Here's a list of 10 anti-Asian stereotypes that need to be destroyed right now and we're going to talk about which ones can be broken by Asians and then also which ones are a little bit harder. It might last a while. Yeah. We got to talk about this viral list written by Nexshark. Andrew, anytime a author writes a listicle talking about serious things, strong statements, there are a lot of comments generated on the internet. Yeah. And actually I really liked this list. Shout out to the author. They thought of some pretty good stereotypes. We're going to go through it. We'll talk about which ones are the most true, low, middle, high, and then also we're just going to talk about maybe like how we can break them and generally the conversation around it all. So make sure you like, subscribe, turn on your notifications, guys, and let's get into it. Andrew, real quick, the definition of a stereotype is a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing. The sentence they give is the stereotype of a woman is as a caregiver or caretaker. Maybe women in a hospital setting are stereotyped to be the nurses. Yeah. And I think when a stereotype crosses over into negativity is because it's used a certain way, like, oh, all Asians are this way, all blah, blah, blah is this way. And those kind of like definitive statements are kind of those are the ones that cause the problem. Right. But it is true that literally every human on earth uses some form of generalization, archetyping, categorization, or even stereotyping in day to day. Let me just be fair. Let's keep it real. Let me give you a quick suggestion. Maybe you just say, generally, I feel like I've seen most Asians do this. That statement is a lot less problematic than saying, oh, Asians are like this. You know what I mean? Anyway, anyway, let's get into it, man. Andrew, number one, model minority, the article states the model minority is obviously the most common stereotype that AAPIs have always faced. This myth lumps together Asian Americans as a monolithic group of high-achieving and hardworking individuals who read the who reached the American dream through a rigid upbringing, top education and unparalleled work ethic. Yeah, man. So these on the stereotype that Asians are the model minority, David, how true would you say it is? Low, middle, high. Realistically, guys, and we only got low, middle, high as choices. I'm going to go ahead and say truthiness wise, it's middle because some groups absolutely fit this maybe to even themselves. They tell themselves this story to a 10 out of 10 level. Let's just throw it out there. I'm going to say high when these Americans generally generally, and then obviously you got another group that may not fit the model minority myth or archetype Cambodian Americans. Right. And I would say this. Here's the thing about this stereotype that makes it unique from the other stereotypes is that the model minority one within Asians and a lot of Asians don't like to admit it. But a lot of parents would admit this that they don't think this is a bad stereotype. They think it's a positive one. Yeah. And to be honest, if I talk to my black or Latino friends to be like, I mean, yeah, I could think of a lot worse stereotypes, guys. Yeah. It's not clearly a negative one, although it does have a slightly negative impact, obviously, for the Asians that don't fit into the model minority stereotype. They don't really get acknowledged. So that they don't get help from the government programs they do because of disaggregation.  So you're just doing good. It doesn't matter what type of Asian you are, right? You're a model minority now. But I will say when it comes to being high achievers, that in a nut is not necessarily the worst thing to be, right? Be tough to get people to like all live life in the opposite direction just to break this stereotype, right? Right. For example, like I don't think that my Mexican friends want to stop being considered hard working or my black American friends want to stop being considered like charismatic. Right. You know what I mean? Because those are everybody has positive and negative stereotypes about groups, but those are the more positive ones, right? So it's hard to get people to go against something they feel like it's generally good. Yeah. I guess one way to kind of help break it is just acknowledge that probably half evasions don't even fall into the model minority myth at all, you know, and then also just acknowledge like the other groups of Asians, like for us, we're always there to highlight other cultures and acknowledge the differences. And I think you can be different and together under the umbrella of Asian, but I think you have to see the value in the groups that don't fit into the model minority. Yes. Because they have their own unique set of experiences. They've survived a unique set of circumstances that everybody can take something away from. In America, there are so many different careers and ways to make money. And I think we need to acknowledge that a lot of other Asians who don't fit into the model minority myth have careers in another sector and that we is still very respectable and we need to respect that. Moving on to number two, perpetual foreigner. This assumes that AAPIs are not true Americans because they just arrived here post 1965 in large numbers. I would say the Latinos get this perpetual foreigner card a little bit, but certainly white or black people that are heritage Americans for 300, 400, 500 years certainly do not have this, right? Yeah. I think it's also because Asians, we visually look different.  Right.  Even if we're born and raised. I've been talking about Luca Donchich, who's English is probably his third language.  But I guess overall, man, this is a tough situation because I think Asian culture at its core, like true Asian culture is very different than Western culture. So the more you're into Asian culture, and by the way, Asian culture is on the rise in media, whether it be K-pop, the food, just Chinese culture in general, Vietnamese culture, Filipino culture. So if everybody wants to celebrate and highlight these cultures more and it's considered different than the general American culture, Western hemisphere culture in general, let alone Anglo-Saxon or Western European ones, then it will always feel like we're part of a different culture and therefore a foreigner. So how do you balance assimilation to appreciation to holding on to your own roots? Hard question. I'm going to go ahead and rank perpetual foreigner at a medium level too. I'm not going to pick just mid all the time as a cop out, but I really think so. And I think that, like you said, there's a visual factor, but there's also a cultural factor. I feel like my Filipino friends growing up felt less of this pressure or this perpetual foreigner label on them because of visual ambiguity, but also cultural Latinization or Westernization. So I think my Chinese friends feel it the most because my Chinese friends tend to be the least Westernized, even compared to my Korean or Filipino friends. Yeah. And also there is probably the most Chinese people coming over. So I think there's obviously big populations in the brown countries, the Daisy countries. Do you break this myth, Andrew, by acting extra Americana in middle American, like 1960s middle of America culture, or is it like changing the fabric of and throwing your culture in the potluck? You know, it's always like a brain fudge for a lot of like blue color, like Americans who are not exposed to a lot of different types of Asians. It's like when you're very Asian, but you do one or two things that is super American, like our comedian friend, Pung, he's, he's a fob from, from China, but then he's super good at shooting guns.  So it's like, I think it's kind of funny, like if you can do one of those things or if you can have a really good sense of humor about it, humor is very, I guess in a way Western, I don't want to say humor is only from the West, but at least if you do the Western style of humor, it can kind of humanize yourself and you will be less of a professional. Certainly from a mechanical, just logistical standpoint, jumping two feet first into something that is commonly associated with being American is a tactic, but I'm not telling everybody. They don't think you should. You need to American wash yourself, but pick up a couple things of American culture that really connect with people and it'll help moving on to yellow peril. Number three, Andrew, the author says it comes from the 19th century. The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 when they thought all these low page workers would come through and take all the Irish people's jobs. Obviously the Irish were already outside by the original Germans and British people that were here in America or Dutch people. But you actually have a theory, Andrew, it actually comes from the 12th century. So I think the term might have been coined in the 1900s. And then obviously, you know, the World War Two with the Japanese, that was also another level of yellow peril, by the way. And then now we're in current one, but looking way back to history, because I know Western Europe, they love their history, guys. So let's not forget that Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire did, did take over a lot of Asia and Europe pushed all the way to Poland. Yeah, but they didn't make it to Western Europe. But Western Europe knows that the Mongolian Empire almost did. So I feel like that there's also a sense of that being like, oh, man, the Mongols, man, they they did it a long time ago. And now now it's the Chinese, they eat raw meat. How could the Mongols eat the raw meat? That is what their advantage is to push Westward. Obviously, nowadays in 2023, it's a lot more economic. I believe Florida just banned Chinese citizens from buying property. It's probably going to happen in Texas. You know what's crazy, man? You know what's crazy about this, David? Chinese, it's like the second wave of Chinese yellow peril right now. You know, since 1882. First, the first ways was that like the Exclusion Act era, Gold Rush. These opium smoking baldheaded cues. They got the key of the ponytails in the back. Oh, man, we're all going to be eating chops. I mean, honestly, let's be honest. I think the yellow peril thing mostly applies to men more than women. I think it applies to everybody. But if when you think in a yellow peril, you're definitely thinking of a yellow man. Yeah, but I do think it applies more to the country and the economy in general at this point. I don't know if people are really afraid that China is going to maliciously invade America with boots on the ground. I don't think most people think that, but they do think that they're going to steal the property, buy a property, own things, anyways like that. Yeah, I mean, honestly, I think the yellow peril thing, if you really understand it at a macro geopolitical level, I'm going to go ahead and put this at a high. Yeah. Like low, middle, high. I'm going to rank this stereotype at high. This is obviously not that we are perilous, but like the belief in yellow peril is at a high level. No, I would say so. I think to break it, I don't know what Asian Americans can do. Yeah, it's not really on us as individuals, but I think one thing we can do is not fear monger if we don't have to. Like, I think you can stand tall as who you are and love your identity and love your culture without throwing it in people's face and be like, China's taking over. China's going to be the number one economy. India is going to be the most populated country this year.  