Web 3 is redefining the level of control people have in ways that was deeply different and how this had been done before. Not only that, Web 3 has started with literal financial value. Even though this is an empowering proposition, we see how meaningful has their money compromised every day. I'm Antonella, I do product security at MetaMask. My folks are there. Before that, I've been led the user experience team at the Tor project for half of the decade. Deploying privacy and hasing technology is not a crime. Wallets can be a lot of things. We can define wallets as a container of private keys and their system of permissions to manage them. Every time a DAB asks the wallet to execute a transaction, the wallet is asking the user to confirm the usage of these keys. Dan Fili and Eric Marx made a beautiful definition. Wallets are built around the responsibility of mediating the interactions between untrusted applications and users' keys on the computers, getting appropriate consent from the user. If we map a threat model of a non-cute wallet, like MetaMask, we will discover that the two more important assets that we have at stake are a pair of keys and the permissions to use these keys. This talk is not going to be about private keys, it's not going to be about artifacts to protect these private keys, like seed phrases, passwords, past phrases, or attacks or that. Today I'm going to talk about permissions, and I want to talk about permissions because permissions is the elephant in the room, usability topic depth for end users in this ecosystem. There is a lack of interest at protocol level on how protocol decisions affect everyday people's lives, and the responsibility of giving users the chance to understand what they are giving permissions to falls on wallets when we talk about permissions. We talk about an invoker requesting a wallet access to certain user information. It can be different depending on what the DApp is prompting the user to do. During a connect flow, for example, the DApp is requesting access to users' public keys, the address, to be able to push requests in this way, and this is the user-facing interface on how the request looks on users' computer. I'm sure some people have been facing these screens before. The wallet is making an epic effort to expose and trust information in a secure environment in a legible manner so the user can consent to execute or not this transaction. We do things like treating intelligence, treat analysis, human review. We have a lot of mode for preventing supply chain attacks. You should check out Kumabi's talk from yesterday. We have phishing detect block list to mitigate phishing attacks. Our bounty program, and more. People who work on security know that this is called elastic security or security index, but this is not enough to enable users to consent and transaction. I will stop and I imagine that some people is questioning why we are talking about consent in a user security talk, and friends, because they are not secure systems without consent. Consent is the radical idea that one person must voluntarily agree to the proposal of desires to another. Thinking about this way of building technology is to give feminists perfective to active consent, to apply it to the social information system that we work with every day. These are not my ideas. These are ideas that came in the backbone from the feminist principles of the internet for open human-centered design processes. Basically, when we talk about consents with technology, we talk about having control over our digital bodies, which of course include our data, and for sure our money. So how a transaction based on consent should be? A few people have been thinking about this, defining a framework on how to approach a consensual way to have an interaction. I really like the five principles defined by folks at Aliette Media. You can check this and more in the website, consentsfullteach.io. Good consent is freely given, it's revocable, it's informative, it's enthusiastic, and it's specific. And what do we mean by all these things? The fact that the consent is freely given puts the person in a position of doing something with another that should be made without pressure, with force, or manipulation. Anyone can change their mind, or what they do at any time. Trust is not forever. This is why transactions should be revocable. People should be able to understand what the tradeoffs are of this decision. People should be able to read what they are going to consent to. People should be able to comprehend what is going on. Consent should be enthusiastic. If someone is not excited or really into it, that is not consent. Consent should be specific. Saying yes to this now, today, here, in Bogota, in October, doesn't mean that I say yes to other things. So we started to question our interfaces and how they could become interfaces that could enable people to give real consent. The use of a security design question that we put over the table with our teams, with designers, with developers, with project managers, with people working on metrics, with people working on communication. If we build a transaction flow grounded in consent, how could it look like? You spoke, and we are listening, we read social media, we read the forums, we read, and we are working hard on improving our confirmation screens. Even when new transactions' methods are being defined right now in other rooms on protocol level without considering how to expose users to a consensual interaction. Let's see the case of approvals. Approving token allowances is like a fundamental pattern of We3 in We3, to allow smart contracts to interoperate tokens and provide a better user experience with interactions with that. In order to perform operations that require interactions with amount contracts like minting, stocking, swapping users are first required to permit the invoker's smart contract to transfer a number of tokens on their behalf. Sometimes that required improving this infinite amount of these tokens. Even if the user trusted up, it could be problematic. This is our current token allowance screen. We have the original mind requesting this transaction. We have the contract explicit who is asking for this interaction, but the point here is we don't have allowances in the first screen of this flow. We have been working on that. We iterated this. This new UI aims to empower users to define an allowance that they want to give to them. We split the flow in two. We now have gas fees in the second screen, which was something that people was looking too much on the first version. And now we have specifically who actors are interacting in this transaction. We allow users to verify contracts. We are making explicit which assets are being transferred. We are adding friction to warn users when the site is requesting the entire collections on a MSD to be transferred. I say that before, can verify contract details and more things. Echoing on what Taylor said this week, we should be responsible of what technology we build. We should build technology that expects people. As developers, as wallet developers, we have the responsibility of critical thinking about how to expose users to give consent to a decision that directly affects the digital bodies. And these allow us to explore opportunities to design the centralized technology that respects people, but practicing open design methodologies. Balancing security and usability is complex. We do a lot of complex things here. It requires inadequate threat modeling, the possibility of including people in your development process, and trying to understand people's mental models too much with the flows that we propose as a facilitator of consensual transactions. We are trying to generate more open spaces to discuss use of all security in the decentralized world.  I will be happy to talk about this.  If you are a developer and you have ideas on how to improve MetaMask, you want to extend it, you want to connect your API to MetaMask.xpi, expose the MetaMask UI, you should check out MetaMask.io. I personally believe that there is a long way to go to rethink how the information systems which we delegate trust interact with consent. This is an open call, and I invite you to think about that with me. Thank you very much, Antonela, and we have several hands up. We are going to start here, but we have a lot of questions, Antonela. Hi, a super presentation, thank you. A quick question, the UI that you presented, is there is a date when they are going to be released? We are working on that later, quarter four, yes. We work in an open environment, we have repositories, so you can check stuff. Next question, we have some one, two and three. Hello, Antonela, thanks for your talk. In your presentation you told that as a security researcher you have to do balance between user experience and security. How do you draw that line of saying the user is supposed to know the thing and I have to teach the user the thing that I have to know. Good question. I don't think we are here to teach users. I think we are here to inform people to make informed decisions. The balance between how much information we show on the screen and how this information resonates with people and also the time that happened between the people make a decision and read, may vary and change. I think that is the most fun part, finding this balance. I think it's super important also to work with users. If you have a product, if you are building a product or whatever, you should have users in your development process, so you can expose users to your product early and you can get feedback and that is so rich because you have people using your product before you go live or whatever, so that answers your question a little bit. There is one, two and three and four. We have time. I see the fifth here. Please. Thanks for a great talk. Part of your definition of consent you discussed revocable. Where does MetaMask or the UX fall with revocability and helping the user know that they can revoke or what they have given consent to in the past? Beautiful. It's a protocol issue. It's not our problem. We should work together on protocol level to make sure that, I mean, to comprehend that we are human and we can make mistakes. I know that revocability is like a hot topic in this space. There are a lot of ideas on how to make transactions revocable. You can do things like, I don't know, having a space of nones in the middle and you have a certain time that you can revoke and stuff. There are smart people thinking of that, but yeah, it's an open question. Hi. Great word using a consent. How do you think it's possible to handle a sign-in message consent, specifically when we sign some structured information on MetaMask, you will see a JSON that is really hard to understand and there's been a lot of hacks lately based on ERC20 tokens able to permit user to sign message in order to allow for transactions. So it's very hard for a user to know if you're approving genosis multi-sign transfer or giving permission to someone to spend your tokens on your behalf. Have you thinking any kind of mitigation for this problem on MetaMask? There are a lot of initiatives that wants to make transactions readable. They are, I mean, I remember five right now, but there's a lot of people working on that. I think it's the next step for big adoption. Should be having transactions in a readable manner. I see companies making their own versions of this. We should aim to have a community level consensus on how we are going to expose these two users. I think it's more powerful if we work all together than if a company says that they are doing clear sign-in or something like that. So yeah, I think it's a work in progress and I hope you are building also a solution for transactions to be readable. Hi, thank you so much for your presentation today. I feel like I learned a lot. So one question I just really want to ask is about MetaMask product design. So as far as I know, initially MetaMask didn't want to launch the swap function and they launched the swap function. I just want to, I just feel like in the current space, the switching network is really a significant problem in improving UX. I just want to ask more about what's the future plan on MetaMask about this interoperability issue and does MetaMask have any plan to solve this network switching problem? Yeah, amazing question. I can open my computer and show you our designs after the talk and we can discuss it. We are working on network abstraction. It's super interesting because super early in the moment right now, the options are infinite. Like I don't think the version we are going to ship first is going to be the best one but I think it's something good that we are going to iterate and we are going to learn also how people is using different networks. We are thinking, we can talk an hour about this. But yes, please find me and we can discuss. How did I solve it? Hi, I actually have two questions if allowed but one is a follow up to the question before last about signing and permissions and how those interact and even where they are readable if there's one particular thing that's being asked for over and over and over and over and over again, the user will get alert fatigue and just be clicking and to avoid that I was seeking to have a permission for that particular thing that gets repeated many times and was here for the hackathon last weekend and wanted to use made a mask snaps to make that easier and was told, oh no, actually made a mask snaps doesn't support working with the permission system to do that. I was wondering if there are plans to allow snaps to work with the permission system in the future to follow up on that. Good question. I think the most powerful thing about snaps, it's like the least affirmation we have available right now is not static. It's something that is going to grow in the future. So I'm not here to say when, but that may be something that is in the pipeline. And the other question was you showed earlier some designs where you were making it clear that like, oh, you can set a limit for how much of a token a particular depth can be authorized for and you have a line in there like, oh, you can raise this limit later, but you aren't telling people that there's a cost to do so. There's like a financial cost of doing so later. And I think that that seems to undermine this idea of consent a little bit because you're not telling people that there are going to be costs if they want to limit things now and then add it later. Do you have any thoughts about why that decision was made to obscure that? We are not exposing future costs of the transaction and maybe something that could be part of some documentation on user-facing education material or something like that, estimating how the thing is going to cost in the future. It's weird, but I don't know. Maybe it's something to explore. Thank you for that question. And the last one. Hello. Yeah, thanks for this great presentation. It's really insightful. So I have a question around the fact of giving consent. You mentioned that it's quite complex because it's either you give too much permission and you fall into like an area where it's dangerous as a user or you give too much restriction and then you hurt the usability of the user because the user then cannot do that much. What's your opinion on that? How do you find the sweet spot of the right balance, like this right area where it's not too risky but on the other side is not too unusable? Great question. It has different parts. First, you should have an interdisciplinary team working on stuff because it's more powerful. You have more views when building something for people. Then there is something very strong happening at Metamask right now and it's the fact that we are building a product for the entire world, put us in a position to hire people from all over the world. So basically we have people working everywhere. And this is powerful because you have people sitting on tables making decisions that have different biases, mental models. This is one part. The other part is talking with users. I think talking with users is so insightful. You are going to discover things that you even imagine in the first, second, three rounds of user testing. So, diverse team, users first and try and iterate. I think finding the balance is the most fun part of being working on this. Thank you very much. We have time for one last question in Spanish. Also, if not, if not, muchas gracias, Antonela.


