If you want to monitor the system performance of your Mac, then I've got a great little app that you're gonna want to know about. Hello, welcome to Take One Tech, my name's Alec. And today we're talking about another one of these apps that I have been using for absolutely ages. I think well over a decade at this point, it's called iStatMenus and it sits up in your menu bar of your Mac. And it basically, it's like a little dashboard really that keeps you up to date of all the system performance metrics of your Mac and you can add in and subtract whichever ones you care to work to use. But it really does cover a huge range of things. So it's things like your hard disk space, your RAM usage, your CPU usage, the temperature on various different parts of your Mac, the fan speeds of your Mac, if you've got a Mac with fans. It also measures the bandwidth, your upload, download, things like that, read, write to disks, all sorts, networks, statistics, the list goes on. So it really is a great little app and I'll just show you quickly how it looks. So it sits up here in the menu bar, as I mentioned, and here it is right up in the top. And we've got some little charts, we've got some information there about usage. If you can't quite see that, I did take a little handy snapshot, there you go. So like for example here, I've got my CPU usage and this is showing the graph over time. So this is actually moves over time. Here I've got the little bar chart showing the CPU usage across eight of the, well, across all eight cores of the CPU. Next we've got the overall CPU usage as a percentage of the maximum. And then we've got my SSD, we've got the used space, the free space, we've got the memory. So this is read, write, sorry, memory usage. So we've got the used and the free space. And then also this is the network statistics. So the bandwidth and how much upload and download speed is being used, not available, but being used. And so this just sits up in this top bar, as I say. There are other aspects that you can add in. So we'll come on to that shortly. But first I need to tell you actually where you can get this from. So this is part of the SetApp bundle. And the SetApp bundle is basically a collection of over 200 apps and you pay just one monthly fee of $9.99 a month. And for that, you basically get access to all of these great apps. And as I say, I've been using this one in particular, iStap menus for years and years, just paying it for every upgrade. Every time a new one came out, I paid for the new one. With SetApp, it is now part of that bundle. And so you can just basically get upgrades for as long as they keep making them. They'll come out and you'll just always have the latest version. And that goes for all of the other great apps as well.  And if you use that link, you'll be able to get the free trial just like everybody else. But if you sign up, you will also get a free month added onto your subscription. And I also will get a free month. So that is how the affiliate system works. It's as simple as that. We both get a free month and everybody's happy. So it's definitely worth checking out, even if you don't carry on after the free trial because there's loads of great stuff in there. And by the way, I've already made a few videos about SetApp apps and how we're making a few more. So there might be a few more that you're interested in as well. Anyway, let's get back to it. And let me show you, by the way, this is one of these ones. Once you install it, it is rooted right into the system because it's giving you all of the detailed information sort of behind the scenes of your Mac. So you will have to go through that process when you install it or where it will say, give us access to your computer by going into the security and privacy section of your system preferences. But it will tell you all about how to do that, but just don't be alarmed if it asks for that permission. So let me show you in practice how it actually works on my desktop. So here we go. We've got the items just up at the top here. So I'll start with this one. This is the CPU section. And you can see it says CPU. This might be a bit small at the moment, but it'll get a bit bigger in a moment. Then we've got the hard drive space or the SSD, then the memory and then the network. Now, if I click on any one of these, it will expand to give us more information. So there we go. Now we've got this extra panel that's popped out. And as you can see, if I go over any of this information, it pops out even more detail. So here we've got a little chart of the CPU usage. And this is basically mapping it over time. So if we watch this for a moment, it does actually move. It is a live chart updating every second or so every couple of seconds. And then we've also got here, this represents the eight cores of the processor. And you can see which one is being used. And also it gives you a breakdown of which is being used by the system or the user or which parts are idle. So that is just what's represented by those bar charts. It also tells you as a percentage of the total how much is being currently used. And that is the figure that is reflected in here. So here we've got 19, 20% by the user, 21% by the system. So that was about 41% a minute ago. So that is what that is. But it also tells you the processes. And so here you can see the processes. Now, a little bit different here. These figures are actually stated as percentage of total core usage. So 100% on here is basically using one core. So we can see the e-cam live that I'm using to make these videos is basically using 100, is basically using one core of the processor. And then you can see which other applications are currently using what amount of processor. Next, we've got Apple's memory. So that's the built-in memory on the chip of the processor. Frames per second, which I believe is the refresh rate of the data might be wrong about that one actually. Now that I've come to mention it, but let's move on, shall we? And just assume that I know exactly what that is. The next is the load average. So how much load is being put on the processor over time. And again, this is a chart. And by the way, you can see you've got days and hours and so on. So I can come back here and see what was my processor usage over the past 24 hours. I must have had an afternoon nap there, look at that. I don't know what happened there. Then we've got over seven days, 30 days and so on. So it's really quite a lot of information if you want to go to that level. You've also got the same information of CPU down to the core level as well. We've got a lazy core there, not doing as much work as the others. And then we've got down at the bottom, it tells us our uptime here. So how long the computer's been on for, awake and sleeping and so on. And down here at the bottom, we've got some shortcuts to some of the Apple built in sort of technical apps, I suppose you'd call them. So we've got here, we've got activity monitor. This one is the terminal, no it's not. This one is the console, I should say, which is basically where you can run diagnostics and things like that. This one is the terminal. And then the other one is basically the system information that you'd get. Like if you went up to the top corner of the Apple menu in the menu bar and wanted to get the system information. In fact, let me just quickly show you. It's this one, the one that tells you about all your different hardware and software settings basically over your Mac. And the console is this one, which basically allows you to run crash reports, log reports, diagnostics and all that sort of stuff. But I won't complicate this at the moment because we probably don't need to look at that just at the moment. So then there's also a little uninstall link but we'll skip that one as well. Next, if I go into the memory, you can see that, oh sorry, the disk usage. You can see that I've got my Xtreme Pro SSD a hard drive there or external drive. And you can see how much space is currently free on it. Then I've got my Mac hard drive and then I've also got HP, HP, HP passport. So that's that one and that's how much is free on it. And you can also see the processes and this is R and W for read, write. So you can see which ones are currently reading and writing to the hard drive. And again, you've just got these shortcuts to the Mac system apps as well. This one over here by the way is the preferences for iStat menus itself but we'll come to that one in a moment. Next, I've got my memory. So this is the RAM. And here you can see basically the memory usage. So the app memory usage, wired, compressed and cached memory. And then also you've got some other. So this is how much strain is being put on it basically and this is the actual memory. And then the processes in terms of which applications are using it. Look at that, I haven't quit Dropbox. I normally quit Dropbox before I do any recordings but I must have forgotten. That's terrible, isn't it? But anyway, and creative cloud. Oh dear, that is a double strike against me. That is having Dropbox and creative cloud running when I'm recording. Terrible, terrible.  So that is basically you can see, look, e-cam live using 4.6 gigabytes. And then these are not really using too much actually as it goes. So next is the swap main memory. So that's basically where you have a sort of an actual file that is used for storing information in very rough terms. And then this is basically sort of how much information has been passed in and out of the memory as well. And like I say, you've always got these charts that show you the sort of load over time and how much usage has been over time. Next we've got the network and here you can see the network, the wifi and the sort of upload, up and down. Upload and download. And then also the different links here. So ethernet, Bluetooth, Thunderbolt bridge, iPhone and then also the processes and what the upload and download is from those. Now that's all I've actually got up there at the moment but if I come into the preferences by clicking on this one of course it's opened somewhere else on the screen. One second, there we go, this is it. So this is basically where we can set some settings. So you can change all of the different things that we're gonna include. Now we've got some global settings here first of all and this is where we can set things like the color. So I've just got blue. So you can see how these are sort of a blue color. Now the next thing we can do is we've also got help and things like that obviously in here. And then you've also got the light and dark menu bar modes. You can have those styled separately if you want but I don't because I'm always in dark mode because for me that's the only mode but I know there are other opinions that are available on that one. So here you can change basically the menu bar color and also the color of the dropdown. So if I wanted them piercing white like this it's just a bit too much for my eyes that is. So I'll keep them as the dark like that or you could have them even more opaque and black but these ones are just sort of semi-transparent. Next we come on to notifications. So you can include, you see these are things that I don't actually use but you can show alerts for things like weather forecast, daylight saving change, battery time remaining and so on. So when you've got 10 minutes left but I'm on the Mac mini at the moment so I don't have to worry about battery so I don't have these active. Next, so I can toggle that one off. Next we've got the weather again. I don't actually have the weather in here but because it's always sunny here in Thailand. If it's not sunny it's raining momentarily so there's little point having it. But the weather you can actually have that on and if I just toggle that on then what will happen is you