And then I'm like, well, if you're in America, you know, there's no need to do that, guys. For sure.  You don't want to be a sore winner. Obviously, whatever it even means to win anyway, of course, is debatable on a macro level. But yeah, obviously, the media is wrong. And then obviously, there's a lot of states who are banning Chinese people from buying property. You know, that's a really tough situation. If they're just trying to stabilize their housing prices, I think that's way more logical than just fear monger. Yeah, I wish they would focus more on the economy than the enemy. Point number four, Andrew, the COVID starter. This is probably the most recent anti-Asian stereotype highlighted by Carl Sampson for a neck shark. I mean, he's talking about leading anywhere from microaggressions, obviously a way to the most serious killings of Asian people, right? At the peak, obviously it was high. I would rank this as high at the peak of it. But I do think nowadays it's going to low-middle. You know, I think it's cooled off a lot, in my opinion. I do think more and more people are out there to defend Asians when it comes to these accusations about COVID spreader.   Remember, we were in LA when COVID first hit, and I remember I was walking in the street and I don't know how to say it. Unhoused people were moving around me like I was the source of that outbreak. No, they were avoiding us. I had never felt that force field effect on myself right now. I mean, how to break it? I don't really know how to break it. You know, this kind of goes to the yellow para thing where I'm like, this is almost such an overarching global movement is. When it comes to these kind of accusations that ultimately people feel strongly, but they actually don't know a lot about it, if you just question them back and be like, oh, why do you believe that? Why is it this way? Tell me why. Where did you get this from? Where did you get your information from?  Right, and plus a lot of people that would theoretically hate you for starting COVID, they don't even believe in COVID. So I'm gonna go ahead and give this one a low right now in 2023. Moving on to number five, the dog cat rat bad eater. The man to rinse eating penguins. Yeah, this is a stereotype you see on a lot of people. I remember people used to talk about South Korea a lot. People talk about the Yulin dog festival in Guangxi, China, which is unfortunately, it is a real thing. Obviously, do I think in East Asia or Asia in general, I think less than 1% of people have ever had dog. It's way below 1%. But obviously, yeah, do I think the West might even have a way lower percentage of people who have possibly tried it? But yeah, it's below 1%. Yeah, and then also I think a lot of people are basing this off the re-posted videos that they see from Chinese social media where people are doing the weird mookbongs where they're eating weird animals. Not dogs, not eating dogs, but they're eating like soft shell turtles or frogs and things that look weird. But it's actually really funny because in some parts of America, they eat weird things too. They're eating frog in some parts of America. You could see somebody bite the head off of a roasted rabbit or squirrel in Duck Dynasty. I've eaten alligator meat at one of these festivals out in America. I didn't think it was particularly good. But we don't claim the Southern states. They have their own culture. You elated, but what I'm saying is, I think this one, if you made me say how true it is, low, middle, high right now, I think it's more low. But on the internet comments, people still tease people, but I think in real life interactions, I'm hearing a lot less of it. How do you break this? Well, again, like Asian-Americans are just not doing this stuff. I can't control what happens in Asia. And in some corners of Asia, obviously they are still doing stuff like this, but... I put it out of low, honestly. And even the truthiness is out of low. I'm not saying 0%, but definitely in the low zone. Number six, Andrew, the submissive Asian female. This is an archetype, obviously, that transfers into dating life, I guess more blatantly, but also possibly professional life as well. People don't want to have an Asian female boss, smaller, diminutive, not viewed as alpha. Yeah, also being over-sexualized in the workplace plays against you. I've never seen it, I've witnessed it. Obviously, I'm not an Asian female myself. We have Asian women in our family. Totally believable, but I think it varies a lot per sector. Some sectors are Old World and they're gonna operate off Old World stereotypes. Some ones try to break it.  But anyways, we- Gotta get more comments, you know. We made a whole video about it. We'll leave it right here, guys. I actually think my takeaway is that it's just an overarching stereotype of Asians in general that we lack testosterone, but lacking testosterone for a woman is extra feminine. Lacking testosterone for a man is also extra feminine, but being hyper-feminine as a woman is viewed differently as being hyper-feminine for a man. Obviously, for sure, man. And I would say how to break it, listen. And this ties into the next stereotype, which number seven is the emasculated Asian male. And since they kind of come from the same place, I'm just gonna clump them together. How to break it is like, to be honest, it comes down to the individual, right? And media. I'll say media is one side, but really how you live your own life.  There's pros and cons that- You draw that magic card. Magic cards, they enter the powerful cards. Black Lotus, it takes a lot of mana. And being desirable on the dating apps, that's a pro and a con, 100%. And I think that men and women, we have to take on some responsibilities. If I'm an emasculated Asian male, I have to take on some responsibility for myself. And I have to figure out ways that I wanna break that myself.  Cause at the end of the day, you gotta be you. But just know that you have some responsibility. And that's what I would tell men and women. Honestly, I would say that these stereotypes of the submissive Asian female and the emasculated Asian man, that's weak of feminine, nerdy, devoid of sexuality. I'm gonna go ahead and put this at somewhere between a medium and a high. It might even, gun to my head, Andrew. I might just put it in the high category. Well, I can't agree with you, I'll put it in the high. But like I said, each individual has some responsibility for their own actions and how they're perceived. Yeah, versus the yellow peril situation, you have way more individual movement in this. The yellow peril is geopolitical. This is super micro and personal. Moving on to number eight, Andrew. The unemotional or duplicitous friend or coworker, duplicitous, comes from the Latin word, meaning double or twofold. It has to do with the kind of deception where you intentionally hide your true feelings or intentions behind false words or actions. So is this, does this at all relate to kind of the Japanese form of hospitality where they're like, oh, thank you so much. Arigato gozaimasu.  Otomochi, right? Or the, I forgot the word for it. We have forgot the name, I'll pop it up. But yeah, is it kind of like that where they're not talking about deceit, deception as far as like, oh, yeah, I'm actually low key, a Chinese spy. They're just talking about like, oh, I just can't read you your unemotional. I can't understand. I actually think this stereotype comes from the Japanese because it actually started in the early 1990s. But I think it applies to all Asians, but like probably even Asians sometimes stereotype, I'm not saying it's true, but like Japanese to be very like surface face and then inside face, right? Right, right. And I mean, overall, you can tie it to the unemotional or stoic Asian parents. I would say this one is a medium in terms of truthiness. Obviously, it's an older stereotype. I think people over 50, 60, 70, 80 years old in America are more likely to believe in it because of the Siamese cats from, what's it called, was a lady in the tramp and stuff like that in 1955. I think that Jen Yang's character in Silicon Valley was kind of deceitful but not in the super malicious way. The Neimoidians and Star Wars are based off Chinese Ming dynasty people. They were very deceitful and duplicitous. However, Andrew, I think there's another stereotype of Asian Americans that are more like fitting our archetype. I call it Tommy Toyota, which is basically this super helpful earnest like wasp guy from like the 1960s. Like gee, Willikers, what can I do to help you guys? Cause I remember I used to work selling wireless in college and all these rich white people were coming in from Issaquabi and like, hey, do you happen to know Tommy Wong? He was our cabana boy in our Honolulu vacation. He was so helpful. He reminds me of you because you're helping me buy this Blackberry right now. So people were like putting me in the Tommy Toyota, Harold and Harold and Kumar. I'll help you. That's wild that you were in Washington and they were like, hey, you know this kid in Honolulu? He was nice too.  