And I've seen the potential in this team, man. And even though it was a group of guys that came together from a lot of different places and a lot of guys in different points in their career, we worked so hard through training camp. We competed against every team we could win against in the pre-season, and I just knew how hard we worked. You know, the expectations that coach had for us, the expectation that Terry had for us, that Mr. Blink had for us. We just want to keep building, keep building off what we set this year in the foundation.  But we know the group of guys that we had this year. But for this beautiful new year, 2023, we'd love to ask you for great blessings as you actually give a full part of your strength and speed. Yeah! That's the best you've got! Everybody in the league is good. All the teams are good. All the players are good. So you have to have that one thing that's going to set you apart from everybody else. Atlanta lost by eight to the Ravens, which for Arthur Smith was the 21st time in 32 games. And his team has played in a one-score game arch. Welcome to 2023, gentlemen. Well, to give you some perspective of the season, 13 of your games are one-score games. That's how close this team is. Now, you've got to get over the hump. There's no question about it. That's not lie to ourselves. You have to win the games. But this is a really young football team. He wants to bake the row, and he's socked. Isaiah Oliver is the pocket he'll play. I mean, so many guys that's doing some good things, man. And I mean, it just shouldn't go unseen. Now second and a long. Ritter dubs it in the flat. Here's Patterson. He'll turn. Fordarro inside the 40. That's helped our rookie class, knowing that we're going to have to come in here and help. We're still on the building block of this whole thing for the vets to come in and help us and just make our trajectory keep on going up. It was really big. We haven't the nucleus of, yeah, we got some young guys. We also had some veteran guys who come in here talking about a guy like Richard Adams comes in and they laid by example and probably brought a lot of the young guys along. Lorenzo Carter, another guy on those one year deal who came in here and throughout the entire season, you can tell he gave everything he had. Getting guys who won on this team to where maybe some other teams never even gave him the opportunity. You know what I'm saying? You see the young stars that we have. They're going to hand to Al Geer. Tyler rubs it up and scores on the carry. Tyler Al Geer will punch home his third rushing score of the year. Let's start with Tyler Al Geer. Tyler Al Geer is on the verge of potentially being the top rusher, rookie rusher in falcon history. Handing to Al Geer. Tyler first down. Al Geer, absolutely blasted one man. Big run at Tyler Al Geer. He's not done. Al Geer may have just walked his way into the falcon record. I'm an offensive lineman and I come off the ball and I'm blocking a guy and I'm trying to slip the next level and I'm trying to stay on my guy. And I've got a guy that's running with the kind of violence that Tyler Al Geer runs with. Congrats, brother. Talking about Terry Fontenot and his staff finding diamonds in the back end of the draft. You may have found the best running back in the draft in 2022 in Tyler Al Geer. He's certainly running that one. Al Geer. I think the young quarterback, we're getting a chance to see what he's all about. The moxie of putting him up the bat. Desmond at the five, flips it in zone. Caught the touchdown maker, Michael Pruitt. The thing about, I like about Des, man, is more than his play on the field is just a presence of bottom. Find the way, man. Find the way. I know he's somebody that's going to work to try to reach his max, whatever that may be. Ritter launches. Got a man. It's one man and a terrific grab by Drake London. It's a young, vibrant group. He's got them believing. Arthur Smith and his staff have them believing that this is their time. They've got a chance to really write their script in the National Football League. And this season with back-to-back wins, how important was it for you to finish this one on a high note? Yeah, very important. Like we said last week, we want to go 2-0 in 2023. And that's what we did. So, you know, we're excited to come out here, finish up strong, get two home wins. And we're excited to, you know, go into the offseason. We have a lot to prove. We're this close in almost all the games. And it could have gone either way, you know? So I think just be ready for what's about to come. Could you welcome through some of the processes of, you know, as we're into the offseason now, what's next? Now, as we wrap up the season, the first thing we do is we look in the mirror, and we're going to look at every aspect of the program and assess every detail. Take a deep dive and look at the things that went well, the things we want to continue to build on, and where are the areas that we need to improve. Not just this game against the Buccaneers, but even going back the last few weeks, I mean, Ritter, Algier, and London showed that they can end up being pillars of this franchise. And they did some really special things their rookie year. They're only going to get better. Come on in next year. Let's go to work. We had a plan in year one. We come into year two, a much different team, much younger team, a different core on this team. And that's the nature of the business. There are going to be a lot of different players. And yet those players that were here, they're a part of setting that foundation. We worked hard. No matter what situation, we all came in with a like mindset that we're going to go to work. And it didn't matter what's going on on the outside. When it comes to us, it's one of 11, and we're all going for it. Building that culture and everybody buying in and playing hard is really exciting to see. And I think we have a bright future, and I'm excited for that. When you hear about the culture that's being built out here, who watched the way this team plays for 60 minutes, says, I'm a free agent. That's attractive. You're going to be able to affect this roster big time. And now, you've got the money to do it. We had a plan from the very beginning, and now we're in the next phase of that. And this is going to be a different offseason than we had in the previous years. We do have a young core, but they have to take another step this offseason because we are going to continue to work hard to build this program. So everyone has to look at this offseason and take on that challenge, which I know they will, because we have the right mindset. So evolution that happens even with the coaching staff naturally be changed defensively, and a big part of that is the coordinator. You're not just going to add one player to a certain position, and then all of a sudden the SAC numbers go up. It's about improving the total team. I can see the vision for what they want to build, and I'm willing to do whatever it takes from my standpoint. All hands on deck. Everybody all in, or you got to get on. This time around next year, the goal is definitely to be prepared for the playoffs. The direction that we're going here in Atlanta is the right direction. I firmly believe it. I've seen how hard the guys play, obviously up close.  We're in the businesses of always improving our talent. That's just what we do, whether that be development. And it really doesn't matter how the players get here, whether it's a high draft pick, a undrafted free agent, a free agent from another team. Once we have them, there are. And so it's our job to improve the guys that we have and the guys that we bring in and ultimately make it the best that we can in Atlanta. I think a whole different Drake is going to come out next season. There's a lot that's left on the table for me out there. And I know it. So all I got to do is go out there and grab it. I'm excited for it. It's Drake London. Quick throw in the pan. Drake London. Quick throw. Caught London at the five. And Drake London scores the Atlanta touchdown. And the intercepted Richie Brands got this one. Kyle Pitz caught it. Touchdowns. Cordero Patterson out of the end zone. Touchdown in Atlanta. Holy smoke. Now the sideline is still going. Jalen Hawkins off the deflection.  And he is sad to be dragged down. He's been close, you know, close right there. But that's the difference, you know. In the NFL, all the games are so close. That's the difference that we've got to make up. And we're going to do it, you know, because we're going to use this pain that we got. Not making it this year when we know we could have, when nobody gave us a chance. And then when it's go time, we're going to be ready. See the warmth and everybody's eyes around here, you know, from top to bottom. And nobody going to want them more than me, though.