can see what's the particular thing that I've got here active. So basically when you're setting up all of these things you have active items, so that says active items and down here you have inactive items and basically you can just drag whichever ones of these you want up into here to make them active in the actual bar above so you can change which ones of those you want. You can also change the location so you can specify a specific location. I suppose we're gonna have the weather where somewhere where I know it's bad weather so that I can see how bad it is in a specific location but you're just basically adding these all in here. You can change things like the time, time format, 24 hour or 12 hour, the wind, speed, the all this sort of stuff, visibility whether you want it in kilometers or miles. The source of it so either acu-weather, dark sky or wherever you want to get your weather from. The size of the display and the temperature whether you want it in Fahrenheit or centigrade. The pressure, how you want that measured and the rain or snowfall whether you want that measured in millimeters and centimeters or in inches. I don't think I need to worry about inches of snowfall here in the north of Thailand but anyway. So that is how you would add that in. Next we've got CPU usage which is something that I do have and basically here you've got a few other options from in terms of the views. You can see that as I'm changing these it's actually changing it up here as well. So if I just move this one over here it's just rearranging my charts. So the other things that you can add in here is we've got the, currently we've got the graph and we've got also a bar chart which shows the CPU usage of or the usage of the cores of the CPU and then you've got other things like the load average. You could have this expressed as a pie chart. So a pie chart express showing you the percentage of the usage in that way as well. You've also got the GPU. So if you've got a separate GPU you can have that up there to show you the usage of that one. You can add a little space in as well. And then you've also got this app usage format. So Unix style is between zero and 800%. That's basically where I was telling you about the where we're looking at the app usage and it tells you the percentage of a single core. So you can actually change that so that it's basically instead would be showing you the percentage overall but I do leave it like that as the default just so that it gives me an idea of how much of a single core that they are using. And then the next is the processes to show. So if you remember when I click in this thing here we've got these five processes that show basically the top five but I could show the top 15 if I want and then it would list the top 15 as well. So that's just up to you whether you want to, how many you want to have on that. So then the next one, oh, by the way I should say that there is a hotkeys for all of these as well. So if you want to toggle a hotkey to just drop down these I don't tend to have a hotkey for this to be honest because really I just use it as a visual in the top but it's only when there's a problem occasionally I will go and look at the dropdown to see what's going on but you can edit and add a hotkey for just that particular one. So you'd press the hotkey and this menu would drop down. That's basically what that would do. And then you can also edit the actual dropdown itself. So here you go. We've got all these different sections. So if I wanted to rearrange these you can see how much, what's the word now? I think my mind's gone completely blank. How you can customize it how much customization there is available. You know, you can organize these exactly as you want and rearrange everything. And you can change the graph colors and all sorts in specifically in the dropdown as well. So I'll just click on save for that one. So that's where you edit the dropdown. Next one we'll look at is the memory and very similar. It almost didn't notice the change there but very similar. It's the same format. You can change the number of processes to show. You can change the format of the app usage statistics and then we can add a hotkey. We've got a few other things here. So this is the memory, the sort of read write I suppose of it and you can change the you can also have a chart here to show how the memory's changed over time. I'm not so bothered about that one in the same way that I am with the CPU. I like to see what's happened over time with that. But the RAM, I just tend to leave that one just to see the maximum that it is at the moment. But you can also change add some extra things in here as well. And you can also edit the dropdown and you can also edit the hotkey just as you could with the processor. Next disk space. So this is going to be very familiar again. Same format, different ways of expressing it. You can have the sort of read write of the disk and you can add that in as a little chart as well to see how that's changed over time. And then you can also basically have different ways of measuring the activity on a per-d disk basis. You can also change the graph type that we've got in here. And then also the processes to show just like before if I put that on to a higher number then basically when I click in the disks it's basically got this here as well. So that is, sorry, I've just clicked in completely the wrong one, that way around. There you go, there's the 10 processes. Now, the disks to show in the menu bar, so this shows specifically my max hard disk so that is here, so that is this one. Now actually I have added this one since I've set this up so I will move this one up there. And now basically I can see my Extreme Pro up there as well. And you could also add some of these other ones. So I've also got this other one but that's just for a temporary backup. So I'll leave that one out for now. Next we've got the network and it's the same sort of deal in here. You can add in some of these other informations. Informations, some of this other information. My language is going totally off the rails today. Same deal with the hockey and so on. And then you can also look at basically whether you want the primary thing that you're looking at in terms of network activity to be ethernet, wifi or whatever. And the format, either kilobits or megabits or so on. The decimals, so how to treat those whether you want one decimal place or multiples and the processes again, I'm just gonna pump these up so I can see a few more manage IP addresses so you can do some work here with showing the IP address or the secondary address and so on. So that is basically what we've got in the network. Now the sensors, I don't actually have this on for this one because I'm not as bothered about, not bothered, but I'm not so worried about my heat and things like that on this new Mac mini like I was with my laptop previously, my MacBook Pro. Did used to, the fans used to kick in and it used to get quite hot. So here you've basically got sensors where you can look at the fan speed, you've got the temperature, you've got fans and you can set the temperature. So let me just say, see what this is. So this is saying, but let me toggle this one on for a moment. This one is saying the temperature of the particular sensor, but look at all these different sensors. So we've got the Apple neural engine, the CPU efficiency cores, CPU performance cores, GPUs and so on and so forth. So you can really, they're hard drive. So it's got temperature sensors on all of these different locations and you can actually see how hot things are getting. And I've got to say with my MacBook Pro, seeing some of these temperatures getting up to close to 100, it did make me think that's getting quite hot. And there's also fans as well. So obviously there isn't fans on this Mac Mini or at least not particularly active, but on the MacBook Pro, I could see the speed.  Next, we've got the battery and again, this doesn't have a battery but you can add in things like the battery for your AirPods, for any other Bluetooth devices things like that. And so those can all sit up in the menu bar if you want. So you've got these different symbols for different devices, your iPods and so on. And it'll tell you sort of time remaining and charge as well. So you can add all of that in. So that is quite useful to see the charge of your different devices. But like you can see, there's nothing actually to show here because I don't have any batteries currently plugged in. There's also time as well. So you can edit the, have a custom clock from here where you can change the format. So if you want to take out the default Mac clock you can take that out and then you can change things and put like multiple time zones, things like that. So here you go. We've got world clocks. So we could put the clock in different locations and add those in. And then you can also show other things like events, weeks, the week of the year, things like that. And so you can add that in and it will put in you can request calendar access and it can put your little events. So if you want those sorts of things up in your menu bar then you can do that from here. Personally, I don't want all of that clutter in my menu bar and I've got a nice big clock on top of my monitor. So I actually just minimized even the system clock to as small as it could be just this little tiny analog clock in the corner. So then this is the last sort of major section of it but there is also this combined drop down where if you want to just combine a whole series of different things into one drop down then you can combine these all together and add things like GPU memory discs and so on. And then it'll just be one drop down that's got everything in. If you maybe have got a little bit short for space in your menu bar, then that is a great way to go about it. So that is iStat Menus in a nutshell and that's what it does. It is a really great little application to have just to be able to glance up and see what's going on especially now that I'm doing recording and live streaming this became all the more critical especially on my old Mac to be able to just look and see what the system was doing and if I was close to having a complete system failure or not fortunately on the Mac mini these things haven't been such an issue but it's still nice to be able to have this visual on what is going on on my Mac. And so as I say part of the set that bundle definitely download it from there and give it a go at takeonetech.io slash set up. And if you are using it or you have used it or you've got any comments or questions about it in particular, then don't forget to leave those down below in the comments section and also like and subscribe and share it with friends and family at this video. And don't go anywhere though because there is plenty more videos coming up next specifically out of the set up bundle and those will be in a playlist at the bottom right. So until next time, have a great day.


I got my master's degree after I came back and I could kind of personally re-evaluate what I'd been through, but for a 19-20 year old boy that's plunked back into society I think we can now realize how tough it is with the PTSD that so many of these men have and trying to, I mean they've lost all of their innocence, man. For some of them the program is gone, they can't reprogram and they need some really professional help to get them back and after they've been in this state for so many years, I mean I've been back for 48 years now and can you get that back? I hope so and I hope that whoever sees this, if you need help, that you'll go for help because I finally did after I had retired from my teaching. I was a workaholic up to then so I didn't think so much about what I'd seen and didn't revisit it too much.


