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AUTISM: Being Awesomely AUTISTIC!! (Birmingham Autism Show) · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  Hey guys, this is a recording taken from my talk that I did at
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  the Birmingham autism show in June of 2019.
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  So only just done this. I thought it was cool to record
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  it and actually share it with you guys.
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  It's a bit long. I hope you enjoy it.
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  It's all about being awesomely autistic looking at positive
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  rather than negative. Let me know what you think.
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  Give me a tweet at that ask me world.
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  Thanks. We're folding.
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  We're calling good. Okay, so right let's get started
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  from the beginning. This is me.
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  I'll close this picture. I took it myself so it doesn't
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  it. So I'm down on my talk.
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  Basically today. We're talking about being
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  awesomely autistic and it's kind of like it's houses many levels
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  to what I'm going to talk about. But the idea is that we talk
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  about positive versus negatives that kind of thing anyway, so
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  I'll give you background on who I am and what I do if you want
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  to follow me on any of my social media or anything like that if
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  you're brand new to me, this is all my stuff.
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  Stuff. So basically, let me take my
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  battery saver thing off. I'm gonna sell my camera off
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  because I realize I'm telling my legs and we also see that on
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  YouTube. Okay.
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  So basically, my name is Don I my brand is the ask me world.
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  I know it was probably a poor choice at the time.
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  I thought it was cool. But you know two years on as a
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  silly name. Anyway why I just advise logins
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  Awesomes freaking cool because it is cool and people need to
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  remember that it's cool. It has some downsides which is
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  very very cool. So my YouTube channels, I'm 93
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  thousand. Which is kind of cool.
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  I've got six million views on my videos.
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  It's won two Awards, which is crazy and I super I loved it.
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  I enjoyed in YouTube. I'm also a best-selling author
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  in three languages two countries and published author didn't do
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  myself like a publishing deal and also want to talk a little
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  bit about why I do what I do. So that's my background.
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  Like what I'm doing. I also actually upload videos
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  and content on every single problem.
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  You can think of I've Loved podcast every week of look
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  there's an Instagram Facebook YouTube.
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  YouTube Twitter everything you think of Pinterest like ticks
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  are whatever if it's a social media profile that I'm Onyx I'm
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  Safta social media. There's something interesting
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  also have ADHD and Asperger syndrome.
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  So if anybody doesn't really understand the keep up with me
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  just like raise your hand and I'll try and repeat with a thing
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  I'm saying if I'm going too fast because ADHD has a tendency to
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  run away from me and I say yeah interesting.
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  Anyway, we want to jump about I don't know why I want to jump on
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  the stage weird, isn't it? Right?
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  Okay, so why do why do I start my YouTube channel advocating
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  for autism in? Because I wanted to make an
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  impact in a positive way. I kept looking online at videos
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  of people talking about autism when I was diagnosed and you
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  knew nothing about it and then I'll go from like oh, you know,
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  we'll have to search for something some content about it.
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  But I want any internet technology syndrome fan videos
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  and they were just just really depressing really bad lip videos
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  if people weren't entertaining and engaging which is like my
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  life sucks cooler as magicians. I'm up now ASD and I was like,
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  ah, this is horrible to watch. I mean a lot like the people
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  that horrible just bad content, you know, and then it really
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  gets that I was taught compelled to lie.
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  Like all right, I'm gonna pull content.
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  I'll make it really bubbly and needless to say the first video.
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  I'll put out terrible, you know, because the first video 250
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  videos anyone makes a new to be terrible.
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  So for the first video that was rubbish, but I kind of got
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  better at it and I got the videos lighter and nicer and
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  bubbly I want engaging and more confident and and I love doing
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  what I do because what I do is I'm able to spend messages of
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  personal insight to my life how I live my life in the ups and
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  downs and I was a lot of downs with all the apps as well and
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  hacks and tips and tricks on how I get through my day because a
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  lot of people say like, oh, how do you do this?
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  How did you manage to overcome that?