You're a great service boys. Oh my God. No, literally they were hitting me with the Tommy Toyota stereotype. All right, so you give this a medium? I'm gonna give this a medium but it's difficult to say because, like we said, America's a big country, it's diverse, there's age ranges, there's racial ranges, there's income ranges, educational ranges. It could vary. What I would say how to break it and it's not, I'm not gonna tell Asians to stop being helpful and stop being nice people and stop being polite but I do think you gotta have this other side of you that you're strong and you gotta get stronger and you gotta either work out or gain some confidence somehow, have some type of attitude behind you that you can defend yourself with or clap back at people with in case something goes off because the last thing you wanna do is be this, be a nice, kind, soft, docile pushover, right? Be kind and nice, but also have that edge to you. Garden, but still have the warrior side, possibly. You know, it's up to you guys. Point number nine, Andrew, the bad Asian driver. This is a pretty common stereotype. I'm gonna go ahead and put this right now in 2023 at a medium level, maybe possibly even high, low. Is it funny that the young Asians kind of have this Fast and Furious and they're like whip it around, race car, JDM Exotics. Yeah, JDM Exotics stereotype, like okay, we're fast drivers, we know how to drive, but then our older parents are basically a liability. That's like the stereotype. But you know what's interesting? I think people stereotype older Asian drivers that are immigrants as more timid, scared, driving 20 miles per hour under the speed limit, but definitely not like, they're not like the people riding around like it's a rodeo all day. It's like more like, gosh, this old guy in front of me so scared he doesn't know what to do. He was like a rookie 16, 17 year old trainee driver. Right, I would say that most people describe Asians as annoying drivers and kind of clueless drivers at the worst level. But what was it, Mark Norman, the comedian Mark Norman had a really funny joke. Yeah, well Mark Norman was acknowledging the government statistic that Asians by far had the lowest vehicular homicide of vehicular fatality accident rates. It's a third or a fourth of all the other major races in America. However, why are Asians stereotyped as the worst drivers? And Mark Norman acknowledges this in the joke and he's like, yeah, it's because they actually cause a fatality for the car, two cars down. Right. That was his way of, funny way of acknowledging the fact but also explaining it away. That was a funny way to flip it.  That's from driving too fast or driving drunk. Yeah, I think driving how to break this is just be more mindful when you drive.  And has he got honked at a few times? Possibly. Is it kind of annoying to be in the car with him? Ah, yeah. Yeah, buddy. I'll move it on to number 10. Andrew, the primitive Asian villager. This is the last anti Asian stereotype that he had. He said basically stereotype that Asian Americans, especially the older ones come from a place that is backwards, archaic and primitive and hold on to a lot of police that have no place in modern Western society. Wow, so judgy. I think, I guess if they're talking about the superstitions, but a lot of cultures and a lot of religions and a lot of like religions blend with the indigenous culture or like the shamanistic, even like native culture. So then there's like a whole thing from that. But overall, I would say this about the primitive villager. What do you give it at low, middle, high? I'm saying in some zones, you could say it's medium to high, but obviously some other zones it's like super not true. I guess I would say medium. I would say just because there are a lot of Asians that come from corners of Asia that immigrate here. And then they oftentimes, if they don't adapt and assimilate, they do wanna live life kind of the way that they've been doing. And let me just be clear here. I'm gonna keep it super real because I'm gonna observe things about everybody.  There are some people that come from like, let's just say China, for example, super rural China. If you understand anything about the disparity in China, if you come from Shanghai, you might be super modern and know how to use all the modern tech and stuff like that. If you come from the deep villages, it's almost like you could be from like 1900. So you're taking somebody from the deep villages who potentially could have been raised in an environment that more mimics 1900 America than 2000s America and transporting to America. Of course, they're gonna live their life in a way that to certain cutting edge Western people just seems like completely anachronistic and out of time. Like they could hit where in a time machine. Yeah, and it also depends on how it's executed.   Like, in America, there's like rules and stuff like that. Even though I could tell you a lot of places and corners of America where they like to do that too, but they might be doing it in a state that allows it or in a slightly different manner. So what I'm saying is, I think a lot of these primitive villager things, it's actually not that different than some of the things you see in America, but it could just be also seen with another layer of like, oh, they're different from a different culture.  So obviously we're living in the West now. It just seems, some of the things, the medicines, people catching fish out of the ocean or whatever, like that's selling it in a bucket on the side of the street. That's like one of the more like old school things I've seen. Like, you know what I mean? For sure it's old school. It is of a bygone era. And I'm gonna say this, the word primitive though, I think that is the biggest offense right here. Villager, you know, you can take offense to that. Yeah, I get it. It doesn't cut your boy. It doesn't cut your boy. But primitive is wrong because it's not like we're just picking it out of fish in the raw. And it's not like that person just like, ah, like a caveman walking around doesn't know how to move. I think a better way is just like, they're low tech and they're simple sometimes. And that's what the villagers from Asia are like. They're low tech, they're simple, they want the simple life. And I'd break this to be honest, when I do see it, and I'm not saying all Asians even fit into this at all, but I'm sure everybody's seen it before. Like, if I see somebody around like the city and they're doing something that it's like, oh man, this person's just from the villages. They didn't fully know how to move. I will try to say it in language because I speak multiple dialects in language to that person to try to educate them. Whether they take it or not, I don't know. But I'm just doing my part to try to bring them up to speed. Yeah. And listen, I think if you're somebody who really wants to break this, I think the things that you can do is right, communicate with people. I mean, you can call out the behaviors if you think it's wrong. And to be honest, not all behaviors from this part or that world is necessarily what you should be doing in America because there's obviously laws against it. But ultimately, you can call it out or if you want to think about high-tech Asian stuff, there is a lot of high-tech Asian, like Japan, South Korea, obviously China has a lot of high-tech Asian. Yeah, it's crazy because it's like all the high tech. This person got like an opophome that's like super up to date but they're like just catching fish in a bucket. I don't know. Anyway, for their detrimental impact, inherently flawed basis on AAPIs and Asians all over the world, these stereotypes are the ones that have no place left in a diverse and informed world society. They all need to go, but it is our part as productive members of society to call them out when we see them or hear them. That is the end of the article. And real quick, we got to get into some quick flash reactions. Somebody said, are these stereotypes are just generalizations because I feel like these things about Asians were just rooted in some observable fact. This is true, right?  There's no observable fact because it's a fact, it's a fact, it's not observable anyways. Somebody said, is per capita income PPP a generalization of a country's wealth? Yes, because every country there are rich, middle tier, and poor people but it's a pretty good statistic to see the economic health of a country in the big picture. These are just overarching country metrics, right? So basically what they're saying is, yeah, of course, like we were saying earlier we acknowledged it. There's some shred of truth in stereotypes but people oversimplify them and they over-apply them because they don't care enough about a group to paint it with the nuance and know when something is being archetypical or like typical or not. I think the biggest mistake that people make with stereotypes is that in your head, you will stereotype everybody.  That's the wrong part. It's almost like people get four brushes to paint a photo and they're like, yep, these are the stereotype brushes. There is more nuance in this but this is just your starter pack and then the people are like, well, the starter pack's all I need. I only need these four colors and you go, well, there's another advanced pack just like crayons. You know how you can buy the four pack, the eight pack, the 16, the 32, the 64, 128 but they're like, nope, I'm good with these four basic ones because that's all I need because that's all I care about this group and I think that that's the messed up part. Like you said, people are not trying to move past firmware 1.0. They don't wanna go to 1.5 or 2.0 to flesh it all out. Yo, this one comment is actually pretty funny. It says, wait, how can Asian women be submissive and sexual when they're also the tiger moms and they have all the high expectations and they're super naggy? That's not sexual. Yeah, like I said, some of these stereotypes are like, does it change per era? Does it change once you get married? Are we talking about different types of girls? Like, that's why it's so ridiculous even though stereotypes, like we said, we're acknowledging it.  Right, I mean, honestly, once you break one stereotype sometimes there's a new stereotype that becomes true. Oh, Andrew, we're all the drug doing party Asians that are breaking them out of minority men. You guys remember this stereotype from a long time ago? All Asians know kung fu. And then guess what? People found out that we, a lot of Asians don't know martial arts. And then now Asians are weak and I'm like, oh, which one is it? That's true, man. And then, you know, everybody was going against the martial arts stereotype, but some people were like, dude, at least people were scared of us when we struck a stance. Yeah, I don't know, guys. Let us know what you think of the comment section below. Like I said, great list from Nexshark. The comment sections went all around the world and back. Like I said, some people were here, some people were over there. Let us know what you think. Keep it civil until next time with the Hop-Up Boys. We out, peace.