Are real estate transactions down in your market? If so, you're not the only one. Today, we're going to talk about what I'm doing to adjust my game plan through this shifting market and a few things to help you get better price listings. Back to my channel, I'm Ricky Caruth, the only free real estate coach who still sells real estate. Today, we're going to be talking about this market shift that we're in. And everybody is not experiencing this same market shift. I talk to agents in certain areas where they put a listing on the market, they're getting three or four offers, some properties are selling for more than full price. And that's actually happening in my market, too, with certain price ranges and certain properties, but not all properties. And if you look at the condos in my market, we're down 20% transactions year over year. If you look at houses a little bit north of where I'm at in Foley, Alabama, transactions are about the same. So it depends on where you are and what's going on, but the market is somewhat flattening and losing a little bit of steam. And there's a couple of reasons for it. We've had increases every single year in my market at least for the last six years. Higher transactions, higher prices. So it's been a really incredible run. With interest rates finally creeping up, in my market at least what we've experienced is, is that last year, 2017, was the year that everybody wanted to get in before prices got up and interest rates got up. That was the year of the frenzy. That was the real boom year for us. This year is the hangover year of that year where most everybody has already bought and now the people that are left buying, there just isn't as many buyers in the market for my product, which my specialty is Gulffront condos. So how am I handling this changing market? So January started out really good. You know, didn't really notice any changes there. February, we started to notice that things were a little slower year over year. March, we really experienced a lot of slowdown compared to last year. And that's when I really started to take a close look at the situation and try to dissect what was going on in the market and what I could do to capitalize on the situation. You see the mark of a high producer is an agent who is constantly paying attention to the market, trying to figure out what's going on because the market changes all the time. It can be going up, down, sideways, more transactions, less transactions. You have to pay attention to the overall general picture of the market so that you can adjust your game plan accordingly. This was a big lesson that I learned in 2008 when the market crashed and lost everything. So I'm speaking from experience here. You have to go with the flow of the market. There's always closings. Closings are happening every single day, regardless of what the market's doing. So it's just up to you to adjust your game plan of how you're approaching people, how you're talking people. What exactly are you doing differently to flow with the market instead of doing the same exact things over and over and over again through every market? That's where I feel that you have a lot of agents who don't make it or don't succeed because they try to do this cookie cutter system, regardless of what the market's doing, and it just doesn't work. In every single scenario, in every market, you have to make adjustments and you have to figure out what's working and what's not working. So by mid-April, early May this year, I finally cracked the code and figured out exactly what to do in this changing market to continue the momentum that I need to continue making my million dollars a year as a single agent. And the answer was to price listings right on the money. For the past six years, you could price listings 5% higher than the last sale. 5% higher, 5% higher, 5% higher, and that strategy would work, those listings would sell. This year, if you price it 5% higher, you get zero activity. I'm finding properties where I'm pricing them where I think they need to be priced and I'm getting one or two showings a month. And so that just, the market doesn't lie, the market tells you where you need to be price wise to move properties. And it's up to you to inform the seller, let them know exactly the situation so that they can make a decision that's best for them. Maybe they want to just write it out and leave it where it is and have very little interest. Maybe they really want to sell so they need to lower it down where it needs to be. So here's how I cracked the code. I realized that to sell these listings, I needed to price them right on the money, not 5% higher. They need to be right at or a little under than that last sale. So how am I doing this? How am I convincing the seller that they need to price their property right at or a little lower than the last sale? Especially when all they're hearing about is how well the market's doing and how it's blowing up and it's on fire and everything's higher. Well, is it? The market does not lie to us. So when I'm going on my listing appointments now, what I'm doing is the same thing I'll always do. I bring the comps and I bring all the stuff that I bring to my listing appointments and I'm explaining to the seller, look, this is where you want to price your property at and your neighbor is priced at that same price and they've been on the market for 200 days. Do you want to be on the market for 200 days? And the answer is always no. I do not want to be on the market for 200 days. So that gives me the opportunity to say, okay, this is where you need to be priced if you want to move this property. You see, the market has given us all kinds of evidence and all kinds of indicators that we can show the sellers that this is why we need to price your property or I'm telling you we need to price it. Also, the sellers that are pricing the property where I'm telling them to price it at are selling very quickly. I sold one last week in three days. I sold one the week before in a day. And people that are pricing their property a little bit higher than what I'm saying aren't hardly getting any showing. So there's a lot of evidence out there that is proving my point and helping me educate the sellers on exactly where the market is. And then I just let them decide. It's up to them. How motivated are they? Why do they want to sell? Remember my magic questions in my book, List to Last. It's always about why they want to sell. It doesn't matter where the fact that they want to sell. It's what's the reason? What's going on in their life that is causing this decision for them to sell this property. That's what you need to find out. Why they're wanting to sell. Once you find out exactly why, then you can truly help them by advising them and consulting them through the market. This is why technology hasn't replaced real estate agents. The voice to voice, the consultation, the ever-changing market. So I don't know if your market is like my market where transactions are down. I don't know if it's coming for you but sooner or later there's gonna be a time where in your market transactions flatten out, transactions go down, prices go down, so on and so forth. And I want you to be 100% prepared. I want you to know how to handle all of these different markets. That's my goal. I'm gonna help you guys through all these markets. When the market crashes, I'm gonna be the guy to come to to say, "'Ricky, what do I do here? "'What do I do there?' And I'm gonna consult you and advise you and help you through those markets as real estate agents and we're gonna help reduce the failure rate by not having so many real estate agents get out of the market when we do have that big recession or that big market crash.' So key point number one is, is always watch the market. Pay attention to your transactions, prices, what's going on in the market. As you see things change, key point number two is, is to adapt and adjust your game plan accordingly and figure out what that hack is. You know, crack the code, figure it out and then go all in. Key point number three is, is to always talk to 20 to 30 new property owners every day and be the hardest worker in the room. So I hope this video helps you if transactions are down in your market this year. If not, I hope this video helps you when transactions do decline in your market. Click subscribe and hit the bell. Reach out if there's anything in the world I can do for you. We'll talk to you guys soon.


Have you seen the viral lasagna ramen noodles? I just made them. Check it out. First step, we want to carefully open our ramen noodle packets and don't break the biscuits. Remove the biscuit and set your chicken flavor to the side. Well, we're gonna throw those in the trash and replace it with the Danos original. So we simply pop the top and we're gonna put a heavy coating. I probably just saved your body about 2,000 milligrams of sodium. Right here we have a mix of Monterey Jack and White Cheddar. Next, you need 32 ounces of pasta sauce. Now it says you need heavy whipping cream. Now we need some pepperonis. Mozzarella cheese on top. You know we gotta hit it with the cheese thing. That's the cream top. All right, it's been 50 minutes. I must say it looks bomb. All right, that's 10 times better than I thought it was ever gonna be. Yum yum, get you some. We'll see you next time.


Hello everybody, sorry for the mic tap on YouTube. Didn't realize that it was switched on. How are you guys doing today? It's been quite a chill week for me, not gonna lie. I haven't really been doing very very much of anything. I didn't really talk about it much in my social media this time, but I had a bit of a dip this week. So I've been trying to take a little bit of a step back, take some time to chill. It's also very very... I'm also quite in an excited mood because for any of you who don't know I do play a game called Rinscape and they've recently released this kind of limited game mode which I've just been chilling, playing in the evenings. It's been pretty fun, it's called Leagues. And after we do this weekly Q&A that I usually do, where we talk about autism, mental health and stuff, I will be going live to stream some of that at some point, so it's gonna be kind of an opportunity to kind of sit back and chill on a Friday evening but also perhaps talk about some autism related things. Hello Angela, it's nice to see you, hope you're doing well too. Dr. Melody Garcia says your content is very helpful, thank you very much. So if you guys haven't been to one of these live streams before, it's basically hinged on the questions that you guys have for me. If you have anything that's burning questions about autism, mental health, self-improvement, fitness that you want to ask me, this is the place to do it. And I do go live every week to do an hour of this, so you've got me for an hour. Go ahead and ask me any questions that are on your mind. Hello Victorious Spirit, how are you doing? And Joshua G, how's it going, our hydration minder for the chat? Let's go, we're all staying hydrated with some water. I do have some beverage here, which is iced tea. Hello Miriam, how are you doing? Welcome to the stream. So I'm probably just going to chill back, I'm going to try and get some things sorted during the stream so that I can go live playing a bit of Reanscape later. Probably going to want my drinking. It is a sneak sort of powder. It's like an energy drink basically, but it's in powdered form. And I do talk about it a lot and I'm not sponsored by them. I would love to be, but the reason why I drink it is because the meds that I'm on are quite sedative and so I feel quite sleepy during the day. So getting some caffeine in is helpful for me to be semi-productive in my sedated state. But also it's got alfionine in which is a natural compound that you can find in green tea. And it really helps with reducing the jitters and anxiety that you can feel from that. Fagi, how are you doing? Welcome back. Hello, Dean. Hello. Angela says it's been a stressful