Isn’t it just? She ran around for 30 minutes yesterday (WITH MY CAMERA!) - and wouldn’t return! Cats man! That tail really is something else. But sadly will need to be trimmed if she’s going to go exploring the brambles! -Mike
I was introduced to your channel by seeing you on Woodshed Theory's podcast! I was nodding along fervently during your bit about Scuba. The water is extremely regulating for my senses as well, I've always loved it!
Hey Pauline! Claire’s channel is great isn’t it? Thank you for your kind words (and for letting me know how you found my channel!). Another water person! It is great isn’t it? 🌊
ah finally I can rest my case now where you said you live on the great Isle of Man, landscape seemed so familiar (I'm "a little bit" into the motorsport going on there). just gives me a wholesome feeling that it may never be too late to finally settle into a proper life even at a later age. was working in IT through my 20s but jumped ship and went for the academic route when the world was supposed to end a couple years back and still living in a tiny room in my 30s makes me realize I did quite the sacrifize and don't have a lot to show for it yet due to my extreme struggles when going through exam-phases. hopefully I can upgrade soon once I have the first degree and then go on from there becoming an awesome cat dad like you, Mike :)
Due to my weak Central Coherence, I'm totally missing the main point of the video but stuck with its captions. I love how captions are highlighted. Great accessibility for us autistics.
I’m really glad you liked them. It’s interesting to me how someone else hated them. So, it’s hard to plan certain accessibility features for everyone - I’ll have a think about how best to go about this. Thanks again Tea Time Mindfulness. Might you join us for Tea and Tails one evening? -Mike
@@Autistic_AFI think it's best to have as many options as is realistic, could the subtitles be done as Closed Captioning, so users could turn it on and off?
I would love to hear more about your career journey and what you would have benefited from in the workplace to manage sensory issues and stuff. I'm an AuDHD engineering student. The AuDHD was a recent realization (about a year and a half ago I realized then got a diagnosis over the summer for accommodations) because school is definitely not built for nuerodivergent people that don't know their needs and that brought intense burnout. I study aerospace engineering, but I think I want to go into fusion energy or maybe solar when I graduate. I interned at northrop grumman, so I've been on the defense side too (not really my thing, but I got experience and that's what counts). I'm planning on graduating this fall then working, so I would love to hear more about the experience of someone with similar interests
Hello Jenna! Welcome to the autisticats :) Yes I’ll talk more about this - a video on interviews has been requested, but I’m going to make a deeper dive into employment in STEM fields as that’s what I know best. How’s your course going? Congrats on your diagnosis! That will help if you need to push for accommodations (although a decent employer - depending entirely on the type of work you’re undertaking) should be understanding. Solar and renewables is a fascinating area to work in - big passions of mine - our solar array generated over 50kWh today! It’s an expanding field, lots of opportunities. -Mike
We are on the cusp of an energy revolution; which will underpin the AI revolution, and other developing tech revolutions, and most.of the upcoming revolutions are deoendant upon energy. Renewables and small and mini modular reactors will make nuclear far cheaper, transportable, and will power the colonization of the Moon, Mars, and beyond.
love this! I definitely relate to the "you can leave the dyspraxia on the shore". I ski. The second the ski boots are on, game on! And I'm so glad you have lots of animals around you!
I'm really happy to hear that! You're literally the first person I've found that relates to that statement other than me lol. Hahaha, yes, lots of animals :) -Mike
@@Autistic_AF yes, I suppose the phrase for me is: "leave the dyspraxia in the parking lot" haha. I think having gear to interface with my environment with does something really powerful for my physical coordination.
@@malapropia YES 🙌 that’s a great way to explain how I feel, too. Clambering into my thermal under suit and trying NOT to fall over onto my face - and yet getting into the ocean and feeling the pressure all around me, and moving myself through a three dimensional space using nothing but small movements of my legs and ankles and feet - and breath control. It’s a paradox!
@@Autistic_AF I'd love a video just on this! I live so far from the ocean, and I daydream about diving. I know if I wasn't a mountain person, I'd be a diver, too. The breath control must do amazing things for regulating the nervous system.
