we've had so that you can better Do well at life Sounds very patronizing. I'm sorry about that give you a bit of advice for it and you know Show you that you can Do stuff and you can be a very fulfilled and strong person And you just need a bit of bit of help with it. It's difficult But I'm I'm looking forward to that and I hope that it's going to be received quite well It's going to be they're all going to be at load onto the website So it's not going to be much of a youtube thing, but I probably will include some clips and stuff on my youtube channel. So Lots of exciting things coming up this summer Um, thank you so much for anyone who's stick stick it around stick it around my channel Um despite me not uploading as much But thank you very much. Uh, if you haven't already checked out my social media pages Instagram Twitter Facebook Asperger's growth Um, all of them. So it's pretty easy. You want to find me just put in an ass at Asperger's growth You find it Well, thank you very much I hope my apology is enough for your wonderful viewers of mine and subscribers I'm very tired still Not gonna lie. Um, I'm trying to squeeze out a video today even though I'm just cold metosing for most of the past few days that I've been off. I'm gonna be fat and really unhealthy and half dead in five years trying to adjust to it and But I'm looking forward to to what's gonna come up a bit Come up a bit. It's a good phrase Not a good phrase. I don't know. Anyway See you later guys. Hope you're doing well. Love you You need to find a good hand signal to send us off Kawaii doesn't he? See you later God that was cringy. You're such a horrid creature in your very core that it would be a moral violation for you to propagate