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This is Organizing things guitar projects tools Power tools are starting to really get organized and great someone drew it. It's kind of weird a drawing of me a very nice Very very nice. There's just stuff everywhere This is an awesome tool. I probably use this is one of my most used and favorite tools a good power Belt sander right jasmine Yeah, this guy's chilling This is Josie Lewis Came by and poured all of these in molds Just have to figure out how to mount it this These are all just part of sets and props and things Hey everyone. Thanks for coming and watching. I'm just walking around. I said earlier. We finally got internet Strong enough in our whole we're calling it a production house We didn't really know what to call it. We just kept making spaces like here We have white screens and green screens and if you want to start a band and come start a band It's anyone want to be in a band? There's this my favorite painting But I'm gonna take you up to where Rebecca's working because she's having a lot of fun up there There's jazz doing something with a scale and heater All right, if you see anything interesting or If you haven't anything you'd like to see so this is how we store medium-sized canvases And smaller canvases are all stored here Which is really handy to be able to see them This is all like other studio stuff Oh, Jane Monteith. So nice to see you. Jane Monteith. I was talking about you today Because um Any dye-based Inks Are gonna fade very badly It's not good Look at all this stuff. So this is the art studio, but then converted into this What's this? Sorry to throw that on you Jane Been doing some research What are you doing, Rebecca? So look at all this fun stuff. Oh my gosh Oh, I have to get out of here. Oh good. Lol. Thanks, Jane We're playing over here this morning So this is a great space. It's actually uh Would be a retail location So we could make this like a pita pita or something, but we just have it as our like Play area.  Every artist needs that It has been a lifesaver All sorts of fun stuff guitars Look we got chess pieces There's lots going on and like we can finally show everyone Wheelchair. Oh, this is cool Look at this I'm gonna put some diamonds Bluish diamonds Saturn.  That's a pineapple mother pieces of art Okay The tour is halfway done Now this is great too. This is top storage. See a top large canvas storage Just made out of two by fours over top of a Costco shelf Really great Okay So i'm gonna take you upstairs This is the Like studio space we have all of our design and graphics I'm gonna whisper Hey everybody, this is live. Yeah, this is live. Oh, right. Yeah I'm just giving a quick tour of the place Now this is an experiment going on Oh my gosh color everywhere and it's Still winter Here's the office fish This here is Peppa. Hey, brian.  I left you some money Thanks for being so hospitable in texas even when you weren't there I can't find the fish They're peppa and george This is our conference room. That's a coffee robot Best thing in our life. Rebecca made this I love it Look at those nice big paintings there. Aren't those nice those two? Okay, i'm gonna go upstairs here So upstairs is is a great spot where we just get to be creative. Hey joe lock Check this out I took a closet and I soundproofed it and cut put a window in there Isn't that awesome? Some other paintings. This is our meeting room We need another couch maybe see so we have two TVs So two TVs are good if your kids Are bugging you so much you need to get something done You put two TVs on that way if they If they uh get distracted from the one TV the other TV will get them and then you can get a couple hours of uh Times to yourself in so that's parenting tip of the day All right to finish up the tour we just have spare bedrooms and guests come over And this is my play area. So We have an overhead film thing. Thank you jane If someone would appreciate that honesty, so look at this table. So this is a work and prep table I mean these bins it's almost all done and then here is a So the overhead filming rig so the idea is someone's here preparing and we can just get lots of demos done here Isn't that great? And then this is the music area With the uh if any of you are interested This is the ableton push controller It's so much fun So much fun I'll show you one day how it works and then this is The master bedroom closet But now oh good cheeky crafter. I'd love to see your stuff Um This is the master bedroom Closet, which is our film gear place because you do what you gotta do, right? Okay, I'm gonna go make coffee Thanks for watching and Go make something Because that's what will make you happy And it's okay to be happy. Okay.


Okay, we are live. Oh, I wonder how many people say that at the start of live streams. How's it going, guys? How's your weekend? Well, week been. Got any from the plan this weekend? Oh, yeah, so, not all tea time, live stream. As usual with these things, it is a free-for-all Q&A. So if you've got any questions, burning questions that you want to ask, please use either the chat over on YouTube or use the Instagram little question mark bubble in the corner. That's the best way to go about it. So it's been a bit of a crazy week for me. A lot of, a lot of very, very different to me at the moment. But I'm pulling through, pulling through. Why is the sky blue? I have no idea. I think it might be some type of refraction from the sun. Hello, Austin. How are you doing, man? Hello. Actually, you. How are you doing? Armin Kapo, Armin Kapo says, are autistic people able to develop theory of mind? I think it's a very outdated concept, I think. But in terms of being able to pick up what other people are feeling, I think it is generally something that autistic people can develop. It's a big myth, actually, around autistic people not having empathy, because it's obvious that we do. It's just that the method at which or the ability that we have to understand non-verbal communication can sometimes be a bit difficult. It's something that I used to struggle with a lot when I was younger, but as I've got older, had more social interactions, done a bit more research. It's something that I've developed over time, I think. You're just at work for a half hour. Where do you work, Austin? Hey, Joshua G. How are you doing, man? Ross Strauss says, I just graduated from college last week after several years and a few semesters off. Well done. That is amazing. That is awesome. It feels so good once you're at the end of that kind of thing. It can often be quite a very up and down roller coaster type journey with those kind of endeavors. Great. Good for you, honestly. We're back and live. We are indeed. Bit says, understanding something and doing it are two different things. That's true. I think there's often a lot of practical and, what do you say, theoretical elements to everything. But there is some crossover between the two. You just got to use the theory and put it into a practical setting. I think one of the difficulties with understanding and direct communication is that it's very subjective and a lot of neurotypicals don't even get it right, the majority of the time. You hear about a lot of neurotypicals saying autistic people can't read the room and they can't pick up on certain signals and signs. I think in a lot of cases people have their own interpretations of body language and facial expressions and tonality. You just have to go to a group meeting and talk to someone after a bad or difficult or complicated event has happened. The range of opinions of what's happened and why is just so vast. I think over time it's been more apparent to me that I'm trying to seek out some level of certainty in direct communication that really isn't there. I think in some cases if it's a very important thing in your life, then I tend to do a bit more digging on it. I think in a majority of off the cuff cases it feels very much like you take it or leave it. If it's serious then do a bit more digging. If it's not then let it pass. It's a lot easier on your mental health in the long run. Austin says I feel like I have hyper empathy since I'm crazy when I see I was suffering. I don't tend to cry a lot just because of the meds I'm on. I used to cry a lot when I was younger. I do definitely, if I see someone who's not feeling good for any reason, it doesn't matter how much I know them, what they look like. I just kind of have this drive to talk to them. Going so far that when I went out for a very rare Thomas night out, I think about a week ago and there was those two instances where people were upset and I was just consoling them in the corner instead of just getting on with the party. It's something that I take pride in I think. I think it's severely lacking a lot in a lot of circumstances. Lisa asks do you learn to control meltdowns as you get older? My six year old son is very angry, aggressive ones. I think it's less about controlling meltdowns because once you're having a meltdown there's not really much that you can do. It really depends on the person. I think the most important thing around meltdown prevention is making sure that the things that come before the meltdown are categorized and logged and understood so that next time you can have things that are more preventative in place for them. It's very hard for us to get out of the meltdown without just kind of naturally falling out of it. So I know particularly for me things around sensory supports, making sure that I check in with myself about how overwhelmed or anxious I am, taking regular breaks, stimming, things of that nature. It all helps in the long run I think. Chloe says you shine a light on mental health and it's very important. I appreciate it. I'm really glad. It's definitely something that is an issue for a lot of autistic people. I think it definitely needs to be a lot more highlighted, especially in the mainstream media. Yeah, there's stats, man. That's crazy. Hey Tom, nice to see you mate. Hi Janey. You know my headphones? They are good ones. They got some good noise cancelling on them, Joshua. He especially interests his technology well. That's cool. I'm glad you're doing well, man. I have to, I don't know, I probably have to research what's the best way to go through chats on the live stream because I don't know, I feel very much that I want to respond to everybody and it leads me to like getting quite far behind on things. So you have to be patient with me on that. If you have posted a question or a comment, I will get down to it. Just know that. You have several special interests, me too. I'm not doing too bad, Joshua. It's been a bit of a crazy week as I've said. There's been some significant changes to my life recently. Some positives, some negative, some unexpected. So it's just taking the blows as they come really. But overall I'm actually not feeling too bad despite everything. Feeling quite confident and ready to kind of go out there and do my work and do some autism things. Maybe do a bit of exploring. I'm thinking of actually getting, because I've been putting this off for ages, but one of my biggest stings is like vestibular. So like vestibular being balanced. There's just something just totally calming and relaxing and as how special about things that involve movement for me. Like whether it's like spinning on a chair or spinning in general or roller coasters. A lot of people they find them quite anxiety provoking and like an adrenaline rush. But for me it's very much the case that it chills me out so much. After all I always have like the biggest smile on my face. You might have seen it from like one of the videos that I did on a spinning on the hoop. Actually you.com too. I like that name. I do have a lot of gut feelings but don't immediately recognize why. That takes time. A lot of autistic people have what's called a like safimia. Difficulty identifying and categorizing emotions. So that sounds very much like the categorizing side of things. Because if they're noticing that something's off, they may not know exactly what emotion it is. So it's always worth like doing some work about understanding how different emotions feel in your body and in your behavior and your face. Because that can be really really, that has been really really important for me. And if you're older and you're wanting to have a bit more of an experience. Sort of managing a bit more of an experience. If you want to manage your emotions a lot better, I definitely recommend looking into like the signs and like the philosophy behind the emotions. Because I think because they're so subjective, it's very hard sometimes to get a clear picture. But with science you can kind of have a little bit of that detachment, you know. So perhaps when I know it's not the most flawless theory, but if you like depressed, you might have low serotonin. If you're struggling to get up and get motivated and to do stuff, you might have a lack of dopamine. So there's a lot of things that you can look into that I believe provide a bit more of a concrete understanding of emotions. It's a very valuable thing to do.  