Stroke a cat and grab a cup of tea he says. Here I am, with my feet up with two cats sprawled across my legs, and a third curled up by my feet. With a cup of coffee. Close enough. 😁
I just found you and you're so fnin smart! I JUST accepted my hf autism and my IQ is 143 and no longer masking so it's all free. I can tell your IQ is ALSO VERY high, I am so happy to have found your channel! I am going through SO MUCH right now, trying to figure out who I am! I've only seen 2 of your videos but I LOVE this channel because your HF, adult hight IQ too, and it's so nice to see someone like me who uses references like D&D like I would. You are AWESOME!! Also I lovw solar power and Elon Musk + Nikola Tesla (both Autistic) as energy fascinates me! In all honesty you're a gift to me! A kindred soul!
IQ tests are biased to me; they assume individuals have had access ro a quality education, so they teat things like grammer, word comprehension, mathamatics, patern recognition, etc, some of which can be impacted by neurocognative disorders like Dyscalculia. On top of having Dyscalculia, my autistic parents couldn't maintain structure around brushing our teeth; let.olone.things like studying, study skills, etc. I took an IQ test in a book about IQ; and acored 138, but mine could be higher or lower. I once had a therapist ask me to name animals; and like John Travilta's film Phenomina, the therapist was surprised at how many I came up with. So far; I haven't been diagnosed with Autism, but I'm 9 out of 10 on the ADD scale. Plus my immediate family were all autistic.
I was lucky enough to spend 6 weeks on the IOM on a training dig back in 1997 (I trained as an archaeologist). We dug in the South part of the island, where they were blasting for quarrying after we'd finished! Stayed in the dorms of a residential school, as they were closed for the summer. I'd love to visit again.
Hey Laura, that sounds amazing! Did you find anything interesting? The digs have come to a close now which is such a shame. But Time Team (with Tony Robinson) did a dig down south on a golf course and found all sorts of things; early Christian burials and Viking artefacts. I’ve found a few little things myself metal detecting - there’s so much rich history! -Mike
@@Autistic_AF We were digging the remains of a Neolithic settlement, so nothing shiny found! Lots of flint tools & waste, bits of early pottery & some ditches mostly! We're very lucky to have such a rich archaeological record on these islands - can you tell it's a special interest of mine?! 🤣
Oh wow! That's exciting! Last years' final dig (I really wish there were more, everywhere a trench goes down, there's some amazing unseen find) - found amongst other things, a beautiful JADE necklace! It's so pretty. -Mike@@laura.bseyoga
@@Autistic_AF wow! Sounds very cool! My favourite things to find are things that link me directly to the past - like fingerprints in pottery - I can put my finger exactly where the person who made it put theirs hundreds of years ago!
YES! Absolutely. The IOM is filled with stones like this, mostly from the Viking age. But.... it's amazing to find things like rings - last worn by goodness knows who!@@laura.bseyoga
A sea star and an Urchin! So cool. How do you stand that peacock noise? I lived next to it for years and my mother thought about sending the owners a copy of a recipe for peacock she found in a middle ages cookbook. That's not relevant, just a fun fact about me.
Oh yes, they can be loud! We have some tips but honestly it's just for a short time. Although it can be fairly consistent (March-July). YES! Send the book hahahaha :)
Uhh nice to get to know you a bit more! Its some very interesting projects you have worked on, i love it! My partner also works in IT and where part of a team that worked to improve some Danish infrastructure, it was super interesting, but also hard, haha! Hope you are doing good and all your wonderful animals too! I would love to live on a farm and have a lot animals around me! I would love to have some cows and pigs and chickens, and maybe make a farm where children and adults alike can come and de-stress, that would be a dream haha!
Gotta love big infrastructure projects for the sheer scale and experience! I bet he really enjoyed it fro that perspective. Awww, farm sounds like a lovely idea :) edit: Pretty similar to your Minecraft house with the animal enclosures underneath!
That’s some cool projects. I’m trying not to be envious of a few things, it’s so nice to find what works. Isle of Man, did not expect. Being in the water is amazing, and such a landscape. Coding is so popular, it’s funny. I tried but ultimately the debugging needed more love, I prefer writing, cats and art. Years ago I ran a fansite, html and css, and I loved css, about Cats the musical cos after the 1998 video there was a lovely fandom forum for a few years. London and Broadway closing 20+ years ago and social media taking off led to it tailing off (I meant to type trailing but I’ll leave that 😼). With a few others, I found a niche of making a partial cast database and thankfully now we have wikis.