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  Like trick videos, I'm not content pump it out and I hope
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  that people can digest it and take something away from it
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  takeaways a as well. I'm really at and I really
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  really want to help people and that's exactly why I do what I
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  do and it's important because I feel like there needs to be role
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  models in these areas, you know, like so they're so this ability
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  really is currently lacking in and really like big heroes that
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  are seeing people from you know, like, you know people thinks on
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  and looking up to them basically and I wanted to be able to make
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  a platform where people could have got some if they wanted to
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  I feel like I could do those things and I'll speak to you
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  about some of the things I've achieved with just a bit of kind
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  of focusing on the positive rather than negative because you
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  know not inspecting condition comes with a bunch of negatives
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  because every time you go to a doctor or hospital is pretty
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  much negative isn't you're not gonna document like hey, I'm
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  fine. You know, you always go there
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  because it's like, oh, you know, I feel like rubbish or you know,
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  something's wrong. I've basically what happens when
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  you're in a clinical kind of environment and so I feel people
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  who jump into this clinical environment and I feel like a
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  bug down you get a diagnosis and diagnose and somebody was
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  something means bad which doesn't always mean bad but of I
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  just means different and different is fine.
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  So this is why I think it's good and having a positive message
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  positivity is awesome. There's so much negativity out
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  there. So many people want to tough,
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  you know, bitch and moan and complain about stuff that
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  doesn't make any sense of why moan about something get on and
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  change it make a difference make it, you know be the change you
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  wish to see in the world as I think it's Gandhi once said, so
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  it's all those things. I want to be able to spread a
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  positive message and be awesome with it and just be like I get
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  every piece like that was so psyched to be here.
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  Look at me smiling about it and often smile about things still
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  ridiculous of talking about positivity.
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  Funny isn't it? I'm going to try to up QA is in
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  a bit. So I'm going to try and paste my
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  talk out as much as I can. So you guys can ask me some
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  questions and this is super laid back.
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  I finished this the prep for this talk yesterday about 7 p.m.
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  8 p.m. So you guys are getting super
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  raw data here. This is something that is it
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  completely wrong. So being awesomely trusting.
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  What do I mean? So I like to see autism as being
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  something that can be empowered. There's a lot of people who will
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  get a diagnosis and be like, oh, I've got to go through this
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  therapy, and I've got this struggle.
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  And I've got that struggle and you know, they may find it hard
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  to find work which is fine. I find it hard to find workers.
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  What about my own job? And you have areas of your life
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  which seemed completely daunting and you go.
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  Oh my goodness, you know, I can't get a normal job or a
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  typical job and my friends are you know, you know Geeks and
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  whatever who hang out online and play video games, which is cool
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  as heck. But some people may see this as
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  bizarre and weird and I feel like people always kept tend to
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  focus on the negative and how many times as you know, I'll
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  tell you say something like hey, I'm not just going to go.
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  Wow. That's awesome.
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  Yeah, is that it? I'm so sorry.
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  I'm really sorry for you know, I don't say it.
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  Sometimes people change when you tell someone you have an awesome
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  special edition. They say oh, yeah, and I kind of
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  have this like we had pity it's like we talking about I'm
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  absolutely fine. You're the weirdo, you know,
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  it's so funny and I found this saw so compelling that I wanted
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  to make this whole like talk about it.
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  I found it so funny. So some of the things that I
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  find empowering hyper-focus, right?
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  Oh my goodness. I love it.
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  All right. I've got ADHD.
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  So sometimes my my attention gets like, you know spot around
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  everyone like, this is cool. This is cool man.
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  That's cool. This is called sad that this is
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  Cool happens all the time, but sometimes I'm like walking about
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  and I'm like, I see something on the floor and it could be like a
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  piece of like a broken calculator.
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  I'm like, wow, what is this and I'm start thinking about it and
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  I'm like, you know, where did this come from?
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  How did you build it into something else?
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  What was it originally made as I want to have the solving path to
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  created one with plastic was actually it is it is Petey
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  plastic. I want to help the chemical
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  composition specific plastic is and I'm gonna like do be
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  strengthened in a half an hour ago and you stood here looking
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  at this piece of rubbish on the floor.
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  And so this is a cool thing. It can be deemed as something
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  quite negative but on Hole is a super positive because hyper
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  Focus lens to something quite interesting.