week. Happy it's the weekend so I can recharge myself. Indeed, indeed. I actually do have something exciting that's going on on the weekend. I did a podcast with a content creator, a music artist called No Tricks. We were talking about dissociative identity disorder. It was a really, really interesting podcast if you haven't seen it already. Basically they're coming to the UK to do a tour. Them and the neurodivergent crew. So I'm going to be going to see them in Manchester on the weekends. They gave me some VIP backstage tickets so I'm quite excited. I don't usually go to concerts because I do find it to be quite overwhelming a lot of the time. But I do enjoy the music. The amount of people in my vicinity. I can find that a little bit too hard sometimes. So it should be really cool. It should be really fun. Always have a magic society answer. I hope you're feeling well and are well. I'm not doing too bad. Thank you very much. So yeah, please go ahead. Ask some questions. No wrong questions. If I don't like a question I just want to answer it. So don't feel like you have to moderate yourself too much. This is an open space to chat about things. Hello Miser Mill. Welcome to the stream. Hello Abbey. One, two, nine, nine, three. How are you doing? Come on guys, let's get some questions in. So we can get started. While I'm waiting for some questions I will tell you a little bit about what is to come on the stream. Usually I do some reaction videos on my streams which I will be doing either on Sunday or next Monday. But tonight we're going to be doing some runescape. This is going to be nice and fun. Playing a bit of leagues. Doing some tasks. Should be pretty fun. Nice chill way to end up the weekends. The week rather. Hi Autistic Superman. What do you listen to when you work out? Probably not something that most people would listen to. I like listening to dark trap when I work out. Or some really dark based EDM. To get pumped. Although to be honest this week I have been taking a little bit of a break off from the gym. Not really enjoying it as much as of late for some reason. I don't know why. So I thought I'd give myself my brain a little bit of a break rather than my body. I think my body could use a break as well to be honest. Because I have been going pretty hard at it. But yeah I've been listening to some quite chilled music. I think like the past couple of times I went. And the drink in it is a sneak peach iced tea flavoured. It's pretty nice. It's not the most exciting flavour in the world to have the beverages. But it's a lot easier to drink. Because a lot of the other powders that you can get are very sweet. Which is nice sometimes. But if I'm drinking 500ml of sweet drink twice a day. It can be quite a little bit too much even for me. I've got one from Dr Melody Garcia who asks How do you manage coming out from meltdowns? There's someone I love going through learning symptoms of a meltdown. But coming out of it. Yeah I assume you're talking about the time afterwards. I don't know if it's definitely like my own understanding of meltdowns. But every time I have had one that's pretty intense. I tend to have a cool down period after. Anywhere from a few hours to a couple of days. Where I can find it quite difficult to... I usually feel quite relaxed because when you go through a meltdown.  And so after that meltdown it can sometimes be quite like... Because sometimes I feel quite chill. But my brain is just not there. And the dissociation is very very sort of heavy. So I characterize it as like the meltdown hangover. Because it very much does feel like a hangover from my experience. Where sensory sensitivities can be a lot higher. Your executive function can be a little bit more lower than usual I would say. Your social battery tends to be a little bit flatter. When you come out of a meltdown. I would say that try and rest as much as possible. You don't have to do nothing. You can take a sick day or anything. But you can very drastically reduce the amount of things that you're doing afterwards. I highly recommend trying to do that. I don't know. There's not really much else that you can do. Other than sort of rest for maybe the rest of the day or the next day or something. Just to come out of it. Well, I hope that's somewhat helpful. Questions about what if I may ask. Just pop by. Questions about autism, mental health, fitness, self-improvement. Anything that you can really think of. Personal questions either. I'm happy to answer. Not all of them, of course. But some of them, sure. So go for it, yeah. Is green tea not literally green then? This is not green tea. This is peach iced tea. And it's not peach iced tea. It's actually a powdered energy drink that has peach iced flavored. That's why it's that color. Do you get jittery during the day when starting gym? Jittery during the day. I'd say that if I'm consistently going to the gym for a long period of time, it tends to reduce my anxiety in general. If it's kind of your first time going and you're finding it quite difficult, then obviously it might spark up a little cortisol spike, some adrenaline about going into sort of a new place and doing something that you perceive as difficult. So I can imagine that you might get some jitters in the instant. But overall, sort of looking long term definitely helps go into the gym 100%. It's one of the reasons why I go actually, why I continue to have some form of sport or exercise as part of my daily life.  How is your self-esteem right now? Slash usually. And do you have ADHD? I don't have ADHD. My self-esteem is actually not too bad. I'd say it's probably similar to usual. You appreciate me. Thank you very much. Hello, G&E. How are you doing? I'm getting regular burnouts at the moment. I'm sorry to hear that. Sorry to hear that. Miriam says, I was wondering if you had any thoughts around the connection to and differences between autism and highly sensitive people? Good question. I have been talking to my friend who had the characterization of being a highly sensitive person. I think I'm right in thinking that it's not necessarily a formal diagnosis and it's more of a characterization that some psychologists may point to. I'd say that it's a good way of grouping people together based on their experiences, behaviors and personality traits. I do think there's a lot of stuff just from loosely reading about HSP. It's not very defined and I feel like a lot of things cross over quite heavily with autism, neurodiversity, particularly social anxiety and anxiety. There tends to be a lot of crossovers from what I've seen. Hello, can you explain what HSPs are?  I hope that's helped. I don't really know much about it, but I'd say that there could very well be some crossovers because it's not necessarily that kind of... at least I think. Let me check. HSP. What is a HSP? A highly sensitive person is a neurodivergent individual who has thought of increased or deeper central nervous system sensitivities, physical, emotional and social stimuli. Yeah, that sounds pretty similar to the old autism in a lot of ways. Yeah, I think there's probably going to be some crossover. So it says, how do you know if you're a HSP? This is from verywellmind.com. This is the first thing that I've looked at. Avoiding violent movies and TV shows deeply moved by beauty being overwhelmed by sensory stimuli. Feeling a need for downtime. Need to retreat. Having a rich and complex and alive deep thoughts and strong feelings. Yeah, I'd say that it's kind of like a less autism geared version of autism. I don't know. A lot of this stuff that seems to be talked about in terms of HSP tends to, you know, when I read it, if it didn't have HSP and it instead said autism, it would be pretty similar, I'd say. I hope that's somewhat helpful. You bought a soda stream and love them. Awesome. I tried soda stream ones, but I just couldn't handle like the, what's the word, like the carbonation of it. It just didn't really suit me very well. Oh, so highly sensitive person is the same as sensory processing sensitivity? I thought there was a little bit more to HSP than just the sensory aspect of it. Interesting. Thank you for your transparency. It helps us near-typicals. I can't stand labels, by the way. Helping understand and not mislabel. And also, I can adjust with the ones we love. Well, thank you very much, Dr. Melody. How much appreciated. No, I hope that when I use the term near-typicals or I say non-autistic people, that it's not being taken as like too much of a negative, because I'm very aware of that. And I really don't want it to come across that way, because, you know, I have a lot of near-typical, what I would consider, near-typical individuals in my life, both within my family and my friends. And I've dated near-typicals as well. I've got nothing against people who aren't autistic, just putting that out there. Because I feel like that's some of the conclusions that some people might draw from reading about my content. The thing is that, you know, there are a lot of things that autistic people struggle in life with, and a lot of those things tend to be from other people, usually from people who don't really understand us, who tend not to be autistic. That's why perhaps I might talk about it a little bit more negatively in the context of autism, perhaps. But there's no hard feelings or hate at all.  You can't really decide to be near-typical. I'm not gonna like hate on a specific group for no discernible reason. Matias says, tips on how to unmask and be your best version. I won't stop looking for autism info because I get obsessed for it. Can you say the ultimate tip to have a better, to better understand myself and life? Wow. A big top tip. Goddamn, let's... I mean, I could stretch to give some sort of general advice, but that would just be for everybody. I wouldn't say that is necessarily to do with autism. I'd say that the best piece of advice is to notice things that are going badly or that are difficult in your life and take some steps in order to mitigate how difficult it is or in order to start something. I'd say that that's probably the best piece of general advice that I could put across when it comes to autism because everybody does differ a lot and has different needs, different sensory sensitivities, so you've got to try and figure out what are these things that are causing me stress? What are things that are my good at? Try and reduce the amount of negative things. Try and increase the amount of positive things. Will DM you in a trimedia platform and would love to have you as a guest an article you are a blessing to many? Of course, Dr Melody, that sounds great. I'd love to. I'm not sure if my question went through. I have to go soon. I'll check your question always. Magic, I've got it. From the spectrum, how do you manage and deal with situations to overcome, move forward and feel inspired on life, being in the spectrum for literally causes my levels of depression to be usually high? Yeah, I mean, I think the main cause of a lot of difficulties that autistic people have generally come from mental health. I would say there is a really big crossover there. We do experience disproportionate amounts of negative life events. We tend to live a bit shorter. We tend to struggle with employment. Let me just check the question again. How do you manage to overcome? I think it's just a willingness to step outside the norm a little bit when it comes to moving forward with things. You get told a lot from other people how you should be doing things, what you should be focusing on, what you struggle with, what you're better at. It doesn't really give you the opportunity to really find what is good for you. Quite often the best path for an autistic person might look a lot different than perhaps how a lot of other people might live their life. Some people might just want to get a good, stable job, go out on the weekends, perhaps, and start a family. That might be something that a lot of people want. It could be similar, but it could just be little differences. It could be, perhaps, instead of moving in with your partner, you could have separate houses and you could see each other or you could have separate bedrooms. In terms of the workplace, it could be that perhaps you don't work as much and you try and get some benefits alongside that and you contribute to society in whatever way seems good for you and that you can do consistently. I'd say it's just about you have to have a lot of, I guess, personal strength and independence in your brain, which I don't think a lot of autistic people lack, but you definitely have to craft your own path. It's not going to be as easy to find the best path, I guess. I don't know if I'm explaining that very well. It's a lot of good questions. My spurs just tends to elevate my depression on top of the life I was born in. I wouldn't say that being autistic necessarily makes mental health worse, although if you don't have an environment and a schedule and you're life-crafted that suits you, then it'll obviously make life a little bit more difficult and as well, like just the crossover in mental health and autism, a lot of the symptoms particularly for me that come up when I'm having a low mental health period might be a lot different to perhaps a neurotypicals.  