Hello, thank you for the intro. My German Shepherd service dog. Katie is my very best friend. She actually monitors my blood glucose to keep me from potentially fatal lows and does her job well. She also keeps me grounded. I am so grateful to have her so I appreciate you sharing about your companions.
Another great vid. Thanks Mike. Greetings from another Island (near Seattle). I have a question about the retina photography that the tech couldn't answer.
Hey Random! Hello! 👋 around the world back at you :). If it’s a question about software and process I may be able to answer! If it’s about the machines, less so. -Mike
@@Autistic_AF Thanks Mike. Did a little dive (imagine that lol) and think I've figured it out. Funny story, My ex is named Jon McGinnis, and he raced motorcycles. So, we followed John McGuinness and the TT. I've watched hundreds of hours of videos of The Race! So i have a strange rapid fire impressions of very particular parts of your island. Thanks for filling in more of the picture.
Thank you Mike for your introduction. I have been thinking that western countries should perhaps use nuclear reaction tech to generate the base load of power generation. The reactors could be sighted far from tectonic boundaries and all by products of this power source is captured thus leaving the environment clean. Also base power load nuclear power reactor generation is being iterated to be more and more efficient utilising and extracting bigger and bigger percentages of the fusion energy process. We at the same time could and should keep developing renewable energy generation tech. To me and I am probably wrong, I think renewable energy generation tech is great for peripheral energy generation, not the base load of energy generation yet. If we adopt base load nuclear energy generation, this Will allow us millions of years to keep perfecting renewables to the point they will be able to finally replace nuclear base power generation and also might make it possible in the future to learn how to tape into dark energy to harvest base load energy production and also tap into dark matter for material production. And or it could allow humanity time to transform our tech from current synthetic complicated tech to perhaps learning to grow organic complex tech. As I am not an expert in these fields, I would love to read your thoughts on these thoughts I have presented to you and any corrections you can share with me. I love to learn both what doesn't and what does work. Once again I thank you for your tim 0:02 e effort and expense!
Atorage technology is revolutionizing renewables; right when their cost is plumiting. Mini and micro modular reactors that are first fission, and can be upgraded ro fusion will also help bring forth cheap and abundant wnergy in the near future.
Hi Mike, Do you really have a peacock and were you really driving 100 miles per hour and is your son autistic too or does anyone else have autism in your family?
Yep (as much as anyone can!) - we have two boys 🦚 🦚. Yep. Although it took me five attempts to pass my driving test (that’s a story for another day!). Not my son but yes in family. -Mike
I know the captions are for accessibility and a commenter below found them helpful but my Autistic brain can’t deal with the constantly moving purple. I can’t avoid focusing on it and that makes me miss everything you are saying. It is also massively overstimulating. This makes the video unwatchable 😢. It’s a shame they can’t be turned off as you can with the standard RUclips subtitles Just shows how individual Autism is: accessibility for one Autistic person can exclude another.
Thank you so much for replying Mike. I didn’t want to moan, but I thought you would probably want to know if it was causing issues for other Autistic people. I think it is the moving purple that was the issue for me, not subtitles per se. But I am only one person so if it helps everyone else I can just listen and not look at the screen.
@@humanBonsai I can see how it might be a problem. I’ll bear this in mind. Not at all - I really appreciate you taking the time to provide feedback! -Mike
Just for further feedback. I personally find subtitles really distracting although I appreciate its an individual thing. I feel compelled to read them but can't keep up with my dyslexia and the ADHD brains kept saying ooh look purple! @@Autistic_AF
We can see there is at least a partial genetic link to Autism, ADD, etc, as like other genetic traits it is very uncommon in some families, while very common in other families, and we see the same varability with being LGBT. Similar to thise who are LGBT; we see differences in brain structure between those with ADD, Autism, etc, and the general population. I myself have ADD and Dyscalculia, and I also have a skull defect called Arnold Chiari Malformation Type 1. When the symptoms of my skull defect got worse in my late 20's; it made my focus much worse, to the point I went feom reading 500+ words a minute to struggling to get theough a page. I'm not totally.back to normal; but it has improved a lot since then. Both of my parents and both of my siblings had Autism; which impacted them cognitivly, as my brother and fathwr functions around the 5th - 7th grade level, while my siater and mother were a little lower in cognative function. Thankfully, neither of my sister's kids developed Autism. My mom developed Parkinson's Disease later in life, and a unique form of dementia folka like hwr can develop. A micro stroke that went unknoticed until many years later probably didn't help, but thankfully her dementia was a very slow decline over a very long period of time. My brother developed ALS in his 40's, and similarly to my developed dementia, but it was faster progressing than my mom's dementia. My father had vascular dementia after his first stroke, and then about 9 years it got much worse after a more aevere stroke. Is developing dementia or other neurocognative disorders; on top of Autism common, as those with Autism age? My brother's therapist told me; thise with neurocognative disorders tend to age quicker, as many are less aware of things like eating right, the risks associated with smoking, too much sun, being too over weight, but I don't know if this is true.