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  I will tell you story about hyper-focus.
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  I was obsessed with wanting to grow my YouTube channel.
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  I wanted to like get my videos too real to the people who
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  wanted to see it because having contains me, this is cool.
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  I love my first edit my family. I think this is really important
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  to share my videos are getting you know, okay views but nothing
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  crazy and I was like, how do I wait?
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  Why am I not love do something wrong, you know, there's 1.3
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  billion people on YouTube and only like to people watch my
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  video how I did it something called search engine
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  optimization really boring and I know I love it.
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  So isn't it but it's all student algorithmic changes in Google
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  love it. Oh my goodness not accept
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  algorithms. Are they so then I am I decided
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  to watch these videos. I said it so late all night into
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  the night my girlfriend like did you go to bed?
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  I'm like no, of course check out this like blog on algorithmic
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  changes and cool, you know like Siwon testing and she's like
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  what if he's talking about and I studied and studied and I
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  watched this YouTube channel called influence that video
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  influencers and interviewed expert how to grow the channels
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  and I was like in all of these men.
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  I was like, these guys are on women.
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  These guys are amazing. Like how do they grow their
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  channels is so knowledgeable in this field that was in January.
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  2018 if you fast forward to July 2000 so June 2018.
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  I was in Los Angeles. I was invited by the by
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  YouTube's go to VidCon. My channel has grown
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  exponentially and I was an interview by that exact Channel
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  video influencers in June to tell them how I grew my channel
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  so quickly. So I learned from watching this
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  channel to be Super Hyper focused on that content to be
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  then interviewed by these people about it.
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  And that was crazy that moment my life.
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  I was like hyper focus is an amazing thing.
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  So it should always be empowered so that type of focus Dedication
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  to detail. Okay.
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  This is another trade with people with ASD dedication to
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  detail my friend a good friend of mines of tattoo artist and
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  she has an Autism Spectrum diagnosis and her attention to
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  detail is phenomenal. Her tattoos are amazing such as
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  portraits at it. She's actually a tattooist on
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  MTV called empty with just the two of us and she says he's
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  crazy projects and she's super clever and I love it because
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  again, it's showing that okay. She's got a stok were rubbish at
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  conversations when we're out in like public and I don't really
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  like going out to bars and talking to people because that's
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  It's the most mundane thing in the world and too much noise,
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  you know, we all know what noises like but she can make a
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  really good potting tattoo onion.
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  That's awesome. That's awesome some other stuff
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  problem solving. I love problem solving.
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  This is another thing. I want to talk about with being
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  awesome. This is what do I mean by being
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  awesomely autistics. I also have a diagnosis of
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  Dyslexia terrible spelling carried for buggery and my
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  handwriting is terrible. I mean, I wish I could show you
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  my handwriting is terrible. That's why I love computers so
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  much. I talked to my phone because I'm
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  terrible. So I just like, you know, Jesus.
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  Well this out it does it it's amazing and I look like the most
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  Dramatical like Juniors ever. I'm just I say a word and it's
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  puzzling like look at its upper horizontal Capital dosage and
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  ago cool. You can smell that and I got to
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  hide up. My phone did it from but I'm
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  dyslexic and I got a book deal and I have a best selling book
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  in two countries in the market in the UK.
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  It's also on three languages and an audio book.
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  Yeah. How'd so dyslexia get a
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  publishing Beyond got a best-selling book.
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  It's called problem solving I realized that I was terrible at
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  the things that I needed to do to get a book out, but I was
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  good at Time I was good at putting my message on had a
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  really good story to tell so I found a ghost writer and she
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  said, okay, I'll tell you what you talk to me and I'll write
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  the book with you and then I can put it into know some kind of
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  written contacted people to actually digest rather than
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  gibberish that I normally put up and we did that and it worked a
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  treat. So this is a means to an end.
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  I managed to do that. So when I was like, I can't be
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  an author because I'm dyslexic. It's just total Tosh because you
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  can be I did it. No best talent.
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  You can she's crazy never wildest dreams.
