I love it! Keep moving forward!

I LOVE being left alone in my world...love the metal pounding in my chest. I hope you found the video helpful. I appreciate your comments.

I'm glad you liked it. I hope you found the information useful. I've been silent for a while,...expanding my horizons, so to speak. I hope to be posting a new video in the future. Thanks for watching!

@@lifeskillswithjack2510 thanks loads. It really helps. Just real practical information and advice. I suffer from anxiety so much and sometimes nothing helps. Its good to get tips and preventative tips like doing things out of your comfort zone and or routine. Thats when my anxiety is the worst. Real good video

Kevin Elbert thanks so much for the kind words and support. Life's been pretty rough for me the last few months and I haven't posted in a while. Any suggestions for another video?

Juan you can comment all you like. I appreciate your words. I'm glad you're watching!!! Thank you!!! Hit me up on fb and Instagram, let's stay in touch!

I love you watching! Hard work will always bring the inevitable feelings of a sense of accomplishment....not always success... I once built a dining table, spent about $1500 in materials and it was gorgeous....and then I ruined it all and had to throw it away. What hard work teaches us, is that we're learning. There's always more to learn...in any category...and most of all on ourselves. Work hard, have faith in yourself in doing better! Love yourself and spread happiness to those that you hold dear in your life.

SBS man could not have said it better! And that's what I try to share is that we can progress, we can flourish! By learning some skills we can enhance our lives and provide ourselves with protection from that icy slope. Beautifully said. Hit me up in instagram, Facebook and messenger so we can chat more! And I take a lot of pride in my hands.

Exactly learning new skills Jack, the essence of the trades, how we improve our crafts. With over 7 decades living with not so mild autism has taught me the treasure In finding someone willing to share and be kind. I once heard it said that the definition of a saint is someone that can control others but chooses not to. I would expand that definition to someone who has been beat to a pulp by a life time from social bullies, then devotes their life to helping these very same folk. I have seen most the autistics blogs, so informative to see others like myself, I especially like yours and Autistic Werewolf, masculine older men wagon wheels on that dusty trail, seen all that bull shit!! As for myself only pity will suffice, but have like most suffered a lifetime of misunderstandings, social anxiety, seclusion, voices, sensory havoc, betrayals and set ups, being used and confused and still I put a smile my face be kind to everyone, share. Alas knowledge has been cheapened by google and like anything else, wisdom is appreciated more when you have to work hard achieving ~~~ William Blake wrote, "wisdom is sold in the market place where there are few buyers" ~~~

Oh! So well said. I love it! I've never been called a wagon wheel before but I'll take it. As I increase in years....I've grown more aware of others...younger than me...that seem a bit lost....and I really wanted to reach out and help maybe "shed some light on the path" that we all travel, maybe in different circumstances but the abuse and loneliness we all share together, bring us together and bind us together.....we're not alone...and this interwebs thing has really shrunk the world and helped us find each other. Love your comments SBS man, keep em coming! If you've got some suggestions for other vids or some of your wisdom to impart, please share.

Indeed wagon wheels autistics were more useful to society during those by gone days long long past ~~ warriors and tradesmen were we breed Homosapiensautistia!! I am also a wagon wheel functional, symmetrical, stolid, erect handmade covered in life up to my neck. Victimhood has infected our culture, the need to be a victim the most abused victim. Life is tough for everyone and more so for autistics living in these times, everyone just needs to reach out and help each other REGARDLESS good god that was the basic message of Christ. Anyway Jack, thanks for letting me park and share on your informative well made blog. Patients pays off. If you don't mind I will add a recent Ted Talk post on stimming, thought your listeners might like, thanks again sir ~~~~~ Of course stimming is very cool, a normal human trait but much more beneficial if under conscious control and not a run away unconscious meaningless movements. Examples of repeated movement arts ~~> dance, martial art forms, tai chi, talking with the hands, waving hi to someone, acupressure, massage, tapping your foot to music, construction, all trades. The addition is simply consciousness and controlling the stimming indeed making STIMMING AN ART FORM your personal art form a tool to center yourself. Dossing is the art of finding water with crossed handheld rods, but few know it as the art of finding anything! ~~> underground pipes, dead body, your lost keys whatever can be located with dossing rods BUT the dosser must concentrate and direct his consciousness INTENTLY on what needs finding like water/knowledge. A master dosser teaches his new students this on first day. Autistics must learn this also, enabling us ASD folk to steer the stimming not let stemming do the steering :))

SBS man haha I agree. Aspies have maybe an enhanced sense of creativity....which makes us more than unique, it makes us beautiful.