Omg you have a teenage son! He looks pretty big, how old is he? Does he have autistic traits? How is/was it to be a father with autism? (Sorry if these questions sound intrusive)
@@Autistic_AF I hear you, I got it, but the ADHD kept me from being an actual polyglot. I know bits and pieces of other languages, but have only really mastered French and English...English being my native language so that one is a given lol.
Hi Mike- thanks for ❤️on my longggg comment re bogus study and alt brain etc interventions. I love that I can make a post and really explain where I am coming from and be heard in this community and in conversing w you. Really appreciate your and others’ channels that offer community discourse. Appreciate you for great content and big hearted kindness. It’s nice to not be wrong for explaining where I am coming from and what information I base my perspective on. Can anyone tell me how to message someone on the @ symbol adrs? I can’t find anything explaining it. When I get a reply on comments that I want to acknowledge I can’t figure out how to do it- it’s so obvious to others it doesn’t even have any how to out there that I can find. 🤷♀️
Hydra-cam was great, and what a tail!
Isn’t it just? She ran around for 30 minutes yesterday (WITH MY CAMERA!) - and wouldn’t return! Cats man! That tail really is something else. But sadly will need to be trimmed if she’s going to go exploring the brambles! -Mike
@@Autistic_AF O dear yeah, could probably get some stuff in that tail
Just what I thought! What a tail!
The exact opposite of a Manx 😅
Nice to meet you, Mike! And the cats as well, of course!! ☺
And you, Brian! 👋 ☺️
I was introduced to your channel by seeing you on Woodshed Theory's podcast!
I was nodding along fervently during your bit about Scuba. The water is extremely regulating for my senses as well, I've always loved it!
Hey Pauline! Claire’s channel is great isn’t it? Thank you for your kind words (and for letting me know how you found my channel!). Another water person! It is great isn’t it? 🌊
Fun peek into your life! 😺 Looking forward to upcoming video topics. Thanks for your willingness to be on display (I couldn't!) to help us autists.
I love getting a little more of a peek into your life, Mike! Thanks for representing us so well. See? Autists are cool!
Thanks, Jason! :)
ah finally I can rest my case now where you said you live on the great Isle of Man, landscape seemed so familiar (I'm "a little bit" into the motorsport going on there). just gives me a wholesome feeling that it may never be too late to finally settle into a proper life even at a later age. was working in IT through my 20s but jumped ship and went for the academic route when the world was supposed to end a couple years back and still living in a tiny room in my 30s makes me realize I did quite the sacrifize and don't have a lot to show for it yet due to my extreme struggles when going through exam-phases. hopefully I can upgrade soon once I have the first degree and then go on from there becoming an awesome cat dad like you, Mike :)
Love the video, Thank you.
Thanks for your support, Spooner.
I am also late diagnosed autistic person.
🎉 congratulations on your channel being a success.
Thank you for your lovely comment - and welcome 🤗 to the club! :)
Cute animals! And the kitties!!! 😻😻😻
Haha kitties are the best! 😅😻😂
Due to my weak Central Coherence, I'm totally missing the main point of the video but stuck with its captions. I love how captions are highlighted. Great accessibility for us autistics.
I’m really glad you liked them. It’s interesting to me how someone else hated them. So, it’s hard to plan certain accessibility features for everyone - I’ll have a think about how best to go about this. Thanks again Tea Time Mindfulness. Might you join us for Tea and Tails one evening? -Mike
@@Autistic_AFI think it's best to have as many options as is realistic, could the subtitles be done as Closed Captioning, so users could turn it on and off?