Good evening.  And this is Puppet News. I'm Miranda Lehor. A New Mexico sheriff who is running for mayor of Albuquerque was interrupted while on stage at a campaign event by a flying drone with a sex toy attached to it and a man who punched him, Bernalillo County Sheriff Manuel Gonzalez' campaign said the Democrat was unharmed and will not be intimidated. The Albuquerque Journal reported that a video posted on Facebook shows Gonzalez answering questions from the audience while standing on a stage at an event center when the drone bearing the sex toy started buzzing near the stage. A sheriff's office report said the owner of the event center grabbed the device and that 20-year-old Kailin Ashby Dreyer unsuccessfully tried to grab it. The report said Dreyer then turned his attention to Gonzalez, swinging his fist and calling him a tyrant. A deputy wrote that Dreyer punched Gonzalez' hands and was then removed from the event by deputies. Gonzalez said at a news conference on Wednesday that he believed Dreyer was with several companions and spotted someone standing on the other side of a fence who he believes was flying the drone. It became so distracting from the sound and everything I couldn't really get my point across, Gonzalez said. Dreyer has been charged with petty misdemeanor battery and misdemeanor resisting, evading, or obstructing an officer. According to a deputy in the report, Dreyer said that he did not intend to hit Gonzalez, but was upset at the way Gonzalez answered a question and intended to swing his fist through the air. Gonzalez suggested Wednesday that the stunt with the drone may have been sent by the rival campaign of incumbent Mayor Tim Keller, also a Democrat. Keller's campaign condemned the stunt as disruptive, rude, and immature, and denied any involvement.  Keller campaign manager, Neri Holguin, said, Dreyer denied to the Aberkirke Journal that he was working for Keller's campaign and said he's not a fan of the incumbent either. He declined to comment further. Dreyer did not have a listed phone number where he could be reached by the Associated Press to comment or a listed attorney in court records to comment on his behalf. An air monitoring station at Vansbran Airport. This applies key information about atmospheric and greenhouse gas emissions is being moved to make way for the construction of a new airport hangar. The city council last month approved, at least to Western airport development, which wants to construct hangars for aircraft storage. The construction will take place next to the monitoring station operated by research scientist Detlef Helmeg and his company, Boulder Atmosphere Innovation Research, LLC, or Boulder Air. Helmug is under a nearly $500,000 contract to monitor local oil and gas emissions, as well as greenhouse gases from vehicles in and around Longmont. Directing the hangar next door to the air monitoring station will interfere with its operation forcing the move. The city is looking at alternative locations for the station, which plans to move the facility in August. A herd of 15 wild elephants that walked 300 miles from a nature reserve in China's Mountain Southwest were approaching the major city of Kunming on Wednesday as authorities rushed to try to keep them out of populated areas. Chinese wildlife authorities say they don't know why the herd left a nature reserve last year near the city of Puerh, a region known for tea cultivation. The group was 16 animals, but the government says two returned home and a baby was born during the walk. Authorities have blocked traffic on roads while the elephants crossed and were setting up barriers and using food as bait to try to keep them away from Kunming and other populated areas. On Wednesday, the herd was in Yuzi, about 12 miles from Kunming, a city of 7 million people, the official Zinhua news agency said. It said images taken by drones used to track the herd show six female and three adult male elephants, three juveniles, and three calves. Chen Mingyang, an Asian elephant expert, cited by Zinhua, said the incident was the longest distance migration of wild elephants recorded in China. Chen said it was possible their leader lacks experience and led the whole group astray. A task force of 360 people with 76 cars and nine drones was tracking the elephants, Zinhua said. Last week, the elephants walked, wandered through this, you know, they either walked or they wandered. It can't be both. Who's writing this copy?  Oh, you're saying I did this? Don't, look at me. Chen Mingyang, Asian elephants in loss and the incident was the longest distance. Yeah, their leader lacked experience. Can you imagine, can you imagine what it's like to work with people who lack experience? I'm just experiencing the whole group astray. A task force of 360 people with 76 cars and nine drones was tracking the elephants, Zinhua said. Well, which one is it? Nobody, nobody fixed this. Last week, the elephants wandered the streets of the town of Aishan for six hours after residents were warned to stay indoors, according to Zinhua. Damage done by the elephants to farmland is estimated at 6.8 million yuan, the equivalent of $1.1 million, according to Zinhua. Haley Moriniko didn't hesitate when she saw a large bear facing off with her family dogs from the top of a wall in their Southern California backyard. The 17-year-old ran outside and shoved the bear away, then rounded up the dogs and went back inside her house in suburban Bradbury, east of Los Angeles. Home surveillance video aired by the ABC7 television station shows the mother bear perched to top the wall, swatting at a large black... Oh, well, yeah, yeah, it was my fault, but what do you expect? I'm just, I'm not... Well, you know what they say about excellence. Well, neither do I. Okay, I was hoping, I was hoping you would know. Home surveillance, blah, blah, blah. Yeah, home surveillance, home surveillance is fine. We're just, we're just having problems this evening, ladies and gentlemen. Please forgive us. Our normal standards of excellence will prevail. I promise. Home surveillance, why isn't it rolling? Home surveillance... Home surveillance video aired by the ABC7 television station shows the mother bear perched to top the wall, swatting at a large black dog on the ground. Two bear cubs are seen behind the bear, while four smaller dogs bark and dart around the yard. Moraniko sprints toward the bear, uses both hands to push the large bear off the wall, and picks up one of the smaller dogs. She and the other dogs then run out the video frame. The bears disappear over a wall into a neighbor's yard. Honestly, the only thing I had in mind was to protect my dogs, said Moraniko. The teens said she escaped with only a sprained finger and a scraped knee, but wouldn't advise anyone to follow her example. She was only thinking about protecting her dogs, Moraniko said. Do not push bears and do not get close to bears, she told KCalTV. You do not want to get unlucky. I just happened to come out unscathed. Brad Bray is a foothill community on the edge of Angeles National Forest. Longmont will move ahead with an ordinance creating a program to license and inspect rental housing in the city. A change that a majority of the Longmont City Council members say will protect both renters and landlords. Cata logging rental properties will also give the city a better idea of what kind of quality housing is available in Longmont, which up until now has been largely guesswork. The council voted four to two with council members Tim Water and Mayor Pro Tem Aaron Rodriguez dissenting to switch from the current complaint based system in which tenants report problems with landlords to the city. The change will not be immediate. Along. I'm putting on my puppet show. It's really cool. Don't you? No. Back to our standards of excellence. The standards of excellence on the puppet news. It's an excellent puppet news show. Where were we? A judge. Something about reptiles. Why do we always have animal stories? It's always animal stuff on this show. Okay. Why isn't it rolling? Make it move. It's supposed to be moving. Where's my script? There we go. A judge has rejected the stand or ground defense of a Florida man who said he beat an iguana to death only after it attacked him, biting him on the arm. PJ Nalaja Patterson, 43, must stand trial on a felony animal cruelty charge. Palm Beach County circuit judge Jeffrey Dana Gillen ruled recently in denying the unusual defense the South Florida Sun Sentinel reported. The stand your ground law allows a person who is under attack and reasonably fears death or great bodily harm to use deadly force even if they could retreat to safety. It has been used in several high-profile cases since it was adopted 16 years ago, but this might be the first time the recipient of deadly force was an animal. Prosecutors say Patterson savagely beat, tormented, tortured, and killed the three-foot iguana in a half-hour attack caught on surveillance video. Prosecutor Alexandra Dorman said that at no time was the iguana posing any real threat to Patterson last September and that he was not justified in his actions when he kicked this defenseless animal at least 17 times causing its death. Animal control officers said Patterson tormented the animal, which is why it bit him on the arm, causing a wound that required 22 staples to close. Under state law, people are allowed to kill iguanas, an invasive species, in a quick and humane manner. A necropsy, though, showed the iguana had lacerated liver, broken pelvis, and internal bleeding, which were painful and terrifying injuries prosecutors contend. But Patterson's public defender, Frank Vasconcelos, wrote that the iguana was the aggressor when it leaned forward with its mouth wide open and showing its sharp teeth in a threatening manner and attacked Patterson. Bleeding from his bite, Patterson kicked the iguana as far as he could, Vasconcelos said. Patterson believed that the iguana could have injected poison in him, and thus he rushed to incapacitate the iguana the best way he could in order to preserve its antidote. Vasconcelos wrote, iguanas are not poisonous and typically run when a human approaches. Any force used by Patterson in order to further avoid great bodily harm or even death was reasonably justified, Vasconcelos wrote. Judge Gillan rejected that argument. Patterson could get up to five years in prison if convicted. Thanks to a grant from the Colorado Blueprint to End Hunger, the nonprofit Friends of Longmont Youth has announced another extension and expansion of its free grocery program. In partnership with the Longmont Youth Center, Community Food Share, and Longmont Food Rescue, the grocery program will continue at 1440 Emory Street on Mondays from 3.30 to 5.00 p.m. through the end of July. In addition, two more sites have been added in partnership with St. Mary Valley Schools Nutrition Services at Skyline School and Altona Middle School. Both school sites will offer groceries alongside summer meals on Thursdays from 11.00 a.m. to 12.30 p.m., beginning June 10th through July 1st. Some people are greeted by the family dog. For Todd Westward, it's a roughed grouse. The bird started hanging out in the New London, New Hampshire backyard last month with Westward while his family was away on a trip. His wife, Mary Beth Westward, posted on Facebook. Since then, the bird, named Walter, has made himself a fixture in the yard. I just thought it was a fluke before we left.  