Hello everybody, Andrea Miesti here with Mobile RDH Academy. So I am working on a module for right now. So this is a full course if you want to start your own dental hygiene practice. Even if you're, you know, thinking about it, you don't know where to start. If you have already started but you're kind of stuck on certain things, what to do if you need help, have, have any questions. This is the full course for you. It is excellent. It's taken me a while to put everything together. And I did this because when I started my own practice, I realized there was really nobody out there who could really help. And even if they could, I just wasn't able to reach out to them. I didn't know who to ask, who to talk to. The CDHO and the CDHA can only do so much. So I felt that I had to learn literally everything on my own. And it was very hard. It was very difficult. It probably took me hours upon hours of just researching and looking things up. So I have done the hard work for you guys. So it will save you countless hours of looking things up, looking up costs of everything, trying to find the best, you know, deals, the best sales. Because different rep companies have different products and different things for sales. So I talk about all of that. But in module four, so there are four modules all together. But in module four, I am going to be uploading. So it's still being updated. But I will be uploading pretty much all of the paperwork that you need to have for your own practice. So this is paperwork that I have. So all of the products that I use, we have to, you know, pretty much put that all down and have that on records somewhere. Obviously this isn't everything, but this is a good chunk of it so far. It will probably take me another few weeks to do because I do have a lot of products. But yeah, so a lot of products here. So even if you have the same disinfectant that I have, you can actually upload all of the sheets from here. Or if you're starting your own practice and you don't really know which ones to purchase. Well I can make the hard work a lot easier for you by, you can just use everything that I'm using. Because let me tell you, I did a lot of research for the best sales. Pretty much the best deals everywhere. You know, I don't know how to say it, but I did look for ways to save money wherever possible. So here is just an example of that. But I will also be uploading my own dental hygiene office manual. So let me show you that too. I'm just going to pause the recording for one moment. Okay, here we go. So this is my dental hygiene office manual because if you didn't know, you have to have your own manual, which has pretty much everything in it. So this is just a certain part of it where I will be printing all of this and be putting it in a file folder somewhere. But right now I'm just working on all of the products that I do have. It can be very overwhelming once again. But if you happen to use the same products that I use, well you can use this manual for yourself. Just make sure to obviously change out my name here and put your name in there because you don't want it to say my office name, right? You want it to say your office name, but you can use this, you know what? Absolutely. But I'm just going to kind of show you guys what I've done. So what I've done is any of the products that I do have, I just sort of put what it is. I put the link of where to find it and also a little picture of it too.   So the product info sheet is right here. Now actually now that I'm showing you guys this, can I upload a file to this sheet too? You must be able to, right? You know what? I'm going to look into that a little bit. But even at the very least is I would put a link which I actually am going to do right now. So what I'm going to do is files located here. So this is kind of for my reference too. So you can use the exact same thing. So if you're ever audited, as I said, knock on wood. Oh, I took out the link. So I'm going to get that link afterwards and then I'm just going to copy and paste it right here. So then that way, as I said, again, if you're ever audited, knock on wood. You can just bring them back to this page and they can download all of this if they want to. But I do have all of this printed as well. So I'm going to print it on a separate sheet of paper too, just so I'm doing everything that I'm supposed to be doing. So there's a couple of things happening, but I'm going to update that in a second. But as you guys can see, let me just kind of run through this a little bit. I have everything that you need. Well, I don't have everything yet because it's still being updated. But the point of this course is every time I am going to order something, I'm going to put it in here. So that way I have the product info. I have the link to it too, because that's what people need to see. And it's kind of a good reference for me as well, actually, so that if I wanted to reorder something, then I can just go here and then kind of have a look. So I just kind of have a couple of things there. But what I also did was, sorry guys, if it's kind of messy, I'm going to show you guys another thing. I am starting to write down all of the products that I have. Trust me, there's a lot more, but I'm just starting that now. I put down the price of what I paid and then the quantity. So when I need to reorder or if I'm comparing prices, I can do that. So I will share this with you guys too because I think most of my research when I first started was just looking at different prices and seeing what company offered the best price, waiting for things to go on sale, and then I would buy more of that item that was on sale. And I did learn a lot, a ton of things. As an example, when I first purchased my Statham for $8,000, I was lucky because it did come with the starter kit. But if I purchased that by itself, it would have been $477.99. So I actually saved a ton of money. So it did help to kind of look at all of this. And as I said, if I ever need to reorder something, I can check to see how much I paid for it. And then if another company is having things on sale, then I can order it from them instead. So you can use this also. So I will be uploading this too once I'm done. And then you can use it also because I just want to save you guys time. I want to save you guys money. So this is inside the Mobile RDH Academy. You have everything here. I will leave the link for that for you guys on the bottom if you're not inside the course yet. But yeah, as you guys can see, tons of stuff is taking the hours upon hours. But it was kind of fun for me because I like to be organized and I like to be able to see what's happening. So I hope this helps. I hope it makes sense. If you guys have any questions, please let me know. And thank you guys so much for watching.