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  Would I ever be able to do that? Another thing I left school
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  know? This is I went to school in the
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  90s right having a lot inspection condition in the 90s
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  was just like abysmal. I mean like to terrible mean
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  like 1997 first year of high school.
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  It was like I'll like what like I didn't get it.
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  They were just like, okay you need to actually reading
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  lessons. Are you can't you want to stay
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  indoors and all the kids outside having it break that I didn't
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  get it, right Miss load is gone. It was a terrible time but our
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  school. No GCS is I don't wait until I
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  had 202 there's like a double the wanting to cease in a team
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  because I love computers. So there was in my Mid-20s, like
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  completely just like just out of diagnosis of Asperger syndrome
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  as it was then before they changed it and remember think of
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  myself. I was obsessed with science when
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  I was a kid. I loved it.
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  But I was never academically in line with what the typical kind
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  of idea of Academia. So then I was like, how am I
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  going to do? I want to do something amazing
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  so fast forward. I actually completed two years
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  ago completed the degree in chemistry, which is amazing and
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  I love it. I love chemistry.
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  It's an amazing subject. If you don't like it what we may
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  fight later, but now everybody and it's real I say something
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  like Got to be encouraged in the like.
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  Whoa, that's the worst the subject.
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  That's an awesome subject. Drink Break please take a drink
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  everyone. No, but I did it and it was
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  finding a means to an end. How did I do that?
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  I have disability access and support when I was in university
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  amazing phenomenal without that would never be able to do it but
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  it's finding a solution to the problem that presents itself in
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  reality and we're all about problem solving I can guarantee
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  that every single person here or know somebody who's on the
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  Spectrum. Whereas on respecting themselves
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  knows that they can problem solve like a beast and it's
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  amazing. I love it like another guy no of
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  who broke the handle on his bedroom made one out of Lego and
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  it works fine. Mm.
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  So it like, you know, there's always a way around a problem.
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  And this is a good thing. The problem is a negative thing,
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  but we don't focus on we focus on the fact that they can
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  overcome these things. Also last thing about me blowing
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  my own trumpet is actually a multi musician as well.
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  And I might have to I want to record a record and have it out
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  in Japan. It's like one of my dreams like,
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  how do I get a rocket? I went out in Japan.
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  I don't know why I think pop punk music was Big in Japan or
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  something ridiculous. So I did it and I got a dead
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  knew nobody in Japan. I must record in Japan get a
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  record out and I went to number 5 and HMV charts and all my
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  goodness. It was crazy ass on Blitz you
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  some for one of my I was like what the heck that was crazy,
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  right did it because it was a problem for so as a problem.
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  I was like problems that good because I can solve them.
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  Yeah. It's like, you know, it's not
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  friends out this thing. That should body down problems.
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  I think she get you energized to be like, how do we overcome
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  this? You know what I mean?
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  How do I get myself through this because that's all it is.
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  It's overcoming things that you find challenging.
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  I think that's amazing. So there's something I always
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  think about when people hear the term autism like I was saying
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  just at the beginning of the talk people think of things like
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  a vulnerable person. Are you?
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  Okay? I like I'm fine.
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  Don't be so stupid. And they look at you as if they
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  look down at you and I feel like you're incapable of certain
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  things, but what they should be thinking was that was awesome.
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  This should think of things like Dan Aykroyd or Greta, thunbergii
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  or Susan Boyle somebody who's really like empowered in that
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  moment and can do something fantastic because that's the way
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  their brain works. So when someone hears the word
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  awesome, they shouldn't think they should think.
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  Whoa cool. I got us know this person
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  because they're going to be super dope at something it could
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  it could be anything and this is what there's a lot like a
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  fascinates me because like Nikola Tesla was said to have
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  been on the Spectrum. If he was alive today, he would
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  have definitely had a diagnosis and Nicholas has great guy.
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  We've never had the technology we have today without the Ultras
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  currently he producing shown as what we could use things like
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  that is amazing. So when we what I'm trying to
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  say is I'm trying to change the perspective from being utterly
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  being something that is super like- just means we are super
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  empowering. It's like, ah love it.
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  That's why it's cool man, you know, I mean, it's cool.
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  It's awesome. Another matter not just a
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  question of dull never ever in my life mazing.