He was here every single day, all day long following him. Walter has perched on her husband's shoulder and arm, and has visited his backyard workstation. Mary Beth Westward said she's gotten a lot of positive comments from her post and heard some similar stories about social grouses. She said she and the couple's daughters don't have the same bond with Walter. He appears to chase them away. He runs like a feathered velociraptor while he chases us down the driveway in our cars, and he goes back up and sits on the porch and pretends to be our watch bird, Westward wrote in her post. The roughed grouse is the state bird in Pennsylvania. The tame grouse phenomenon happens in the spring during the peak breeding season according to a video last year from the Pennsylvania Game Commission. One theory is that the grouse is acting hyperterritorial. A drug dealer in the English city of Liverpool thought he was the big cheese until police got all the evidence they needed to arrest him from a picture, to arrest him from a picture he shared of himself holding a small block of creamy stiltun. Carl Stewart, 39, was sentenced to 13 years and six months in prison at Liverpool Crown Court last week after he pleaded guilty to conspiracy to supply cocaine, conspiracy to supply heroin, MDMA, and ketamine, and transferring criminal property. Were it not for a photo he shared of himself holding the cheese block from the reputable British retailer Marks and Spencer, he could still very well be supplying large amounts of drugs. Stewart was arrested after he posted the photo on the encrypted messaging service and quote chat via his handle Toffee Force. Unbeknownst to him, the service had been cracked by police in Europe. From that, his palm and fingerprints were analyzed and police had their man. Mercy signed police detective inspector Lee Wilkinson said Stewart had been caught out by his love of stiltun cheese. Stewart isn't alone in having his criminal activities brought to a premature end by his activities on encroach chat. Mercy's side police say around 60,000 users have now been identified worldwide with about 10,000 of them in the UK alone. All are said to be involved in coordinating and planning the supply and distribution of drugs and weapons, money laundering, and other criminal activity. Mercy's side police has arrested more than 60 people as part of Operation Venetic and three more criminals were sentenced to long-term prison terms on Wednesday. Three more are due for sentencing Thursday. Sean Harrison 33 was one of those sentenced to 10 years eight months in prison after pleading guilty to conspiracy to supply cocaine and cannabis. Harrison was caught out after he revealed personal details of himself on encroach chat on which he went by the handle scant bee and sender ferret. Mercy's side police along with law enforcement agencies across the world will leave no stone unturned in our pursuit of those people who think they are above the law and will continue to target anyone involved in serious organized crime to keep this positive momentum going. Workers at two Longmont cannabis companies unionized this week. A move the labor organization hopes sets a precedent as the first ever national union contract for CBD workers. Workers from Union Harvest and Nature's Root will join the United Food and Commercial Workers Union which counts 22,000 Colorado members and fills itself as the nation's largest cannabis workers union. Justin Eisenach Union Harvest's managing director and founder says he hopes the move will serve as an example to others in the industry. The effort to unionize cannabis workers has been growing steadily across the country in recent years and the pandemic only hastened the pace. Much of it has been led by UFCW which Rolling Stone magazine dubbed America's most powerful cannabis union. But even though Colorado became the first state to legalize marijuana, workers at pot shops across the state struggled for years to unionize. In 2016 efforts by a Pueblo worker to organize a union led to his ousting. The following year workers at the Rocky Mountain High dispensary voted in favor of forming a union only to withdraw their union or their support. Employees at Tweed Leaf, a network of Colorado dispensaries, are currently awaiting a decision by the National Labor Relations Board. And that's all we have time for. For Puppet News, I'm Carl. I'm Miranda Lahore. Good night.


Floods wreaked havoc in China's Chongqing as cars and trucks were partially submerged after floodwater gushed down a retaining wall, eyewitness video released on July 14. Reuters was able to confirm the location as near Yulong Road, Wanzhou, Chongqing, from the roads, bridges, greenery and buildings which matched file and satellite imagery of the area. Reuters was not able to independently confirm the date the video was filmed. The state broadcaster CCTV also showed videos of floods from the same area in Chongqing. Chongqing authorities have issued red alerts and posted a statement on WeChat at 5.30 am on July 14 saying that from July 13 to July 14, there was widespread heavy rain to torrential rain in Wanzhou, with some towns experiencing severe rain.


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My class is on the status test, so today we are dealing with the test of significance, not going very detail about each test, but test where to apply a particular test and on what conditions or scenario. So this is one of the most scariest question we ever faced during our course graduation. Because we might not be knowing many tests and its applications, we hardly know T test and over M chi square. So when to apply and what conditions it is to be applied, it is a trickiest part of this statistical testing. So before that, I would like to suggest that please watch my videos on normal curve and types of variables before seeing this one. So if you have a clear idea about normal curve and types of variable, it is very easy to get the idea of types of testing. Otherwise it might be a roadblock for you to understand what I am talking now. So I really suggest you to watch those two videos, normal curve and types of variables. So basically, this is hardly a false lights, after false lights, we will be knowing everything and almost all the tests which are basically required for our testing and clinical studies and thesis making. So we know by statistics, it's statistics on the living organisms or human beings. So basically we do testing to create or test hypothesis. So the descriptive part of biostatistics is to create a hypothesis for we collected data of some people or 100 people. So first what we do, we do the descriptive analytics or descriptive statistics, not analytics statistics, that is to create hypothesis. So first in any article, we can see that the first two, three tables are of descriptive nature. That is the variables will be put into mean, standard deviation, median, IQR and various frequency. The questionnaire, various frequency of responses will be put. And there will be some two, three tables which are completely for this descriptive part. Then you can see the inferential part. That is the testing of the hypothesis. So there you can see many tests, correlation or regression analysis. Testing means you can see T test and over test, what will Cox and Sine try and test. So many tests. So any article or any part of research, the first part is descriptive part and second is the inferential part. Inferential part is nothing but we are trying to bring out an inference from our data. So descriptive part will be done by mean, median and standard deviation, IQR frequency most commonly and inferential test you should parametric or non-parametric test or correlation and regression analysis. So before that we need to know what is normality. Normality I am not explaining here because I have already covered a big session on normality in my previous videos. So please do check the normality video. So usually we can manually check the normality of a particular data. So suppose we get a data, we need to check whether it is normally distributed. So depending upon normality, the test which we are going to apply will be changed. So we can do manually but nowadays it's a era of softwares, we can use softwares to test whether our data is following normally normality or not. So commonly used test are Shapiro Vulcans test, Smyrna of Kolmogorov test and Anderson darling test. So you just remember this name because you might have come across these test before in all articles. One of the test will be in all articles where the statistical description has given the normality of the data was tested by Shapiro Vulcans test or Smyrna Kolmogorov test. So one sentence you might have seen. So this is just to check whether it is normally distributed or not. So it is all done by softwares. You have manual application of normality testing by taking a million standard deviation and checking the three standard deviation and to know that whether it is following 99.7% total observation. But it might take a lot of time or it is very laborious when the data is very, the data is very huge. So commonly we do, statisticians will do one of these test. Many test are there. I just put three. So this is normality. So once we check normality, we get to know that whether it is, whether our data is normally distributed or not. So if it is normally distributed, we have to follow parametric test. If it is not normally distributed, we have to follow nonparametric test. So for that, you need to know what is continuous data and what is categorical data. So this is all done on continuous data, just like height, weight, blood pressure, saliva, flow, buffering capacity. All most of the variables are continuous data. Categorical data is mostly the questionnaire response. The percentage of response, the like a scale types will come to categorical types. This category is the eye color of the blue, brown, red, the categories or the gender, male, female, the percentage of males and females in a classroom and people with diabetes and with diabetes. That proportion or categories come, it becomes categorical. But normal variables are continuous, like height, weight, age, blood pressure, so such variables are continuous data. So most of the data will be continuous, but questionnaire response will be categorical data. So if it is following normality, what we have to do is, you have to follow parametric test. Parameter means main median, commonly used parameters, main median. If it is following a particular parameter, you can call it as a parametric test. Commonly used parameters are mean, mean and standard deviation. Okay, sorry, we are not made in mean and standard deviation. Meaden will be coming into nonparametric test. So the first test is Z test. Okay, so suppose the sample is less than or sorry, the more than 30, our sample is more than 30 and we are checking or we are comparing a sample with population. Then we use Z test. Z test is very rarely used. Usually we compare two different samples in a study. We hardly compare sample with population. If we compare sample with population, we use Z test. It is a parametric test. If the data is following normality, first you have to think about Z test. If it is more than 30 sample and you are comparing your sample with a population. Okay, if it is not comparing with population, instead you are comparing two groups or before after comparison, you have to follow T test. That is the most commonly seen. So paired is if it is two groups, there is no population here. Just two sample groups, you have to follow paired or independent or unpaired. So this is also known as unpaired test, unpaired test, student data stocks. Okay, so if it is just two groups without any population involvement, anyway, we are comparing the groups, let it be two or three, population scenario comes very hard. So we use two groups, that is T test.  