Hello people, welcome back to another Autie Time Live. I have been absolutely awful with keeping up to date with these live streams, so I am glad to be back today. If you're joining in from the YouTube side of things, you will notice that my green screen is not working, and that's because OBS is deciding to be particularly irritating today, so yeah. Hello Lola, how are you doing? Let's see a Hello Books Writes draw. Hello Nida, how's it going? So I'll wait a little bit until people start settling in a bit more. This week's been a bit sort of up and down for me I would say, just a little bit weakly kind of checking. I have been trying to get myself back in the routine of doing work for like quite at least like a couple of months now, so I'm still trying to iron out like what is good for me to do or not. I've spent a lot of days this week pretty sleepless I would say. I'm not having enough sleep, it's just more like my sleep routine is just all over the place at the moment. Huge house, thank you. Hello Angela, nice to see you. Hello Bertodkami. And hi from Sweden and the gym. Hello, Aksaren. You guys are funny. Right, so usually what the process is for these live streams and I know I haven't done them in a while. I'll be likely like quite a few people who have come in, some like new followers and stuff like that. So basically this is an opportunity to ask me any questions about like the content that I'm putting out or if you've got any particular questions that I haven't covered in my content that you can jump in. Ask me questions, no wrong questions although I will use my own personal discretion to decide which ones to answer. Sorry to hear that you're having trouble. Yeah well it's, you know, I mean I can't really complain a lot of stuff is going well for me at the moment so it's just about trying to remind myself that when I'm going through a rough patch. I'm always very honest about how I feel like I'm not going to jump on to a live stream and like just like say hey guys I'm feeling great today. This week's been amazing. It's been a movie-esque experience, worthy of online content. No, I'm definitely not that kind of person. Thank you very much Mr. Austin. You're a member for nine months. Oh my god. EG. Thank you so much dude. How is your live stream going? Hello Mr. Joshua Jean. Nice to see you. Our hydration manager. Why is it so hard to start adding new habit when autistic? I find that in general once I'm in the flow of like a specific habit or routine I'm pretty good with it. It is quite hard to break it once I have it and also like starting up something new is always going to be somewhat of like a transition. There's always going to be some unknown sort of elements to it. You're not really always going to know what to expect in every way and even if it's not necessarily the largest of changes with like a lot of potential negatives.  So it's kind of the thing that I say about going to the gym and this probably like applies to everybody. Not just autistic people, you know. It's always going to be hard starting something. Once you're in the flow of it, it becomes a lot more easy, I would say. Yeah. Probably doing some horror game to every out to this weekend. Very cool. I am thinking of playing a few horror games on live stream in place of Reanscape. Although I do want to do a couple of Reanscape and Chill sessions at some point. I feel very nervous and stressed about Christmas. I gave that every year is exhausting to me. My mum has similar thoughts about Christmas and such. She really enjoys it and she wants it to be the best that it can be. And sometimes that puts a lot of pressure. Slender man. I was thinking more some like, I don't know. I used to watch some streams of, like I do watch them now and again of like Markiplier. So I find him to be, I don't know. There's not many like people that I can watch and just like receive consistent hits of like serotonin. But he just makes me laugh so much. So I was thinking of playing like, I think they've made some updates to it like SCP Containment Breach. Because at the moment my bedtime routine is very much like, you know, I'll do a bit of agility on Reanscape. Some mindless thing that I can just kind of focus on. And I listened to SCP stories on YouTube. I've earned them quite relaxing even though they can be a little bit graphic sometimes. I used to watch Markiplier a lot. Yeah, me too. It's like, it's not a consistent thing. But now and again, yeah, totally. How are you doing today? I just did a big talk to a drug and alcohol charity yesterday at a head teachers conference as well about some lived experiences for autism. Very, very good area to talk on. 100% there is a lot of, you know, crossovers between autism, mental health, but also with like, as you said, things related to like alcohol and stuff. So good on you. That is really cool. I mean, sort of on a similar topic, I have actually recorded a podcast today for any people waiting on when my next podcast is going to be. I think it's probably been like three months since the last time that I produced one. But it's going to be the start of season three, which is going to be kind of a new, I guess, chapter, I suppose. And I interviewed Miyabi Shields PhD on Instagram if you want to go check him out. And we were talking about autism and medical cannabis and stuff in the in the US. It was a really interesting topic to talk about. I'll survive for starting new habit when autistic. I'm trying to try to keep the changes as minimal as possible. I'm going through things because if you try and change, there is a sort of a. At least a feeling for me that I just want to like change as many things as possible in a short period of time. But definitely take it slow, you know, and maybe try and implement some at the same time, maybe try and implement some like self care related things. There was there was like a piece of content that I watched recently on YouTube that was talking about like a specific form of breathing. I can't remember the name of it, but it's it's basically a lot to do of like sort of the pressure on your your heart and stuff. It's kind of like activates and deactivates your sympathetic and person parasympathetic nervous system, depending on whether you're inhaling or exhaling. So the technique is basically on you're supposed to be like sat down for this. But if you can do it like just a little bit or even flight five minutes, it does show immediate and long term effects on like reducing anxiety, which is a note. It's kind of like one of those things, you know, it's like psychotherapists are always talking about breathing techniques and it can get a bit like patronizing at some point. But it has a measurable difference for me, to be honest. So basically what you do is you just you basically take a sharp inhale, like as much as you can really as quickly, I'll probably do it.  So you go like, it does actually work. You know, I found that it does kind of it doesn't it's not like a life changing about anxiety reduction. But it definitely works for me because it's I can feel the effects almost instantly. I fall asleep to creepypasta and horror stuff. Yeah, me too. Hello everyone to and doing particularly good today that is good to hear my official diagnosis or HD Tuesday of this week. And 46 I welcome the service bunny to help wait for my service Labrador dog in June. Congratulations. Congratulations. Really like to do that stuff. I used to work in like alcohol and SA prevention. That's really interesting Austin. I just came to the autistic realization today that whenever I look at my phone contacts, I get a massive wave of anxiety. They relate and we do have again, always forever helpful. Mr. Joshua G. Williamson with a hydration reminder, hydration manager of the the live stream. You should get those hydration gains and say this every time. But like, I think it's useful for autistic people. But like for me as well, I forget to drink when I do these things. So very helpful. Have you ever had any pets? Yeah.  I've grown up with like lots of different dogs like in my life. You know, it's.  He's called Bob jet black mongrel from the shelter. Beautiful, beautiful dog. I loved him so much. He lived quite a long time actually mongrels do tend to be that way sometimes. Yeah, I love pets. I think they're great. I just executive function for myself is already quite difficult. So I'll have to be like in a good mental space to be like, you know, feel confident in being able to care for another animal. I just forget to eat me too, especially when I'm working. Mr Austin with a gifted sub for Jordan Wilson. Thank you very much for that. Mr Austin, your grand. Make sure to say thank you if you can, Jordan, Jordan, Jordan. Any progress in the gym you're proud of? Not just new gains or personal best any anything even had spaces and consistency at the moment. I'm going three times a week, which is working for me at the moment because I've been doing it hard for like a long time. And I kind of want to take a bit more time for myself to do things that I enjoy other than the gym. So I've been doing that. I mean, I'm three times a week and it's been going pretty good. And yeah, I mean, just all around progress, I would say. I'm trying to try to grow the old peck muscles at the moment. It's always been like a lagging body part for me. Seeing some some progress there. I'm nice at Freddy's. Yeah, I've heard of that. I made HD. Would you say that say when it comes to being obsessed with something with autism, there's a honeymoon phase. And then that obsession gradually cools off after a while. It depends some some interest that I have a very much like long standing passions. Whereas they do have little things on the outside that tend to be like hobby related that I do dip into now and again. Most of them are quite consistent, I would say, though.  I do like doing new things and such kind of makes life a bit more interesting sometimes when I can handle it. But most of my life is pretty consistent. You know, I do the things I enjoy pretty, pretty consistently to to explain certain challenges with executive functioning. Yeah. I am very vocal about this. I'm not the best. I'm not going to lie. It's always been a difficulty for me. I was going to Hello Readly. I was good. And I just says I was going to university doing a degree in addiction and social work before I went in burnout spiral and lost my job at 21 years in hospital. Now I'm redefining myself. Your shells helped me by the way. And I thank you for sharing your experience as well. Is it something that you're utilizing sort of in daily life at the moment or in your professional life? I do this too. It's called sigh breathing. There you go. You got it. You got it. You got it. You've got a dog in my profile picture called Floyd who I know nothing for it. Looks very cute. I like medium sized dogs. My favorite. Find my pets help me emotionally. But that's just me. Yeah, 100%. Like, although I think I think at some point, especially with like dogs that are really high energy. I do find it somewhat like I'm not always, I don't always have the ability to like have physical touch like such a large amount of time. I do find that sometimes animals that are very high energy and like needy. They can like set me off a little bit sometimes, I would say. I'm stuck at the routine going five to six times a week. That is cool. No, but I have a life. I mean, you can maintain that. As long as you're not going for like three hours at a time, you know, I think two and a half is where I where I cut it off for me. Any, any more than that. I'm like taking a look at myself and being like probably shouldn't probably shouldn't be here for that long. I have a day in 11 years amazing breed. Wow. He's a big dog. Isn't that great? Great Dana, I imagine. Wow. Would you say an obsession it cools off and then goes up again with Watson, but also variety helps with obsession. Both