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  Love it. Okay.
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  So the yeah, so darn it looks Okay, because we focus on the
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  negative. This is what this is what really
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  gets me. So the media the reason we can
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  really focus on the negative of Austin comedian always says it
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  they always say something like oh there's something bad
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  happened in the media and the guy has ADHD all something bad
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  happen immediate diagnosis of a special I think some stupid
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  Americans we shot up a school. Obviously, it's America and then
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  it was like, oh this guy has asked for just another fad.
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  Why do they put that in it? Like what they just feel like
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  it's because the media feeds off sensationalism Greta Thornburg,
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  she went outside and she was like climate change in like Glue
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  this girl is changing the world and nobody says for a second
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  gosh, he's on the Spectrum says young girl climate change
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  events, like Chaplin your automatic, especially climate
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  change the myth, you know, because idiot this girl.
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  Nobody ever says hey this woman, you know this young girl has a
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  lot of special edition. How cool is that?
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  How cool is she and that's what we need to change it and it's
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  the if partly because of media look at the never tells the good
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  stuff. So it's about to happen again.
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  It's because media Thrive off sensationalism and they want
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  somebody to be completely like the most obscure thing.
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  They ever that coming up so What does being awesome awesome Hill
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  testicle look like it looks like this.
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  Let me put it this way. It looks like the kid who is the
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  best thought might player you've ever seen in life right could be
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  terrible social with fans will go to the park.
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  You know, there's not really into BMX thing or whatever kids
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  do these days and I want scooters, right and I'm super
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  old. So but it's a beast Fortnight.
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  I can smash Fortnight and Pesci any single day that week can
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  build it the Taj Mahal in Minecraft.
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  Yeah, you know Idols so many autistic individuals who just
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  absolute beasts on Minecraft. I love it.
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  I actually did my degree for my dissertation.
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  I built a teaching tool in Minecraft to teach kids quantum
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  physics Through Chemistry, which was a computational chemistry or
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  physical chemistry Through computational Chemistry and it
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  was knuckle asymmetry in group Theory super awesome stuff, but
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  I did it in Minecraft that anybody can pick it up and learn
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  about it loved it. I took the whole anyway that the
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  so that it's like kind of like well-being awesomely autistic
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  means kind of like the people you see it like alarmed who
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  built this like dragging out of Lego or something.
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  You think it's they did people who are not Reading from The
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  Ledger. I mean, it seems like I can make
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  this now you want to see like a I don't know anything like
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  spaceship out of Lego and it just build this thing and I
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  think I was cool. So it's having a specific world
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  class or something because everybody I know on spectrum is
• 16:20
  going to be world class has something just amazing things
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  and they are on this is a his all times are you know, you do
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  YouTubers have a look at the cameras, but I love playing like
• 16:28
  this video game. Like I don't want my or whatever
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  I said. Well, that's yours.
• 16:32
  That's what you do playing a video game is a really good
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  skill, you know, I have friends who are paid.
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  It's a lot of money to play video games for a living.
• 16:40
  So why don't you do it and you can do it better than them and
• 16:43
  then you win, you know, so there's so many like Avenues of
• 16:45
  people just realize the potentially have rather than
• 16:47
  looking at myself saying that although I can only play video
• 16:49
  games so known I can play video games better than anybody else
• 16:52
  in the world and prove it prove it do it amazing mother so Let
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  me I'm just going to make sure I guess right because I am
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  dyslexic and I'm reading from my notes.
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  So they only second so one of the things that strikes me is
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  that parents teachers academics. They never kind of encourage
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  those things that they see in a student or a person who is on
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  the spectrum. They see this person that we
• 17:16
  need to constantly help and support which is true.
• 17:19
  Some people do need constant helping father's about there's
• 17:21
  nothing wrong with that. But what they should be doing is
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  really focusing on the empowerment part of hey, what's
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  this person good up. Why are they so good wrap that
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  because people take it to stay. Well, yeah, but I'll play the
• 17:30
  leg of all day. Anyway, this is the support
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  needs. It's like no no.