It is only one group, but they are taken at two point of time before after comparison. So you can count it as two separate groups, even though the group remains same, but before and after observation. But if you have two different groups, group A and group B, you are giving one drug to group A, one drug to group B, and you are checking the difference between them. You can use T test, but should be independent or unpaired or student T test. So that is all about T test, I am not going into very much into the testing, I just want to know on what condition on what scenario each test is being used. So if you have two groups, you can use T test and it should be parametric and it should follow normality. Okay, you have a parameter to measure, that is mean and standard division, that is most common. So ANOVA most commonly used if the study involves more than two groups, so if two groups means you can use T test, more than two groups, it should be ANOVA. So there are many types of, if you have more than two groups, you need to do ANOVA, that is analysis of variance. So if you have a one variable, that is just checking effect of plaque index, effect of, or effect on plaque index, or effect on ginger index, or effect of one particular group, I mean three or four groups, you have to use one way ANOVA, but if you are checking effect of two drinks and drinks may be interactive, then you have to check two way ANOVA, that is two variables are there and you have to make sure that the interaction factor also should be reported. You just cannot do one way ANOVA, if the factors involved in the study are supposed to be interactive, okay, so there can be interaction within the person. So if interaction is there, you have to follow two way ANOVA, two variables and if you have more than two variables, you have to follow MANOVA testing, that is many variables of ANOVA. Then all these will be categorical variables and if you have a continuous variable and a categorical variable, when it involves a continuous and both continuous and categorical variable, you have to use analysis of covariance, that is ANCOVA, you just remember the names, okay, so when you understand the variables and variables better, you get an idea of two way ANOVA and ANOVA and ANCOVA. So what if the data set is not following normality, you have to go for non-parametric test, that is there is no parameter to measure. So there is no corresponding test for the test, but the pre-test, there is one test known as Wilcoxon sign drawing test, that is if you have a before after comparison, you have to use Wilcoxon sign drawing test, it will not check mean and standard deviation, it will be rank the observations and then do the test, that is corresponding to the before after comparison, it is pay-t test, okay. If it is two different groups, not before after comparison, then you have to use a man-witney test, that is corresponding to the independent test, if you have two different groups, you have to follow man-witney test, then this non-parametric test, there is no parameter, usually we take median, which is not a good measure of central tendency, here we take mean and standard deviation, here commonly we take median and Iqor. So if it is a paired observation before after we take Wilcoxon sign drawing test, if it is two different groups, we take man-witney and if it is ANOVA, there is more than two groups, we take Bruce Calvalli's test. So always this parametric test is good, but sometimes we may not be able to do a parametric test since it does not, since your data set is not following normality, you might go for a non-parametric test, there is no much varieties in non-parametric test. So Wilcoxon sign drawing test, man-witney test, these are paired t-test correspondence and man-witney test, parallel to independent t-test and ANOVA from parallel to Bruce Calvalli's test. So here we are checking the difference between two groups, whether the difference you see is due to random chance or a real occurrence, so that is what the statistical testing is done, that's why we are doing statistical testing, we need to find out the difference what we are seeing, whether it is actually happened or it is just by a chance. So what if we are not doing any group comparison, we are just correlating with each other, that is every person in group one will be compared to every person in the group two, so 100 people will be compared to 100 people person by person and we find out correlation, if the data is following normality, we have to follow the Pearson correlation test. Okay, if it is not following normality, we have to follow Spearman rank correlation, here the data is normally distributed, here it is not normally distributed, so you need to know what is correlation before that, so I am just mentioning about the names in this class, not much detail about the testing, I just want you to know on what condition which test is used to, so Pearson correlation is a parametric test which is done for finding out correlation and Spearman rank is non-parametric test, again it is also for correlation, always parametric side will be having better quality, so correlation is not just to find out any significant difference, is how much correlated, if height is going, weight height and weight, if height goes and weight increases, you can say it is positively correlated and if patient is weight is low and BP is high, very rare chance, but still if something is going in opposite direction, if patient is eating too much and reducing his mark or spending too much time on mobile and reducing mark, can say it is negatively correlated, so correlation will be minus 1 to plus 1, if one unit happens, one unit change in the dependent variable, this same change happens in the independent variable or the vice versa, one unit change in independent variable will cause one unit change in dependent variable, you can say that it is perfectly correlated, if it moves the opposite way, one unit change causes negative one unit change in the dependent variable can say it is negatively correlated, so that's all about correlation, so I just wanted to know the test name of correlation, POS and correlation test and Spearman rank correlation test, so that is all about normality, now next we go to the categorical data, we were seeing continuous data, categorical data commonly used as chi square test, this we cannot put into parametric or non-parametric or you can put into both, so it is commonly seen it is known as both the test or neither the test, so is it not? Chi square test always we use four question in this, each question the responses will be in percentage or fractions or proportions, we use chi square test because it is into categories of like a scale options, so in such cases we use chi square test, the parametric or non-parametric test we use commonly based on normality, we use mean standard deviation, median or accurate and here the category is the response percentage for like a scale of five responses, each response 20, 30, 40, 20 in that percentage and many questions, in such cases we use chi square test, so feature exact test chi square test always and 2 by 2, 3 by 3, 4 by 5, 5 by 5 contingency table, in any of the cell if the observation, if the percentage, if the number is less than 5, you have to follow the feature exact test that is low sample size or less than 5 cell count is there, you have to use features exact test which is a type of chi square test and the next one is McNima test, you have a paid data that is case control study before after comparison of proportion or frequency you have to use McNima test, okay so these are the two types of chi square test, one is feature exact test when the sample size is very low or the contingency table any of the cell is having less than 5 number or the McNima test which is a paid data, if the data is paid just like a paid observation in case control study or somewhere or COVID study you can use this McNima test to check the association usually, so the testing is very different each test has to be dealt in very detail but I just want you to know the names of it, okay so feature exact test and McNima test and the last one of any statistical testing is a model prediction that is you have a dependent variable and you have many independent variable you need to know how much change each independent variable is bringing out to the dependent variable, so that is equation prediction equation model prediction, so now we had seen just the difference between two groups or correlation how each group is correlated each other, now you have to know that dependent variable dental anxiety how much it is being predicted by age gender education occupation family income and previous scary previous dental visit, so all these independent variable how it is contributing how much attribute it has for the dependent variable, so prediction equation or model equation will be done by regression analysis, if the data is continuous so the regression model will be linear regression, so finally there will be a r square that will be the outcome of this regression model, so I will be dealing all this in detail about each test but now just remember the name and when this linear and when this logistic regression is being used linear regression is always used in continuous data, okay continuous height weight height weight BP and blood pressure settings, okay logistic regression it should be categories like gender male female we can convert any variable into categorical and continuous data, if suppose if socio-economic status we have we have five categories that is low socio-economic middle upper upper middle, so it becomes categorical data, with the same data we just apply the amount socio-economic data that is we just put the number and we go to kupusami scale and we just use the number 0 to 35 we get a number and we just use the number it becomes continuous data, so either way we can use, so logistic regression or linear regression in logistic regression we will be always seeing odds ratio, here it will be regression coefficient of regression and r square, okay so logistic regression it will be compared to one group other group this much risk or protective effect this will be r square value, so each independent variable will give one r square value that is out of 100 this much percentage is the effect of that particular variable in the dependent variable, okay you just see the names of it I will be explaining in detail what all these things, so continuous data we use linear regression and categorical data logistic regression, so before watching this I I am going to suggest you to watch normal curve and the types of variables, so you will get a better idea after this you will have a faint idea of what test to be done on what condition then once you go through many many articles you will get a very clear idea, okay so that is all about testing, so I was not into detail about testing I was just mentioning the names of it, okay so this is all the test, t-test, ANOVA, correlation, BSM, Wilcoxon, Sintrand test, Manbitt new test, Kruskal-Vales, BM and Rancor relation which is exact test, magnima test, linear regression model and logistic regression model, the first one checking normality, Shapiro-Wilkins test and Smirno-Komogorov test and Anderson-Darlin test okay, so we are coming with a new class, thank you.