in keeping you interested and not letting it take over your life. Um, it depends what the obsession is because if it's like an obsession with content creation and autism, it's kind of somewhat good for it to semi take over my life to a certain extent. There are some things that have come into my life, which I have noticed as being like bad. And I just generally try to avoid that. Um, I mean that the variety I think is I don't think it's necessarily related to autism. I think it's just throughout my life. I've had the stuff and I like like new experiences and things and variety. But at the same time, my autistic temperament is somewhat like I like the certainty and routine. Like it makes me feel calm. Um, but when I feel able to push out my comfort zone, then I do, you know, not all the time. You know, side, side breathing is a very interesting one. I recommend trying it if you haven't already. Hello wiggly nice to see you. You have a pet pig? No way. What's it called? What are things out of your comfort zone that you do? Um, say meeting new people are trying out a different sport, trying out even like a different exercise at the gym, trying new food, um, playing a new game. Little things and sometimes big things. Uh, sometimes I do feel like I want to make like do like big sort of adventurous things, but it does come around like once in a blue moon, 100% a pet pig. Yes. Awesome. I'm curious. Do you think social changes or changes in social expectations when it comes to living with parents? Helpful with mental health, especially when autistic. Yeah, I mean, there was a lot of stuff out there which has, um, there was a lot of negative social connotations to like living with parents that a lot of people talk about, you know, criticize, make fun of, um, just in general. And I feel that this goes for a lot of online content is not necessarily geared towards like an autistic population. And I'm guilty of forgetting that sometimes as well, like solving about neurotypical expectations and even with mental health to a certain extent, you know, if your executive function is not a point where it's manageable. Um, or in my case it is manageable, but then if I have a dip, then I do need support. So it's, you know, it's one of those things. Um, and I think even when speaking about just generally people like the housing market and stuff in the UK is just like very difficult to get into. I would say, you know, so there's a lot of factors in it. And I definitely, if you are in that position, I would not feel shame about it. You know, it's, um, it's not really something that you can control, but what you can control is like making, making small steps towards that. If that's something that would make you happy and something that your parents might want as well.  Pig is a pair. They're pretty intelligent, you know. Digital Cato says gotta go, but just came see, I love martial arts as you do. And I love that you put out content out there for us. No worries. Well, thank you for coming on and saying hi. Much appreciated. Thank you, Ikra for buying a badge supporting the Instagram stream. That's appreciated. Do you do martial arts? Yeah, I used to compete for Britain at a couple of events. Most notably the Commonwealth championship where I got a gold medal in Taekwondo. That's what I did. And it says, yep, for now, I'm doing my best to handle everyday struggles with executive function, but I feel like I'm about to be ready to do a public coming out in the form of a channel maybe. Let's see. Sounds very interesting. Where are the hundreds of millions of pounds supposedly spent in accordance to the 2009 autism act actually being spent? Any of them are still everywhere, even GPs? Yeah. Well, I think it's like the prescription of what information is put out there is questionable even now. So like back then, I imagine that I say back then, it's like it's not that long ago, but I haven't really read into much of like the policy sort of economic side of it. But that's why I would imagine, you know, which pieces of information and education have been pushed and what agendas, you know. I don't know if you've already been asked, but what is your daily routine? At the moment, it's very chaotic, I would say. I'm not really putting myself in the best routine, stable, certain routine at the moment. But usually I'll go to bed pretty like sit and to work quite well in the evenings. So I'll probably go to bed at like 1, 2 a.m. Usually get about eight hours sleep, do a bit of work on my phone from my bed. Get up, obviously do my videos and whatever I need to do during the day. And then I go to the gym a couple of hours. Usually I have two of my dad. I give him like a free PT session. He gives me like free food. And yeah, I do about work. And that's pretty much me for the day. I'm either working or at the gym usually. I do try and get some socializing in there. I don't need that much, but no, at least a couple of days during the week, you know, 100%. What does this stream about? Well, it's about anything to do with autism, mental health, self-improvement, fitness, personal questions, anything that you want to ask. It's like a Q&A with a green background, which is receiving no use at the moment. Also, there be shame if you want, instead of living on your own, you want to contribute to the household, like helping with expenses. Yeah, 100%.  I definitely contribute to the bills and some of the things around the house and such. So, I mean, I think the only thing that would encourage me to, well, the reason why I'd want to sort of move out is, you know, to have my own space and that kind of thing.  It can be a fine balance. I don't want to be putting myself into the deep end if it's going to impact me negatively. So, you know, it's still on the way to that. But green is nice. It's true. Thanks for sharing. No worries. Wendy, did you decide to say that you were autistic? What things change with people around you? I was diagnosed when I was 10 years old. So, I used to say that I was autistic. Secondary school didn't. University, when I started listening to other autistic people talk about their experiences, watch YouTube videos and more or less get into the world of autism. That's when I kind of decided that, you know, I feel comfortable myself and it just kind of comes up as naturally a conversation and people ask me what I do. I'm like, I do autism stuff. I don't say that, but, you know, people decided for me that I was autistic as soon as I was diagnosed at secondary elementary school. May I ask, have you received any hate messages or trolls by sharing your thoughts, experiences and opinions? Yeah, 100%.  And they, you know, comment or make assumptions about my personality and who I am. Little things like that, but also, I think as well, like, I'm kind of one of those people that I'm, I mean, I think most people would say it about themselves, but I don't necessarily ascribe myself to like particular thoughts or ideas or opinions that sit within like a certain group. So if I, if I don't think similarly to the groups that I would be in, then I will obviously talk about it. You know, generally that does open me up to be somewhat trolled or criticized or called all sorts of names. But generally, I don't really get much hate from like, you know, particularly like ableist sort of language. I don't really get that. I haven't really seen much of that, to be honest. It's mostly from over autistic people generally or like autism parents. That's where I tend to get it. Would you say that people can learn martial arts on their own? You can, yeah. You won't be able to learn how to fight though. You can definitely learn how to do the things, but actual like combat is, you know, you need experience to some degree to know how to fight.  Like watch some YouTube videos, try and replicate it, try and make your own program. And sure, why not? I mean, that's how I learned how to box. And then when I did like a year's worth of boxing training to our region in Sweden as a separate part of school that is just for people with ADHD. Interesting. I'm 40 and after I crashed was undiagnosed. I moved in and share a house with my parents. Yeah, I mean, if you have a good relationship with your parents, I don't see what the issue is. It only seems to be a real issue like in Western society. Like in other societies like perhaps more in the East. It's a pretty common place. People just have a lot of like social judgments on your character as a person. Even if you're doing it just because it makes you happier and you like it and your parents also enjoy having you around. It's kind of like, what is the issue? You know, after my diagnosis at 14, I thought telling people I had Asperges would be seen would be the same as saying I'm blind. I lost the social stigma around it. That is that is very true. Yeah, and if you got people and you say you're autistic. People can jump to all sorts of assumptions about what you're actually saying because of the variance and like how educated people are around it. You know, it can be it can be sometimes a difficult, difficult line to walk. And every time that you say it, you never truly sure what the other person is going to react to. React with rather, you know, I mean, I would say I would say when when it comes to like even things like dating, you know. Some people you say that you're autistic and it's kind of like, oh, that's fine.  They don't even want to like understand it or they're just like, nope. You get you got a similar sort of types of reactions from from people in all kind of circumstances, I would say. Not all circumstances, but you know, I mean, can be hard but having someone at home and help you and give you support and daily with daily things, giving you spaces great. Hmm.  Respected to a certain degree and the support that they give you support that you give them is agreed upon. And it's, you know, you don't overstep that, I suppose. I'm autistic, but it does not make all of me. Yeah, well, it's an aspect of who you are as a human. Yeah. Exactly. Well, it's I'd say it's a pretty significant aspect, but you know, beyond autism, I am a human being. You know, 100%. So great. It's not something to be ashamed of. Yeah. So it's a quite common in Filipino society years. Near a few people met a few Filipinos when I traveled to the Philippines, of course. So chatting to them about their daily life and stuff. They they're very stoic, I would say. That was one thing that struck me. Extremely stoic and put together.  Those that hate obviously help themselves imagine having all that negativity. I think some people just they like to make assumptions and like dunk on people. Right. I don't even think sometimes it's like as deep as that. They just they're so used to doing that. They're just like, oh, what's my gut reaction? Five seconds of content. What do I think? What do they look like? What do I think that they're trying to come across us? You know, so many possibilities for it.  