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  No. Hey, whoa, why don't we like
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  build something? Why don't you answer Lego
• 17:36
  competition? Why don't we make a display go
• 17:38
  to an outgoing display Lego like there's so many Avenues.
• 17:41
  Nobody thinks about these things because it's so focused on the
• 17:43
  negative. So we spend our time folks and
• 17:45
  exit will never be able to empower these individuals which
• 17:49
  is a crying shame, but it's changing and I'm doing it with
• 17:52
  my channel. So what like what am I see for
• 17:54
  like the future right at so my dear the future is, you know,
• 17:58
  keep I get messages every single day from people saying thank you
• 18:01
  so much for what you've done. It opened my eyes to this.
• 18:03
  I was able to get diagnosis. I was able to realize that I'm
• 18:05
  not alone. I'm not secluded.
• 18:06
  I actually wrote a community on Facebook and Discord as well
• 18:09
  with thousands of people on there.
• 18:10
  They can communicate and Converse about their condition
• 18:13
  or whatever. It was spikes that interest is
• 18:15
  of course a support group was also have an issue where you can
• 18:17
  go on and talk to them as well. It's an amazing tool and it's
• 18:20
  building community on YouTube Facebook and Discord and places
• 18:23
  like that. I find like that that amazing so
• 18:26
  I got his messages all times keep saying thank you so much,
• 18:28
  and I know that I'm The right path.
• 18:30
  I'm going forward in the right direction leave negativity at
• 18:33
  the door and I'm going to keep pushing this positive message.
• 18:37
  That often is freaking cool because it is and I'll challenge
• 18:39
  anybody tells me it isn't because they will lose every
• 18:42
  single time. It is super awesome cool.
• 18:45
  I could use a stronger word, but I'm being PC and I like the vpg
• 18:49
  also, but you know, this is this is my song is crazy and I met
• 18:52
  with one of the biggest management companies in the
• 18:54
  world for YouTubers when I was in Boston two weeks ago in
• 18:57
  Massachusetts, and they helped me change my brand.
• 18:59
  Owing to this because I said look down, you know tell people
• 19:01
  how cool it can be. Why don't you make them
• 19:04
  empowered and so I'll leave you with this before we get to some
• 19:06
  questions and stuff like that. Let me leave you with something
• 19:08
  that I wrote down. Let's not focus on what we may
• 19:14
  not be able to do but instead why don't we celebrate encourage
• 19:17
  what we can do? Yeah, we spend most of our time
• 19:20
  worrying about how a child is going to go to school and face
• 19:23
  these issues but they never say wow.
• 19:25
  You're amazing. How amazing is this kid?
• 19:28
  I know parents found all the Amazing was fine.
• 19:29
  But I was trying to say is academically socially
• 19:32
  politically we need to make sure we take the time to say to those
• 19:37
  people who are finding challenges and what we see is
• 19:39
  daily life because we live in a neurotypical society to say.
• 19:42
  Hey, you just want mazing things that should be celebrated and
• 19:46
  that should be focused on more than the negative.
• 19:48
  Anyway, I'm gonna open up to some questions if anybody has
• 19:50
  any questions and I know my top is like super - - to do that
• 19:52
  pretty fast. We also did thank you ADHD.
• 19:55
  Anyway, anybody have any questions at all about anything?
• 19:58
  I will I think Neither. Am I Kitt if it was asking you
• 20:00
  questions I can write in the back on let me find it so I can
• 20:04
  write this is this microphone working so it is not like that.
• 20:08
  Okay. I'm going to run down here.
• 20:09
  I feel like I'm on a TV show for under this guy.
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  Okay. Sorry phony second.
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  Excuse me, we go in. Uh, no.
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  Sorry. I thought I did so you guys are
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  very similar. There you go.
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  So I'm going to come close because I can't hear you.
• 20:33
  Nothing to doubt or Autism in. My eyes is a talented people.
• 20:41
  Yeah, absolutely good stuff. Yeah.
• 20:50
  So types to contend with definitely and say I can do
• 20:55
  this. Yes, if you disbelieve it.
• 20:57
  Absolutely. No stand by what I say.
• 20:59
  Yeah, and yes working full-time in retail.