Great trailer Mike, really well put together! 😍
Thanks, Traci! :)
I would love to hear more about your career journey and what you would have benefited from in the workplace to manage sensory issues and stuff. I'm an AuDHD engineering student. The AuDHD was a recent realization (about a year and a half ago I realized then got a diagnosis over the summer for accommodations) because school is definitely not built for nuerodivergent people that don't know their needs and that brought intense burnout. I study aerospace engineering, but I think I want to go into fusion energy or maybe solar when I graduate. I interned at northrop grumman, so I've been on the defense side too (not really my thing, but I got experience and that's what counts). I'm planning on graduating this fall then working, so I would love to hear more about the experience of someone with similar interests
Hello Jenna! Welcome to the autisticats :)
Yes I’ll talk more about this - a video on interviews has been requested, but I’m going to make a deeper dive into employment in STEM fields as that’s what I know best. How’s your course going? Congrats on your diagnosis! That will help if you need to push for accommodations (although a decent employer - depending entirely on the type of work you’re undertaking) should be understanding. Solar and renewables is a fascinating area to work in - big passions of mine - our solar array generated over 50kWh today! It’s an expanding field, lots of opportunities. -Mike
We are on the cusp of an energy revolution; which will underpin the AI revolution, and other developing tech revolutions, and most.of the upcoming revolutions are deoendant upon energy.
Renewables and small and mini modular reactors will make nuclear far cheaper, transportable, and will power the colonization of the Moon, Mars, and beyond.
Thank you. Your videos are really helpful!
Thank you, Philip! I’m really happy to hear that they have been useful!
Back in the day I ran RuneQuest game and had m players play themselves. It was a lot of fun!
Yes! That sounds like something I’d have loved at the time! Thanks, Shaun :)
love this! I definitely relate to the "you can leave the dyspraxia on the shore". I ski. The second the ski boots are on, game on! And I'm so glad you have lots of animals around you!
I'm really happy to hear that! You're literally the first person I've found that relates to that statement other than me lol. Hahaha, yes, lots of animals :) -Mike
@@Autistic_AF yes, I suppose the phrase for me is: "leave the dyspraxia in the parking lot" haha. I think having gear to interface with my environment with does something really powerful for my physical coordination.
@@malapropia YES 🙌 that’s a great way to explain how I feel, too. Clambering into my thermal under suit and trying NOT to fall over onto my face - and yet getting into the ocean and feeling the pressure all around me, and moving myself through a three dimensional space using nothing but small movements of my legs and ankles and feet - and breath control. It’s a paradox!
@@Autistic_AF I'd love a video just on this! I live so far from the ocean, and I daydream about diving. I know if I wasn't a mountain person, I'd be a diver, too. The breath control must do amazing things for regulating the nervous system.
@@malapropia Thank you! I promise I’ll make one. I don’t think anyone else ever has! -Mike
Great as ever ..loved the cat cam and the no speed limit speeding...
Recognise anywhere? :)
many places even one I can see from my house! @@Autistic_AF
love the video, the chat, island with the cats, music! thanks .
Thanks, Gale! Hope you enjoyed the livestream too! Was lovely to have you on it!
@@Autistic_AF Yes, I did. Thanks!
Stroke a cat and grab a cup of tea he says. Here I am, with my feet up with two cats sprawled across my legs, and a third curled up by my feet. With a cup of coffee. Close enough. 😁
PERFECT :-)
I think some stories about these wonderful creatures would be quite nice
Thanks, Michelle. Will do :)
I just found you and you're so fnin smart! I JUST accepted my hf autism and my IQ is 143 and no longer masking so it's all free. I can tell your IQ is ALSO VERY high, I am so happy to have found your channel! I am going through SO MUCH right now, trying to figure out who I am! I've only seen 2 of your videos but I LOVE this channel because your HF, adult hight IQ too, and it's so nice to see someone like me who uses references like D&D like I would. You are AWESOME!! Also I lovw solar power and Elon Musk + Nikola Tesla (both Autistic) as energy fascinates me! In all honesty you're a gift to me! A kindred soul!