You know, it's kind of like, okay, that's a bit rude. It doesn't, it doesn't necessarily like affect me. Like the things that do affect me is like people that I care about, which I think is normal. And I think not caring about what your loved ones think about you is not a good thing to a certain extent. My parents financially supported me as I've never been able to work. Many people have shamed me for this, but I able society makes it hard to support ourselves. I mean, it's, you know, it's a whether you want to categorize it as a medical or social, social kind of model disability. It is, it is a disability in the society that we're in. And what is financial support and benefits for if not to like support people who can't necessarily financially sort of support themselves. You know, you'd be hard pressed to like figure out like who is deserving of it. You know, it's no, it shouldn't definitely be no, no late shame or stigma around that. You know, people don't understand it. It kind of, I mean, specifically my experiences that people see my outward presentation, you know, as someone who has done a lot of public speaking and like podcasts and videos and you know, I try and speak like a lot of my life is speaking. They see my outward presentation of being competent in those areas. And they assume that I'm competent in other areas just equally, which is not the case. You know, I tried to that's why I tried to be honest about it as much as possible, because I don't want to lead people on to think that like, you know, I just excel in like every area of my life. You know, there are specific things which I do. But, you know, it's not, it's not like everything, I would say. I think it would be a bit misleading to say, you know, I don't know. There's some people that like sell courses and stuff and they're kind of like, my life is great. I've got every single aspect of my life pulled together all the time. Wake up at like 5am, crack a dawn. I do 30 minutes of mindfulness meditation and a gym and a 30 minute hit workout. And then I have like a specific washing and drying system that I can walk in and it does all of that for me and puts a suit and tie on me. He's got everything sorted out. They kissed their wife or their husband. Goodbye in the morning and they have quality time in the evening. It's like, okay, well, fair enough. I mean, if you can do that, go for it. But, you know, life's not as straightforward as that. You know, it's just not for the majority of us. There's a lot of different aspects and a lot of it actually that we can't necessarily control. You know, there is a heavy aspect of that and it's not good to focus on the things that we can't control. But it's definitely sensible to, I guess, tell yourself that now and again, especially when needed. Make sure to respect my parents who chose around the house. That is awesome. What's wrong with intergenerational living? 100%. What's your self-esteem like? I'd say that at this point in my life, it's pretty healthy. It definitely does fluctuate depending on external circumstances sometimes and perhaps due to internal circumstances related to mental health. But I'd say that it's pretty normal, I would say. You know. Sometimes it's better, sometimes it's bad. It's nothing to write home about, I would say. But when I was younger, it used to be pretty significantly lower all the time. That would be great, yeah. They don't see what happens afterwards and how much you prepare yourself in advance. That is very true. I don't share now, as a late diagnosed person, I've had some bad experiences with professionals. I'm sorry to hear that. Yeah.  Yeah, I mean, the most problematic thing I find with those situations where, you know, bad professionals is that they don't necessarily listen to me as a human being who has the ability to analyze and, like, perceive and process parts of my life. They see me as, like, a problem. Like, my brain's a problem, and so my suggestions aren't necessarily digested and taken into account properly. Because they know what's best, so they're like, do this, do this, do this, I'm like. Thanks, tried that, done that. That doesn't work for me. What else do you have? Well, maybe if you just put a bit more umph into it, you know. So, Jesus Christ. Oh my God. Have you watched any animation or Korean dramas? No Korean dramas, but I do love anime. It was one of the reasons why I got into doing Taekwondo when I was younger. One of my first role models, I would say. I didn't really identify with many people. There are typical individuals in the sort of celebrity arenas. I didn't really have anything like that. But anime characters, 100%. They literally don't know how to treat me, and they had to fully avoid me, and I was not good. There's a lot of judgments towards those who struggle with independence, you know. But independence can work well, 100%. I think, I feel like a lot inside of hearing people really striving for independence to a point where it becomes somewhat negative. You know, you think of perhaps like romantic relationships. You know, having some level of interdependence is important. And even if you are the most independent person out there, you are still heavily dependent on like other people through some means. Whether it be like sewer systems or like toilets. I don't know why I'm thinking of that. Clean water, food, you know. We're all one big social network. I relate when I was younger, my mood and self-esteem was awful. Mostly due to other people. Before I got into secondary school, it wasn't an issue. But you know, when people start to surpass you to a noticeable and significant degree in terms of understanding like neurotypical social communication, then it does become an issue for me being autistic. Just because of the environment, I would say. And that really does like, you struggle to make friends, you struggle to like, you know, pursue any love interests and such.   Just life in general, I would say. You know, sort of thin slice judgments as people call them. A very, very common thing I experience. Oh, by the way, guys, if you are liking the stream, make sure to like it. If you can, that would be great. I know some people join in like without YouTube accounts, which is cool. So good. If you can, that would be great. Would you say that you have a sweet tooth? Yeah. Yeah. Just a little bit. Not saying that I've eaten the entire box. Just a couple today. I do love sweets. It used to be pretty, pretty addicted to sugar when I was younger. It's like a coping mechanism, but it's pretty manageable at the moment. Within nine months I was diagnosed. I received financial help. I still can't believe that the system and currently in the UK is supporting people like me from the outside to look pretty normal. I feel so weird. Yeah. And there can be a lot of like imposter syndrome around that. I know quite a few autistic people in my own life who reject the idea of getting financial support because they don't feel like they deserve it. And it's kind of a fine line to walk because if you're struggling to work because you're different to other people and you can't handle it and your mental health is bad then. I think sometimes you just got to bite the bullet. The only issue with getting things like PIP, Personal Independence Payment and Benefits and such like that is you've got to really highlight and detail extensively what you struggle with and that is a really difficult thing to do. Especially if you maintain like a healthy level of self-esteem. I've been to some things like that and I felt like internally different about myself afterwards. It's not the best experience but it can be very useful. My friends didn't know until I told them. We were friends for 10 years. Wow. What do you say is helpful in a workplace or school? Less noise and light? Yeah, dinner switches. Allowing students to wear earbuds, tongue glasses, things of that nature. If they struggle with the school uniform allow them to deviate from that. Very simple things. I'd say that more of a zoomed out widespread approach that I would like to see more of is peer mediated intervention. Teaching other children about autism so that it's not so mysterious and perhaps... Some kids don't really understand the behaviour of other kids who are autistic and that can be sometimes quite worrying and scary for them and you can't really blame them because they don't really understand it. So having a little bit of that in primary school and also a lot of work around preventing bullying perhaps and discrimination in school can be... What I think is a very important thing. Thank you Mons Wiggly. Too bad I'm for the sweeter for more sweets. Thank you very much. What sweets should I get? I don't know. I felt like I've had my fill today. Maybe I might have a... I've got my chocolate Christmas calendar going at the moment. Going down at midnight just to get the next day's chocolate. I'm pretty good with it. I can somewhat stick to the designated days. Should I tell my friends I have autism? It's a hard one for me to say because my gut reaction is to say yes. I'd definitely be prepared in a sense to explain to them or at least have some resources that you can send them if you do decide to. It can be quite good because as I said some of the negative things that you might experience they might be able to help with a bit better. But then again it can go the other way depending on what your friends are like. So it's hard to say. Ideally they would know and it wouldn't be an issue. But I know what some people can be like so I don't want to say yeah go for it. I had friends but they're super stressed for too much confusion and over-stimulation. We're taking this help and post-syndrome looks to digest me to accept about myself and this label. I was 40 years struggling alone. I'm sorry to hear that Anna. And us, yeah. It makes me really sad to hear that because I know what being lonely and isolated can be for like two or three years. That was like a lot for me. It sounds awful. I'm glad that you're kind of turning things around. Sort of making some changes and stuff. It's good to hear. Even if it's just about like your perspectives on things it's, you know, being kind to yourself is super important. Totally agree Ari other people. It's very problematic saying this. It's the result of us not taking responsibility. I do have issues with family of origin but not with progressive friends. Hello, Kingdell Clark and Antonio. I don't know why I said it in that accent. Antonio. You probably an awful lot of really interesting questions. Spokes write draw. I much appreciate it. Austin says my friends predicted I was autistic before I was officially diagnosed. Yeah, friends can be good in that way I suppose. In some respects if they're doing it in a nice way I guess. I mean this stigma is definitely one of the biggest barriers to people pursuing something like that. It's not got the best social stigma attached to it I would say. Do you think you need to be independent of any negative connotations depending on anyone? I'm not sure I know what you mean. I feel my executive function is pretty affected since two years ago. I was diagnosed with autism four months ago. I wondered if autism could cause such impairment in the executive function. 100%. Yeah, it can. I mean it's usually kind of from what I've seen. It's usually associated with ADHD and a lot of stuff that I've seen. But it is very common with autistic people too. 100%. Also that with like a like sub-Immur is another thing that's quite common for us autismies. Can definitely impact like decision making and sort of in the moment sort of. Also like when it comes to like regulating yourself sometimes. If you struggle to like notice how you're feeling. You might be a little bit late in terms of like implementing some regulation. Also time like you get into like a state of autistic inertia and hyper focus. You know obviously that's gonna like if you really focused on all that stuff.  If you can get that kind of support just take it. You might just need it for a while to all your stronger and you build yourself a new foundation. Exactly. Like you don't have to like the benefits and the financial support. It's not necessarily like. If you feel strongly like you want to like support yourself and you can and you do have the ability to. And it's you know and it will just be like a. Sort of a transitional thing like nothing wrong with having that just to get you on your feet and. Reduce anxiety allow you to like focus on stuff and come at things in a more stable state of mind. Then others yeah I mean why not like if it's going to help you. What's your favorite sweet. I like the old school jelly belly beans. You know like the classic ones I see a lot of the gourmet ones around. Not to too much of a fan of the gourmet ones but the like original ones you get like a pick and mix like scoop. You can like fill up like a jelly bean thing. Beautiful. Every recently got new friends and I don't know if I should tell them should I again like not too sure. Depends on your friends. There is always a possibility that when you tell people people have a negative reaction to it. It's just and there is also a possibility when you tell people that people will be like oh that makes sense. Like I have never thought about that or yeah I actually did think that you were a little bit different. You just got to be prepared for the mixed bag of reactions that you can get and you can't always tell.  