• 21:03
  It suits you quite slowly is rewarding part of absolutely and
• 21:09
  where you get to learn about the world out there.
• 21:14
  Yeah, definitely again, it comes to a long way.
• 21:21
  With amazement change, but will a watching the time I've got a
• 21:25
  certain amount of uh, yeah, so just thank you ma'am.
• 21:35
  Oh every day. Thank you so much to thank you
• 21:36
  so much this guy refuel. I mean, I've got two questions
• 21:39
  on walking around like you got to buy some I don't know
• 21:44
  fashion, okay. Sure questions.
• 21:46
  Hello everybody. Yes.
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  So awesome that's amazing for this case.
• 22:07
  Cool, we can like show all about me.
• 22:18
  Anybody else. No questions were anyways, no,
• 22:20
  it's fine. If anybody is out.
• 22:21
  There is a question. Sorry all this was near sorry.
• 22:23
  Also just want to say that I do have like handouts.
• 22:26
  I've got like some free little cards to give aways off anybody
• 22:28
  else come see me in a bit. What was it supposed to start in
• 22:31
  YouTube from Tunisia. I have a son called Benji
• 22:35
  Travis. He was a daily vlogger with his
• 22:37
  wife Judy and he and he's got millions of followers.
• 22:40
  Let's do this life issues. So many he said to me he's
• 22:43
  totally do YouTube and I didn't have anything that was good
• 22:45
  enough to put out when you're on YouTube gonna put a message out
• 22:47
  that is a good strong message that you're helping people and
• 22:49
  you're genuine people see through rubbish.
• 22:52
  If you're not who you are, you will get caught out and be
• 22:54
  dumped by the internet. So I wanted to be genuine with
• 22:57
  whatever I didn't want do some just for the heck of it and so
• 22:59
  on. When I was saying I was
• 23:00
  searching Google and stuff or Asperger's Syndrome.
• 23:02
  I can't find anything that was tangibly good.
• 23:04
  You know, it's a terrible devastating.
• 23:05
  So I was like, that's what drove me to do it.
• 23:07
  And actually I put my first we don't line I left it for like
• 23:09
  five or six months. I don't do anything that went
• 23:11
  back to it has like thousands of views and also asking for more
• 23:13
  of like so I was like, oh and I had to like do more and it was
• 23:16
  kind of like it was accidental. I just got into it but it as my
• 23:19
  full-time job like but it wasn't at the start, you know, it was
• 23:22
  kind of definitely something that would just kind of just
• 23:24
  happened as I know it is but the inspiration was there because
• 23:26
  there was a huge gap in in in that there was no information
• 23:29
  there. And my friend said hey, why
• 23:31
  don't you do it? So I did it.
• 23:32
  So any more questions before we wrap it up.
• 23:35
  We're good over here. Okay, cool after like walk that
• 23:39
  close to everybody because I can't hear anybody cause I had
• 23:41
  something someone idiot. Oh, hi.
• 23:43
  Hi, it's okay. Just because wax off on can hear
• 23:46
  ya. All right, the currency we have
• 23:53
  the some conflict so that I should focus on his academic
• 23:56
  part because yeah sure a few years.
• 24:07
  So I would say that you can you can we can do you can do both
• 24:10
  definitely, you know, focus on academics is important to make
• 24:14
  sure you get the best grades possible.
• 24:15
  But at the same time any time that you aren't in Academia.
• 24:19
  It into something you're passionate about so I did and I
• 24:22
  did a degree was building a YouTube channel and it's exactly
• 24:24
  what I did. Sometimes I didn't sleep.
• 24:25
  Okay, it's different because I'm an idiot.
• 24:26
  So but you know, I I I wanted to if you have a passion for
• 24:30
  something you can always find time to do that because it will
• 24:33
  pay off in the end and the early start and apart from the better.
• 24:35
  It will be honest. Honestly, like anybody wants out
• 24:37
  Utah do it right now build it right now because like now is
• 24:41
  the best time to start is you vomit right now.
• 24:43
  Okay. Thank you.
• 24:45
  Thank you or I hope that answers the question cool.
• 24:48
  Yeah. Sure.