So, I did the physical tour of my network, and now this is the virtual tour and generally how it's set up. Now, everything comes in. We're right now using Comcast as our ISP. They're Comcastic, and that's a whole other story, but that's what's available in my area for their business class internet. And we have the business class along with several IP addresses. Everything's handed off to the PF Sense. Now, this network map I have eliminated all the IP addresses from, not that I believe in any type of security through obscurity, but hey, why give anyone an edge? You have to work for it. And if they hack me, at least I know they put some effort into it. So, we have the shop, and it has a DHCP range of 16 to 239 with a lot of little reservations in between. Then we have our free NAS, and things that run under free NAS such as the was called crucible. I just need to update the map because it's now called clone deploy. On this side of the network, we have the Unify-Aware list, our VoIP phones, client computers, employee computers, and that's all on this side of the network. Then we have this free NAS box and a PHP virtual box that have dual network cards. Now, these are the two real servers besides the PF Sense that are physical on the network. Everything from there from the PHP virtual box is a whole series of virtual machines. And that's also why this has two network cards. Some things need to be on this side of the network, which is our shop and LAN side. And this is what we've called LAN 2 or the business side of our network where we have all the servers. Now, the only servers that are really on the other network card is just the Unify system. Makes it easier to manage when we're deploying Unify devices. So they come in, we set them up over here. This is also where the Unify cameras are that watch the store. And so when we're adding things to this or deployments, they all go on this side of the network. So this technically is IP ranged over here via the other network card and moved over to here. The other ones are just on this network and tied to this physical switch. And these are the two physical switches I showed in my network tour. PF Sense controls the access between each of these. Now, this one server 2012 is actually a client server, one network that plugs into here and has a very lockdown set of rules to get out for some data stuff that we host for a client here internally for some of their backups and things like that. We actually just hosted here. It's part of a quick book steal. Won't get too much into that. Anyways, so each of these servers is running separately. And here's what they look like over here. I've done a whole tour on how PHP virtual box works. And with PHP virtual box, it's really nice, simple system, easy to import, easy to export. Watch the video I did on this. And it's really easy to take one of these servers, export it, run it on a local machine. So something tragic happens to the virtual box with its SSD rate array and everything built well, it still could happen. Things break. That means we can just take one of these from a backup and throw it back over here onto a local machine. So it makes it really simple transition for disaster recovery planning until we can get that machine in the back sorted out. The only problem we've ever had is one time a power supply just decided not to come on anymore and cause the machine to crash. But no real issues there. It's only ever happened once. So let's talk about how this looks like in PF sense, what it takes to configure this. Here are the rule sets I'm using for the land on PF sense. So because all the computers click here, we've got this access control list. And this access control list has all the computers inside of it that are needed to get to the other side of the land. So this is a list and it's based on DTP reverberation. So each one of the client computers, which are my employees computers and my computer that have access to the land to section are in that list. And there's not many in there's only a couple, most things don't need access to it. And it also keeps other computers from just jumping over there. Now even once you jump over there, all the computers on the land to side lockdown support SSH login only and only have the ports open are necessary in the case of like the wiki and our point sales slash CRM system. It's all port 443 only with cell science certificates and there's usernames and passwords on that. So the level the layers you have to get through we've tried to make that you know, if someone gets on a network and gets the IP address and then gets over to that side of the network, they still have to have a username and password and accept a self science certificate. So we try to keep all the layers in place to keep this locked down. Now the only external access we have all those machines do not allow external access. So there's no WAN rules that allow you to come into that with the exception of screen connect because well, you have to if not way you're going to do it remotely that's protected with a let's encrypt SSL cert and then dual factor authentication because everywhere we can have we do have two factor authentication time based I don't do SMS or email verification for those all that's time based authentication. Now open VPN is another way with another thing I've done reviews on this and the way we have that secured is with two certificates. So you have the TLS certificate that you have to have you have to have the elder open viens open VPN certificate that was created when you create with the wizard open VPN, then username and password. So for each employee, there's two certificates have to be installed on computer and have the username and password. So you would have to take their computers with all the search on it and have their user and have their password which isn't saved when they log in each time they got to type in each time. So we try to keep the layers pretty thick there to get into the network. And once it's into the network, then we can the day you're still faced with the same challenge of there's a pinhole that only allows them to get to certain things on land to and those things, for example, like the point of sale and those have username password and firewall rules again on them. So we keep the everything pretty locked down as best we can. Now fire the firewall itself. A lot of people say how do I configure to make a PF sense more secure? Maybe I'll do a specific video on it, but I kind of cover it right here. We use the suricada I believe so I pronounce that for intrusion detection. And we're running it on each one of the network interfaces so I can see what's going on and flag things based on each interface. The other thing we run is PF Blocker. I need to do a video on suricada, but I did a video already on PF Blocker. It's great. It just dramatically eliminates the number of issues I see in suricada. If I turn it off, I get a lot more IPS logs because there's so much stuff coming from foreign countries and places we don't get. Now the only problems I've ever run into is when we're doing foreign support overseas. I've run into it once while where PF Blocker blocks their ability to see screen connect on there. So I'll have to figure out what their IP address is and make an exception to that. Or I've temporarily disabled it so I can get someone connected in and sorted it out afterwards because sometimes as well, that happens. This is some of the work I do with PF Sense. We've got to get in remotely for things. And if we're blocking it, you can't get in there. But those two things are really enough to make it solid. Now we're not using the DNS BL, which is the PF Blocker. So it blocks certain things on the up on. It basically creates a black hole that you can send things to. I'm not huge on that. I don't know. Maybe I'll play with it later. I didn't find it to be very helpful. And it randomly blocked things that were helpful to us and we're trying to navigate the web. So didn't really use that. But the Suricada really nice system, auto block list, things like that. I'm going to do a video later on that. I've just been, I try to be very thorough in my usage of it, even deployed on my network. And then I do the video on it. That way I can answer a lot of questions that always arise after the video. And so my video can be more in depth so I can talk about my usage of it. Now that's just kind of the basic overview of how the network works here. And it's, like I said, not super complicated. That's actually what makes it easier to manage for me. I've seen some people come up with overly complicated things. If it's too complicated, it can be hard to manage. I go for simplicity and just best practice of locking everything down. Lock down all the servers. So only the ports needed, no exceptions, only the ports needed are opened. And then for the SSH, only password, password authentication is enabled. Only key authentication on each of the servers. All the servers are auto updating through the auto apt-get script. So it makes sure all security patches are being applied in real time. Because I what if I'm not here and there's some big outbreak and they release a patch for it. And I'm not at the desk and something could happen. The same thing with the firewall. Everything's locked down on a firewall except for what's needed. No exceptions. We also, for remote administration, you can't get into the firewall remotely without an open VPN. The only way in is through open VPN. We don't have any SSH ports open or anything like that. This keeps just, you know, helps me sleep at night to have everything in a locked down manner. Two separate networks. And even the Wi-Fi. You see in the Wi-Fi system, that's on a separate network as well. There's a reason why. Because just in case you happen to get my Wi-Fi password and you're on my network, which also turns itself off when we're not open. We actually have the setup to power off the Wi-Fi because if we're not here, what are we using it for? And based on all that, if you get in, you're still on the other side of the land, you have to work your way back over to land 2 through the firewall rules. So all that being said, and with all these different tools, I feel fairly secure but I still wear a tinfoil hat because, you know, I don't want any edge. But if you see something I'm doing wrong, please put it in the comments below because you're never as wrong as you when you're wrong on the internet. And let me know if you see something like, hey, you should do this because that would be better. But I try to keep best practices. I try to keep everything locked down and secure. But I'm open minded and realized that at some point, like, I can make mistakes as well. That's also probably the reason I share this.  But that's okay. I accept those people who want to do that.  So thanks for watching. If you like to content here, like and subscribe. And hopefully this was helpful. Or if you need clarification or something, or I should do a deep dive on one of these topics, let me know. And thanks for watching.