I'm even more wanting to isolate and be by myself than perhaps other people. So it's just about, it's different. Experiencing mental health is different for us and it can look differently and it's also a lot more likely. But I wouldn't say that autism necessarily makes mental health worse. I'd say that being autistic can put you at a high likelihood of experiencing mental health problems, I would say. Not necessarily just inherently, like biologically either. No worries at all. I hope that's helped.  Find it hard to drink flat water? Yeah, flat water, it just, it gives me a bit of a stomach ache. I'm not sure what it is necessarily about it but I find that every time that I do drink water I do get a bit of a stomach ache. Kayla says I have become so into autism and ADHD and my husband swears I'm obsessed and he's very annoyed when I speak about it but I'm not diagnosed yet. Yeah. I think some people have got annoyed with me when I was just starting, because I was diagnosed when I was 10 but I only really started getting into understanding the experiences and some of the more complex kind of literature around autism. And yeah, I mean if people don't really understand it and they just think it's kind of, a lot of people will say oh it's just kind of one of your, you're just obsessed with it. Like you're not actually autistic, it doesn't make any sense because they don't necessarily understand it very well because they haven't delved into it as much as perhaps you have. But I'd say that if you are struggling with that currently once you have done a bit more reading and research into it then people will learn to sort of accept that part of yourself. I guess. My mother doesn't want me to talk about autism. Sweet and tender hooligan, it seems like you've changed your name. Honest question, please don't take offense but if you had to see the brain scan test and it came back negative for autism what would your reaction be? I think it would be pretty surprising just considering how stereotypically autistic I was when I was younger. I'd say that it's pretty low possibility that I'm not autistic. Wait, it's pretty high possibility that I am autistic. Low that I'm not, just at this stage. Like my behaviors, my presentation when I was younger was just so very, very clear that I was autistic. And even going into teenage I would say the same as well. There is apparently a definitive test for autism.  Yeah, got diagnosed with autism but is there a possibility that I am not? Now I'm truly convinced scan test for truly knowing. I wouldn't worry about that too much, Matthias. We do tend to have something that comes up for a lot of autistic people is this idea of imposter syndrome. If you were diagnosed I would just leave it be like that and just kind of learn to accept it and maybe try and process and deal with those feelings and worries that you aren't autistic and that you have been sort of misdiagnosed. A lot of people do experience a lot of imposter syndrome including myself. So just, yeah.  Perhaps do a bit more research into it but if you have been diagnosed I would try and just accept that. I guess. Kayla says the best advice I heard was that all autistic people don't wonder if they are autistic. Yeah, I mean I don't know if that necessarily holds true because I do know a lot of individuals who are ADHD who, you know, there is a high likelihood that they may be autistic as well. They would be considered to be autistic. And also like I would say that there is quite a bit of crossover when it comes to OCD and social anxiety, generalized anxiety disorder. So, you know, with anything that has such a large crossover like that you know, it's possible that people might come across autism and sort of not actually, I guess, they can still question it, I would say. I wouldn't say that that's necessarily, like, as soon as you think about maybe being autistic, considering it, relating to some of the things then you are autistic. I think you do need to do a bit more digging than that, if that makes sense. Definitely makes sense, I like the works about crafting your own path. What you said about your own path, yeah. Yeah, it's important. If you want to get the most out of life, you want to feel, you want to mitigate some of the difficulties that you may have. You want to try and amplify the things that you're good at, 100%. Like, I'd say the same for everybody, but it's just with autistic people we do just need to usually quite do it independently. The reason why I talk about that, sort of crafting your own life path so much is because we often don't get a lot of people telling us that. We do need a bit of sort of outside, like, you know, you can do that and you can change things for the better for yourself. My husband also swears I can't be autistic, yeah. Well, it's, I mean, does your husband, like, have a lot of knowledge about autism other than, you know, watching the odd movie and TV show and perhaps learning a little bit in, like, psychology class in high school. I'm making a lot of assumptions there, but I'm just wondering, like, whether you should, because if they're, like, into psychology and they have looked into it themselves and all that, then I would perhaps consider their approach a little bit, consider their opinion a little bit more. But if they've got no idea about it, then, you know, you definitely do know more about it than them. You can make a better decision. Is a brain scan thing a thing in the U.S.? It's not a standardized way of diagnosing people, so I'd say, like, you could probably much get it anywhere that you can get brain scans. You just got to pay for it. Irene says, oh yeah, I have an extreme and general anxiety disorder. Relate. My husband doesn't acknowledge a chance that I might be autistic either. You too, Irene. I was always gifted whenever they called it in school. No, he knows nothing. Yeah, it was... It's a common feeling, a common reaction that we can get. It doesn't necessarily have to be partners either. It could be parents or teachers or friends or anyone, really.  Stigmos and stereotypes. They have a big input on people's perceptions, I would say. Dr. Melody says, does the need to have a family, marriage and kids, magnify when surrounded by that environment? So one I know went from not designed to being married and having kids as a mirror need. I'm not sure I know exactly what you're asking, Melody. Jenny says, I got divorced after unmasking. It is hard in the beginning, but as you go on, it is better to be yourself, finally. I'm sorry to hear that. That is also one of the downsides of realizing your true self.  You know, you've got to think about that. It is a really big downside, I would say, to try and to unmask fully because, you know, there's so much stuff, you've got to understand it and be able to communicate it yourself, but then you've got to be able to help other people understand and then help people accept you and then help people understand what unmasking is and what masking is and then just like, yeah, so it's all a complicated thing. I wish that when people were looking into autism that the people around them, their partners would do just a little bit of research into it. You know, it's definitely a very good move when it comes to overall mental health, I would say. You know, developing your sort of maintaining a stable self-identity as well. It's important. I'm sorry to hear that, Jeannie. That's awful. Whereabouts from the UK are from? From the north. North of England. England. Ask of erotistics, they most likely won't know if you are or not. Yeah, I mean, I'd say get a consensus from multiple people if possible. Try and talk to a professional who, you know, you see actually has some leg in the autistic community. I don't know what the right term of phrase is, but they have some awareness of the socio-political aspect of it and also they have some experiential knowledge as well as their medical kind of scientific knowledge, some practical experience as well. Talking to someone like that is really important. One person that I would highlight if you are trying to figure out oh, how can I find someone like this? Dr. Megan Neff from Neurydivergent Insights would be a good example for someone to talk to about this kind of thing. And also, you know, as well as professionals, obviously talking to over-autistic people, I'd say if you can, video call them or they'll meet them in person when you're talking about this stuff because then perhaps they'll have a little bit more of a gauge on your indirect communication, you know. And as well as that, so you've got the professionals, you've got over-autistic people and creators, and you know, try and comment, join live streams, you know, ask questions, figure out as much as you can and get a good sort of wide understanding, not just from me, go seek counsel from other people, try and learn from other people's experiences as well. I think that's the best way of doing it. So with everything anyway, like, going for one person for everything is always going to... not necessarily like... be the best for you, you want to take little pieces from everybody, see what works for you, you know, 100%. Luna says in the UK, is there schools for just people on the spectrum? We do have what's called an SEND school, special educational needs and disabilities. We have those schools in the UK, which are specifically for children who are autistic or perhaps have some difficulty with integration, perhaps having some learning disabilities, perhaps having other sort of physical disabilities. We have schools specifically for those people. Yeah, I used to work in a couple actually. I went to mainstream as well, sort of as and when, sort of supporting individuals within the mainstream system. No need to be sorry, finally I learned to be myself and I love myself. Great, good. Planning on moving us to a tech city in the middle of nowhere. I could protect it. I'm at the point in the stream where I'm losing track of messages, so I apologise if I'm not being the best. I love this song. I did promise last time that I would post my songs, I did post a link on my Instagram for you to listen to my music. I'm just listening to a song called, This Is For You from Long Lost. Very beautiful song. I like to listen to a bit of music while I'm doing these streams. I've been to North England, Manchester, York, even up in Scotland. Yeah, I'm very near to York. I'm actually going to Manchester this weekend. I have said this already but I am going to Manchester this weekend to a concert from a person that I did a podcast with called No Tricks, like a dark trap artist. I'm going to get some VIP tickets. Go see the concert in a very comfortable place, which should be really cool. Really fun. I forget he says that a few people when I've met them have asked me if I'm on the spectrum. I still don't understand how they knew. It's the Spectar, it's the autism radar kicking in. Kayla says that I think my husband was more worried about it, meaning that a son might have it too. I understand that. Which is weird to me because diagnosed or not, that does not mean that it's not there. Yeah, and also the thing is that even if your son is or isn't autistic, they're still your son. If your son is autistic, that is your son. If they're not autistic, that is your son. I suppose if anything, it should be just a pointer to just think a little bit more or maybe try and notice a few more of the signs, catch it a little bit earlier so that you can get some support in place. To help them in various sort of areas. Love.tonf, yeah, me too. I'm like a fanboy. Fagi says I told a co-worker I was getting tested for autism and they just shrugged and said that makes a lot of sense. Have you heard of the autism psychedelic community? It's a thing I have indeed. I did try to get their founder onto a podcast but they haven't really been the best with replying to me. I did want to interview them about that because I thought it would be quite interesting. I've done a lot of research into the aspects of science. I do find that there's a lot of frontline treatments which do use psychedelics which have been shown to be quite effective in a number of different ways. It's always a really interesting topic. It would be nice to hear about some of the positive impacts that it can have for autistic people too. I wear headphones almost 24-7, me too. Well, these things. My friend thought of an only fan's name for you. Nasty Aspie. Oh no, that would not be my name if that was to happen. I think it'd probably be naughty-aughty. It's not happening.   