IQ tests are biased to me; they assume individuals have had access ro a quality education, so they teat things like grammer, word comprehension, mathamatics, patern recognition, etc, some of which can be impacted by neurocognative disorders like Dyscalculia. On top of having Dyscalculia, my autistic parents couldn't maintain structure around brushing our teeth; let.olone.things like studying, study skills, etc. I took an IQ test in a book about IQ; and acored 138, but mine could be higher or lower.
I once had a therapist ask me to name animals; and like John Travilta's film Phenomina, the therapist was surprised at how many I came up with. So far; I haven't been diagnosed with Autism, but I'm 9 out of 10 on the ADD scale. Plus my immediate family were all autistic.
I was lucky enough to spend 6 weeks on the IOM on a training dig back in 1997 (I trained as an archaeologist). We dug in the South part of the island, where they were blasting for quarrying after we'd finished! Stayed in the dorms of a residential school, as they were closed for the summer. I'd love to visit again.
Hey Laura, that sounds amazing! Did you find anything interesting? The digs have come to a close now which is such a shame. But Time Team (with Tony Robinson) did a dig down south on a golf course and found all sorts of things; early Christian burials and Viking artefacts. I’ve found a few little things myself metal detecting - there’s so much rich history! -Mike
@@Autistic_AF We were digging the remains of a Neolithic settlement, so nothing shiny found! Lots of flint tools & waste, bits of early pottery & some ditches mostly! We're very lucky to have such a rich archaeological record on these islands - can you tell it's a special interest of mine?! 🤣
Oh wow! That's exciting! Last years' final dig (I really wish there were more, everywhere a trench goes down, there's some amazing unseen find) - found amongst other things, a beautiful JADE necklace! It's so pretty. -Mike@@laura.bseyoga
@@Autistic_AF wow! Sounds very cool! My favourite things to find are things that link me directly to the past - like fingerprints in pottery - I can put my finger exactly where the person who made it put theirs hundreds of years ago!
YES! Absolutely. The IOM is filled with stones like this, mostly from the Viking age. But.... it's amazing to find things like rings - last worn by goodness knows who!@@laura.bseyoga
Lovely video. 😊
Thank you 🙏
You are a quite fascinating individual. Thanks for sharing your interests and accomplishments.
Thanks, Joel.
Love your channel, it’s helped me loads and I love that you include your animals! 🥰
Aww thank you! I'm really glad my content has been useful! More coming! -Mike :)
A sea star and an Urchin! So cool. How do you stand that peacock noise? I lived next to it for years and my mother thought about sending the owners a copy of a recipe for peacock she found in a middle ages cookbook. That's not relevant, just a fun fact about me.
Oh yes, they can be loud! We have some tips but honestly it's just for a short time. Although it can be fairly consistent (March-July). YES! Send the book hahahaha :)
Uhh nice to get to know you a bit more!
Its some very interesting projects you have worked on, i love it! My partner also works in IT and where part of a team that worked to improve some Danish infrastructure, it was super interesting, but also hard, haha!
Hope you are doing good and all your wonderful animals too! I would love to live on a farm and have a lot animals around me! I would love to have some cows and pigs and chickens, and maybe make a farm where children and adults alike can come and de-stress, that would be a dream haha!
Gotta love big infrastructure projects for the sheer scale and experience! I bet he really enjoyed it fro that perspective. Awww, farm sounds like a lovely idea :)
edit: Pretty similar to your Minecraft house with the animal enclosures underneath!
@@Autistic_AF Yeah he enjoyed the project, it gave him a lot to work on and to learn haha!
Haha! Yes! My little mini farm :D
I have aome Danes in my family tree, along with Norwegian, German, French, English, and Irish.
I'm so jealous that you live in the Isle of Man. It's my favourite place and I would love to live there. 😊
We’re looking for new residents!
Hello Hydra and Mike. We did a golden retriever cam once and realized it was all about scent and sniffing. All we saw was furry jowls and ground.
Hahahahahaha! Furry jowls and ground is great too!
That’s some cool projects. I’m trying not to be envious of a few things, it’s so nice to find what works. Isle of Man, did not expect. Being in the water is amazing, and such a landscape.