Hey, what's up everybody, Drew here from The Anxious Truth. I am joined today by a special guest, my friend, Krista Holman, Holman, Holman. Krista, Holman, that's right, I'm sorry. Krista, I found on Instagram, where she is more popularly known as the neurodivergent rebel, which is like one of the greatest Instagram handles ever. Krista is not only living the life of somebody on that autism spectrum and you can correct me if I use wrong terminology, I would be okay with that because I'd like you to educate us a little bit.  Yeah, so I was diagnosed autistic, I was 29, so I went almost 30 years of my life having no idea, I was autistic, but that being said, you always know something is different because you kind of go about your life being scolded for being a contrarian despite that never being your intent, when you're missed, people don't know you're thinking in a different way and so they just assume you're being difficult all the time. And when I finally found out, it was kind of like somebody gave me this rule book for my life, like an instruction manual, it's like this aha moment that really, it set me on a new path, it really helped me start taking care of myself in a more autistic friendly way because I had just been pushing myself and running myself into the ground trying to keep up with non-autistic standards because I just thought I was a failed non-autistic person because I couldn't do things that were easy for other people despite at the same time being able to do some really complex things that people struggle with easily.  So that diagnosis kind of course corrected me in a much more positive and constructive direction that I needed to get myself on track. And which has led to this mission that you've got going on online. And I was saying before we started recording that you actually introduced me to the term neurodivergence which I had never heard before. I will plead ignorance on that. And explain just for a second before we get into the conversation, what is neurodivergence? Like what is the concept there? Cause I think it's amazing and spectacular. So. Yeah. So basically the concept of neurodiversity and neurodivergence, it's like human diversity, and biodiversity in nature, there's diversity. It's advantageous to have diversity. And so neurodiversity says there are different thinking styles that are just natural variations in the human brain, a people with ADHD or dyslexia, autistic people myself others and there are sometimes Tourette's. It really depends on what it can, ha, brain words, autistic moment here. Anyway, sorry, I just completely like So good. I had a train wreck there. But basically it just says that all of these brain types are here and we should respect them and nurture them and help each of them to be the best versions of themselves and the best people they can be basically. Which is a great, great message. I like the idea that it's not necessarily, this is not a problem that we're necessarily trying to fix. It's just natural variation. And like everybody brings a little something different to the table. So, you know, you even mentioned before, like some things you're really good at that maybe other people aren't. So like let's not miss that. So very cool. So before we get into it, I was telling Krista before we started recording that this all started when somebody in my Facebook group asked if the methods that we talk about in the podcast to deal with anxiety and anxiety disorders that whole facing, floating, accepting thing, going toward the fear, not reacting, all of those things and unlearning the cognitive link between panic and danger. You know, would those be helpful to an autistic person who's struggling? And I thought, I don't know how to answer that question but I kind of thought you might have something to say about it. And that's how we got into this like, hey, let's do a podcast together. So I would imagine that you were saying that, you know, anxiety does come along with people that are on the autism spectrum. I mean, is it automatic for everybody? Or is it, I mean, you're no different than anyone else. Like you may have anxious days and not anxious days. Some things may cause anxiety. Say may not, I'm sure. It's not, I'm guessing it's not automatic. Yeah. And it's interesting because I think we know a large number of autistic people report having issues with anxiety. But you know, the question is, is it natural for autistic people to have anxiety or is that just a side effect of the unintentional gaslighting that a lot of us face in life?  You're, you know, you're lazy.  It just kind of breaks you down.    And I guess they can tough it out and I'm just a wimp, you know? You don't know. And then, you know, sometimes people just don't understand that you're coming from a different perspective. And so there's a lot of misunderstandings and that kind of breeds anxiety. So I don't know, you know, if autistic people naturally have anxiety, I know I've had anxiety throughout my life for I think about as long as I can maybe remember.  Right, that's what I think. Like I can't imagine that there'd be, you know, there's that much difference to be honest with you. Like there's gonna be variation in every segment of the population, you know, including yours and mine. So what's, you know, I would imagine that makes sort of sense. But so I think one of the things that you just mentioned that was super interesting is that thing where maybe you walk into a Walmart and the lights are so bright that for somebody who deals with that, that sort of sensory overstimulation problem, it can be a real, real issue. You know, that's also for people who suffer from anxiety disorders, that's also an anxiety symptom. But I have to start to wonder because I've heard people come through like my community surrounding the podcast who have talked about that issue. Like it feels like my brain is literally going to explode. I must run home and go into the dark. And it's super easy for everybody to say, oh, that's just an anxiety symptom. It's fine, just accept it, keep going. But once in a while you'll hit that person that that doesn't appear to be the answer. Like no, you don't understand. Like I literally feel like my brain is on fire, which is tough for us to hear sometimes because I always say feels like is the biggest lie going.  You know, it feels like you're dying when you're really not. But there are plenty of people who have indicated that like, no, this feels like a real physical overwhelming thing. And I have to wonder that the experience of somebody who is autistic with a panic attack must be different to a certain extent. And I wonder, is the approach slightly different? So you dealt with anxiety. I don't know if you've actually dealt with an anxiety disorder like panic disorder or agoraphobia, but how have you found a way to cope? What have you done in your life? See, this is great because what you were just talking about, I've had panic attacks and then a little bit more on like the overwhelm of the lights and other things. Sensory overload is something that is not only an autistic thing. And basically, you know, in sensory overload, it is very similar to a panic attack in a lot of ways, but it's not anxiety triggered, although you can have anxiety about sensory overload because you know it's terrible and you know it happens anytime you're gonna go into certain situations. But like sensory overload really is like, the brain is just overloaded and it just can't process any more information.  And so what you have in sensory overload is, you kinda lose a bit of cognition first and maybe you get a little slurry or you might notice things are weird. And then you start to kind of go downhill from there.   And so that's like sensory overloading. You know, I guess it's not a specific autistic thing, but it is something that's more common with autistic people and happens more frequently with autistic people.   I think we can all agree on that. I don't know anybody who loves them.  And I've had both of those things and they do feel a little bit similar, but the panic attack is so frustrating because, well, for many reasons, I think you know all the reasons it's frustrating, but it's definitely different triggers, although I think I've had panic attacks thinking about having sensory overload too much because they're not fun. And when I got diagnosed autistic, I also got a social anxiety diagnosis, although hindsight, I was kind of holding back a lot of things because there's a stigma about anxiety, mental health. And I also didn't have the language to talk about anxiety and mental health because it was never considered or something that anyone talked about growing up. And I, you know, generalized anxiety might have been more accurate, but I got the social anxiety diagnosis and I was like, no, I don't even have anxiety even though I had all the physical symptoms. You know, I was having indigestion, sweaty palms, like all of it, you know, physically, but I was like, I was so used to operating at that level of high anxiety all the time. That was your normal.   And so I was, you know, bad enough, off mentally to where I represented what people think a stereotypical autistic looks like.  The definition of an autistic person in the DSM is basically an autistic in crisis or an autistic person in bad mental health. Okay. So what does it look like in a regular good day? Does anybody describe that?  I'm a normal person, you know? Right, why wouldn't you be? I'm a bit, you know, I'm not all introverts either, but I'm a bit introverted, I'm a bit of a recluse. I need a lot of recharge time. You know, I need a lot of downtime because when I go out in sensory environments, like stores and, you know, when I used to work in offices more, like it would really physically drain me down and now my employer lets me work remotely and I can work a lot more hours remotely than I can when I have to physically go to an office and commute and driving is one of the things that's easy for a lot of people that is really difficult for me. And I've put a lot of hours and miles on the road practicing, I think it's always just gonna be harder. And so not having to do that even just as such an amazing accommodation, but, you know, a lot of people are hesitant to give those things because they're like, well, everybody wants that. What I find fascinating about that is, right, I think, you know, okay, so in your particular instance, there was a diagnosis of autism and maybe there was some difficulties that went along with that, but there's probably a zillion people out there that would do much better if they didn't have to get in a car and drive for an hour and a half every day and to get to a job. So, yeah, I don't know if that's necessarily a thing that where you'd single yourself out because of the diagnosis, like I think a lot of people would benefit from that in the end. But I like how you said that driving, I don't like that driving is a problem for you, but I mean, I like how you said that driving is a problem, but you have spent a lot of time practicing it. So like this is a key theme that runs through my podcast and through the community around the podcast, never running away from the things that you fear. And I like that this has been a problem for you, but you do not appear to be backing away from it. I mean, it may be your particular circumstance means it will always be difficult for you, but it doesn't sound like you've shied away from it, so you'll still do it. Yeah, no, and there was a point in my life, gosh, okay. I don't know when the switch happened because I wasn't always so willing to test my boundaries and push my fears. I wasn't. I know when I was my best friend who I've known since, ooh, preschool, younger, because she was next door neighbor and growing up when we were the same age. When I, you know, some people, I've told them about my diagnosis and they don't really know what to make of it because I don't fit their definition of what they think autism is or they feel they've known me or they know me really well and to them this would change who I am in their eyes and so they can't accept it. So people have a hard time accepting the information for a lot of different reasons I'm learning, but she was in like elementary school with me and Girl Scouts with me and saw me with other people our age and she's like, oh my gosh, this makes so much sense, which is so funny, right? In hindsight. In hindsight, yes. Oh my gosh, where was I going with this? It's terrible. Well, yeah, it's okay. It was that thing where like you weren't always so willing to face. Oh yes, okay.  