Thanks Juan! Being normal...is there such a thing? I think all humans deal with all types of mental struggles in many various ways. I started these videos for aspies, but quickly realized the information I was sharing is applicable to all people with a wide variety of struggles. My best friend is "neuro typical" and somehow, he manages to understand me and accept me for who I am. Stay cool!

Thanks for your comments! I always encourage aspies...and anyone really...to get into construction. The best job! Always challenging, new puzzles to solve, keep your head down and work....the peace of it all brings a lot of satisfaction. Keep watching! And keep sharing to others that need some help!

Welcome Jack, my main lesson for myself is ~~> just because it comes into my mind, does not mean it must come out my mouth, yes do your work properly, keep low ~~ peace brother ~~

Asp, lm on the wrong planet too...

Thank you so much! Always nice to hear! Dark times and places I suppose will always come and go but gaining a better understanding of who you are and why you react the way you do, will always help you fight the battles that present themselves in your life. Remember, these trials we face are designed to teach us to be better than we used to be. So many people get struck in ruts, with negative thinking and bad life skills, that they stop making progress and moving forward.....and that's what we all want....to be happy, which is so difficult for us aspies. Thank you Selina for your sweet words. Follow me on IG, Jack Maverick, so we can stay connected and be friends!

Thanks very much! I appreciate your kind words. It's difficult to do these and often times I feel I'm not making any difference so it's always nice to hear! Follow me on IG, Jack Maverick, so we can stay connected. It's always also good to hear others stories and experiences. Have a blessed day and a beautiful life!

I was feeling guilty. I answered another comment on this video, and I only gave you a heart. I went back through the plethora of comments I've received and I answered every one of them. So, I'm sorry. I got my 3 year old (a few years ago) diagnosed at it about split my heart in half. At that time, I still didn't draw a correlation between him and myself. Watching him through his life made me realize that I was on the spectrum as well. My little heart strings get yanked on when I see him struggle to this day. I have 6 kids though, 3 on the spectrum, and my wife and I are a hard corps dynamic duo in wrangling all our kids and we made it a point a long time ago not to treat any of them differently. For your sweet son, let him learn, learn to fight for himself. Don't rescue him from hardships and difficulties because those are the trials that will teach him to grow and be strong and be a happy and healthy adult. Be his support and his greatest cheerleader, his comfort when he's down and his discipline when he's a rascal. Most of all, be sure that with all your kids and your husband too, that you do everything based in love. That magical ingredient that makes this life so beautiful ad sweet. I wish you and your family all the blessings and happiness that comes from a family centered in love and acceptance. Thanks for watching!

That was a tough pill to swallow for me. To learn and accept that I was DEFICIENT?! That was hard. There are lots of great peeps out there that talk about what Aspergers is all about, but I take a bit of a different approach...I share the life skills I've learned along my road. How do I deal, cope, heal, and continue on with my everyday life. Your diagnosis, whatever it may be, is not a death sentence. I hope that you will find my videos thoughtful and helpful. A push in the right direction, if you will. I'm sure I'm not the only one, but I have overcome and beaten a lot of challenges and I've managed to carve out a pretty good life for myself. Find me on Instagram, Snapchat, Facebook and Tumblr. Stay tuned! I'm fixing to upload another video! That was a tough pill to swallow for me. To learn and accept that I was DEFICIENT?! That was hard. There are lots of great peeps out there that talk about what Aspergers is all about, but I take a bit of a different approach...I share the life skills I've learned along my road. How do I deal, cope, heal, and continue on with my everyday life. Your diagnosis, whatever it may be, is not a death sentence. I hope that you will find my videos thoughtful and helpful. A push in the right direction, if you will. I'm sure I'm not the only one, but I have overcome and beaten a lot of challenges and I've managed to carve out a pretty good life for myself. Find me on Instagram, Snapchat, Facebook and Tumblr. Stay tuned! I'm fixing to upload another video! That was a tough pill to swallow for me. To learn and accept that I was DEFICIENT?! That was hard. There are lots of great peeps out there that talk about what Aspergers is all about, but I take a bit of a different approach...I share the life skills I've learned along my road. How do I deal, cope, heal, and continue on with my everyday life. Your diagnosis, whatever it may be, is not a death sentence. I hope that you will find my videos thoughtful and helpful. A push in the right direction, if you will. I'm sure I'm not the only one, but I have overcome and beaten a lot of challenges and I've managed to carve out a pretty good life for myself. Find me on Instagram, Snapchat, Facebook and Tumblr. Stay tuned! I'm fixing to upload another video!

Wow! Thanks! I really appreciate that! Any suggestions?

Not much man, you're doing great. I'll think about it some more.

Thank you.