You know confident yourself in the right to self advocate and be who you are. That kind of stuff it becomes a little bit easier to move past if it people have negative reactions because it's a little bit more ingrained in yourself you know you feel more confident about yourself cat person or dog person. I used to be heavily like not liking cats but I've only had really bad experiences with them. There was this one cat in Thailand that I used to train with the Thai team when I was in Thailand obviously. And at the end of each session I would sit down to do my stretches and there was always this one cat that came up to me after the session and just like sat in between my legs while I was doing the box splits. And it was a wonderful cat and that cat changed my perception. Thanks for clarifying I actually have ADHD and autism. Yeah it's one of those things isn't it? It's like there's a lot of crossovers between the two and you know sometimes it's hard to like separate the two out when there's so much crossover. I'm going to show my friends your recent post also my fan because they don't understand meltdown sometimes. Yeah that's a big one. Especially if people don't understand like the reactions that people can have and like the personality traits that they attribute to you after having a meltdown. I can very much like shift the dynamic in like particular social relationships which is not the best. I mean for me I've experienced a lot of like shame over it and stuff when I've had them in public. A little bit more okay about it now but you know people make judgments. You can try as much as you can to not let other people's judgments around you affect you but you do you know it's just natural. Being in a state where you can't control yourself as much and perhaps a little bit more vulnerable you're just going to kind of feel that sense I suppose. It'd be nice if we didn't. Yeah. Stereotypical. You don't look autistic. Again for a diagnosis at the moment it's hard. I thought it'd be straightforward but it's not. Sometimes my family thinks I'm crazy for having meltdowns but they don't understand.  Particularly because of that. Like I say oh you've got an anger issue. You're crazy. You've got schizophrenia. They have those kind of assumptions I suppose. Not to use crazy in a drug or two way. Vulnerable individuals and society should always be supported shouldn't even be a discussion. Yeah. Yeah it's true. Got disability after several burnouts and a couple of breakdowns. Could no longer work. Yeah. I've had a few experiences like that. Antonio asks would it be okay to feel annoyed if you mention it to someone and they're just like I totally believe it. It depends if they're being condescending. Well I know you. I guess so maybe. I mean it's definitely not like the worst response that you can get in the world. What about lonely travelling to totally different countries? I've been alone a few months in Peru. Now it feels like a different person so much stimulation there. Sometimes they need to go somewhere far. Yeah I mean Thailand. Living in Thailand was kind of like that for me. I think one thing that living abroad taught me is that the way that society is in like the place that I live or the country that I live is like the social rules and things of that nature. They're not consistent everywhere in the world. There's some things about British society that I like and some things about Thai society that I like and the same like negatives perhaps. It's just kind of realising that there's a lot of different variation in the social worlds of different countries and cultures. And some cultures actually like a lot more of their social rules and social normative values are like pretty in keeping with autism. I imagine that like the diagnosis rate is going to be a little bit less common in those countries. BPD and autism can look very similar on the surface. There's a significant current, yeah, 100%. They just miss meltdowns as tantrums, yeah. How often do you experience meltdowns and shutdowns? I'd say probably about 20% of the time in a social situation or a new place. Just in general, not too much at the moment, but it's very tied to my levels of anxiety just generally. So recently, actually I've been pretty good when it comes to like implementing breaks and sort of relaxation stuff. So it's not been too bad. I think it's been like a few months since I've had one, which is good for me. Sometimes I feel like I have to be a people pleaser for everyone just to be accepted. Yeah, I get that feeling as well. I mean, masking in general is very kind of people pleasery, I would say. Just to a certain extent, depends what you use it for, of course, but you know, if you're using it to like avoid negative situations, it's not like that.  Well, guys, I'm probably going to have to sign off for tonight. It's been really, really fun. I'm going to go do something with one of my friends. I'm going to go for like a joint workout, which should be good. Going to do an upper body day. Did likes yesterday, which went pretty well actually actually enjoyed it, which is weird. But really, really great questions guys. Thank you to books rights draw specifically for the amazing questions. And also to Mr. Joshua G for the hydration reminders and all you lovely people for asking questions and being so nice and great as usual. And thank you to Mums Wiggly and Austin Henshaw for the support and Iqra, of course. And I'll hopefully see you next week. Friday. If you're an Insta, go check out my YouTube stuff. If you're on YouTube, go check out my Insta stuff. Alrighty. Yeah, I'm jealous you have such nice skin. I use Dematica, the company Dematica for like the Tretino and stuff. This is preventative like skincare if you're interested. All right. See you guys later. Merry, Merry Christmas here. Well, I probably do a live stream closer to Christmas day. So maybe wait, actually what? What is next week? Yeah. Yeah. 20 seconds. I'll do one. All right, guys. Take care. See you later. 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So, today we are going to conduct a cat dissection, and really this is to isolate the muscles in the cat. So, in order to do this, there's certain equipment that is needed, first of all protective equipment, so that includes lab coat, gloves, goggles. The fixative that's used to preserve these cats is toxic, and so having an area that is ventilated and having that eye protection and skin protection is also very important. In terms of physical equipment, obviously the cat tray, where the cat is going to be laying, the utensils that will be used will be a blunt tipped large forceps, a probe, again blunt tipped scissors, as well as a scalpel. So, in dissecting the cat, you can notice that the skin has already been removed from the cat. So, at this level, we're looking at the remaining connective tissue, and we can even begin to see some underlying muscular tissue. So, in order to really isolate the muscles, it's important to remove that connective tissue. And so the connective tissue that is really important to get rid of is the loose connective tissue, and in particular the adipose tissue, which is the fat, as well as the areolar connective tissue, which is a loose connective tissue that is important in nourishing the skin, because it's highly vascular, it has lots of blood vessels, and that is important because epithelial tissue does not have its own blood supply. So, in removing this connective tissue, one of the techniques is instead of pinching perpendicular to the surface of the cat, I use the technique where I pinch on using the side of the forceps and moving in the direction of the tissue so as to remove it. So, I'm really just going to start from an area where there seems to be a lot of connective tissue and then proceed working from the anterior down to the posterior. I'll start on the ventral side and then work my way to the dorsal side. So, just as an example of what this tissue looks like, if I can get a close-up, you can see right here in the back, there is adipose tissue and it's a yellow tissue and it's just fat, and so that is something that has to be removed and it looks like this cat was not very fat, it was rather lean cat, so there's not very much adipose tissue, but what is there needs to be removed. And then the areolar tissue, I can point out later as it becomes a little bit more evident what that tissue is, but the goal of removing the tissue is to reveal the muscle fibers and so you can tell that the way that these muscle tissues is arranged is in fascicles and those fascicles are, they end up creating a striped pattern in the muscle and so that's the level that we want to remove the connective tissue.  So I'm just going to try to proceed and again working with the side of the forceps and just removing the connective tissue. You can see it comes off relatively easily, so I'm just working to remove this connective tissue and the thing with the loose connective tissue is that it doesn't take much to remove it. You see how easily that comes off and that's how you know you haven't gotten down to the muscular level, which is again another reason why I like to use the side of the forceps as opposed to grabbing like this because when I do that I've now got a hold of some muscle and I don't want that. So just continue to remove this connective tissue and actually we'll get to a point where you can really use your hands. So the hands is another, using your fingers is another way to safeguard against getting too much muscle. So we're just removing this very loose and I'm not having to exert very much strength at all to remove that and actually I've just revealed some areolar tissue. So if you zoom in into this area right here you can see that it's somewhat spiderwebby and there'll be another example of that when we get down to the legs, but that's what we want to remove. So as soon as you can see the striping of that muscle tissue that's how you know you've gone as far as you need to go.  