I was like afraid of everything, you know, I had so much anxiety about everything and perfectionism really bad, like being just afraid to just kind of pull it and let it go, you know, and it's good enough and let it go, just you can never accept when it's good enough. And you know, at some point, I think I learned that if I wanted to learn something, I could learn it as long as I practiced, like really, really hard and it took a lot of work and I could eventually get there, you know, and I learned, oh wow, okay, through my stubbornness, I can do really amazing things. And that was a confidence booster. And then so I started being willing to try more and more risky things, even things that are really scary to me, one of the things I made myself do a few years ago, a team building at one of my last employers was like jump off of a platform, like two-story platform into a stunt bag, which I will never do again, because one of my biggest fears is falling. Yeah, yeah, but you did it. And I did it, but in my head the entire time, there was graphic images of how I was gonna die because I did it wrong and it was so terrible, but I was like, no, we're doing this anyway. But it was, and it was, no, it was not fun, but I'm glad I did it, you know, because I had to do it, but oh my gosh, and I had never felt my body was like so frozen and stiff. I couldn't even feel my body afterwards. It was like, oh, but you know, I want to, like I learned a lot of the fear and the anxiety is not logical. Oh, it's not logical in any way. There's nothing logical about it.  I just have to just jump.  Is there a typo? Did I spell it, you know, and I've looked at it, but it's like, okay, I just have to jump. I just have to hit send, you know, and just, I just have to go. And because otherwise I can be paralyzed by my own anxiety and it won't let me move. And I just, I just had to start pushing through it. That's amazing because obviously that's, you're on a slightly different journey, possibly for different reasons, but you have described exactly what so many people who listen to me are trying to do. Now maybe they're trying to get to the point where they can get back out the door or drive on the highway again because they're, you know, they've been, their world is shrinking because of panic and agoraphobia and things of that nature, but it's always that thing where, well, I know logically that I shouldn't be afraid to go into the supermarket, yet I am and I can't do it and the only way we talk about all the time, the only way to actually be able to go into the supermarket is to go into the supermarket. You'll never be able to talk your way out of the fear, you must show yourself that you are okay. And so you're describing such a very similar, a very similar process, like just gotta jump. And at some point, people who are dealing with these problems also have to just take that leap of faith that like, I'm gonna be okay, even though I think I'm, in their case, they're panicked to the point where they think they may die or go insane and that sort of stuff, but you still have to take a leap of faith and know that that stunt bag is there to catch you and you're okay. And you'll learn through experience that it's okay. So your willingness to go and do those hard things and scary things mirrors the experience of a person who is recovering from an anxiety disorder. It's really amazing. Yeah, that was great. That was really, really, really helpful. So I think, we don't wanna go too long, we're gonna try and keep it under 30 minutes. So we got about 10 more minutes to go. So the things that you have learned to do to adapt in terms of, you didn't even know you had anxiety, which is amazing to me. You just thought that was your normal. Like my palms are supposed to sweat, my heart is supposed to pound out of my chest. That's just normal, right? So did it not take a lot of adaptation or work to overcome the anxiety issues? Or once you had a label for it, it became easier or they're still there? I mean, how did you wind up working through all that? So I started working through it before I knew what it was and before it had a name, I think. Because I knew something was wrong. Not really to autism, but the anxiety. Something was wrong. And so I had been seeking out lots of things and I would bury myself in exercise and then I got really, really into yoga. And that was amazing. Not just the physical part, because there's a very spiritual and lots of breathing and mindfulness with yoga. And that was so good to me. And then it led me to Buddhism. And so as an autistic person, you know, for me and we're all different, but in a very stereotypical way, like lists and handful checklists of things like are so useful to me. And it's like Buddhism was like this very practical system of like getting your brain right and kind of calming your wild mind. That's all over the place. And so I started, you know, with a lot more mindfulness and Buddhism and meditation. And for me, that was really helpful but the breathing exercise is the most. And, you know, being more aware of, oh, here's that feeling again. And, you know, observing what does this feeling feel like? I know it's gonna pass. All of that stuff, just being with it. But I learned that, you know, before I had a name for what I was even dealing with. Like I started to do those things because I was like, I knew it gave me relief and I hadn't had relief my entire life. You know, I'd always been, or at least for as long as I could remember, I'd been just amped up, anxious. I'm a million miles an hour kind of a person anyway. So that was really helpful. And then when I was diagnosed autistic, and then, you know, I started to, you know, learn more about anxiety because a lot of autistic people have anxiety for whatever reason. And I started to be more involved in kind of autism and then mental health community. And I learned more about anxiety. And I was like, okay, you know, I probably have a lot of anxiety. I started to realize and I started to really deal with it. Like really deal with it. Yeah. Which I'm giving it a name help so much. It sounds like you've developed a lot of the same tools that we talk about all the time on the podcast and people that are in this process of overcoming these anxiety disorders, the difference between anxiety and anxiety disorder, use all the same tools, the meditation, the mindfulness, the breathing exercises, not because they're shields against panic and anxiety, but they're focusing tools, they're mind calming tools, they're quieting tools, you know, puts you back in the driver's seat a little bit. So it sounds like you've had a similar experience with those particular tools that they've helped you out, which is great. And so I think I wanna get to a couple of the questions that people had asked that maybe you can shed some light on. There wasn't a whole lot, but one person had it. Well, I'm gonna ask a question first. My question's first. It's my podcast, so I get to ask first. So the question would be, and I've had people, many people that follow me and listen to the podcast, they're dealing with their children or have anxiety problems and they're looking for help with their children, which is great, or other family members, and some of which are also diagnosed autistic or they have other neurodivergence issues, if you will. And I know they worry sometimes, I've got that. Like, well, how does this complicate it for my son or my daughter? And I don't know, I'm guessing there's no blanket answer to that because of diversity within every community, of course, but do you have an opinion on that? Is there a wrinkle here? Like, yeah. It's hard when you're helping, especially if you're helping your kids and they're younger. With autistic kids, it's, with anxiety, it can even be OCD level sometimes. Or we tend to be, like, at least I am, I'm really fixated on problems and I see a problem and it's big and it's glaring me in the face, you know? And it's like, I can't ignore it until I've checked it off that it's taken care of and it's good and it's safe, okay?  And my mom thinks I'm being dramatic because I'm this logical kid. Why would I really think that would happen? And like, I was like, for way longer than it should be, my mom had to pick me up and take me out of the bathtub. But I was really like convinced, like I'm also a very visual thinker.  I can see it clearly. And so I could see very clearly what I had imagined in my head happening. And it was real to me and I was convinced that that was gonna happen to me. But people from the outside don't understand like how real that is. Right, right. Which may be more of a wrinkle because of your position on that spectrum possibly. Is that what you're intimating? I'm not sure. Yeah, and it's tricky because, you know, autistic people, a lot of, like we think and we experience the world in our emotions often in a more intense way. And so, you know, situations for us that aren't as overwhelming for others can be more overwhelming for us. And, you know, we tend to ruminate on things.  You know, like I have, you know, I said I can get really good at anything I want to learn. You know, for the most part. Right. You know, I failed miserably when I was trying really hard to be non-autistic and keep up with my peers in the workplace that weren't, I couldn't do it. And that hurt my self-esteem because I hadn't ever tried to do something and failed since I had, like, realized, oh, I can do anything I put my mind to if I try hard enough, you know, and then I failed. But I, and then, you know, I got the diagnosis. I was like, oh, it's okay.  But it's just trying to keep moving forward but it's hard when we get, you know, that obsessiveness can be a good, when it can be such a bad thing at the same time. Yeah. And so it sounds like it may actually, and for people who are, you know, not on the spectrum, just, you know, dealing with these disorders, those thoughts and obsessions and fears do feel so real and so powerful. And it sounds like maybe it's even amped up a bit more for you or someone in your position. So I think that's an understanding that the rest of us should probably keep in our pockets. Like, as hard as it is for you, it may even be more difficult for a person in that position to really make that leap of faith into the fear because the fear feels even more intense as it does for somebody else. The thought is deeper ingrained. It repeats more than all those things. Well, yeah. Yeah. Well, I mean, just think about that. You know, if our memories are already like 360 VR experiences, think about like PTSD and PTSD flashbacks. That's what people get with PTSD, right? Right. Kind of almost like a flashback situation. Right. And so, you know, autistic people who are really keened in to their senses and really like hooked on senses like can be triggered to really haunting traumatic memories from sense and touch and song. And, you know, we're suddenly like back, you know, I have memories of being one and a half year old just as clear as yesterday. Yeah. You know, but my short-term memory is really tricky and annoying. And I have like to write so many notes down because I can't take written instructions. I won't remember what you need me to do. It's frustrating how that works.  