If you do, go watch some of my videos that I made. I've got quite a lot of content out there and also some posts on Instagram which I think you'd find quite useful. I have three beautiful children and I want to change them for anything. That's lovely to hear. Much better if it rhymes.  Oh my God. Yeah, that's not a trend that I'm going to be jumping on anytime soon. I'm a very private person in some respects. Kayla says, Can anyone explain the social anxiety part of autism? I only relate to how people describe it, how they feel after encounters. I worry about what I said for like weeks. I'd say that feeling of paranoia and sort of difference. I feel like a lot of the social anxiety that comes across is more of a result of negative social interactions that we have. If you have a lot of social interactions which go badly, you're obviously going to be a lot more negatively biased or negatively focused when it comes to social interaction. And if you're expecting negative things to happen when you go and talk to somebody, you're obviously going to feel a lot of anxiety. There's a lot of mystery as well, especially when interacting with allistic individuals whereby, oh, am I actually picking up all of the information that this person's trying to get across? Do I understand everything properly? Am I communicating in a way that's being understood? Am I perhaps appearing to be a certain way that I want to appear as or not? You know, there's a lot of that kind of internal processing that goes on. And then combine that with the sensory difficulties of certain environments that you can go to to socialize, then it definitely, you know, there's definitely a very strong crossover there, 100%. Glad to see you're staying hydrated, Thomas. Thank you very much. I'm trying, you know, I got a drink specifically to go and do this live. Let me just check, how long have I been... Okay, so we got just over 15 minutes left of this live, and I do want to highlight that once we are done with this, I'm going to take a quick break, have some food, and then we're going to do another live. We're just going to stream some RuneScape. We're going to do that tonight. On the weekend, Sunday, and maybe on Monday I will be going live as well. I'm working on a video that I was hoping to get out this week, but my brain's just not been having it. So hopefully that new video will be out next week, which I'm going to be talking about relationships with autistic people as an autistic person, which I think is going to be a really interesting video to cover. Well, it was an interesting topic to cover when I was recording it. Something that I think someone asked me for on the live, so just keep that in mind, guys. Like, if you have any suggestions that you want me to do, and I'm like, hey, that sounds like a good idea, there is a very real possibility that I'll turn it into a video, or do a live on it, or watch a video, or some things like that, any suggestions. Thank you very much to Angela for joining the Autie Legion. It's nice to have you as a member, Angela. You've been a part of these lives for quite a while now, so it's nice, much appreciated. I've just been, like, afk-ing some, some thieving on my RuneScape game. I've just hit 99 in thieving by basically doing nothing, which is lovely. Hello, Stalyn, how are you doing? I'm sorry that you're struggling at the moment, but maybe try and contact one of your GPs, someone local, to talk about it. I understand what it can be like to be in that place. You've got to keep yourself safe, you know. I hope you're doing okay. Stay strong, you know. Good afternoon, very much. Appreciate your content from MontanaUSA. Hello, Montana Medic. I think about things I said five or six years ago. I used to do that. I think sometimes, like, now and again, there'll be one thing in my head that I'm like, man, that was an embarrassing situation. I really wish that didn't pan out that way, but overall, I just tend to kind of let bygones be bygones, you know, naughty-aughty. Okay, and now we're on the topic of sort of having different names. I'm just thinking about what my fighter name would be if I ever got back into martial arts. I think probably the best one to go for is the autistic, ballistic, you know, because they've got strong, fast kicks, punches and all that. What do you think? You're doing good today. RuneScape.ai, indeedy. So many things to focus and analyze. I like to stay home. It's better. Yeah, well, you've got to keep the... You've got to keep a balance, you know? I think if I stay a lot of the time indoors, my anxiety tends to be a bit better, but my mood tends to drop, so I need to keep some level of light going out into the world, socializing with people. Just to keep my brain right, you know? It's a balance. It's a balance. What is everyone doing for Thanksgiving? I don't celebrate Thanksgiving, sadly. But I will be celebrating Christmas. Hey. Nice lots of live streams indeed. Yeah, we're going to be chilling tonight. It's going to be good. I actually don't have any Thanksgiving plans. First life here is great. Thanks, no worries either. Nice to have you on. You love that name? If I was a fighter, I'd probably just be Rene Beanie. Sounds like a wrestler name, yeah. But come on, come on, autistic ballistic. Like an autism missile. Yeah, we don't celebrate it in the UK. That's true. Can't remember the last time I left the house. You should probably leave the house, it would say, if you can. I did have some experiences when I was at university with agrophobia. I don't know if any of you have experienced that. It's basically a fear of large open spaces. It's like going outside. How do you measure your social life? What do you mean? As a fighter, I'd be the Ractal. Super move is a burnout, yeah. Trying to figure out what's my special power going to be. I'm thinking like a street fighter character. You know, if I'm standing there just like bouncing, you've gone on to the autistic ballistic. What's the autistic ballistic special move? Burnout. Burnout could be like the altered state of power. You know, like I've powered up. I'm like in burnout mode. So I'm going into autistic burnout. There's like a one or two minute span of just like increased power. But then after it drops. Or like I could have a power called meltdown. Which just, you know, I've burned through all my energy in like one kind of final attack. Maybe. So funny. You're in my world now. Oh my God, you guys are hilarious. Oh, you've tickled me with that. That's like your nitro. Yeah. Start overload. Overload mode out of control. Yeah. I do huge reboot naps like 12 to 14 hours and one afternoon and a whole night when I'm exhausted from masking over one it helps me with my anxiety. Wow, that is a long time. Do you have some like chronic energy disorder? Was like chronic fatigue? Because it sounds very similar to that. I think if I slept normally I would be better. Yeah, I mean it's not always the case that the more sleep that you get the less tired you are. I think if you do sleep for like a long period of time you can get to a point where you become even more sleepy when you wake up. I know that that happens for me sometimes when it's been like a weekend and I just want to lay in bed and just kind of chill. I had quite a hard week. I do wake up and I'm quite sleepy and it's quite late and I'm like, wow, I want to go to bed soon. I have an autoimmune problem. Okay. I'm sorry to hear that. What kind of autoimmune? I don't answer if it's a bit too prime but I'm just interested. If you want to share. What's the fastest way to get your energy back? Rest. I would say. It depends on what type, in what context you're speaking about energy I suppose. You can't really rush rest. That's the issue of it. You just got to take as much as needed. Okay, peeps. We've got about seven minutes left. Say if you've got any questions about autism, fitness, mental health, relationships, personal things that you want to ask, please go ahead. Would be much appreciate. Mirren says a question around coping with loss or grief as an autistic person. I mean, I'd say that the main difficulty that comes in for me whenever I've been grieving is alexifimia can be quite a big thing in that case. Sometimes it can be hard to notice any differences in my mood. Whereas when it gets to a point where it's a little bit too much, then it kind of comes out of the blue and it just hits me and it really just destabilizes me quite a bit. I think there's a lot of things that I could mention in that sense. But I did do a post or at least a video, I think talking about grief. Yeah, I did a video on YouTube talking about grief. So it is quite a while ago. I can't really remember. I don't know. Thank you for your suggestion. We've been wondering if I have chronic fatigue. Could just be going through like a really, really big burnout. That could be another thing, possibly. Matias, you're asking a lot of questions. Could you ask one question for me to answer? One that you really, really want me to answer. I'm one passed away and I'm tired. Sorry to hear that, Stallion. Yeah, it's tough. I can get really tired with pain due to a spinal problem. It can be draining. Sorry to hear that. Kayla says it was very nice to make it to a live stream. Thank you very much for answering questions. You're very welcome in. I do this every week, so there's always opportunities to join again. And there will be also opportunities to ask more questions or just chat about general things later on when I do my RuneScape live. You're very welcome to ask questions then. A bird in Matias' photo is nice. I like birds. Pain is not quite as fun. No, I would second that. I was going to make a joke there. Yes, how to trust yourself and stop looking for autism info? How do you know what you are? That you are going on a good path? Even if you're not sure? I'd say that it's hard to always have a definitive kind of certain answer. Which is, I think, something that I've... I think with anything in life there is always going to be some areas that are a bit darker that you don't really understand very much or don't even know about. You just got to kind of go with things as they come to you. And try different things. See if some things that other people have suggested work and if they don't switch that out, try something else. It's a very much like kind of a long, over the time thing. If you really wanted to get some personal advice rather than sort of listening to general advice and experiences from other people, you know, book a call with somebody. Talk to someone and get them to support you with doing that. Alternatively, isolate and understand some difficulties that you have in life and seek to make improvements on them. I understand the need to kind of have this certain like, this is the best path to follow. I try very much to give as much information and sort of advice that I can do about living as an autistic person, but it's always going to be from my perspective, you know. And there are things that I find quite easy that other people find hard and vice versa. So my ideal life, the ideal support, the ideal things that I'm doing are obviously going to look a bit different, you know. So you can either do it yourself, you know, have a look at things that you find hard. Look at things that you find interesting in terms of work and perhaps hobbies and capitalise on as much as you can. Try and find ways to get around some of the difficulties that you have, I would say, you know, it's a very individual process. You can ask people for sort of general questions, but only you really know in this circumstance what you find hard and what you need, you know, and what's going to be like, what's going to be a good thing for you. It's just like I could say, okay, get yourself some therapy, you know.  