Coding is so popular, it’s funny. I tried but ultimately the debugging needed more love, I prefer writing, cats and art. Years ago I ran a fansite, html and css, and I loved css, about Cats the musical cos after the 1998 video there was a lovely fandom forum for a few years. London and Broadway closing 20+ years ago and social media taking off led to it tailing off (I meant to type trailing but I’ll leave that 😼). With a few others, I found a niche of making a partial cast database and thankfully now we have wikis.
I love Cats the Musical too!!! Skimbleshanks and other occupational-cats are my favourite :)
Due to Dyscalculia; even teying to program a router in a network security class, was extremly stressful.
Hello, thank you for the intro. My German Shepherd service dog. Katie is my very best friend. She actually monitors my blood glucose to keep me from potentially fatal lows and does her job well. She also keeps me grounded. I am so grateful to have her so I appreciate you sharing about your companions.
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Another great vid. Thanks Mike. Greetings from another Island (near Seattle). I have a question about the retina photography that the tech couldn't answer.
Hey Random! Hello! 👋 around the world back at you :). If it’s a question about software and process I may be able to answer! If it’s about the machines, less so. -Mike
@@Autistic_AF Thanks Mike. Did a little dive (imagine that lol) and think I've figured it out. Funny story, My ex is named Jon McGinnis, and he raced motorcycles. So, we followed John McGuinness and the TT. I've watched hundreds of hours of videos of The Race! So i have a strange rapid fire impressions of very particular parts of your island. Thanks for filling in more of the picture.
Thank you Mike for your introduction. I have been thinking that western countries should perhaps use nuclear reaction tech to generate the base load of power generation. The reactors could be sighted far from tectonic boundaries and all by products of this power source is captured thus leaving the environment clean. Also base power load nuclear power reactor generation is being iterated to be more and more efficient utilising and extracting bigger and bigger percentages of the fusion energy process. We at the same time could and should keep developing renewable energy generation tech. To me and I am probably wrong, I think renewable energy generation tech is great for peripheral energy generation, not the base load of energy generation yet. If we adopt base load nuclear energy generation, this Will allow us millions of years to keep perfecting renewables to the point they will be able to finally replace nuclear base power generation and also might make it possible in the future to learn how to tape into dark energy to harvest base load energy production and also tap into dark matter for material production. And or it could allow humanity time to transform our tech from current synthetic complicated tech to perhaps learning to grow organic complex tech. As I am not an expert in these fields, I would love to read your thoughts on these thoughts I have presented to you and any corrections you can share with me. I love to learn both what doesn't and what does work. Once again I thank you for your tim 0:02 e effort and expense!
Atorage technology is revolutionizing renewables; right when their cost is plumiting. Mini and micro modular reactors that are first fission, and can be upgraded ro fusion will also help bring forth cheap and abundant wnergy in the near future.
This is very interesting! I am impressed with those things that you tell!!!
Also the animals are very sweet!!! 🕊️🦜🐰🐱🐱🐕🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈🐈🐩🐕🐑🐓🦚🦚🦆🐐
Thanks Rita! They are sweet! What did you think of Hydra-cam? :) Hahahaha
@@Autistic_AF beautiful, she is like a queen
Hi Mike, Do you really have a peacock and were you really driving 100 miles per hour and is your son autistic too or does anyone else have autism in your family?
Yep (as much as anyone can!) - we have two boys 🦚 🦚.
Yep. Although it took me five attempts to pass my driving test (that’s a story for another day!). Not my son but yes in family. -Mike
Twelve cats, three dogs, pracocks, ducks... Do you live in heaven? Can I come? 😍😍😍
Hahahaha - it's fun, but a lot of work at times. I couldn't do it all on my own. -Mike
@@Autistic_AF I bet it is a lot of work for sure. I wasn't thinking of that. I hope it is worth it with all the fun and love they bring. 🦆🦚🐕🐈
So many cats 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
I know the captions are for accessibility and a commenter below found them helpful but my Autistic brain can’t deal with the constantly moving purple. I can’t avoid focusing on it and that makes me miss everything you are saying. It is also massively overstimulating. This makes the video unwatchable 😢. It’s a shame they can’t be turned off as you can with the standard RUclips subtitles
Just shows how individual Autism is: accessibility for one Autistic person can exclude another.
That’s a great point that. Maybe listen or zoom the video to drop out the bottom part where the captions are?