Bit underscore 0011. Have you experienced FPV flights, first person video? I've been in one of those things that they have sometimes at like shopping centers or arcades where you're sitting in them. There's like a box that you go into and there's like a big screen and it kind of tilts and shakes, but it doesn't do as much for me than the actual thing, sadly. I've been looking into things to spin on, but it's very hard to find things like that for people of my size, which tends to be a constant throughout my life in different areas. Nodox says, I've been told that I have a stimming problem. Stimming? I'm thinking you mean stimming. And Docs told me that the energy has to come out. Yeah, although the energy does have to come out, but if the stimming is not harming yourself or others, I don't see anything wrong with it. I think for some people it can be a bit of a touchy topic because although I would love for everybody just to be stimming about whenever they feel like it. In some cases, you might feel quite paranoid or socially anxious and not want to draw attention to yourself. In other cases, people can be quite rude or aggressive when they see someone who's doing something different. So it's one of those things. I definitely look into the OTNL. At OTNL there's some really cool stuff around stimming and sensory joy and she has this concept called big and little stims that we talked about on my podcast. And I think that's a really good thing to look into because there's a lot of things that you can do, a lot of things that neurotypicals even do to stim and they're not so kind of out there. And then, for example, in private or in public, if you feel comfortable and safe enough, you can do your big stims. So there's more kind of stereotypical stims that a lot of people categorize as autistic. That kind of splitting up can often really help but I would even say that if I meet an autistic person who doesn't stim, I always encourage them to do it because a lot of the time it's been learned out of them and it's an incredible tool for emotional regulation. It doesn't need to be anything big. It could be like if you have some oral motor stimulation needs you could just be doing a bit more chewing gum than usual might help you out. You could get like a band or like a spinning ring that you can use. There's loads of options for everybody. It's just a finding one that works for you and because our sensory profiles tend to be different. The stims that are going to help us are going to obviously be a lot different. Hey Kifa, how are you doing? Welcome to the stream. We are all unique, totally. Josh, should we go in with the remember to stay hydrated everyone with some water? That's a good point. I'm not going to hydrate with some water. I'm going to hydrate with my... It's going to become a meme at some point. Just me having like a bottle of Pepsi. I'm so bad sometimes. I need to fill up my water bottle but my executive functioning points are like really poor at the moment. This week I've been trying to relax a lot more and I've kind of become a little bit too relaxed. I think I need to be a bit more on it than usual. Thank you for the reminder though. It is something that we can struggle with as autistic people with interoceptive difficulties. Not being able to tell when you're hungry or thirsty. Gets me sometimes and the bottle is gone. We'll get it later. Josh just says again, I hope everyone has been stimming and staying regulated today. Totally, that's another great point. Thank you Josh. No, underscore doc says I found that we are all in some way hypersensitive because we have worn the mask and our nature is to access a potential threat. Especially when I feel like it's hurting my child who is hurting. I don't really understand what you mean. Could you rephrase that for me? It might just be my head. You asked a question in the question box. I have seen it. Rose Tra says, how do you start becoming a content creator? I'm an odd HD and other neurodivergences and also LGBT plus. And I want to talk to people about these things and advocate for communities and other marginalized communities. It depends what you want to do really. I think if you're wanting to do YouTube, it's a lot more complicated to explain a podcast perhaps. I think for a lot of people, just simple text based carousels seem to work for a lot of people. It sort of gives you an opportunity to talk and perhaps not put too much effort into designing posts that you do. I'd really recommend looking into some social media channels. I think there's channels like Vanessa Lau or something. She does some stuff. Really helpful. Hi Angela. Canva is a really great place to start. I produce pretty much everything on Canva that's an image. And then there's some free video apps that you can use like CapCut, which can be sometimes quite useful for videos if you're wanting to get into that. But I think there's been a big push for Instagram reels at the moment and shorts and things like that. And I think that was a big push I think the other year. But I think in scrams trying to scale back a little bit and put a lot more effort into posts, which is interesting. But yeah, I just researched a topic, have a little page to go at the start and then give your experiences what it is, things of that nature. And just be consistent. Set up a schedule for when you're going to do it and scheduling your stuff. You might want to go for like a month and make loads of posts and then so you have got a big save bank so that you can just get out consistently and that seems to work for me. I hope that helps.  I just got under 30k steps today, yesterday, because I got doing my Duke of Edinburgh on Wednesday and Thursday. Very cool. Mental health isn't too bad, you know. Despite everything going on. Still surprisingly calm, surprisingly positive and confident at the moment. How's your coordination, Thomas? Sorry about the random question, just wondering as I've got dyspraxia and I still can't tie my laces and tie it at 17. If I'm not thinking about it, my coordination is really bad. I'll knock into stuff so easily and people and my spatial awareness isn't very good. But with stuff that I'm practicing mindfully and I'm trying to model things that I see in other people, I tend to actually be pretty good at it. Just from my experience with Taekwondo, it's kind of the gym or swimming even. I think it's because I've always done a lot of sports even when I was quite young. Something that I'm thankful to my parents for because it's quite a big thing, sometimes some people. I think one of the sensory adjustments that people make in hospitals and living spaces is to give a bit more space between objects because we do tend to knock into stuff. I've knocked into many things in my life. Oh, Chloe. Chloe Lau, thank you for buying me a badge. I really appreciate it. I'm sorry I've only just seen it. I apologize. I need to figure out how to sort out the live stream a bit better because I'm just on my phone so every time that I touch it, it's just wobbling all over the show. Have you tried any of Sony earbuds or products? I haven't actually. I used to wear these things. The JBL Live headphones, the noise cancelling on them is perfection. Amazing, but they're pretty big. I had to get some replacements for the actual red bits. These are not part of it. I had to replace it and I've got some light tape. I only really use them when I'm in my office. The Sony ones that I've got on, they're pretty good. They've got good music as well. Thank you, Chloe. I appreciate it. I really do. Thank you. Marina says hats off for your advocacy. I'm so happy. Really glad. Why not fizzy water instead of sugary fizzy drinks? Because I'm rubbish. Yeah, please do. Please create me the Pepsi meme. That'd be grand. Content creator all about health and fitness always brings a bottle of Pepsi Max onto stream. Hi, Satire World, welcome to the stream. You're welcome to ask anything about autism, anything personal about the podcast, go for it. Just XFD says your experience really resonates with what I'm going through in my life at the moment. I'm really glad. I was talking to someone recently about what it was like for me starting on why I started doing my stuff. I mean, I don't obviously reflect on it a lot, but I was in a really, really dark place like in my early 20s. And I really just couldn't find anything online or out there that really resonated with me in terms of autism and in terms of mental health, to be honest. So I kind of had a picture in my mind that I wanted to be that person for someone else. It really is. It's hard because there's some mental health stuff like on YouTube and things, but it tends not to go too in-depth for or raw or honest or open. And I don't particularly like that because it just feels kind of fake and like big media sometimes. So you're just doing it because you want to get views. But obviously those videos that I make, those clips that I do, the podcast that I do, they don't tend to do as well. They don't get monetized, but I think it's worth it. Austin says it's okay. I'm into lifting, but I also eat too much cake and pizza. I do answer questions. I am having a look. My sound is off. Oh, really? Oh, Jesus. Okay. All right. We're unplugging the mic. Can you hear me now? Oh my God. Where did I cut off? Okay, the sound is working on YouTube. Good. Oh my God. Where did I get cut off? Hi, J-New. You're back. You're back. Oh my God. Oh, five minutes ago. No way. Oh my God. I am awful. I have no idea what I could have talked about. What was I talking about five minutes ago? Let's put this microphone away. Obviously I need to charge them. It would be nice if it came up with a notification on my screen that there was no noise. I'm not going to blame anyone. It's my bad. Yes, it's the audio on YouTube and Instagram. My microphone I use. Thank you. I do answer questions. Right. I can't. Okay, we're going to have any questions that you haven't heard me ask. If you've asked me a question, please ask me again. I think that's the best way to go about it. Please don't feel bad. I just feel like a spoon when I went to grab my headphones. Okay. I think I was talking about why I make content. Someone asked about why I... No, I was talking about why I make content. Yeah, it's... I was in a pretty bad place when I was about 22. I didn't really see much autism and mental health stuff and the stuff that I did see was very like big media and big tech and mainstream. It just didn't really resonate with me and I kind of wanted to be that for other people. Because I feel like it's a very... It's not like clickable and it's not like monetizable like perhaps other things that you could talk about. I think it's so impactful to just actually voice and hear people talk about it. Amaranth.i.g says hi from Spain. I love your content and your podcast. I find them very useful because I'm ND and so is my partner. Good, I'm