Make all the sensory adjustments in your house all good. Get a personal psychologist that can just help you dive into every single aspect of autism. But like, who is going to have the time and the funds to do that? I think it's, if you can do them, that's great. Great view. For a lot of people I think it's, you know, you just got to chip away at it in your own time. I hope that's helpful. I feel bad when I can't like fully give like a concrete sort of answer on these things, but it's a very complicated thing to do because everyone's so different. You know, you've got to be somewhat general with advice and, you know, things like that. I hope that's helpful. What's your drinking stick if you superpowers? It gives me the power of concentration and focus and perhaps blocks the, what do they call them? Is it adenosine? I think it's adenosine that builds up and makes you sleepy throughout the day. It blocks my adenosine pathways to allow me to stay wakeful for a long period of time. 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Hello and welcome to this session. This is Professor Farhad in which we would look at adjustments to net income in the prior session We looked at how to prepare the statement of cash flows using the direct method as well as the indirect method and Under the indirect method if you remember we always start with net Income then what we do is we make certain adjustments to net income pluses and minuses now We learn about those adjustments, but there are special cases special circumstances or you would have few unusual Adjustments which they will need special attention. So the operating section using the indirect method starts with net income Then we make certain adjustments and I'm gonna list all the adjustments We're gonna be covering in this session and as if you know me once I have a list I'm gonna go over each item on this list separately starting with non-cash expenses Realized and unrealized holding gain and losses changes in deferred income taxes equity method of accounting stock options Unusual and unfrequent items account receivable net changes in short-term capital changes and Non-cash transaction once again, I'm gonna go over each item separately explaining how each item Effect somehow the adjustment to net income Starting with non-cash expenses non-cash expenses. We ignore them We don't take a look at them when we are dealing with the direct method because the direct method is converting something to a cash expense. Well, it's already non-cash expense You cannot convert it into a cash expense Therefore those non-cash expense items are ignored for the direct method For the indirect method non-cash expenses Non-cash expense expenses reduce net income. So what they do because remember under the Indirect method what we do is we start with net income So for the direct method, it's easy. We ignore them for the indirect method We start with net income and we go backward and we reconcile So what happened is this dose? Non-cash Expenses they were deducted to arrive to net income now. What do we need to do? Well, we if we're only looking for Income on a cash basis if we deduct them to get the net income We're gonna go back and add them back Therefore we add to net income and what are some examples of non-cash expenses? Well, the main one is depreciation Well depreciation think about it. We debit depreciation expense. We credit accumulated Depreciation so notice we did not credit cash. Therefore. This is a non-cash expense Amortization same concept but that expense and other non-cash expenses also. We need to be aware With discounts on bonds payable when we have discounts on bonds payable What's gonna happen is the the discount will increase the interest expense So whatever we discounted it increases interest expense. Well, it increases The expense so the expense was deducted and it increases well What do we have to do? We have to add back that increase because the discount was not really a cash outflow now The opposite is true for the premium If we have a premium on bonds and what that what did the premium do? Well, the premium involve expense expense reduces income, but the premium reduces the expense notice It reduces the expense well as a result because it reduces the expense without given us cash What do we need to do? We need to deduct as an adjustment So it's the opposite of a discount and hopefully this makes sense Because why because the expense went down, but we did not really save any cash Well, what happened is to adjust that premium that additional reduction in the expense that additional help we deducted back Now before we proceed any further and discuss other items I would like to remind you whether you are a student or a CPA candidate and most likely that's who you are if you are watching That's most likely who you are. That's a great. You have arrived go a step further Farhat lectures comm or I have additional resources Lectures multiple choice true false exercises that's gonna help you do better in your accounting course as well as the CPA exam I don't replace your CPA review course. I'm a useful addition I can help you understand the material better The fact that you are watching is you are looking for some help and you have arrived if you have not connected with me only then Please do so take a look at my LinkedIn recommendation like this recording share it with other Connect with me on Instagram Facebook Twitter and Reddit Let's talk about post retirement benefit cost simply put we are talking about pension expense Well, sometime pension expense might be higher or lower than the cash payment made to the trust So when the company sends this paycheck to the trust Well, the paycheck the cash payment might be different. Let me give you an example The company might debit bad that it might debit expense, which is specifically pension expense 100,000 might credit cash 70 and might credit pension obligation 70. So let's think about this so We have net income Before we arrive to net income we deducted 100,000 in pension expense This is how much we deducted to arrive to net income But in reality, we only send a check for 30,000. What does that mean? It means of the 100,000 30,000 was cash 70,000 was non-cash. So what do we have to do when we are making When we are making the adjustment Well, we have to add back 70,000 we have to add back 70,000 now. Let's assume another scenario. We debited Expense pension expense to be specific 150,000 so So now we are dealing with net income here and we deducted 150,000 in pension expense But we credited cash 200,000 we send a check for 200,000 and the difference either we owed the the Depension benefit or we added money to the trust either or it doesn't matter whether the debit is a to pension obligation Or to the asset to the asset of the fund the point is We Expensed 150 but we paid in cash 200,000 it means we have to deduct from a cash perspective in additional 50,000 little bit unusual Why because usually non-cash expenses are added now we are subtracting and the reason is because we expensed more than what we Paid so this is how we deal with those expenses and it doesn't have to be this expense All expenses that follow the same rules. They have to follow this basically the same Concept and we will see another example shortly. Let's take a look at the equity method of accounting Well, how does the equity method works? Well, let's review real quick Let's assume Adam owns 40% of Avi company. Well, Adam uses the equity method Avi reported 100,000 in net income and 30,000 in dividend Let's take a look at you at the journal entries that Adam would do Adam will debit investment in Avi 40,000 which is 100,000 times 40% would increase their investment and they will credit revenue from investment for 40,000 and remember the revenue from investment goes into net income So we have net income and what we did is we added 40,000 of revenue to come to come up to our net income Also for the dividend we debit cash 12,000 only which is 30,000 times 40% and we credit our investment in Avi 12,000 Now, let's take a look at what happened from a cash perspective from a cash perspective we added $40,000 which increased net income But how much of that 40,000 was only cash only 12,000 was cash the remaining was non cash non cash. So what do we have to do? We start with net income subtract 12,000 and add Subtract, I'm sorry 40 and at 12 so all in all will deduct 28,000 from net income from net income and To arrive to to arrive to the proper number and this is how we deal with the equity method Losses and gains are another major adjustment to net income now bear in mind for the direct method It's easy because they're already non cash. Therefore, we ignore them for the indirect method Losses add losses back because they are treated as non cash expenses. Why? Because we before we arrive to net income Losses were deducted. Okay, but losses are non Cash, so what do we do with losses if we deduct them then we add them back Now gains the same concept Gains are the same concept We gains are added to come up to net income, but they don't really increase cash There is no cash inflow. Therefore we deduct them Let's take a look at an example to just to illustrate this concept Land with the cost of 100,000 was sold for 110. Let's take a look at the journal entry. We debit cash 110,000 we credit the land and we credit gain on sale. So notice the gain on sale Was up here 10,000 which in turn increase net income However, the whole amount of cash is Counted in the investing section because we said the 110,000 selling the land is an investing activity therefore The additional that additional gain of 10,000 is already counted in the investing activity and it's considered a non cash inflow from operating perspective Therefore we deducted and we remove the land obviously this will be also an investing activity So the point to remember is the gain was already accounted for if you're if you're saying but I really had a ten thousand dollar Cash gain. Yes, that's fine The additional ten thousand was considered investing take it out of operating if not at least your double count in it If you don't you know, if you're not understanding how it's not a non cash revenue now the same concept would apply If you sold this land for 90,000 if you sold the land for 90,000 you would have a loss on sale of 10,000 Again, the loss would have deducted deducted your net income reduce your net income by 10,000 because it's deducted But it did