Daniel Explains

 This is a different topic isn't it? You know, I wanted to show some diversity.. albeit another heavy, hard-hitting topic. Never shy away from the big conversations, they're just as important. Anyway, as I mentioned above this is slightly different from what I'd chatted about here thus far and I wanted to talk about it from my perspective as I've grown up and dealt with it as an adult. It's such a broad topic, mental health can be.. avoiding that toxic person who makes you feel bad on a night out to out-right mental health problems such as bipolar (just an example).  My perspective on this is quite hard because, if you hadn't guessed already I have Aspergers (or ASD as it's called these days, more on this later) and ADHD. Autism, at my level of "functioning" means amongst many other things I struggle to see things from other people's perspective. My experience of mental health for me, has been very poor:- and looking back into my past I can see...

 I said on one of my tweets, I wouldn't become one of those EV owners (more on this) that would suddenly start shitting all over fossil fuels, companies and the things that people do - and I won't! But you have to bear with me here, as I have started looking into stuff and reading up about our energy usage and the problems we (as a society) face.  I've always had a fascination with energy, from a very young age - nuclear energy. First fission, then fusion - a little bit of particle physics and many other things along with chemistry. Nothing wild, I'm not a scientist but let's say a key interest. I always saw Nuclear as a large part of our clean energy future, but was worried as peoples fears were often brought back to Chernobyl or other incidents such as Fukushima - understandably so, and these are indeed tragedies. Chernobyl, was a political failure rather than a technical one (without going knee deep into the reactor type etc) but people see it as a failure for nu...

  Sometimes, you don't need words..  Yeah I know, and what a way to make a blog popular - let's just bring up the thing that everyone's been talking about for the last 18 months and is controversial for, reasons..  Anyway - I need to declare my political ideology and thoughts before I go into this topic. I believe in socialism, I consider myself on the left of the political spectrum. But, I am also a realist and believe that change happens when people compromise - unfortunately sometimes on even some core things. If you want change, then sometimes any change is better than none. So I would say my views most closely correspond with Labour here in the UK.  I'm a pragmatic, realist. But I believe in changing society through compromise - as mentioned above. Isn't a shame that more people wouldn't be willing to cross the divide in order to make things happen? Anyway.  So I'm not going to dive into the history of COVID as we all know it, and every other country ha...

I'm a very motivated person. Through the prism of autism and learning the way the world works for the average person, I think that my life experiences have made me like that - If there's something I want, or want to achieve my first thought is "what do we need to do - to make this happen" and I'll own the problem, and sometimes other peoples.. because I want to help and I want to make sure I'm progressing my goals, wants and needs.  Bear with me, I appreciate this might not immediately make sense to my subject heading.  But, this thought process has given me a lot of really powerful tools both constructively and destructively to make stuff happen in my life. They're great when you're trying to affect change on material things, or things within your direct control and obviously less so the further away those surrounding things are to you in terms of influence.  Over the years, this has helped me immensely with some things such as losing weight, getting ...

  So, Hi! - I'm Daniel, I'm 31 and I live in Manchester (well, Salford - that will upset some) and the idea behind this blog is for me to take a topic then explain how I think it through, my thoughts and my perception on it. I'm not professing to be an expert, or correct on these things - they are just my views. I'm a very analytical person and like to do research, spend time understanding something, I often need to know the "why" behind things. It helps me come to peace with it, if it's something illogical or non-sensical if I can label it with the reasons why. A little back story, so you are aware of my mindset: I am autistic, (what we used to call Asperger's) ADHD and had a few years or depression, anxiety and some of the other associated mental health problems people on the spectrum tend to find themselves with. I've also battled with years of body image issues and diet problems, leading to a diagnosis of an eating disorder in 2021. Most of thi...