Now you might mistake this areolar tissue for skin, but it's not skin. This is connective tissue, which is very different from epithelial tissue, which is what skin is. So connective tissue is laying over top, serving kind of as a boundary between the muscle and the skin and this is what we are going to remove. So in using the scissors what we want to do is hold whatever it is that we're trying to cut with the blunt tip forceps and then use our scissors to cut. We never want to grab whatever the tissue is with our fingers and cut because then we run the risk of cutting our gloves or cutting our fingers. So that's why we use our blunt tip forceps really as our fingers and so I'm just following along at the point of connection and the utility of the blunt tip scissors is that you can actually use it to clear it out, clear this tissue off and disconnect it from the muscle as opposed to if they were fine tip scissors you might end up poking into the muscle. But with the blunt tip because they're rounded it's not going to catch and so I can have a smoother cut. So this is areola tissue, this is what we're removing so as to reveal the muscle underneath. So I'm just going to continue to remove that tissue so as to clear out the chest area. So now that the catch chest is pretty much clean as upper chest and upper arms are clean of the connective tissue you can begin to see the muscle pattern and how it's striped. And so that was the level of removal that we wanted to have with our connective tissue. So the next step is to delineate the muscles or isolate the muscles from one group to the next. And so what you'll notice in order to do this you really have to pay attention to the orientation of the fibers. So muscles have a point of origin and a point of insertion and those are really the attachment points for the muscle. So if you look closely and follow the direction that those muscle fibers are going you can kind of see here that these muscle fibers are striping and they're running along the horizontal. Whereas if you move down you can see that the striping or those muscle fibers are arranged in a different orientation so no longer are they traveling along the horizontal they now when we move here they're now traveling more along an angle. And so at that line where that transition occurs from the orientation along the horizontal plane to more of a diagonal that's where that separation between one muscle and another muscle is. And so this boundary is where we want to make our cut. Never do we want to cut along the point of origin or insertion. It's always along the side of the muscle so parallel to the orientation of those fibers. So I'm going to take my scalpel now being careful because these are very sharp. And then I also want to use my forceps just as grip. Again never wanting to put my finger in the area of where I'm going to be using the scalpel. So I'm just going to very carefully in one smooth motion create a line that is going to separate just following along the normal separation between these two muscles. And again that seems to be about there. So I'm just going to very carefully and sometimes it helps to create a little bit more tension in the muscle to get a good cut by stretching out and opening out the cat.  It's always better to err on the side of caution. And so then that creates a separation between one muscle group and another group. And so this is the upper boundary for this muscle. This is going to be the pectoralis major which is one of the muscles that we want to identify. And then I need to find the lower boundary for that muscle. And so for this I'm going to set the scalpel down. And for this it takes a little bit more close evaluation. So if you can see and I'll use the probe these muscle fibers there's a separation here. And this doesn't always happen but we're actually quite fortunate in this case. There's a clear separation and you can see that because of the connective tissue in between these two muscles. The separation between what is the pectoralis major and the pectoralis minor. So this is the major, this is the minor. And you can see this line here. And that represents the boundary between those two muscles. When we follow that all the way down we see that it connects or emerges at the sternum or the midline right around here. So that's where I'm going to make my cut for the lower boundary of the pectoralis major. Again just wanting to make smooth cuts. And so you can begin to see what is clearly an isolated muscle, the pectoralis major. So what I can do is go in and perhaps cut a little bit more deeply so as to better isolate this muscle. I might come back and do that and show how the muscle can be isolated both from muscles next to it and as well as underneath it. But I'm going to go ahead and move on and then isolate my pectoralis minor as well. So for the pectoralis minor this muscle, again looking to see where are the boundaries happening. Where can I see a change in the direction of the fibers? Or a line that will indicate a separation between the muscle. And actually for this cap it seems as though the pectoralis minor, the boundary of it is there. So this is the pectoralis major, this is the pectoralis minor. So I'm going to cut along that line. And sometimes it's good to outline using the probe first so that you can more clearly make the cut. So again just pressing down to create a nice taut surface for the cut. And then in just one smooth line perhaps following up for depth making that incision. We now have two muscles that we've been able to isolate. The pectoralis major and the pectoralis minor. And our division lines are here and here and here. So we have an upper border and a lower border for the pectoralis major. And then that same border that's the lower border for the pectoralis major is the upper border for the pectoralis minor. And then we have the lower boundary for the pectoralis minor. So these are the only two chest muscles that we are going to isolate. And you can do it for both sides, so for the cat's right side as well as the cat's left side. But instead of taking the time to isolate both of these superficial muscles, I'm going to designate one side as the superficial side and then the other side is going to be the deep side. Because there are some deeper chest muscles along the lateral side that we're going to need to isolate and they're going to require us having to cut into this area. So we aren't going to bother isolating these two muscles on the other side. So next, since we're already in the arms, then identify the biceps and the triceps. And the triceps are visible just on the surface, so this is one of the head groups of the triceps. The biceps, however, are underneath this muscle here. So this is going to require cutting across the midline of this muscle and reflecting the muscle back. So again, just for emphasis, the tricep is already revealed and the other head groups of that tricep are visible here. And so for the biceps, we are going to need to remove this top muscle. So in order to do that, we're going to create some incisions. And it's actually to get a better angle of this, I'm going to rotate the cat over to the dorsal side and make the incision where I see these two muscle groups. So I can see that there's this muscle group here and then the triceps kind of go underneath that. So what I want to do is just separate, go along this line and create an opening for that. So that's just enough of an opening so that now what I can do is take my probe and actually find where is this muscle on the underneath side. Alright, so I've been able to find kind of the access point in between the triceps and the muscle that lays over top that we're going to need to get around. So you can see how the probe has gone through to the other side. And that lets me know where the boundary is between this muscle here and the muscle that we're trying to bisect. So I'll kind of use that hole as my marker. And now, again cutting away from my body, just follow that line. And so now I've made an exit point. So now I can insert the probe here, reach over and it should come out over on the other side and indeed it will. So I'm actually just going to leave that probe inserted there to really help show where this muscle separation is. So you can see I've made the cut. And so now what I'm going to do, I'm going to again just leave the probe there because it's serving as an excellent marker. And I'm just going to make a cut to bisect this muscle. So I already know what the underneath part is because that's where my probe is running. And I can just make my cut all the way over to this side there. So I've been able to bisect that muscle and I'll clean it up just a little bit of the connective tissue. Alright, so we have bisected this muscle and if we reflect it back, then we can see now the biceps are revealed. So the biceps are a deep muscle. So you'll have to get to them by cutting the muscle that is superficial to them. Like I said, you can see the triceps here and so this is a sufficient reveal on this muscle. Alternatively, to see the entire group, this very, very thin superficial muscle can be removed. But I'm not going to because there's enough of a reveal on the tricep there. So we have the tricep, the triceps brachii, the biceps brachii and then we have here our pectoralis major, pectoralis minor. So those are the muscles in the chest and arms that we need. I'm now going to move down to the legs. And in the legs you can see that there's adipose tissue that needs to be removed as well as areolar tissue that needs to be removed. So you can see just how stretchy and spider webby that is. So again, using the technique of using the side of the forceps, I'm going to remove this connective tissue. So just get a better view of where these muscles are. And sometimes I'll close the forceps to kind of clear out a crevice without doing much damage. So that'll allow me to get in between this tissue or these muscles and really clear it out. And at some point you're going to run into blood vessels and you want to try to keep the blood vessels intact. However, if you need to cut one in order to clear out the tissue, that's fine. So again, using the hand can also be an efficient way of clearing out the tissue. But I now have a vessel that's attaching this tissue and so I'm just going to clip there and just kind of clean this up. And it looks like this muscle is pretty clean. Here's a really good shot of the areolar connective tissue. It's just super spider webby. That's what we want to have clear out. Again, another really good shot of areolar tissue. Now you don't want to go overboard and clean it up because the more connective tissue that's associated with the skin that I remove, the closer I get to the connective tissue, that's a part of maintaining the structure of the muscle. I really just want to get it to a point where I can see the pattern that these muscle fibers make. That's striped in appearance. So you can begin to see that in the leg. These really striped patterns. At this point I can begin to delineate and isolate these leg muscles. So they're again superficial muscles and deep muscles. So the superficial muscles up top we have the sartorias. So that's the anterior muscle here. And then the more posterior or in this perspective the more medial muscle is the gracilis. So they have sartorias and gracilis. And they are pretty well separated by these major blood vessels that run down the leg. So what I'm going to do is just make a very light cut right alongside of these vessels. And that's going to be the boundary between the sartorias and the gracilis. So now I can use my probe and just go along. And I can now isolate the sartorias and get underneath it and then see where it comes out on the other side. And there we are. So again we want to maintain the probe in this position because it's really going to help us know where we need to cut and where the separation is. You can see at the top of this muscle how it's already beginning to separate. So I just want to follow that separation. Again this is aerial artissue so it's really really easy. Again cutting away from me. And I don't want to go too far down because this is the insertion point. And if I go too far down I might just detach this muscle. So I want to leave it there. And then so now I have both boundaries of this muscle delineated and now I can isolate the sartorias. Now if I move over to the gracilis using the same cut that I made for the sartorias. The same strategy working the probe and seeing where this probe comes out. Let's see if we can't orient this with cap and the probe comes out there. So again I want to leave the probe in place to serve as a good indicator. And we're just going to follow the boundary that is created. Again this is loose connective tissue that's in between these muscles so it doesn't take very much at all to separate. So I'm going to clear out the connective tissue here just a little bit more. So I made a clear separation on either side and we now have the gracilis that's isolated. So because there are superficial and deep muscles I'm going to need to bisect these muscles to reveal the deep muscles underneath them. So I'm actually going to switch to the other side to do the deep