not really lose 10,000 off cash Therefore you add back the loss and hopefully this will this this did it basically did it in a sense Clarified it and here we are talking about realized gains and losses. Let's talk about unrealized losses and gains unrealized holding losses and gains and what's the difference between unrealized and realized unrealized means You did not actually sell the investment. You did not sell the asset You did not sell the item you have it on the books and you're gonna mark to market Well, we have to be careful here because we could have three different scenarios for those unrealized holding gains and losses We could have trading debt securities trading debt investments Which they will incur unrealized holding gain loss Well unrealized holding gain and loss for those type of investments are listed on the income statement Well, if they are listed on the income statement, that's easy They follow the same rules as the previous regular regular means realized gains and losses because they affected their income and as a result loss is added and Gains are deducted. That's one category. The second category is that investments now. They are available for sale not trading Well, what do we have to know about this group? Well, this group any unrealized holding gain and loss is reported in Comprehensive income, which is part of the balance sheet. What does that mean? Well, good. That's easy No effect on income. Therefore, we ignore them. So you have to be very careful if you are dealing with that investment Available for sale and they're giving you unrealized holding gains or holding losses. Just simply from a cash flow perspective You don't have to worry about them. Whether the direct or the indirect because they did not affect net income Therefore from an operating perspective, you ignore them three unrealized gains and losses when you own less than 20% Well, what do you have to know about this group? This group goes into net income. So any unrealized Gain or loss goes into net income. Well, that's easy. If it goes into net income, we're back to one If we're back to one, it means we follow the same rules. We follow the regular gains and losses as we saw on the previous slide Stock options. What is stock options? Well stock options when the company grant options as a form of compensation to their employees What entry do we make when we grant stock options? We debit Compensation expense that's assumed 10,000 we credit paid in capital stock option 10,000. Well, I hope you already just know this real quick It's an expense and it's a non-cash expense Simply put non-cash expense. We ignore for the direct method for the indirect method We add back as a non-cash expense. So we'll take net income plus 10,000 for the non-cash expense Just like depreciation But that expense any non-cash expense But I just want you to pay attention to stock options because stock options could be buried could be part of your Compensations or salaries expense. Therefore, you might have to take it out Let's talk about the change in the third taxes. Let's assume we are Recording at the third taxed asset. Now, if you don't know what's the third taxed asset I can't explain it in this session the assumption is you know how this work You can go to far hat lectures. Otherwise, you will see the journal entry and hopefully it will make sense for now You will debit the third taxed asset 10,000 and you will credit the third when you record the third taxed asset It means you are saving on your income tax expense now So notice what happened your expenses your expenses went down So simply put if we're talking about net income what happened is you have an expense and that expense It's like a plus expense. What do I mean because usually expenses you get deducted to come up to net income Now It's adding to your net income. It's a plus in your net income. It's adding to your net income Why because your expenses are going down. It's like a plus. So think about it What happened is this you reduced your expenses by 10,000 which is but there was no cash inflow You did not really have an additional 10,000. No, what no one gave you 10,000 So you did deduct it since you since it reduces your expenses here You will need to deduct this from your net income So basically the opposite of non-cash expenses that we learn about because under non-cash expenses you deduct the expense That's non-cash then you add it now what you're doing is you're the opposite since it reduces your expenses without bringing your cash You will deduct it from operating. It's a little bit unusual. Yes, you just have to be careful Unusual and infrequent items they could be sometime investing or financing activities For example land condemnation by the government as a result you could have a gain or a loss you treated just like you would Read gains and losses a count receivable Well, you have to be careful with the count receivable because we are dealing in the allowance for bad that because what the count receivable comes allowance for bad that Remember allowance for bad that is a contra asset account. So any change Add back the increase in the change. Remember, it's kind of the opposite of receivable. Let's let's take a look at some numbers If we have in year x1, we have 90,000 in receivable in x2 a count receivable was 107 So notice a count receivable increased by 27 now, we know from a cash flow perspective. The adjustment is Negative to cash flow. Why? Because you sold more on account. It means you are not receiving the cash. Therefore, it's negative cash flow. That's fine Let's take a look at the related Allowance account well the related allowance account went from 10,000 to 15,000 That's also an increase of 5,000 also an increase But notice from a cash flow perspective Since the allowance is the opposite of a regular regular asset you add to cash flow So simply put what you do you net them out. Therefore the increase the The net is an increase 12,000 net increase and obviously that's overall a negative to cash flow Now bear in mind for the direct method you ignore the allowance because it's part of bad debt expense You would you you would use the gross receivable when you are analyzing your sales? Let's talk about working capital, which is Current assets minus current libraries That's what working capital is and sometime you might have changes in working capital that you need to be aware of it Unusual changes like what well it might affect cash, but not net income. Therefore, they are not part of your income Well, let's assume you purchase short-term securities, which is that's fine. If you purchase short-term securities, that's considered operating. That's fine However, if you issue short-term non-trade notes payable simply put you borrowed for short-term basis Well short-term is current liabilities. You would say well, this should affect my operating section It's not when you are borrowing money. It's financing be aware of this also When you declare dividend, you might have a dividend not you might you will have a dividend payable again dividend payable is a current liability You might be thinking well Let me let me compute the change in my dividend payable and included in operating not at all dividend payable is a financing activity Just be aware of those couple things now You might also have non-cash transaction that are significant. What do you need to do with those? You need to report them or disclose them like what? Exchange of non-monetary asset you exchange a truck for another truck building for another building. There's no cash exchange Exchange of long-term debt by another debt basically refinancing you took one debt You exchange it for another debt. You did not really receive any cash. All that happened is one debt to replace the other Non-cash transaction you purchased asset by issuing debt including capital leases again non-cash You purchased assets by issuing stocks equity non-cash. You converted that or preferred Stock into common stock again non-cash.  Make sure they are available so the users of the financial statement will make more sense of the numbers What should you do now go to far hat lectures and work MCQs through false questions? That's gonna help you understand this topic better. Don't short change yourself study hard. Good luck, and of course stay safe


I wanted to ask actually a bit about cultural diversity because that's a platform on which you can, which you really espouse during, when you were part of the pageant, and it's something that's so important here in America and around the world, so I was wondering if you could tell us a bit more about that. So I actually, every contestant in the Miss America organization is required to have a personal platform, a cause that they choose to champion for their year of service. And so mine, when I started competing, you know, even from the local level, I competed for Miss Syracuse, which is where I'm from, and should you win that, then you go on to Miss New York and then Miss America. And so there was no question that my platform was going to be diversity, and specifically focusing on cultural competency because I grew up with a lot of stereotypes and misconceptions about my culture. From Syracuse, my family moved to Oklahoma when I was four, and to Michigan when I was ten, and I was the only Indian girl in my classes growing up for many, many years.  And I think the biggest thing I've really learned is that many of these remarks aren't necessarily meant to be malicious, but really simply due to the fact of ignorance. And so I think the best way to really address this issue and break these stereotypes is to target our youth and have them exposed to not only the Indian culture, but all cultures around the world. And I think that really gets them excited about traveling and learning about other people and how we're all different and how we're all the same. Yeah. And I think that it just seems like having someone who's such a public figure, such as yourself, be able to do that probably communicates the message in a different way. I think many of us grew up watching Miss America on TV and never thought we would see someone like us actually win the pageant. Do you think that that has meant a lot? Have young people told you that? Wow, I mean, it's just so cool to see you because I never thought this would happen. That is one of the most emotional and heartwarming parts that I experienced this year. And I think we're growing up for years. You know, I'm the 94th Miss America, so we've had this competition for 94 years. It's such a part of the nation's history and culture, and she's such an American icon. And for me, I just never thought that I could ever be in this role because of my Indian heritage. And so competing, when I first started, I went in with that mindset, with that goal to become the first Indian Miss America. And I knew that should I win, it would be, you know, a historical year, a monumental year for the organization, but I could have never imagined to what extent. And it has really surpassed everything I thought it would be in terms of the outreach that I've had to young girls, not only here and not only Indian young girls, but girls of all ethnicities, girls of so many generations whose parents immigrated here from different countries, young girls in India, I mean, just to have that outreach and for them to have a role model and say, well, this is something that I can do. And I think the biggest thing, the biggest message I can send is that I think oftentimes we're our own barrier. And if we put that barrier on us, then we're automatically, you know, kind of falling behind in that sense. And so to put yourself out there, to be vulnerable is a very difficult place, but it's also a very powerful place. Yeah, that's really well said. And I think that it's probably very powerful for people to hear that from you personally, because it's one thing to sort of read about it. But to be spoken, you know, to be speaking with someone who's kind of lived that journey, it's really awesome.