• 24:48
  I'll be I'll be I'll be Around I'm going to yeah, like I said,
• 24:50
  I've got it guys any more questions for it.
• 24:52
  But finish. Okay, we're good.
• 24:54
  I finished my good. Okay.
• 24:56
  Oh, really? Oh my God.
• 24:57
  I can't see any of it, right? Oh, no, you're the person one of
• 25:00
  my Merch. This is weird, right?
• 25:09
  Sure, so I got my diagnosis and so done.
• 25:13
  Oh, no as it is, it's this dead. Just add some.
• 25:17
  Okay. So Joey to repeat what you said.
• 25:20
  Okay, so you recently had a diagnosis a year ago on two
• 25:25
  days. It's quite specific attention to
• 25:27
  detail your father's IDC. You found online.
• 25:37
  Sorry. Yeah, try my best here.
• 25:41
  My phone doesn't work in Tech failure.
• 25:44
  Glad to member. All right, okay.
• 25:51
  I know I'm trying to count the words.
• 25:52
  You went too fast. That's the speed this up here.
• 25:54
  I have a certain amount of time. Obviously.
• 25:55
  Kick me. Oh, you're more than welcome.
• 25:59
  Cool. Okay.
• 26:00
  Any more questions are the answer would be able to hear
• 26:02
  anymore because this microphones dead.
• 26:03
  So anyway, but I want to come in like maybe I'll take my details
• 26:07
  in my car. Here we go.
• 26:08
  This one works and every day any more questions and I'm going to
• 26:11
  scoot like this not we all get now, we have the micronutrients
• 26:14
  and pressures. Okay, cool, but everyone's like
• 26:16
  I said, I've got like some free like Autumn alert cards to hand
• 26:18
  out and some like just like Cool that like apple things like
• 26:20
  writing a minute and my details well, if you want we can touch
• 26:23
  me. So anyway, this is me.
• 26:25
  Thank you guys so much for listening.
• 26:26
  It's going too fast. But okay.
• 26:32
  Okay, I will I will find you in a second and sort this out.
• 26:35
  I do this one. Oh.
• 26:42
  That is sensory balls. I think I believe.
• 26:47
  Oh, come on. Let's Connor.
• 26:51
  It's not like it's not like computer, sir.
• 26:54
  Hey, oh, right, I do I do. So I thank you.
• 27:01
  Okay. Sure.
• 27:03
  Okay. I'll give you my card and just
• 27:05
  quit on you. Yes, I think so.
• 27:09
  I think so. I always Make it a Ruckus when I
• 27:11
  go to these places are trying to yeah, well, I'll be here.
• 27:15
  Hey, well, one moment. Sorry.
• 27:20
  So this is yeah and why is it right for me was to talk to me?
• 27:26
  Follow me? Whoop also got my money maker,
• 27:32
  right? I need to go.
• 27:33
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 27:36
  Yeah. Okay, cool.
• 27:39
  Well, sorry. I need the stuff in the bottle -
• 27:47
  where we going where we going? Okay, follow me everyone get the
• 27:56
  clear. Is that okay again here?
• 28:01
  Oh my God. Okay.
• 28:03
  Okay, right. Okay talk is over with and I
• 28:06
  have a bunch of people that want to talk to me, which is awesome.
• 28:08
  So I'm going to go on with this now is quickly as possible.
• 28:12
  Many things to do priests. Sorry guys in our daily living.
• 28:15
  Okay, right, right. I actually have my cards
• 28:18
  somewhere with my partner and she's disappeared because that's
• 28:21
  how weird I okay get my cards and said if you want ha ha
• 28:24
  anyway right turkey. Oh my God.
• 28:30
  Yes the training dogs. No way.
• 28:33
  Could you take my dog? He's an idiot but my dog barks
• 28:36
  everything just chases cat so it's horrible bug.
• 28:41
  Oh, no, that's okay. Okay.
• 28:44
  No, that's cruel. No way awesome the T-shirt.
• 28:49
  They asked me to I couldn't wear this because we had a conflict
• 28:51
  of Brandon trust because I was running my own t-shirts Brands
• 28:53
  and don't see this at school though.