glad. I'm going to do some more stuff around dating relationships at some point. Because I know I mentioned that I was... I think I might have mentioned on like a previous livestream that I was in a relationship but I am not at the moment. And I feel very much like... This is like prime time to talk about the experience of dating modern life as an autistic person. So I actually have some news which is really cool. I've been working with... Well, I haven't been working with that. To be honest, this person's done a lot of work and I've just had a call with them. And that's the most of it. But there's a creator on YouTube and Instagram if you want to check him. A girl from Planet Aspie. And they run like a really popular, really, really big Discord server about neurodivergence. And they've set up some different channels for me. So at some point I'm going to share it on my story and put it in my link tree and stuff. And we're going to have a Discord server, which is pretty cool. And they've been so good with helping me out with it. They're a fan of the podcast and it's really nice to chat with them. They're very lovely, both girls from Planet Aspie and husbands. Really great people. Really lovely. JustXFD says your experience regarding rejection really resonates with what's going on in my head at the moment. Thank you for your content regarding that issue. Of course. I think it's a big part of a lot of our lives. Especially if we don't know about it when we're younger, or even if we do, about being autistic. We do tend to get a raw deal a lot in relationships and public life and with people, especially neurodipicals. And it's something that we get sensitized to, I think, in the long run. It's something that I'm trying to work on a lot at the moment. There's a stage that I went for when I was younger where I was feeling very rejected by people and was very, very closed off. And I hardly spoke to anyone, let alone make videos and do podcasts and do lies and stuff. I just hardly ever used to speak at all. I didn't use to share anything. And then it went the opposite way. And then I was sharing too much. And I got too friendly and happy with people. And then bad stuff happened. So I kind of learnt from those experiences. I didn't kind of go, oh hey, maybe I should go back and be insular and not talk to anyone and not open up to anyone. But maybe I should be a bit more selective with the people that I choose to let in on my life in certain areas. So I think over time that's something that I developed. Whereas your daddy says being autistic, dating is so hard. It's true. It's true. I think what's great about the autistic community is that we do have like a kind of... One of the great things is that we're not all in one place. We're from different areas of different corners of the globe. But that can also be quite difficult sometimes, especially when you're wanting to find physical friends to go and do activities with and sort of get out there and a lot of the ways that you find those kind of things is when you do open yourself up and you get into situations like that and make new friends. And sometimes you might have a vibe with someone and might get on with each other. And I think that used to be the way of doing it. I think it's a lot to do with apps at the moment. And we know how fun those things are, not at all indeed. JustXFD says it's also came back to what I did in the past just because I didn't even know that it was a wrong thing to do. Totally. And that's something that I repeat a lot on the podcast and not on lives. First thing to do, first thing that you should do when you find out you're autistic, you gotta look back at your life and try and process all that stuff and frame it in different ways because there can be a lot of stuff that you have to deal with in life that you put a lot of undue pressure on yourself for and blame and feel bad about it. So that's definitely something that I highly recommend to anybody. Left to Scar, yeah. It does. I think as well one thing that I'm finding, well not particularly difficult because the only time that I've done it was, went pretty well. But like approaching people to make friends with people just out and about. I think it's something that it causes me a lot of anxiety because, you know, if I was to go to like an autism event or as to do like a podcast or as like to do socializing online or messaging people, people kind of already know who I am, what I'm like to some degree and what is a good topic to talk about. And I find that that's a lot easier of a social environment for me even if it's like a public thing like it's just out there. So, but when you're in like a situation where you're talking to someone who's new and who doesn't know you and, you know, trying to navigate that, especially when you're trying to find friends or you're trying to find a partner. That can be really tough. You can get in your head about it a lot and think that you've done things wrong even though nothing's wrong. It's very weird how that happens. I fit a performer actor for hire. I can't allow you into the lives because this is not a collaboration live usually. If you want to be a part of the next one just send me a message. I'll have to organize it beforehand if that's the case. Also, people on YouTube won't be able to see it so that would be a bit relish. Yeah. How are you guys over on YouTube? How's your day been so far? What are you doing at the moment? And you on Instagram. What are you doing? Tell me what you're doing at the moment. I'm really interested. Like, it's a bit weird for me because I know that's kind of the nature of doing lives and stuff, but I'm very much just like talking at a camera and seeing like people's messages come up. So it's not like I have like a window into what you guys are doing. So I'd be interested to know. Austin asks when you're playing games on YouTube live. Hmm. Not sure. I think I'll definitely have to sort of put... I think I'll have to think about when would be a good time to do that that I can do it consistently. I'm thinking maybe like a Thursday night. Um, lunchtime. Maybe. Maybe. I have to think about it. I am. I am. As I said, there's a lot of stuff going on at the moment. So you got to, I got to, um, got to think about it. You know, I don't, I don't want to jump in something and do it half-assed or anything. Anyway, um, people on Instagram live as well. What do you think of the new lights as you can probably see my. You can't see on YouTube, but my, I've got like a ring light on and it's got like a little rainbow thingy. So is that distracting or is that nice? I don't know. Uh, whereas your daddy says, um, is sensory overload only a neurodivergent thing? If not, do neurotypical people experience it at the same level as neurodivergent people? Everyone can experience it. It's just not very, it's just a lot more common for us because of different sensory profiles. Um, so usually we tend to have some hypersensitivities, some hyposensitivities, um, which can influence how we process stimulation, stimuli from our environment. So when you, um, when you have those different sensory profiles, it's a lot easier to be overloaded in the ways that you're hypersensitive, but you know, people can get overwhelmed with stuff. You know, I've, I've, I've heard many neurotypicals who have got overwhelmed in like a very noisy bar or, um, perhaps like next, next to a train line or, you know, but I think the level at which it impacts them is not, not so much. It's not as like present, I guess. Um, but it can definitely happen. It's just, you know, if it happens to everybody to the extent that it happens to us, life, life and the environments around us would be so much different. I don't know. Um, I'm thinking, thinking more, it'd be really cool because I've, I've realized that what, just to my knowledge, it doesn't seem like there's a lot of people who do like reactions within the autistic community. And I think it'd be really cool to, you know, watch some YouTube videos about autism, give my takes on it. Um, I think what the only, the only thing that's holding me back from doing that is that I know it's such a, it's such a personal subject for a lot of people. So I'd always be kind of walking on eggshells a little bit. But I could definitely try it. Um, because then it will allow me to, it'll give me a bit more sort of to go out and watch, um, watch some more YouTube videos about autism because I do a lot, I do a lot so much anyway. So it's kind of, sometimes I like to do stuff that's not related to that. Um, but it could be, it could be really cool, especially when I'm relaxing. Uh, you're into theater and acting, but stuck on personal problems. I relate. Um, just X F D asks, how do I start advocating about autism again? As I'm also an autistic and I want people to be aware about these things. Um, there's lots of ways that you can do it. Lots of ways that you can do it.  Check out what they're doing. See if you can do something similar and put your own spin on it. I don't, you know, that's, that's something that you could definitely do. Obviously don't like copy people straight out, but use, use sort of some themes here and there from different advocates and make your own stuff. Uh, one of the accounts that I really like at the moment is called, uh, neurodivers. It's like a play on words with neurodiverse. It's, um, it's interesting. Um, always have a magic. I, uh, I just saw like the, the, um, the top of your message and it just said, I'm curious of how high. So I was just like, so what are you trying to say, man? Do I, do I look like that? Um, here's how high functional. I don't think we use that kind of terminology, but, um, people, people like myself. Um, uh, so how, how are these individuals affected? Like there are things that affect me and to an extent, but they do affect. Or I'm related towards, I don't know what you're saying. Could you, um, could you reword it for me please? Sorry. Uh, Jake Bolin asks, uh, got diagnosed with autism too. Uh, why is autism hard to cope with? I think, I think of autism as not being something that you have to cope with. It's, um, it's more of an existence that makes coping of other people extremely hard. Or other things. You know, plonkers in a room with full control over our environment. And what we do, we tend to be pretty good. Um, it's just outside stuff tends to, tends to be difficulties sometimes. And it doesn't help that not a lot of people understand it. And even if they do understand it, it's a very sort of myopic kind of very very glossed over view of what autism is from some organizations that they've heard it from or from like mainstream media. So it's, there's a, there's a lot of aspects to it. You know, um, I used, I used to think that way about autism when I, when I was younger. You know, I was like, I want, I wish I could take it away. Wish I could get rid of it. Um, it's, it's something that I've, I've learned a bit more about in adulthood. And, you know, it's a, it's a lot more nuanced than social and sensory difficulties. You know, um, so it's, it's, I suppose, you know, overall in terms of wellbeing, you could look in a lot of different places to look at sensory stuff. You could look at different types of communication. Um, you could make adjustments to your environment. You could, um, put adjustments in at work. If that's something that you feel like, would get, like it wouldn't get you fired because I know for some, some cases people have done that and got fired. So always be wary of that. Um, and there's a lot of ways that you could, you can do. I think one of the best resources that you can have is going on to Instagram and following a bunch of hashtag actually autistic people. That tends to be the, tends to be a really good, really good thing for a lot of people. Stanley and us, how to tell if a guy is autistic? Uh, you know, I'd probably have to meet him. I've got a pretty good sense for it.  