muscles. I'm going to leave this side as my superficial side so that I can clearly see my sartorias and gracilis. Then I'm going to do the exact same thing that I did to the left side to the right side. What I want to do again just kind of work out to clear out that underneath connective tissue. I'm going to get the probe right at the kind of the midway point. Take my scissors. You could also do it with a scalpel. I just find it to be easier with the scissors and a little safer. And then just cut that muscle in half. Alright so then we reflect the muscle back and now I can reveal these deep muscles. And so underneath the sartorias are the muscles that make up the quadriceps. So there are four muscles and they are the vastus medialis, the rectus femoris, the vastus lateralis. And in between here is going to be the vastus intermedialis. And that's a much deeper muscle that we'll need to kind of separate the rectus femoris and rectus and vastus lateralis in order to see. So what I'm going to do now is just try to separate these three muscles. So this is connective tissue that again would need to be removed and I'll remove that later. But if you can see there is a muscle here, it's a very very thin muscle with that connective tissue. So the boundary of the muscle is there. Alright, that's not a muscle that we need. So we're going to ignore that and actually cut, this is a more dense connective tissue. And so for this it might be a little easier to use this scalpel just to cut through so that we can see the vastus lateralis as well as the rectus femoris. Alright, so I'm just going to reflect this back a bit more. And so now you can really see and actually closer to the origin of this muscle where this adipose tissue is, you can see the division between these three muscles. So this is the vastus lateralis, this is the rectus femoris, and this is the vastus medialis. So one, two, three, and then in between here these two muscles is the vastus intermedialis. And so the separation between the vastus lateralis and the rectus femoris is really tricky. So that's why I'm using the probe because it's really easy to tear the muscle. And so you really want to, and you might have to get, just look really closely to see where it is that the muscle actually separates. You don't want to create new muscles, you just kind of want to leave the muscles that are there in place. So it looks like I found the separation. And so we can see it, there's the separation. Between the vastus lateralis, rectus femoris, and then the vastus medialis here. Now what I'm going to do is just continue working to separate these two muscles so as to reveal the vastus intermedialis. So if you look, I've been able to separate the rectus femoris and the vastus lateralis to see a muscle deep down there that lies really close to the femur, and that's the vastus intermedialis. So it's a very, very deep bone or deep muscle that runs very, very close to the femur. So those are the quadriceps as we commonly call them. And then for the hamstrings, that's going to require a bisection of the gracilis. So again, want to use the probe as the marker, make the cut, reflect the muscle, and reveal. So the hamstrings are made of three primary muscles. The one here on the bottom, so you can see that there is this muscle here. So this muscle here, and then this muscle here. So the one that is a part of the hamstring is the bottom one. That's the semimembranosis. So this muscle here. Now for the other two muscles that are a part of the hamstring, one is going to be this really broad muscle, the biceps femoris, which runs along the side. And then if I turn the cat over to the dorsal side, the other is going to be the semitendinosis. And so to see the semitendinosis, I'm actually going to need to create a boundary between the biceps femoris and the semitendinosis. So I've kind of marked out where that division is with the probe. And so I'm just going to follow that and then confirm the separation. So I'm going to take this up just a little bit more. So we made that cut and that's going to be one of the boundary cuts for our semitendinosis, which is here. So the other boundary point is really in the medial portion of the leg. So dorsal and medial on the back of the leg. So here's the other. And so what I'm going to do is just use the probe again as a guide and follow this cut or the separation all the way to the top. So if the tail can get out of the way there, maybe I can lift it up. You can see this is the semitendinosis. So the three muscles that make up the hamstring, we have the biceps femoris here on the side, the semitendinosis here. And then you can kind of see the semitembrinosis from the dorsal view, but the ventral view is far better. And it is the bottom muscle here. So those three muscles make up the hamstring. The last muscle or the last few muscles that we'll look at are in the lower leg. And the first is the tibialis anterior, which you can see here. So I'm not going to do anything to really reveal this muscle. Perhaps it could be made along the tibia, but it's unnecessary. So the tibialis anterior here is one muscle. And then if we rotate the cat to the other side, this muscle, which we call our calf muscle, is the gastric demius. And that's just this muscle right here. So it's the calf muscle. And again, I could reveal the muscle, which I might take the time to do just so there's a clearer image. But I want to be careful in clearing out this connective tissue here, because if you notice, this connective tissue here actually serves as an attachment for another group of muscles. So you don't want to completely remove that. We just kind of want to create a window so that you can better see the gastric demius. All right, so I have the latissimus dorsi here on the superficial side. So I made the exact same cut that I made to isolate the latissimus dorsi. And I went ahead and bisected that muscle to reveal the deeper intercostal muscles. So these are the muscles along the rib that are really important in breathing. All right, and ordinarily there's a lot of fat. You can see this yellowing that's adipose tissue that needs to be cleared off.  So in order to see these muscles, you have to clear away the fat. And then if we move along the stomach, you have the rectus abdominal muscles, which they're straight muscles that run up pretty much the full length of the abdomen. And then continuing on you have the obliques. So you have the external oblique. Underneath that is the internal oblique. And then you'll have to look really closely to see the transverse abdominis, which, if you see there are these, the striped pattern there, which corresponds to the transverse abdominis. All right, so the transverse abdominis kind of extends over and so across the abdomen, whereas the internal oblique kind of stops short of that. So it's the external, the internal, and then more medial is the transverse abdominis. So with that, if we continue on to the back muscles, so in the neck you have the clavotropesius, the acromiotropesius, and the spinal tropesius here. And then, so those represent the tropesius muscles, and then the last muscle is the spinal deltoid. So clavotropesius, acromiotropesius along the shoulder blade, the spinal tropesius, which goes down to the spine, and then the spinal deltoid, which goes from the deltoid toward the spine. And the last group of muscles that we are going to look at are the erector spinae muscles. Now these are actually a group of several muscles that run along the dorsal side of the cat right along the spine, hence the name erector spinae. So these muscles are responsible for helping us to maintain posture. And so in order to see them, you actually need to remove a dense, irregular connective tissue. So it's already been removed here so that you can see the muscles. But in terms of how to get to this connective tissue, the loose connective tissue that you removed at the very beginning will help you get to this. And it'll look white, like it looks here. But when you get down to this level, you will not be able to just use your forceps to clear this off. It's just too dense. And so what you'll need to do is to create a little window, like I've already done, and you'll do that with your scalpel. And so you'll just create a window along just I guess maybe an inch and a half, inch square window to reveal those muscles. I'll do this again up here just so you can see when you first make the cut, there's actually a double layer of connective tissue. So that first cut will actually probably just get you through that first layer. And so again, just using the forceps and the scalpel I can create an opening here. And so this is the dense irregular connective tissue. So this is just the first layer. And so then there's another layer that will also need to be removed to actually get to those muscles. And again, the forceps will come in handy here to help you get through so as to reveal those muscles. All right, so these are the erector spine.


Hallelujah The Lord is so good and His masses endure forever. And what is forever? His masses endure forever. Forever is forever. He does not endure your problems after two weeks, then he gives up on you. He does not endure your issues after you. Let's say that relationship that is hectic and chaotic and then after two years, he gives up on you. No, no, no. They are still masses to bring you up and about. To bring you up and about. To bring you up and out. Let me say it like that. Thank you Jesus. So today I want to share with you in the book of Genesis. Now Genesis is not the thing of old. His word lives.  His masses which is really also His word endure forever. So Genesis 3 Genesis 3 verse 9 I will start from verse 9. I am talking to you child of God but also you who is really a non believer. After this you will be able to know where you are and where you should be in the name of Jesus. So he says that but the Lord God called to man which is you now, whether man or woman you, you, you he says where are you? Where are you? So the Lord is being so, so, so emphatic about this. He says where are you? The Lord called unto man where are you? So by the time he does that don't think that he was not seeing him in the physical. He was actually because he's good. He's all seeing. He sees everything everywhere but you see he's calling man to a place. He's actually asking man. He's actually really asking you.  Because he left you somewhere and then all of a sudden he comes to check on you. Can you imagine he comes to give you a hug or maybe to even bless you. Meaning that concerning the revelation of God you had descended which we call now the fall. There are many doctrines that have been actually put around around that story. Or he ate an apple or he had what he had all these things. You see he says where are you because in the very beginning still in the in the book of Genesis chapter one he says that and the Lord God gave man dominion.  So he's really asking you.  So he's really asking you where are you? Rebellationally where are you concerning your health? Are you going to be devastated as a this is a family disease? No, that's not it. That's not it.  Now where are you in all this? And there is no doctrine around that. This is the word of God. These are not really my own words. So he says where are you? Where are you concerning that job? Are you going to to relegate yourself and say they disturb me a lot you have dominion you have dominion over all these things. Where are you? And then he says when he says where are you about where you are you said giving excuses you see this and that and then a lot of children of God want to play safe. They want to play safe especially you man of God who has the anointing. Where are you? Are you going to actually give excuses you know they talked ill about me where are you where are you really? Are you going to stop the ministry because you are being talked about?