I can upload a version unlisted without any captions if this helps :)
Thank you so much for replying Mike.
I didn’t want to moan, but I thought you would probably want to know if it was causing issues for other Autistic people. I think it is the moving purple that was the issue for me, not subtitles per se. But I am only one person so if it helps everyone else I can just listen and not look at the screen.
@@humanBonsai I can see how it might be a problem. I’ll bear this in mind. Not at all - I really appreciate you taking the time to provide feedback! -Mike
Just for further feedback. I personally find subtitles really distracting although I appreciate its an individual thing. I feel compelled to read them but can't keep up with my dyslexia and the ADHD brains kept saying ooh look purple! @@Autistic_AF
I am not be up to your level but your channel seems interesting.
Thanks, Lily!
We can see there is at least a partial genetic link to Autism, ADD, etc, as like other genetic traits it is very uncommon in some families, while very common in other families, and we see the same varability with being LGBT. Similar to thise who are LGBT; we see differences in brain structure between those with ADD, Autism, etc, and the general population.
I myself have ADD and Dyscalculia, and I also have a skull defect called Arnold Chiari Malformation Type 1. When the symptoms of my skull defect got worse in my late 20's; it made my focus much worse, to the point I went feom reading 500+ words a minute to struggling to get theough a page. I'm not totally.back to normal; but it has improved a lot since then.
Both of my parents and both of my siblings had Autism; which impacted them cognitivly, as my brother and fathwr functions around the 5th - 7th grade level, while my siater and mother were a little lower in cognative function. Thankfully, neither of my sister's kids developed Autism. My mom developed Parkinson's Disease later in life, and a unique form of dementia folka like hwr can develop. A micro stroke that went unknoticed until many years later probably didn't help, but thankfully her dementia was a very slow decline over a very long period of time.
My brother developed ALS in his 40's, and similarly to my developed dementia, but it was faster progressing than my mom's dementia.
My father had vascular dementia after his first stroke, and then about 9 years it got much worse after a more aevere stroke.
Is developing dementia or other neurocognative disorders; on top of Autism common, as those with Autism age? My brother's therapist told me; thise with neurocognative disorders tend to age quicker, as many are less aware of things like eating right, the risks associated with smoking, too much sun, being too over weight, but I don't know if this is true.
Omg you have a teenage son! He looks pretty big, how old is he? Does he have autistic traits? How is/was it to be a father with autism? (Sorry if these questions sound intrusive)
Yeah, he's huge lol - 16 and I would say so ;) - great question for a future video! :D
12 cats? alright. my kinda guy. got in the 30s.
It looks like you live in Hyrule Field
Yeah it does a bit lol
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2 cats both black and white
Black and white or two black and white cats? 🐈⬛ 🐈 awwww
I'm just going to assume you're a friend of Big Clive and make up stories in my head about you two drinking fizzy alcoholic drinks together.
Who is big Clive?
Another RUclipsr who lives nearby with 1M+ subs :)
@@Autistic_AF no way, I was gonna say small world but I guess it's a small island for u
@@heedmydemands Check out Claire @Woodshedtheory - I did a collab with her, and there's another 'small world' topic near the start haha
@@Autistic_AF yeah I love Claire
Ohhhhh....do you speak Manx!?
I didn’t get the ‘really into languages’ autism - but I can a little bit.
@@Autistic_AF I hear you, I got it, but the ADHD kept me from being an actual polyglot. I know bits and pieces of other languages, but have only really mastered French and English...English being my native language so that one is a given lol.
Ah, you’ve done very well. I was born in Germany and mein deutsche icht nict so gut.
@@shanemichaelneal648 You sound exactly like me!
Hi Mike- thanks for ❤️on my longggg comment re bogus study and alt brain etc interventions. I love that I can make a post and really explain where I am coming from and be heard in this community and in conversing w you. Really appreciate your and others’ channels that offer community discourse. Appreciate you for great content and big hearted kindness. It’s nice to not be wrong for explaining where I am coming from and what information I base my perspective on.
Can anyone tell me how to message someone on the @ symbol adrs? I can’t find anything explaining it. When I get a reply on comments that I want to acknowledge I can’t figure out how to do it- it’s so obvious to others it doesn’t even have any how to out there that I can find. 🤷♀️