So it's not like time really makes the memories go away. There's like not a really normal time space continuum in my head. It's all like it was just yesterday. Yeah, yeah. Interesting. So I think it would probably be a more patient approach. It would more patience and maybe a bit more time and a bit more of a, I'm not gonna say a gentle approach because if anything I know of you, it's never a victim. There's never a victim mentality in your world. I could see which is awesome. But, you know, I think a reality check is always a good thing. So one question that came up that a lot of people seemed to like was, when on the spectrum, how can you prevent the natural overstimulation that you may experience from becoming anxiety? So, and we maybe talked about that a little bit in the beginning, we were talking about that sensory overload thing, but a lot of people seem to love that question. So if you're naturally stimulated more than I might be, for instance, how do you keep that from becoming, a heightened state of anxiety or even panic? For the people who are listening to me, they're likely thinking, how do I keep this from turning into yet another panic attack? Or do you? Well, I think, you know, first you have to kind of learn to recognize, maybe keep notes and figure out what your triggers are. What is triggering these episodes? Is it this store? Is it every time I go to these kinds of stores? What stores is it? You can air it down as the lighting thing. Is it a sound thing? Is it in it? Because for all of the senses with autistic people or people with sensory processing differences, or SPD, any of the senses like a radio dial or a volume knob can be dialed up or down if we say middle is normal. Whatever it is. And so it can be more intense or less intense, depending on which way you dial it. And that's for taste and sound and smell. And so, you know, if you're just overwhelmed with any of these senses, eventually your brain is just like, so you want to start to learn to recognize like at the first sign of something's wrong, I'm starting to feel like I'm not myself. Or, you know, that, okay, I need to maybe remove myself or go engage in something that is the opposite of overstimulating the brain. Something that's relaxing. You know, go color a coloring book.   Go do something that is soothing.  Oh my God, I love my weighted blanket. It's the best.   And then for me as an autistic person, I've had to learn that I'm really all or nothing. I have no off switch. Like I will go until I finish something if I don't block in self-care and rest time. So I make a point to like schedule my downtime because I really need downtime.  And it's like, okay, so I had to like block in. This is a rest day. I am not doing anything that day. And it's like, I'm not allowed to work this day. I have, I'm going to maybe watch some Netflix and you know, cuddle with the puppies and eat some popsicles and hang out at home and not, not work, you know, just downtime. Because it's like the brain is overstimulated. So it's, you have to like constantly be aware of that and be thinking about, okay, what, what is good for me that is the opposite of overstimulation that can kind of balance that out. And so learning yourself, that takes a lot. That's probably the biggest task is learning yourself and learning your triggers. So interesting because some of what you described, which makes perfect sense. And obviously you figured a lot of these things out through trial and error for yourself probably are the, they would be cardinal sins in my world. Like so you go into the supermarket and you're feeling overwhelmed and you are correct. Like in your situation, but you are actually perceiving it that way. Your perception of that environment is different than mine. And so you must act on the fact that it is a different perception. Whereas we would normally tell somebody, nope, you just have to relax into that and stay. And when you run, you learn that the supermarket is dangerous, but that's not what you're doing. Like you are literally adapting to the reality. It is a reality for you. It's not, it's not in your head. It's not, it's not a false fear that is the reality of how you perceive the world. So- Hope you've been told it's in our heads a lot. That must have been incredibly frustrated. It must have been. Yes. And so I think if, you know, if there's one person listening to us that maybe hasn't been diagnosed or doesn't know, isn't sure there was some question. I know that there are people that probably are trying to do this thing that I talk about doing where like, no, you don't leave the situation because that's the wrong thing to do who maybe really should leave the situation if they are truly perceiving it that way. It's such a fascinating thing. So it adds a bit of a fine line to walk. You need to get out of the situation and then learn the proper way, I guess, to be able to do that task as opposed to just never doing the task again. And here's some other, you know, maybe tips too, you know, if you find out that it's like overstimulation from light or overstimulation from sound, then okay, get some, what is it, the silent headphones? Or even there are the sonic earplugs that you can use at a concert, you know. Or sunglasses and wear those inside. And then see if you feel less anxious, see if you feel better. And that's the hard thing is like, people like worry if they look funny going into stores with these things on, but if it makes you feel better and you know, I started doing these things and I was like, oh my gosh, just having sunglasses on going into Lowe's and Walmart. I'm like, I don't hate being in here anymore.  That's a big deal what you just said because I think that's a good litmus test. So somebody who's saying like, I don't know, I just feel like I can't do it. If you put on those sunglasses and suddenly Walmart becomes much, much easier, then that's probably a really good chance that says that yes, you are truly experiencing the visual overstimulation. Somebody in the throes of an anxiety disorder who is not on the spectrum puts on the sunglasses and it doesn't matter. Something else will make them fearful. So the sunglasses will not help. So it's such an interesting thing to think about. Like it adds a wrinkle.  I guess what the triggers are and then how to adapt to those things. It's awesome. It's tremendously helpful, tremendously helpful. Oh, glad. Yeah, yeah. So I guess we'll kind of wrap it up. There was one other question that somebody asked, but you kind of brought it up again. This person says, I was diagnosed with ADD late in the game and after years of anxiety disorder, she was conflicted like chicken and egg issue. Do I have ADD or do I have an anxiety disorder? Do I both, which came before the other? But I don't know, does it really even matter in the end? You know, I did have some symptoms early in childhood. I didn't have true, poor memory and agitation until she became agoraphobic. So it all became a kind of a jumbled mess for this person where, wait, do I have ADD and an anxiety disorder? Do I have one or the other? And it became hard for her to keep them separate or pry them apart. I don't know if you have found that in your situation or dealt with people where it all gets mixed up. A great another diagnosis. Yeah, well, you know, what's interesting is with neurodiversity, a lot of the conditions are commonly co-occurring with one another. Like autism, I don't have ADHD. One of my best closest friends is ADHD and I have a lot of ADHD friends, like just naturally, I don't know, gravitate towards the ADHDers. You know, it's like, ah, you know, we're neurodivergent, we can feel it. Yeah, white people, yes. But, you know, with autism or ADHD, it is something that it's a lifelong diagnosis. You don't age out of it, you age into it.    But, you know, with ADHD, I think anxiety is kind of a common, a co-occurring thing too, if I'm not mistaken, because I know my ADHD friends are also anxiety people. We're really similar. And what's really interesting is a lot of, in a lot of ways, I almost feel sometimes like, it's hard to tell autistic kids and ADHD kids apart. We're so similar sometimes. I think the ADHD kids are a little bit more outgoing sometimes, but even autistic kids can be really outgoing and sociable, believe it or not.  Like I was the one that was, I was really outgoing and really social, and I didn't realize when the other kids were picking on me, I thought, you know, because I just thought, oh, they'd be nice to me and they'd be my friends. I, you know, I wouldn't get it when they were being manipulative little monsters. Like it would just be totally over my head. Right. Interesting. So, I think it's in the end, it all starts to tie together, right? Everybody exhibits traits of everyone else's issue. The little autism ADHD kind of fit together. People who have anxiety disorders exhibit some of those traits, although they're under distress at the moment, but it would be easily, you know, kind of confused for somebody who has ADHD. So in the end, my answer to that sometimes is, what does the diagnosis matter? Now, in your case, the diagnosis did matter because it answered a ton of questions, but people struggle sometimes with like, well, I don't know what I am. So this diagnosis is either a death sentence for me or not a death sentence, but now I'm locked into this. This is what I am. And I think they worry about that. So that's probably would fuel that question. But in the end, you learn to adapt and live and build your skill set that you gotta build and what does it matter in the end? Sometimes, you know? Well, that's why I like neurodiversity too, because it's, you know, it says all of these different brain types of this and they're here. And you know, sometimes it's easier people to say, you know, I feel like I'm neurodivergent in some way. Yeah. And I feel like I'm neurodivergent.  What are you talking about? You know? Yeah, certainly not a weirdo. So this has been great. We're at almost 40 minutes, so we'll wrap it up here. Yeah, I know, we went, we kept going, we kept drawing away. I would do this again with you in a heartbeat. So I appreciate your time. You were like incredibly helpful to the people who were listening, I know. So before we go, where can people find you? Yes. So neurodivergentrebel.com is probably the easiest place. I'm on all social media platforms as neurodivergent rebel. I'm pretty easy to track down. Yeah, you are. You're pretty visible, which I dig. Yeah, I dig. And you should definitely follow Kristen because the message is that I just love it. Anyway, that's me. So I appreciate your time. Maybe we'll do it again one day. And yeah, that's it. I'll stop the recording and then we'll wrap it up. Thank you, Kristen. Thank you. All right, see you guys next time.