A sixth sense. What am I doing? A sixth sense. Why am I, why don't we put in a T H on the end of it? Man, maybe I am high. Oh my God. I'm 29. Good. Adult learning too. Yeah. Autism. Like it. I did start using the spec that which I really like. But if I think I got a message from, from someone in the community and they didn't want me to use it. So I was like, okay, fair enough. Um, it's a cool word. Uh, just X F D says, how do you think if we had a friend who was an autistic family member in the household, how do, do, would they have a glossed view of how autism really is? I think if they haven't had much import from lived experienced adults, then I think that's, that could totally be the case. You know, that's, that's definitely something that happens. Um, you know, even go so far as doctors and autism specialists, you know, tends to be very glossed over myopic kind of view of what autism is. And they also have to, they also tend to have some really strange views that just are not propagated by any sort of medical literature that you can find. They're just something that they feel, you know, so you go, there's been lots of people who have got in contact about like going for an autism diagnosis. I think they've just given the absolute, this, this diagnostician has just given the absolute like craziest reason why they didn't get diagnosed. Just nothing to do with autism at all. Or telling if someone's autistic. Absolutely madness. So it's, it's very rife at the moment, you know, I don't know if rife is the right word, but as soon as we can get autism into the mainstream media, we can get this neurodiverse neurodiversity train going in society. Perhaps things will change. That is the, the, that is the dream. That is the goal. Hopefully. Could do. Always sever magic says, okay, sorry. I'm curious of how the people, not going to use that word, but autistic people are affected. Like there are things that affect me to, and to a certain extent, but at the end of the day, they do just affects me like someone with autism. I don't know if, to be honest, I don't know if it's it's my reading ability at the moment, but I'm not making much sense of words. So I apologize for that. But yeah, I might have to, to go over that a little bit. It's okay. Don't worry about the grammar. No, no issue. I just, I think it's, it's just something that's happening today. Hello from Iceland. Hello. Welcome to the stream. The aspergers are always referred to high functionals, and I kind of don't like it because people assume that we have no issues to deal with, but we do. Yeah, I'd agree with that. You know, aspergers is a term that's not going around at the moment, but it used to be, and a lot of people are diagnosed with it. It's on their medical records. But I think just in general, high functioning and low functioning labels, definitely not okay socially. I think it's really disrespectful to call someone low or high functioning because it diminishes your lived experience. If you're high functioning and it, it's, it's just a flat out insult if you're, if you call someone low functioning. I think in some cases, having some level of understanding of, you know, people's needs is, is important. But I think it's, it's very underrated just just how many things that we can struggle with in life and just how much little social support that we get from it and social understanding that we get from it. As autistic people, if, if we have that high functioning label, because people, people just label us as like weirdos or creeps or like, you know, all sorts of crazy, horrible, negative things. Just, just because we're a little bit different in the way that we communicate. And I know it's not, not so obvious to them unless we go about wearing a sunflower line, line yard all the time, which is a very good shout if you wanting people to be a bit more aware. That could be a good shout. I'm, I'm actually, I'm going to try and get someone on from the sunflower line yard scheme to talk about why they did it and how it's gone on. I think it would be really interesting. I think the term low, low support needs is better than high functioning. Yeah. Probably lower support needs. Definitely. Because that's just true, you know. And it's not, it's not related to, I guess, your overall level of functionality because, you know, I have support needs, you know, the perhaps not as high as someone who needs care 24 seven, but I definitely do have them. I think, I think it's, it's, it's good to use it in terms of giving people supports, but I definitely do think that people underrate just how difficult things can be for autistic people. Whether, whether they have low, low support needs or not. Still can be a really, really tough time and we don't get a lot of that. I guess social, social support and understanding that, that others might which can lead, can lead to us not, not getting the support and the understanding, as I said, nobody who isn't autistic, isn't an expert on autism. It's a good shout. I think it depends what, what like, what their title is because if they, if they're an expert in, I don't know, like some certain aspect of autism, then I can kind of understand to a certain extent, you're right, they don't tend to have the lived experience, which I think is incredibly important, especially now, just because there's such a massive gap between like the level of research and understanding of autism and like the experience of, as of autistic people, there's so much, there's such a big gap between those two things, and it makes it really hard to feel safe within the systems, I think. And also, and also, you know, when you're looking for support as well, you know, sometimes people can be very, very ununderstanding, they don't understand. Something that I've experienced, especially like through therapy and lots of different areas of life, you know. Marina Panfi says, yes, we can say that he or she, or them, need less support, or more support. Very true.  Right, keep it on the sheet. Just say they're autistic, like why they need for comparisons, you know, especially in a social context, it's crazy. It's something that might be useful for like education and health and social care, but social context, definitely not. Austin says, I think mental health professionals with lived experience of what they speak about or work with people are the best, yeah. I think that that's very much true.  I get that. I mean, I'm really interested in psychology. I think the primary reason why I was was because I was struggling and I didn't feel like people understood me. So it's kind of, you know, that came before I was struggling and stuff. Nick, then says, yeah, hi. Welcome to the stream Nick. Nick Haydn. Just X F F D said, can you repeat your response about my last question so I could get a hang of it. Sorry to be a bit annoyed. Could you could you post it again for me please. Could you use like the little message bubble, if he is a message bubble I can just go straight to it and say hello to you here. Welcome to the stream. Marina says I don't like when they say in my daughter that she doesn't look like she's autistic. I can understand that. Like it's another one of those things isn't it because you know what what is that? It's madness.  Like even if they have no like congruence with like what actually autism is, they just use it for like a buzz word or a meme or something. You know, and I think that that muddies the waters of what people think like autism actually is to some level. Ignoring my sport needs caused huge burnouts at 26 only just started getting my health to full stats like the terminology there. That sounds really tough. You're 29 now finally happy. Good. That's really great. I'm really glad to hear. Amaranth says both my partner and I are gifted. So we didn't get diagnosed until adulthood. That doesn't mean we don't need support quite the opposite. Yeah, and that's that's a really important point that you bring up because one of the main things that was the take away from the podcast that I did with my mom is a really good episode if you haven't seen it already. We kind of went into my my life throughout the years when I was a kid and teenager and stuff. And what yeah, one of the things that came out of that was that school basically didn't do anything for me socially or emotionally because I was doing well academically or I was doing well in certain areas and that's kind of for a lot of people that can be a story that they have because school measure how well you're doing just based on your academics and whether you get into trouble or not not about how well you're socializing with people and how well you're coping emotionally with the school environment. That's another thing. I think that comes under the issue around the high low functioning stuff because you know they just undermine the level of support and level of help that you need even during the education system. Bless my dad for allowing me that support. Yeah, family can be really important really, really important. Jacque Jacque says have you ever had any negative reactions in attempting romantic relationships? Example complaints that they felt uncomfortable when talking to them? Yeah, definitely. Of course. I don't know if it's more than most people. I think I've had pretty good interactions with people. The thing is I don't tend to interact with people. People tend to interact with me because I just struggle starting conversations with people but once I'm in the flow of it and I'm getting to know somebody I don't know much of an issue because I'm very open and I communicate a lot about the ways that I'm different and it's sometimes it puts people off sometimes it's a curiosity and it kind of leads in something else but you know I think I've very varied I think, like a lot of people I don't think being autistic has been a barrier for me because for a lot of people they just don't understand it they don't understand it and if you're in a situation where you're with someone and you say that you're autistic and they go, oh no and they run away, well then screw them but if they stick by and they ask you questions they'll quickly learn that it's not this thing that they've really understood from life and through mainstream media it's something that's actually a lot more nuanced and different than what they expected I guess you're good at making you think that I'm functioning yeah not got on positive syndrome either that's good styling says I love being autistic I'd relate I'd relate it used to feel like a barrier but now it makes sense to me right I'll get to this question in the bubble I'll answer this question because I promise that I would and then we'll try and round up if you guys are on YouTube, if you've got any questions send them I'll try and answer a couple before we end the stream but I've got to go talk to go from Planet ASP to set up that discord stuff at some point so just XFD asks how if we have a friend who's not autistic but have an autistic family member in his or her okay so they're not autistic but they have a family member who's autistic would they have a glossed over view about how awesome really is or would they have a deeper understanding or empathy towards us as autistic it's very hard to know you know I think most people don't really understand it even if they perhaps know someone who's autistic it's not always like an easily like a list of things like whether they've seen I don't know some autism show or they've seen they know an autistic person it's not always the case that they're really in the know about things they can often have some very strange beliefs or assumptions about what autism is you know it could be that they perhaps understand it a bit more and they understand how to like interact with us or I guess how we work a bit more on a social level so it could be something that you know it could be a green flag for understanding autism but I think the world has a long way to go in a lot of areas of life you know so I hope that answers your question Austin says I'm a discord admin for a fitness mental health sub so would be willing to help out with the discord things if needed very cool I will mention that when I go and chat to them but anyway I hope you have enjoyed the stream so far and it's been really nice chat to you all talk about autism, talk about life really really appreciate it thank you to you all on YouTube for dropping a like on the video that really helps me out if you have enjoyed it make sure to give me a follow if you're on Insta or give a subscribe if you're on YouTube and check out the podcast you might find out that you like it so I understand if it's a little bit too much but I do have some shorter clips on my channel that are a lot more digestible and focus towards one topic and make sure to keep an eye out for the discord group community thing so you can get signed up to that and we can get on chatting in the community group it's going to be really exciting awesome getting lots of lovely messages in the Instagram chat alrighty, I'll see you later YouTube bye guys and Instagram


