Hi, YouTube!
It's me, the Autistic Nomad, Sparrow Rose
Jones.
I'm here in South New Jersey.
I wanted to talk a little bit about the direction
that I envision taking this YouTube channel.
I started it out mostly to see if I could
do it.
Could I make videos and edit them and upload
them?
And could I have new videos every week?
I seem to have lived up to that challenge.
I seem to be doing well with that.
Now, I want to work to take it to the next
level.
I want to work on The Autistic Happiness Project.
The Autistic Happiness Project is not just
a project to make myself a happier Autistic
person.
My goal is to spread Autistic Happiness the
way Johnny Appleseed spread apple trees across
the United States, by writing and speaking
about the ways that Autistic people become
happy and the things that limit our happiness.
I'm hoping to help foster more Autistic Happiness.
I'm speaking to Autistic adults and teens
and even Autistic children and I'm speaking
to the parents of Autistic people, whether
those parents are Autistic themselves or not.
I'm speaking to therapists who work with Autistic
people.
I'm speaking to college intake counselors.
I hope to have the opportunity to conduct
interviews with parents of Autistics who can
talk about their parenting techniques that
have fostered happiness with their children.
I hope to have the opportunity to interview
Autistic adults about the things that make
them happy and how they have added happiness
to their lives or to the lives of other Autistic
people.
I want to talk about happiness and how to
find it and how to keep it and how to help
other people find it.
Now, I'm not an expert on happiness.
All I am is one Autistic person seeking to
become more happy myself.
And I hope that will continue to be part of
this channel, that I can share my journey
and share my efforts, my voyage toward happiness
and that I can be a role model to others -- not
to copy what I'm doing, because my life is
not for everybody.
A lot of people love living in a van.
It's not for everybody.
What you can learn from my life is to follow
your dreams, to be true to yourself, to find
your True North and face it boldly, and take
charge of your life, whatever that means for
you, in your life.
Different people have different desires, different
support needs, different opportunities, different
limitations, but no matter what your life
situation is, if you're listening to me right
now, or reading my captions right now, you
can take charge of your life, more than you
have.
If you're not happy with your life, you can
work to change it.
It might not happen overnight.
You might need patience.
You might need support from others.
But you can work, starting this very moment,
toward building the life that you want and
the happiness that you deserve.
That's mostly what I wanted to talk about,
is the focus of this channel.
The Autistic Nomad is not just about me -- the
Autistic Nomad -- it's about me journeying
into the world, seeking happiness, not just
for myself, but for everyone and especially
for Autistic people.
That's it.
I hope you enjoyed it.
If you did, click subscribe below, click like
on this video, tell your friends, check out
my blog, Unstrange Mind.
I also have just launched a Patreon page and
I hope you'll go look at it, consider becoming
a patron of The Happiness Project, and even
if you don't, I hope you will share my Patreon
page with other people so that they have the
opportunity to become a patron of The Happiness
Project.
Check out my Patreon page and the other elements
of The Happiness Project, all of that, I'm
going to link down below in the info box,
or whatever those things are called, I'm still
learning the lingo of YouTube.
And have a terrific, happy, productive day.
I love you!
Love yourself!