The next major geometric topic is the topic of angles. So we'll introduce them in the following way. If I have two straight lines intersected a point, then what I form with those two straight lines are a set of angles. And the point of intersection of those lines is going to be what we call the vertex of the angle. And if you want to measure what the angle is, what we're going to do for that is we're going to measure it by the rotation of what we can think about as a direction arrow. So for example, consider two straight lines like this. And so now I have two straight lines. They're intersecting at a point that's going to be by vertex of the angle. And now I've created one, two, three, four distinct regions formed by the intersection of those two lines. And each of these regions is going to be an angle. All right, so let's try to measure one of these angles. Let's go ahead and measure this angle. And so what we'll do is we'll take a direction arrow and note that our direction arrow is initially pointing in the direction of this line. And the line points in two directions. It points this way. It could also point this way. But if we want to measure this angle here, we're going to start off by having the direction arrow point along the direction of one leg of this angle that's formed by the two line. Also notice one of the useful feature here. It's not really required, but it does make things a lot easier if we have one end of the direction arrow. So in this case, we have the end of the arrow at the vertex. And the tip of the arrow is going to be someplace along that line. We don't need that to happen, but it makes our lives a lot easier. Because what we're going to then do at this point is we're going to rotate that direction arrow so that it measures out the angle. And again, the amount of rotation is going to correspond to how much we have what the angle measure is going to be. So again, I'll do that rotation. So I'm going to rotate that direction arrow so that it includes all of the angle there. And if you want to, if you imagine there's a crowd of people out here where that direction arrow is pointing, everybody in the crowd is going to be pointed to at some point along that rotation. So there's our measure of the angle. However much we've rotated. Now we can consider a special case. Imagine that I have two straight lines meeting in such a way that all four angles that you form are equal. In that particular case, then we say that the two lines are perpendicular and the angles that we form are right angles. So for example, here I have two straight lines. They intersect at a point. Again, one, two, three, four regions, all of which are angles. And if it happens that these are, in some sense, equal, then what I have when the two lines meet is the two lines are perpendicular and the angles that we obtain are right angles. So the natural question we want to ask is, well, how big is one of these right angles? Well, let's consider what our rotations look like. So again, the measure of an angle is going to be based on how much of a rotation a direction arrow will make. So let's go ahead and put that direction arrow down there. And so this time I'm going to rotate that. And let's rotate that all the way around. So there's one complete rotation. And if I measure all four of those angles, then I've got to go through one complete turn. Now, this is actually going to be true for any pair of intersecting lines. What makes the case of a right angle different is that if we have a right angle, all four of those angles that we've just measured have the same measure. So if all four of those angles are equal, then all four of the angles are right angles. And so that means that if these are in fact equal, since I have a full turn that's distributed among four pieces, then each of these must represent one quarter of a full turn. So each of those right angles is a quarter turn, a quarter rotation of our direction arrow. Now that's worth keeping in mind. The natural unit of rotation is a turn. We can do a full turn. We can do a half turn. We know what these mean. They don't really require that much in the way of explanation. Somebody who has no idea what an angle is, you can still describe the idea of measuring a rotation turn halfway around. And so this is a very natural unit of rotation. The problem is that as an actual measure, it's a little bit too large for practical purposes. So we have to break the full turn up into smaller pieces. And so one very common way of doing that is to use the degree measurement. And that takes our full turn and breaks it up into 360 degrees. So 360 degrees corresponds to one full turn, which we can either take clockwise or counterclockwise. That would be part of the directions for how to do the turn. Now that's a fairly common unit, but there's a second unit that's actually more useful, and that's the radian. And the idea behind the radian measure is that again, I'm going to take my natural unit of rotation, the full turn, and I'm going to break that into a number of smaller units. And in this particular case, I'm going to break that into two pi radians. Well, the important thing here is that you know how much a full turn is. You can visualize what a full turn is. And if I break it into 360 degrees, or if I break it into two pi radians, it's easy to convert back from turns into degrees or into radians. So for example, a half turn, I'm going to go halfway around. Well, that's going to be half of 360 degrees. That's 180. Or maybe I want to express that in radians because it's a better unit. So it's going to be half of two pi radians, and that's just going to be a pi radians. Or maybe I could take a quarter turn. So again, remember our right angles. Those were all quarter turns. So how much is a quarter turn? Well, it's a quarter of 360 degrees. So it's 90 degrees. Or it's a quarter of two pi radians. It's going to be pi over two radians. And in general, we can find any angular measure that you want as long as you remember this equivalence. One full turn is identical to is equivalent to 360 degrees, is equivalent to two pi radians. And all of these things mean exactly the same thing, the natural unit of rotation, the best unit of rotation, and the one that we see most commonly.


Welcome back Jeff Frick here with Silicon Angle. We go out to the events. We extract the signal from the noise We try to get the smartest people we can find bring them on air ask them the questions that you wish that you could ask them if you were here again We're at the Accelerator corporate offices in Mountain View, California for their enterprise platform launch And we've already talked to some of the executives But now we want to talk some of the partners who are out in the field So I have with me a shoe goal the CEO of wind wire welcome to the queue Thank you Jeff appreciate it. So let's talk about you said your your company specializes in collaboration and analytics But here you're at kind of a mobile application development platform launch So tell us a little bit more about the company and then tell us how collaboration analytics ties into what's going on in mobile Absolutely Jeff would be delighted to In fact, it's very interesting our whole mission as an organization is what we call making information actionable We've been working at it for around six years Developing collaborative and analytics solution for mid to large size enterprises Most of the work that we have done in the past has been around web But one of the common things is people collaborate no matter where they are And and they are on the move a lot similarly people need Information at the point of making a decision Not only when they are sitting in their office and have access to a laptop that is connected And so mobile has become a huge factor in making information actionable for us And that's the reason we are really excited about platform launch with the accelerator So talk a little bit about mobile first. I mean I always joke. I've got teenage kids and you know First of all, they don't do email And to the mobile never I mean I my mobile with me pretty much all the time But they have it with them all the time so talk a little bit about how kind of a mobile first strategy is changing the world and also kind of the big data and analytics impact of Getting data from these devices versus how it's traditionally been gathered via, you know desktops Absolutely be more than happy to so one of the things if you really think about what's going on in the environment today is In the traditional enterprise we used to build a lot of large monolithic applications to solve problems That word is completely changed now and it's very good example If you really take a look at your phone on an average, you've got, you know, 70 80 different micro apps If you want to check weather you don't go to Dub dub dub dot weather dot com today You just go to your weather app and and you have immediate information availability That's what's going on in the enterprises to people who are on the move are looking for these Applications that deliver information to them just the right amount as the at the time when they need it And as a result the demand for developing apps Have increased significantly When you're on the go Whether you look at it, you know from a big data perspective at the end of the day the crunching of the data That's going on in the background needs to deliver some actionable information For the execs or the person out in the field to use and I think that's really what we are seeing with the mobile Most organizations have realized that it's a comparative advantage issue They have to innovate they have to Deliver more value to their customers out in the marketplace and and that's really we are seeing a huge Uptick in in thinking about mobile first if not mobile only in many of the scenarios and our belief is that moving forward Majority of the new application development is going to be mobile first if not mobile only Great, so we've got we're getting back to be a lot of great guests lined up So we're going to cut it short, but I'm going to give you one more question. Talk about again We have a lot of CIO's a watch. Where should they start? How do they start? You know, they know they need to start they want to do it They're being told they can't just move their desktop apps into mobile You know, what is the best way for for someone to get started on this mobile path? I Think the best way and for most of the CIOs is to really take a look at their application portfolio Not every application needs to be mobilized I think you need to look at the applications that have the highest business impact and you need to really focus on Mobilizing them first before moving on to rest of the the applications So start small and then move really fast is is really the way to go Great. All right a sheet. Thanks for coming on and providing a little insight again We're at accelerator Mountain View, California at the enterprise platform launch. We've got a few more guests lines up We'll be right back on the Cube